Arjun (1985 film)

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Arjun
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Original Promotional Poster
Directed by Rahul Rawail
Written by Javed Akhtar
Produced by Karim Morani
Sunil Soorma
Starring Sunny Deol
Dimple Kapadia
Raj Kiran
Prem Chopra
Anupam Kher
Cinematography Baba Azmi
Edited byDilip Kotalgi
Music by R. D. Burman
Production
company
Distributed byEros Entertainment
Release date
  • 20 April 1985 (1985-04-20)
Running time
154 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹1.5 crore [1]
Box office₹8.5 crore [2]

Arjun is a 1985 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rahul Rawail and starring Sunny Deol and Dimple Kapadia. [3] The plot of the film revolves around a group of radical young men who take matters into their hands to fight against corruption. [4]

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The film was later remade in Tamil as Sathyaa , in Telugu as Bharatamlo Arjunudu , in Kannada as Sangrama , and in Sinhala as Suranimala. [5] The rights to this film are owned by Red Chillies Entertainment. [6] The film was a commercial success and established Deol as an action hero. [7] Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com called it Deol's best action film. [8]

Plot

Unemployed but tolerant and kind-hearted Arjun Malvankar stays in the suburbs of Bombay with his father and stepmother and stepsister. Mr. Malvankar still works at an old age to make both ends meet.

One day, Arjun beats up a group of ruffians who are thrashing a poor man for not paying extortion taxes. With this incident, Arjun's life changes. Arjun invokes the wrath of the local goon, who orders more people to go and beat him, but this time he is assisted by five of his friends, Arjun beats them up badly and sends them back. The goons warn Arjun's parents to advise him against his activities, lest he gets himself killed. Arjun is arrested but let off with a warning by the cops. However, a new inspector, Ravi Rane, notes that Arjun is actually doing the right thing. He later falls in love with Arjun's sister.

Arjun is approached by Geeta, a journalist who asks him for a favour which he obliges, and after which they both fall in love with each other.

The minister Deen Dayal Trivedi, who is behind all illegal activities in the city, and who is also supporting the don, gets to know of Arjun. He thinks that Arjun is working for his rival Shiv Kumar Chowgule, whose party is trying to get nominated for the upcoming elections, and orders that he and his friends should be eliminated. The gang attacks and kills one of Arjun's friends, Mohan, in public. Though Arjun tries his best, no one comes forward to give witness to the murder out of fear, because of which the killers are left free. Arjun goes and beats up the killers till he is stopped by police.

Now Arjun is approached by Shiv Kumar Chowgule and his right-hand man, Babu Ram, but is simply turned down. Soon Arjun's family kicks him out of the house, and with nowhere to go, he agrees to go with Chowgule, thinking that the latter is an honest and upright person trying to eliminate the wicked Trivedi and all his activities in the city. With Arjun to help him, Chowgule destroys all of Trivedi's activities. He breaks up Trivedi's Matka den operated by his trusted aides, Anoop. He also manages to lay hold of Anand Patkar, a wealthy alcoholic who is part of the nomination committee for elections and on Trivedi's side. The enraged Trivedi orders Anoop to murder Anand, which he does but unfortunately gets caught red handed by police.

The film takes a twist when Arjun sees that Chowgule has joined hands with Trivedi and that none of the evidence he collected has really been published anywhere, as promised by Chowgule. He realizes that a politician is a corrupt person who was using him for his own gains. The car and house given to Arjun are also confiscated.

Frustrated and angered, Arjun goes to fight the politicians at their speech rally but is simply thrown out. At home with Geeta, Arjun is visited by his father, who tells him that all his life he has borne wrongdoings and injustice. He blesses his son, telling him that he is with him in the fight against injustice.

The film then reaches its climax, where Arjun breaks into Trivedi's house and beats him up, then proceeds to Chowgule's mansion, where he beats up the politician and takes away all the files and evidence of both Chowgule's and Trivedi's bad activities. However, wounded Chowgule orders his men to chase Arjun and kill him. Arjun is now on the run in the empty streets of Bombay at night, with goons hot on his heels. They manage to shoot him a couple of times, but Arjun still runs. He manages to evade them, causing their vehicles to crash, until finally he kills the last goon and arrives at Inspector Ravi's Police station, where he collapses and gives him the evidence. Chowgule and Trivedi are finally arrested.

The film ends with Ravi giving Arjun a thumbs up in hospital.

Cast

Music

The music of this film was composed by R. D. Burman. The background music, especially during the action scenes was very catchy and was used for several other movies. The song "Mammaiya Kero Mamma" was very popular.

Javed Akhtar had written the lyrics.

SongSinger
"Mammaiya Kero Mamma" Shailendra Singh
"Bhuri Bhuri Aankhonwala" Lata Mangeshkar
"Munni Pappu Aur Chunnum" Asha Bhosle
"Dhadkan Pal Pal Badhti Jaaye"Asha Bhosle

Awards

33rd Filmfare Awards :

Nominated

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