Mahaan
Vikram Singh (Amjad Khan) is caught for possession of drugs but claims he was framed by a business associate named Rajan (Sujit Kumar). Vikram considers Amit (Amitabh), who is a lawyer, a loyal friend and thinks that Amit will get him out of jail. But Amit goes to court and produces witnesses against Vikram, whose drugs business has destroyed countless innocent lives. After release from prison, Vikram kills Rajan and frames his former lawyer Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) for the murder. Vikram asks Amit for help in settling his dispute with Rajan. when Amit gets to Rajan, they have a scuffle and Vikram takes advantage of the confusion and shoots Rajan. Amit is forced to go on the run with wife Janki. At the train station, Amit is forced to hide from the police while the train leaves with Janki inside. The train later derails and Amit thinks Janki is dead. Meanwhile his pregnant wife Janki (Waheeda Rehman) (who had survived the train crash) gives birth to twin sons Guru and Shankar (Both played by Amitabh Bachchan). Unfortunately, she becomes separated from one of her sons Guru when her son is stolen by a barren couple. With her husband on the run and one son missing, Janki is forced to raise Shankar on her own. Amit thinks his wife Janki is dead, so he tries to lead a normal life using the name Rana Ranveer and is living with his adopted daughter Manju (Parveen Babi). Many yrs ago, Amit had saved Manju from some kidnappers who had shot her father and since then they are together. But Janki is living in another city with Shankar who has become a police inspector. Shankar is also after the drug trade and is tracking smuggler Prem (Shakti Kapoor) who happens to be Vikram's son. Prem was using Manju as a courier and stops her after she had exited the airport with the drugs in her purse. But Shankar intervenes and beats Prem in hand-to-hand combat. Shankar arrests Manju as a drug smuggler. Janki arrives at the police station and bails out Manju, saying that she knows Manju is the daughter of rich and famous Rana Ranveer Singh, based in Nepal. Manju had come to Delhi to meet Janki, as Janki is a sculptor and Manju wants a bust of her late father. Manju starts dating Shankar. Guru had been brought up by a barren couple father (Mukri) and mother (Urmila Bhatt) and grows up to be a theatre actor. His foster parents want Guru to wed Rita (Zeenat Aman), who is the granddaughter of Rai Sahib (Ashok Kumar). Rita doesn't want to get married, but Rai Sahib is adamant that he will donate the entire wealth to orphanages, if Rita refuses to see prospective candidates. Rita agrees, but then proceeds to insult all grooms, including Guru. Rai Sahib is super upset. His doctor advises Rita to pretend that she has married for the sake of her grandfather. Rita finds that Guru is an actor and hires him. Rai sahib likes Guru's style and how he treats the entire world as his theatre. when Guru tries to get close to Rita, she kicks him out. Guru and Rai Sahib team up to make Rita realize that she really loves Guru and wants to marry him. Meanwhile Vikram now partners with Simon Sardar (Kader Khan). A famous necklace goes to auction and Ranveer Singh wants to buy it, as he remembers Janki wanted that necklace. But Vikram has his eyes on it and asks Simon to steal it. But to evade the police, Simon puts the necklace into a hollow statue of an art gallery. The next morning Manju buys the statue for Ranveer and gives it to Shankar, who is heading to Nepal to investigate the theft. At the airport, Shankar runs into Ranveer, and their packages get exchanged. Vikram abducts Shankar from the Kathmandu airport and finds that Shankar looks like Amit. But he can't find the statue or the necklace. Shankar manages to escape in a car, but Vikram chases him in a helicopter and Shankar's car falls off a cliff. Vikram finds Janki's photo in Shankar's luggage and realizes that Shankar is Amit's son. But Shankar survived. After checking at the airport, Simon and Vikram realize that Ranveer and Shankar's parcels got exchanged at the airport. Simon tries to infiltrate Ranveer's house and steal the necklace from the statue but is stung by a cobra. Next, Vikram sends Prem as Shankar to meet Ranveer (Vikram had found Manju's letter in which she said Shankar was going to meet Ranveer). Ranveer sees Janki's photo in Prem (As Shankar's) luggage and believes Prem is his son. Shankar reaches Ranveer and says he is investigating the theft of the necklace. He is astonished to see the statue in Ranveer's house. The discussion is sidelined when Shankar alleges that Ranveer is actually Amit who fled India 25 years ago after committing a murder. Ranveer asks Shankar to leave. Ranveer and Janki have a phone call and Janki also finds that Amit is alive and well in Nepal. Manju reaches home (to celebrate Shankar's Birthday) and finds that it is Prem, staying in her house posing as Shankar. Vikram arrives and abducts Amit, Manju and Janki (when she arrives in Nepal). Janki manages to escape and hides in a marriage function. The wedding is of Guru and Janki thinks it is Shankar. Guru's foster parents declare Janki as mad, but Rai Sahib's doctor is there, who was also Janki's doctor at her delivery. She confirms that Janki had twins and she gave one of the twins to Guru's foster dad as his foster mom had again given birth to a stillborn child. Guru goes to meet Ranveer/Amit and Shankar. But at the Haveli, he finds the cobra, who gives the necklace to Guru. Inside the Haveli, Guru and Shankar meet (Shankar had come to meet Manju and Janki). Guru tells the entire story to Shankar. Meanwhile Vikram's goons abduct Janki and Rita from the wedding. Shankar goes to Vikram and asks him to let Amit and Janki go to the Haveli and get the necklace. Vikram sees Prem with them. At the Haveli, Guru is dressed as Amit and goes back with Prem, leaving the real Amit and Janki safely behind. Vikram finds that the necklace is a fake and has already abducted Janki and Amit from the Haveli. Climax ensues. Nepal police arrives and arrests Vikram and his goons. Shankar keeps a drug injection away from Vikram and forces him to admit the truth that Vikram killed Rajan, and not Amit. The movie celebrated golden jubilee (3 shows) in South India and in rest of the India it celebrated silver jubilee (3 shows). When premiered in Sony TV in the year 2009, it earned highest TRP.
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