Dayavan

Dayavan
poster
Directed by	Feroz Khan
Produced by	Feroz Khan G. Venkateswaran
Written by	Parvez Mehdi, Aziz Quaisi
Starring	Vinod Khanna, Madhuri Dixit, Feroz Khan, Amrish Puri, Anjan Shrivastava, Aditya Pancholi
Music by	Laxmikant Pyarelal
Editing by	Feroz Khan
Release date(s)	29 September 1988
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Dayavan is a September 1988 Hindi remake of the very famous Tamil movie called Nayagan, which starred Kamal Hasan. The movie starred Vinod Khanna, Feroz Khan and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles and was directed by Feroz Khan. The film had a famous kissing and bathing scene between Madhuri and Vinod.

Plot

After having witnessed his dad being killed by the local South Indian police, and being orphaned and homeless, Shakti Velhu develops a hate, and distrust of the police in India. He is befriended by another homeless boy named Shanker, who asks him to accompany him to Bombay's slumlands, where they live with a kind-hearted Muslim named Karim Baba, and his daughter, Shama. This is where Shakti and Shankar spend their childhood. When they mature, they take to petty crime. Here too, Shakti witnesses police brutality and atrocities, especially at the hands of sadistic, alcoholic, and womanizing Police Inspector Ratan Singh. When Karim Baba is arrested, jailed, and found hanging by his neck in police custody, Shakti hunts down Ratan Singh, and kills him in broad daylight in front of the several hundred people. An investigation is launched, but no one comes forward as a witness. Thus Shakti gets his reputation as a Don with a good heart viz. Dayavan. Shakti marries local prostitute, Neelu, and has two children, Suraj and Sarita. He becomes even more powerful and influential all over Bombay, and his working partners are powerful criminal dons who have ruled over Bombay for eons. Shakti eventually replaces these dons, and becomes Bombay's only Don. This creates enemies for him and his family, but he believes since he has not really done any harm to anyone, he and his family will be safe. It is this belief that will take a heavy toll on his life and that of his family, when the truth dawns that he, himself, is responsible for being kind to a man, who will ultimately bring forward ruin to the Velhu family.

Cast

• Vinod Khanna .... as Shakti Vellu aka Dayavan
• Feroz Khan .... as Shanker
• Madhuri Dixit-Nene .... as Neelu
• Amrish Puri .... Inspector Ratan Singh
• Anjan Shrivastava .... Superintendent of Police
• Aditya Pancholi .... Dayavan's Son in Law
• Amala .... Sarita
• Anuradha Patel .... Shama
• Aruna Irani ... Tara
• Huma Khan .... Dancer
• Tinnu Anand .... Ratan Singh's Son
• Ramya Krishna
• Alok Nath .... Karim Baba
• Naresh Suri .... Tora Swami

External links

• Dayavan at the Internet Movie Database