I'm not sure what the director was going for with this film but the soundtrack, look and feel of the film in general suggests that it was made in the format of those sort of 1970s crime capers. But I may be wrong. Either ways, it looks good and was decently made.
Anywho, It's Bobby Deol again and here he plays Tony, the city's #1 gangster, a man who has grown into a far cry from the young 'Amitabh Bachchan' loving boy whom we meet in the beginning of the film. But it's not entirely his fault, he was abandoned on a train by his aunt and uncle at such a tender age and left to fend for himself. Now he has grown into a thug who does dirty dealings, works with loan sharks and in general just does shady businesses.
Tony soon meets Sapna Gosai (played by Priyanka Chopra) a budding pop singer with whom he becomes entranced and eventually falls in love with. He would do anything for Sapna but is temporarily sidetracked when he discovers that she is engaged to someone else. Goli, Tony's friend(played by Sanjay Narvekar) warns him against delving too deep into emotions with Sapna but Tony doesn't listen.
One day, he takes on a job to rough up a health inspector, Dr. Hargobind Gosai (played by Mohan Joshi) who is giving problems to local business men by suspecting their products. Tony takes the job and scares the Doctor into signing a document that would allow expired drugs to be sold on the market. When three babies wind up dead, the police close in on the doctor and arrest him after their investigation proves that he signed a false document. A citywide uproar ensues, the doctor is thrown in jail and his family disgraced. Sapna just happens to be his daughter and little does she know that her friend Tony is responsible for her family's woes. Mrs. Gosai (played by Smita Jaykar) soon becomes overwhelmed by her husband's jail lunacy as well as her daughter's broken engagement and unable to carry the weight of it all commits suicide.
When Tony come to the realisation that it was Sapna's Father that he shook down, he is filled with regret and remorse and vows to bring all those who hired him to do the job in the first place to justice. Kabir Bedi co-stars as a Godfather-like mob boss named Raj Mallya, the one Tony intends on taking down. I loved Bobby Deol in this movie! He is one of the most overlooked actors working in Bollywood today.
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