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Taarzan: The Wonder Car

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Raj rebuilds his dead father's car and names it Taarzan, but the car comes to life in a miraculous way. Slowly, the car starts killing the killers of Raj's father.
Deven (Ajay Devgn) was Raj's father who was a futuristic car designer. He owned an old car, which was passed down to him from his father and he hoped to pass it on to his son, Raj. After many hours designing, he shows his design to a car company owned by four men (Pankaj Dheer, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Shakti Kapoor, and Mukesh Tiwari), little did he know that they would turn around and patent the design and take credit for it. In an attempt to get justice, Deven reports the incident to the police and later finds out the hard way that the police officer was part of the deception. After Deven confronts the men, they fight and Deven is knocked out and left unconscious. The men decide to place him in his car and dump the car in the nearby lake. Deven drowns to death leaving behind his mother and his young son. A few years pass by and Raj has grown up and enters college. Raj is a simple-looking, geeky guy who is made fun of because of the way he looks. He meets Priya (Ayesha Takia) who has just returned from London and together they form a relationship. One day while passing by Raj sees his father's old car in a scrap yard. He buys the car and transforms it into "Taarzan", a futuristic-looking car that he builds in memory of his father. The car has a life of its' own and soon becomes a killing machine, taking revenge on the men who killed Deven. The suspicion falls on Raj and he becomes the prime suspect. While visiting Raj's home, Priya's father sees a photo of Deven and Raj and realizes who Raj is. Priya's father is one of the men who killed Raj's father. He forbids Priya from seeing Raj and decides to send her back to London. The climax of the movie is where you learn that Deven's spirit controls the car and he cannot move on to the after-world unless he gets revenge and his family learns the truth about his death. After he accomplishes both tasks, his soul is free and he moves on. Raj and Priya unite and all ends well.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
An automobile engineer, Deven Chaudhary is a widower who lives a middle-class lifestyle with his widowed mother and son Raj. Deven works hard day and night in creating various computerized car designs; members of the Four Fox company offer to buy this design but are unable to meet his terms and conditions and thus he decides to cancel the deal with them. Out of desperation, the company members decide to steal the car design from him; when Deven gets to find out he confronts them and an argument ensues leaving Deven dead. 12 years later Raj manages to locate Taarzan the car that belongs to his father, brings it home, and works hard on it day and night so that he can completely transform it into a working car. But soon Raj is accused of killing some influential people when the witnesses testify that they had seen Taarzan in the vicinity of the murder scene while Raj clearly states that he had nothing to do with the murders and even brought his witnesses to testify in favor of his innocence.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
More than anything in the world, Deven Chaudhary wants to design the perfect car. Having dedicated himself to making India's most advanced vehicle, Deven creates DC, only to die at the hands of unscrupulous Rakesh Kapoor, locked inside his father's old jalopy, Taarzan. More than a decade later, Deven's only son, the young car mechanic, Raj, stumbles upon Taarzan, and without delay, transforms it into a shiny, state-of-the-art supercar. However, Raj is utterly unaware that the tormented soul of his brutally murdered father has risen from its watery grave, demanding justice. Now, one by one, all those responsible for Deven's death fall prey to a mysterious force. Who can stop Taarzan, the wonder car?—Nick Riganas
Deven Chaudhary lives with his mother and 10-year-old son Raj. He designs a futuristic car calling it DC which is much more advanced than any other car in the market and also owns a Morris Minor car which he calls Taarzan. Deven goes with his design to a company Four Fox. Its partners are Rakesh Kapoor, Anthony D'Costa, Mahesh Saxena, and Kailash Chopra. But they do not agree to him on royalty terms following which he strikes deal with another company. But later the company rejects his proposal stating the car has been patented by Four Fox. Deven finds out how four Fox cheated him and takes the help of Inspector Sharma. But things take a turn as Sharma works for Four Fox. They leave Deven unconscious in Taarzan and drown him in a lake making his death a mystery. Twelve years later Raj is a college-going student who meets Priya and falls in love with her and also works at Kartar Singh's garage to support the family. Once Raj finds an old car in bad condition and recognizes it as Taarzan. He purchases and modifies the car according to Deven's design with help of Kartar Singh. But the car starts to take revenge on Deven's killers and Raj becomes a suspect in all the murders.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com

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In 1992, Deven Chaudhary (Ajay Devgn) lives with his mother Suhasini (Farida Jalal) and 10 year-old only son Raj (Vatsal Sheth). Deven spends considerable time designing the perfect car, calling it DC - which is very futuristic and more advanced than any other car in the market - and registering its patent. The SUV car is said to have 400BHP and 500NM of torque, as well as making it from 0-60 in 5.2 seconds. He also looks after an older Morris Minor MM, handed over to him by his late father, and calls it "Taarzan", which is based on the car's mirror ornament of the Disney character Tarzan. He meets with Rakesh Kapoor (Pankaj Dheer) and his partners, who praise his design but decline dealing with him, as they do not want to give royalty as part of the deal.

