''Gangvaa'' is a 1984 Indian

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-language film directed by Rajasekhar, starring

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and

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. It is a remake of Rajasekhar's 1983

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film ''

Malaiyoor Mambattiyan ''Malaiyoor Mambattiyan'' () is 1983 Indian Tamil-language vigilante action film directed by Rajasekhar, starring Thiagarajan, Saritha and Silk Smitha. It was released on 1 July 1983. The film became a blockbuster and established Thiagarajan as ...

''. The film had a successful run of over 50 weeks and more than 100 days at the Bombay Plaza theater.

Plot

The basic injustice at the core of ''Gangvaa'' is the way the land owning classes take advantage of ordinary village folk. Early on in the film, a work crew finds a pot full of gold coins and Thakur Mahendra Singh (

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) confiscates them to add to his already massive wealth. Gangvaa (

Rajnikanth Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (born 12 December 1950), known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 170 films that includes films in Tamil, Hindi, ...

) kills the Zamindar and his goons. Gangvaa puts together a band of men who had suffered under the Zamindar's tyranny. Together they hang out in the wilderness and perform Robin-Hood-esque raids for the sake of vigilante justice. At some point Jamna (

) encounters Gangvaa and is smitten. Then a village girl accuses Gangvaa of rape, and Jamna is enraged – it is here that she gets down to find the truth. It turns out that the rape was actually perpetrated by a totally different guy named Gangvaa (

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), and righting this wrong helps Gangvaa win Jamna back, but this makes him a new set of enemies that he spends the rest of the film fleeing from. Also on his tail is a

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(

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), who cannot allow vigilante activities in his district, irrespective of the intention.

Cast

Music

The music was composed by

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References

External links

* {{Rajasekhar (director) 1980s Hindi-language films 1980s Indian films 1984 films Films directed by Rajasekhar (director) Films scored by Bappi Lahiri Hindi remakes of Tamil films