“Arjun”
Hindi Movie Review
Arjun is a 1985 Indian Hindi-language action
film directed by Rahul Rawail and starring Sunny Deol and Dimple
Kapadia.
The film is about a young educated but unemployed man named
Arjun Malvankar played by Sunny Deol from a lower middle class Maharashtrian
family in Mumbai. He has a group of friends who are also unemployed. They are
all frustrated with the system that thrives on corruption and exploitation of
the weak.
Unemployed but tolerant and kind-hearted Arjun Malvankar stays
in the suburbs of Bombay with his father and stepmother and stepsister. Mr.
Malvankar still works at an old age to make both ends meet.
One day, Arjun beats up a group of ruffians who are thrashing a
poor man for not paying extortion taxes. With this incident, Arjun's life
changes. Arjun invokes the wrath of the local goon, who orders more people to
go and beat him, but this time he is assisted by five of his friends, Arjun
beats them up badly and sends them back. The goons warn Arjun's parents to
advise him against his activities, lest he gets himself killed. Arjun is
arrested but let off with a warning by the cops. However, a new inspector, Ravi
Rane, notes that Arjun is actually doing the right thing. He later falls in
love with Arjun's sister.
Arjun is approached by Geeta, a journalist who asks him for a
favour which he obliges, and after which they both fall in love with each
other.
The minister Deen Dayal Trivedi, who is behind all illegal
activities in the city, and who is also supporting the don, gets to know of
Arjun. He thinks that Arjun is working for his rival Shiv Kumar Chowgule, whose
party is trying to get nominated for the upcoming elections, and orders that he
and his friends should be eliminated. The gang attacks and kills one of Arjun's
friends, Mohan, in public. Though Arjun tries his best, no one comes forward to
give witness to the murder out of fear, because of which the killers are left
free. Arjun goes and beats up the killers till he is stopped by police.
Now Arjun is approached by Shiv Kumar Chowgule and his
right-hand man, Babu Ram, but is simply turned down. Soon Arjun's family kicks
him out of the house, and with nowhere to go, he agrees to go with Chowgule,
thinking that the latter is an honest and upright person trying to eliminate
the wicked Trivedi and all his activities in the city. With Arjun to help him,
Chowgule destroys all of Trivedi's activities. He breaks up Trivedi's Matka den
operated by his trusted aides, Anoop. He also manages to lay hold of Anand
Patkar, a wealthy alcoholic who is part of the nomination committee for
elections and on Trivedi's side. The enraged Trivedi orders Anoop to murder
Anand, which he does but unfortunately gets caught red handed by police.
The film takes a twist when Arjun sees that Chowgule has joined
hands with Trivedi and that none of the evidence he collected has really been
published anywhere, as promised by Chowgule. He realizes that a politician is a
corrupt person who was using him for his own gains. The car and house given to
Arjun are also confiscated.
Frustrated and angered, Arjun goes to fight the politicians at
their speech rally but is simply thrown out. At home with Geeta, Arjun is
visited by his father, who tells him that all his life he has borne wrongdoings
and injustice. He blesses his son, telling him that he is with him in the fight
against injustice.
The film then reaches its climax, where Arjun breaks into
Trivedi's house and beats him up, then proceeds to Chowgule's mansion, where he
beats up the politician and takes away all the files and evidence of both
Chowgule's and Trivedi's bad activities. However, wounded Chowgule orders his
men to chase Arjun and kill him. Arjun is now on the run in the empty streets
of Bombay at night, with goons hot on his heels. They manage to shoot him a
couple of times, but Arjun still runs. He manages to evade them, causing their
vehicles to crash, until finally he kills the last goon and arrives at
Inspector Ravi's Police station, where he collapses and gives him the evidence.
Chowgule and Trivedi are finally arrested.
The film ends with Ravi giving Arjun a thumbs up in hospital.
The music of this film was composed by R. D. Burman. The
background music, especially during the action scenes was very catchy and was
used for several other movies. The song "Mammaiya Kero Mamma" was
very popular. Javed Akhtar had written the lyrics. Arjun nominated for Best Film,
Best Director and Best Story on 33rd Filmfare Awards.
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