Thakur Gangadhar Choudhary rules a small community in rural India with an iron hand, and will never permit anyone to speak up against him. He owns most of the land surrounding his palatial home - save for the small patch of land owned by Veer Singh. He summons Veer to his house, and offers him substantial compensation for his land, but Veer refuses, and the Thakur has him killed. Veer's widow dies of shock, leaving behind a young Suraj to be brought up by a kindly widow Mrs. Salma Khan, who is also the mother of Iqbal. Years go by, Suraj grows up joins the Indian Armed Forces, and after a meritorious career, he resigns and returns home to avenge his father's death. What he does not know that he must first come to terms with the local Police Inspector Iqbal Khan, and then the wealthy Collector of the District, Rajpal Chauhan, before he can even think of touching a single hair of Gangadhar Choudhary.
Acting
Amrish Puri chewing every scene like it's his last meal
Direction
Chaotic energy that keeps three plotlines barely coherent
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI explosions that genuinely endangered the cast
Raaj Kumar
Collector Rajpal Chauhan
Vinod Khanna
Suraj Singh "Suryaa"
Bhanupriya
Shanno
Raj Babbar
Inspector Iqbal Khan
Shakti Kapoor
Ratan Chaudhary
Amrish Puri
Gangadhar Chaudhary
Sushma Seth
Salma Khan
Sudhir Dalvi
Army Senior Officer
Johny Lever
Jani
Salim Ghouse
Ramu Gulzar
Dulari
Ramu's Mother
Dinesh Hingoo
Bank Manager
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raaj Kumar reportedly rewrote his own dialogue on set, refusing to say lines he deemed insufficiently philosophical.
Released during rising Hindu-Muslim tensions, the film's interfaith foster family subplot was quietly radical for commercial cinema.
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