Later, Deven finds that Kapoor and his partners conned him and registered his design under their name. Deven reports this to a police officer, Inspector Sanjay Sharma (Deepak Shirke), but the latter turns out to be on Kapoor's payroll. Kapoor, along with his cronies and Sharma, attack, and lock Deven in his car. The car is then pushed into the river, causing a bound and gagged Deven to die. Unaware of the truth behind Deven's death, his mother decides to bring up her grandson alone.

12 years later, in 2004, Raj Chaudary (Vatsal Sheth) is now a 22-year-old boy, living with Suhasini, and studies at a college where he falls in love with a rich girl named Priya Rakesh Kapoor (Ayesha Takia). Priya had recently transferred to the college from London and is attracted towards Raj's simplicity and honesty. Rocky (Sikandar Kharbanda) is the college Romeo cum bully and harasses Priya. The young Raj now works in the garage of Kartar Singh (paji) (Amrish Puri) as a mechanic. One day, Raj discovers Taarzan and recognizes it immediately. He somehow pools money and buys it at a throwaway price, which was 5000 rupees. Raj wants to update the car that reminds him of his father Deven. Little does he know that with the car, he has also brought back his father, whose soul is trapped inside the car. Rocky spikes Priya's drink in a bid to rape her, but Raj accidentally drinks that and proposes his love to Priya, which she finds charming.

Kartar is moved on learning this and aides Raj in repairing Taarzan. Taarzan is totally revamped into a car even more advanced than Deven's design and Raj decides to rename it DC (as Raj's father's name Deven Chaudhary), to honor Deven's memory. Rocky and his entourage attacks Raj when they see that Raj has a spanking new car and Priya with him. That night the car drives itself and attacks Rocky and his goons and injures them badly. Rocky gets really scared and thinks Raj was behind the attack.

Here, Deven's spirit possesses Taarzan and starts killing all those who were responsible for the murder: He kills Kailash Chopra (Mukesh Tiwari) when the latter is on his way to Palghar (The car is badly damaged in this, but it completely self-repairs back to its pristine new condition), he then kills Mahesh Saxena (Shakti Kapoor) during New Year's Eve (by drowning him in the same lake where Deven was killed), he kills officer Sanjay Sharma, in the latter's police jeep by pushing it down a ravine & when Sanjay tries to hide in his garage, Deven spills motor oil all over it and sets fire to it which consumes Sanjay. and finally, he kills Anthony D' Costa (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) when D' Costa decides to stay away from the car, by going to Nagpur.

Since the car now belongs to Raj, he becomes a suspect in eyes of Inspector Khurana (Gulshan Grover), the investigating officer. Khurana has traced the car tracks to the location of Kailash's death and its license plate was recorded by Mahesh's wife before Mahesh was killed. But Khurana is unable to pin Raj since he has a solid alibi for both instances. But at the time of D'Costa's death, Raj and Priya find his car missing and go to Khurana. Khurana receives a call from D'Costa, saying that the car is trying to kill him, while Raj and Priya are sitting in front of him. The mystery deepens. Here, Kapoor returns to India after learning that all his partners have died. Kapoor is revealed to be Priya's father.

When the car returns to Raj's garage, he chains it to avoid any further murders. Khurana threatens to crush the car if it is connected to any further deaths.

On Priya's insistence, Kapoor goes to meet Raj, but after learning that Raj is Deven's son, Kapoor assumes that Raj has somehow found the truth and is using Priya as a pawn. Kapoor decides to kill Raj and take Priya back with him to London. Priya and Raj are both clueless, but Raj is shocked when Kapoor tells him the truth. Here, Taarzan comes alive again and in front of disbelieving eyes of Kapoor and Raj, jumps in the ocean to save Raj. Deven's spirit now becomes visible to everybody. In front of Raj, Suhasini, Priya, and Inspector Khurana, a terrified Kapoor confesses the crime. Khurana arrests Kapoor, while Deven says his last goodbye to Suhasini and Raj. With Raj, Suhasini, and Priya united, Deven's spirit becomes free, and he ascends to heaven, with Raj and Priya living a happy life afterwards. Later Raj marries Priya.