Hathyar (2002 film)

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Hathyar
DVD Cover
Directed byMahesh Manjrekar
Story byMahesh Manjrekar
Produced byGanesh Jain
Ratan Jain
StarringSanjay Dutt
Shilpa Shetty
Sharad Kapoor
Narrated bySachin Khedekar
CinematographyVijay Kumar Arora
Edited byV. N. Mayekar
Music byAnand Raj Anand
Nitin Raikwar
Rahul Ranade
Distributed byVenus Records & Tapes
Release date
  • 18 October 2002 (2002-10-18)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget7 crore[1]
Box office9.63 crore[1]

Hathyar: Face to Face with Reality (transl. Weapon) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action crime 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) on motorbikes, and being hospitalized as a result. As the doctors operate on him, they recollect his story.

Rohit is refused from being privileged because of the stigma attached to him, as a consequence of his father Raghunath's actions, since his childhood. Except for Munna (Sachin Khedekar), everyone else distance from him in the school. Raghu's demise causes his grandfather Namdev (Shivaji Satam) to drink to excess, causing him to accumulate debits and die from liver failure. The costs of Namdev's surgery also forces Rohit's mother, Sonu (Namrata Shirodkar) to resort to prostitution all over again, seeking Chaudhary's (Viju Khote) help. As Rohit grows up (Abhijeet Satam), he earns a reputation for being a good boxer, until defeating Amar Rane (Inder Kumar). Amar learns how Raghu had murdered his father, and presses Rohit on false charges of drug possession, harassing him in jail, in spite of Rohit's innocence. At the same time, Rohit learns the truth about his mother as he spots her with Chaudhary, which infuriates him, causing her to end her own life. Rohit now enters a drunken state, and, having grown fed-up to Amar calling his mother a whore, brutally kills him and gets imprisoned. His grandmother, Shanta (Reema Lagoo) reprimands him as she informs him about his mother's death as she visits him in the prison.

Years later, Hasan Bhai (Shakti Kapoor) remembers the time Raghu eliminated the Fracture gang, as he faces trouble with the gang's children, and bails him out. Rohit (Sanjay Dutt), just like his father, makes his way up the ranks in the underworld, earning the name "Boxer Bhai". In the process, he falls hard for a married woman, Gauri (Shilpa Shetty), who is enduring a marriage with a physically abusive spouse. Rohit snatches her out of this abusive relationship and remarries her and eventually gives birth to a daughter named Shanti. But their married lives are shattered when Gauri's friend Jyoti's husband, who was a police officer and informer of Fracture Nagya, gets killed by Rohit. Gauri, heartbroken, leaves Rohit and lives at Munna's house. Rohit tries to contact her, but all efforts are in vain. Munna persuades Gauri to go back to Rohit, but sooner he is killed by Rohit after influenced by Pakya's false story. Gauri, angered, cuts all ties with Rohit, and lives in a small house nowhere. Rohit is eventually attacked by Pakya and his men and is hospitalized as shown in the beginning, but miraculously survives the attack.

It is then revealed that Rohit's godfather Digamber Patil had conspired with Fracture Nagya against him and gets double-crossed by his friend 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 finish Digamber, Pakya and Nagya. He locates Pakya in a guest house. Rohit eventually kills Fracture Nagya and is about to kill Pakya, but the latter pleads with him for forgiveness. Rohit, who considered Pakya as his friend, gets enraged by his betrayal due to a hefty bribe by Digamber and kills him. Subsequently, Rohit brutally murders Digamber in a cricket stadium with a bat and goes in hiding.

After the turn of events, Rohit becomes the most wanted criminal and is issued "shoot to kill" orders by the Chief Minister. DCP Kishore Kadam, who is Rohit's guardian and Raghu's best friend, has no other option but to kill him and obey the orders. Before surrendering to the police, Rohit 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 requests Gauri to take his daughter far away from the city to not let her life be affected by his dark past, and whatever happens to him, she would not turn back. Rohit commits suicide, and the armed police force attacks Rohit. In the end, Gauri finally decides to leave the city with Shanti.

Cast[edit]

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]

  1. ^ a b "Hathyar – Movie". Box Office India.
  2. ^ "HATHYAR (2002)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Hathyar (2002)". Letterboxd. Retrieved 30 June 2023.

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