Kshatriya (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Kshatriya

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imdb_id = 0104645
writer = J.P. Dutta
starring = Sunil Dutt
Dharmendra,
Vinod Khanna,
Sunny Deol
Sanjay Dutt
director = J.P. Dutta
producer = Sunderdas Sonkiya
distributor =
released = 26 March 1993
runtime = 180 mins
language = Hindi
music = Laxmikant Pyarelal
awards =
budget =
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Kshatriya (aka Warriors) is a 1993 Bollywood film directed by J.P. Dutta. The film features an ensemble star cast including Sunil Dutt, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Meenakshi Seshadri, Raveena Tandon and Divya Bharti.

Plot Summary

The film is about two warring royal families in Rajasthan, India called the Mirtagarh and the Surjangarh. The Mirtagarh family's Maharaja Bhavani Singh (Sunil Dutt) is killed by the Surjangarh family's Maharaja Prithvi Singh (Dharmendra) which causes a bloody feud between the two families spreading over two generations. Raja Jaswant Singh (Vinod Khanna) returns from England shocked at the extent the war has gone on between the two families. He is too however fated to continue this bloody family tradition by fighting Maharaja Prithvi Singh. Years later the sons of Maharaja Bhavani and Maharaja Prithvi respectively Vikram (Sanjay Dutt) and Vinay (Sunny Deol) are the best of friends living in England. Vinay even wants to marry Neelima (Raveena Tandon), the sister of Vikram which could finally signal the end of the Mirtagarh and Surjangarh feud. Will they succeed in finally ending this feud between their respective families or will they too be fated to continue this bloody tradition by being forced to fight each other where only one will be left standing.

Cast

* Sunil Dutt .... Maharaja Bhavani Singh (Mirtagarh)
* Dharmendra .... Maharaja Pritvi Singh (Surjangarh)
* Vinod Khanna .... Raja Jaswant Singh (Mirtagarh)
* Sanjay Dutt .... Vikram Singh (Mirtagarh)
* Sunny Deol .... Vinay Pratab Singh (Surjangarh)
* Raakhee Gulzar .... Maheshwari Devi (Maharajah's wife)
* Meenakshi Seshadri .... Madhu
* Raveena Tandon .... Neelima (Mirtagarh)
* Divya Bharti .... Tanvi Singh (Ganga Singh's daughter)
* Kabir Bedi .... Thakur Ganga Singh
* Prem Chopra ..... Ajay Singh (Maharaja's diwan)
* Puneet Issar ..... Shakti Singh (Ajay Singh's son)
* Nafisa Ali ..... Raja Jaswant's wife (Mirtagarh)
* Vijayendra Ghatge ..... Raja Davendra Pratab Singh (Surjangarh)

Trivia

*The film features two legendary actors Sunil Dutt and Dharmendra playing fathers to their real-life sons Sanjay Dutt and Sunny Deol respectively. However Sunil and Sanjay Dutt do not have any scenes together as their characters exist in two different time periods.
*This was the last film appearance of Sunil Dutt before he retired from the industry to turn to politics. He returned for one last film appearance 10 years later in "Munnabhai M.B.B.S." (2003) where he appeared onscreen with his son for the first time.
*This was the last film of Divya Bharti that released while she was alive. She died two weeks after its release.

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