| Hathyar | |
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| Directed by | Mahesh Manjrekar |
| Story by | Mahesh Manjrekar |
| Produced by | Ganesh Jain Ratan Jain |
| Starring | Sanjay Dutt Shilpa Shetty Sharad Kapoor |
| Narrated by | Sachin Khedekar |
| Cinematography | Vijay Kumar Arora |
| Edited by | V. N. Mayekar |
| Music by | Anand Raj Anand Nitin Raikwar Rahul Ranade |
| Distributed by | Venus Records & Tapes |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹7 crore[1] |
| Box office | ₹9.63 crore[1] |
Hathyar: Face to Face with Reality (transl. Weapon) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language [[action crime thriller ]] film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film is a sequel to Vaastav (1999). It stars Sanjay Dutt, Shilpa Shetty and Sharad Kapoor. Hathyar begins where Vaastav had ended and focuses on the son of Raghu bhai, Boxer bhai, also played by Dutt.[2][3]
Plot
[edit]The film opens with Rohit Shivalkar (Sanjay Dutt) being shot at by some gangsters including his aide Pakya (Sharad Kapoor). As the doctors operate on him, the narrator begins the story story from the past.
Rohit is ostracized because of the stigma attached to him due to his father Raghunath (Sanjay Dutt) who was a gangster, since his childhood, by all except for Munna (Sachin Khedekar). Rohit's grandfather Namdev (Shivaji Satam) is now a drunkard, accumulates debts and dies of liver failure. Rohit's mother, Sonu (Namrata Shirodkar) is forced to resort to prostitution again for money, seeking Chaudhary's (Viju Khote) help. As Rohit grows up, he earns a reputation for being a good boxer, until defeating Amar Rane (Inder Kumar). Amar learns how Raghu had murdered his father who was a police officer, and presses Rohit on false charges of drug possession with his uncle's help, harassing him in custody, in spite of Rohit's innocence. Rohit also learns the truth about his mother from Amar as he spots her with Chaudhary, which infuriates him, causing her to end her own life. Fed-up of Amar calling his mother a whore, Rohit brutally kills him and gets imprisoned. His grandmother, Shanta (Reema Lagoo) reprimands him as she informs him about his mother's suicide when she visits him in the prison.
Years later, Hasan Bhai (Shakti Kapoor) remembers the time Raghu had eliminated the Fracture gang, as he faces trouble with the gang's children, and he bails Rohit out. Rohit, just like his father, makes his way up the ranks in the Mumbai underworld, earning the name "Boxer Bhai". He's also in love with his father's friend Bhopu's (Atul Kale) daughter Gauri (Shilpa Shetty), who is enduring a marriage with a physically abusive spouse. Rohit eventually snatches her out of this abusive relationship and remarries her.
Meanwhile, Rohit is also approached by ruling party power broker Digamber Patil (Gulshan Grover) who offers him to fight for elections to get into politics as a corporator. Rohit also wins the elections. DCP Kishore Kadam (Deepak Tijori), who is Rohit's guardian and Raghu's best friend warns Rohit about the new honest Chief minister on the chair, and advises him to mend his ways before it is too late.
Shortly Gauri's friend Jyoti's husband Shekhar, who is a police officer and informer of Fracture Nagya (Anup Soni), gets killed by Rohit. Gauri, heartbroken, moves to Munna's house for a while. Munna persuades Gauri to go back to Rohit with the help of another police officer who tells her that Shekhar was Nagya's informer. Gauri, convinced gets ready to go back to Rohit but Munna gets killed by Rohit after being misled by Pakya that Munna and Gauri are having an affair. Gauri then deserts him and Rohit is devastated. The plot returns to the start where Rohit is eventually attacked by Pakya and his men but miraculously survives the attack.
It is then revealed that Digamber had conspired with Fracture Nagya against him and gets double-crossed by Pakya due to Rohit's powerful political status and a personal score that had to be settled with Fracture family. A vengeful Rohit recovers and sets out to eliminate Digamber, Pakya and Nagya. Rohit kills Nagya and then kills Pakya at a guest house, enraged by Pakya's betrayal due to a hefty bribe given by Digamber to him. Subsequently, Rohit bludgeons Digamber in a cricket stadium and goes in hiding.
Rohit is now the most wanted criminal in the city and "shoot to kill" orders by the Chief Minister are given to DCP Kishore Kadam. Rohit locates Gauri and asks for forgiveness from Gauri and says that he was not wrong and wanted to live a normal life, but due to his father's past, he couldn't do that. He tells Gauri to take their daughter Shanti far away from the city, away from his dark past, as he suicides. Gauri finally decides to leave the city with Shanta and Shanti. The film ends with a note on the irony of destiny by the narrator, presumably Munna's spirit, as the credits roll.
Cast
[edit]- Sanjay Dutt... Rohit Raghunath Shivalkar aka Boxer Bhai / Raghunath “Raghu” Namdev Shivalkar (Rohit’s father) (Double role)
- Abhijeet Satam as Rohit (in his college days)
- Shilpa Shetty... Gauri
- Deepak Tijori... DCP Kishore Kadam
- Sharad Kapoor... Pakya
- Shakti Kapoor... Hasan Bhai
- Sachin Khedekar... Munna
- Gulshan Grover... Digamber Patil
- Shivaji Satam... Namdev (Rohit's grandfather)
- Reema Lagoo... Shanta (Rohit's grandmother)
- Namrata Shirodkar... Sonia Shivalkar "Sonu" (Rohit's mother)
- Pramod Muthu... Inspector Sudhakar Rane
- Inder Kumar... Amar Rane (Sudhakar's son)
- Harsh Chhaya... Gautam Naik (Gauri's first husband)
- Atul Kale... Bhopu (Gauri's father)
- Resham Tipnis... Jyoti Deshmukh (Gauri's friend)
- Sanjay Batra... Inspector Shekhar Deshmukh (Jyoti's husband)
- Anup Soni... Fracture Nagya
- Pankaj Berry... Fracture Nagya's brother
- Jack Gaud... Fracture Bandya (photo only)
- Sanjay Narvekar... Dedh Footiya (cameo)
- Bharat Jadhav as Raghu's friend (caneo)
- Viju Khote....Chaudhary
- Ashima Bhalla... item number
Soundtracks
[edit]| Song | Singer |
|---|---|
| "Chaha Tha Tumhe" | Alka Yagnik |
| "Baat Hai Kamaal" | Jolly Mukherjee, Bali Brahmbhatt |
| "Boxer Bhai" | Sudesh Bhosle, Vinod Rathod |
| "Yeh Dil Deewana" | Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan |
| "Thamba Re" | Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Salamat |
| "Nazar Nazar" | Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Salamat |
| "Nazar Nazar" (Remix) | Alisha Chinai, Mohammed Salamat |
| "Shlok" | Ravindra Sathe |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Hathyar – Movie". Box Office India.
- ^ "HATHYAR (2002)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
- ^ "Hathyar (2002)". Letterboxd. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
External links
[edit]- Hathyar at IMDb
- Hathyar at Rotten Tomatoes
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