Shastra (film)

Shastra
Promotional Poster
Directed by	Sanjay Khanna
Written by	Rumi Jaffery
Produced by	Nadir Irani Nadeem Irani
Starring	Sunil Shetty Anjali Jathar Danny Denzongpa Anupam Kher
Cinematography	Najeeb Khan Teja
Edited by	Yusuf Khan
Music by	Aadesh Shrivastava
Production company	Nariman Pictures
Distributed by	B4U Motion Pictures
Release date	4 October 1996 (1996-10-04)
Running time	144 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Shastra is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Sanjay Khanna. ^{[1] [2]} The film stars Sunil Shetty and Anjali Jathar. ^[3]

Plot

Vijay Khanna sole ambition is to become a collector like his father was. He is concentrating completely on his studies except for a few disturbances by Pooja who loves him and wants to marry him. Vijay always believed that his parents were in fact murdered and not killed in an accident, by their old faithful security officer Babu. Vijay Khanna starts searching for Babu, and finally when he finds him, Babu tells him that he was merely used as a pawn to cover up his parents' murder and the actual killer is roaming freely, and only one man can lead Vijay to the killer and that is Girdhari in Khandala. But before Vijay can find the truth, Girdhari is killed. Vijay and Babu start working in a casino owned by Shanti Prasad. There the local don Rana becomes their enemy, who is after Shanti Prasad's casino and Vijay's life. Finally when Vijay decides to leave Khandala, he learns of the actual murderers. Vijay loses Babu in the fight. Now, Vijay is alone to fight with his enemies. Eventually, he managed to track down the killer of his parents.

Cast

• Sunil Shetty as Vijay Khanna
• Anjali Jathar as Pooja Prasad
• Danny Denzongpa as Babu
• Farida Jalal as Aunty
• Anupam Kher as Shanti Prasad
• Mohan Joshi as Rana
• Mukesh Rishi as Badshah Khan
• Avtar Gill as Police Commissioner
• Mushtaq Khan as Prem
• Dinesh Hingoo as Principal Badra
• Kunika as Sonia
• Gavin Packard as College Punk
• Achyut Potdar as Vijay's guardian
• Jack Gaud as Sonia's brother
• Ali Asgar as Vijay's friend
• Lalit Tiwari as Girdhari

Soundtrack

Shastra
Soundtrack album by Aadesh Shrivastav
Released	7 September 1995
Venue	West Mumbai, Maharashtra
Studio	Anand Recording Studio, Mehboob Studio & Sunny super sound
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	37 Min 13 Sec duration
Language	Hindi
Label	BIG B Music
Producer	Nadeem Irani & Nadir Irani

The music of the film was composed Aadesh Shrivastav and the lyrics were penned by Shyam Raj . The soundtrack was released in September 1995 on Audio Cassette in Trimurti Sounds and Big B Music which consists of 6 songs while Currently its copyright is with T-Series, link of online streaming audio songs https://gaana.com/album/shastra . The full album is recorded by Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Babul Supriyo, Vijeta Pandit, Poornima, Hema Sardesai, Sunidhi Chauhan, which she making debut as playback singer & Aditya Narayan.

1. "Kuch Hua Re Hua Re" - Babul Supriyo, Poornima
2. "Kya Ada Kya Jalwe" - Udit Narayan
3. "Ladki Deewani Ladka Deewana" - Udit Narayan, Aditya Narayan and Sunidhi Chauhan
4. "More Saiyan" - Hema Sardesai
5. "Shastra Shastra" - Abhijeet
6. "Wade Na Ho Kasme Na Ho" - Kumar Sanu, Vijeta Pandit

References

1. "Shastra (1996) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
2. Shastra , retrieved 1 March 2022
3. "Shastra 1996 Movie Box Office Collection, Budget and Unknown Facts – KS Box Office". 15 September 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

External links

• Shastra at IMDb