Ghayal (1990)



Name: Ghayal

Genre: Action/Crime

Cast: Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Rajkumar Santoshi (Director)

Synopsis: Ajay Mehra (Sunny Deol) lives with his brother Ashok Mehra and his sister in law Indu in Bombay (now Mumbai). He is an amateur boxer who is in love with a girl named Varsha (Meenakshi Sheshadri). Ashok is a businessman who is facing problems regarding his business but he tells some of his problems with his wife but doesn’t share anything with his brother. His brother is on a boxing training camp at Banglore. Ashok when utmost frustrated talks to his brother but when he was about tell the problem phone got cut. When he came back, he came to that his brother is missing. He tries to inquire about the same but all in vain. He went to police for complaint but nothing was happening. He even went to Balawant Rai’s PA for asking about his brother but everyone was giving vague answers. All this leads to utter frustration. Later he came across to a drunkard who promises to reveals secrets about his brother if he gave him money and he revealed the secret. He told Ajay that he know his brother. He suffered some losses in business and Balwant Rai (Amrish Puri) came to his rescue and cleared all his debts. In lieu of that he became his partner and started illegal businesses under this partnership and this is his way of doing illegal activities framing honest men and Ashok was in tension due to this reason. He tries to stop Balwant Rai but all in vain but Balwant Rai threatens him with grave consequences if he do so. He said that he had collected evidences against Balwant Rai and if he has not given the evidence to Balwant Rai then he might be alive but if he had give them then he probably might be dead. Hearing this Ajay straight went to Balwant Rai and asked him to return his brother otherwise he will not spare him.

Later Balwant Rai called Ajay and told him to save his brother if he can. Ajay reached to the spot where Balwant called him to arrive and found that his brother is dead. Later police came there and arrest Ajay. They framed Ajay in killing of his own brother as he had illicit relationship with his sister-in-law. Ajay was sent to jail and his sister in law couldn’t bear this trauma and commits suicide. Ajay after telling his whole story to his companions become friends and they told him that they will help Ajay in his revenge. After forming a plot for escape all of them escaped from the Jail. One by one he started killing all the people who had framed him in that murder charge. Balwant Rai also came to know that Ajay had escaped has well. Commissioner of police also came to know about some people has escaped from jail but when he sees their snaps he remember that one of them is Ajay who had came to him as well for help for looking for his brother but he didn’t helped him as well. Police started looking and killing for Ajay and his men and Ajay was killing those who framed him in wrong murder charges. When only Balwant Rai was left alive, Ajay told him that he will kill him in next 24 hours. Being in frustration Balwant Rai came to know that Varsha is Ajay’s girlfriend and Kidnaps her. Ajay in rage went to Balwant Rai’s area and completely destroys that. Meanwhile police officer who is in charge of this case came to know it not the Ajay who is wrong but is the Balwant Rai and the wrong system due to which Ajay has taken this route as Balwant Rai’s PA has given a written statement for the same and asks commissioner why has this happened. Commissioner promises him that he will take action against Balwant Rai and bring him to court but first he has to stop Ajay to kill Balwant Rai so that crime can’t be commited.

On other side, Ajay was following Balwant Rai’s with full force and they they started fighting in an Amusement park. Police arrived there and stopped Ajay killing Balwant Rai but Ajay being assisted by Varsha, finally kills Balwant Rai. In the end, Ajay went out of that amusement park where people were clapping for him.

Review: One of the great movies made by Rajkumar Santoshi. Absolutely brilliant. Direction was awesome. Performances of Sunny Deol and Amrish Puri were at level best. It’s like is just made alive every time anyone will see it. It moved with a great pace and all the time movie remained focused on its core story and didn’t went off track even at once. Cinematography was good and so were dialogues. Performances of other cast like Meenashi Sheshadri, Om Puri, Raj Babbar etc were also good and fully focused to movie core story. It’s a movie with jam packed action and full of entertainment and is a must watch for everyone and specially for those who is a diehard fan of Sunny Deol. 
  
Stars given: 4.5 out of 5 

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