''Ram Shastra'' is a 1995 Indian Bollywood action film directed by Sanjay Gupta. The cast of the movie includes

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, Aditya Pancholi, Manisha Koirala and Deepti Bhatnagar in the lead roles. The film's theme is inspired from the 1990 American film ''

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'' and had earlier been remade in 1994 as '' Cheetah''.

Story

Dhonga, a wealthy criminal, plans on assassinating the Police Commissioner (

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), but his attack is foiled with his younger brother being killed by Ram Sinha (

), an unemployed individual. Dhonga goes to prison for five years and swears to avenge the humiliation and murder of his brother. Ram Sinha becomes an inspector, joining fellow inspector Kavi ( Aditya Pancholi) in imprisoning various drug dealers and pimps, including those who work for Dhonga. While Ram marries Kavi's sister Anjali and fathers a son, Dhonga returns from prison and plots to legally run his criminal empire with the help of some cops and his lawyer Srivastav ( Alok Nath), aiming to get the respect of the Police Commissioner. Dhonga's other brother Satpal (

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) hatches a plot to murder Anjali, and plants heroin and cocaine in his house, so that Ram gets arrested. Ram escapes his arrest with the help of Ritu, proves his innocence to the Commissioner, and kills all his enemies while rescuing his son and Kavi, who both were kidnapped by Dhonga.

Cast

as Inspector Ram Sinha * Aditya Pancholi as Inspector Kavi * Manisha Koirala as Anjali Sinha Face Surgery * Deepti Bhatnagar as Nitu Sinha * Anupam Kher as Dhonga the great *

as Satpal Dhonga * Johnny Lever as Raja * Alok Nath as Lawyer Srivastava * Dinesh Anand as Salim Langda (Drug Dealer) * Bharat Kapoor as Lawyer *

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as Inspector Azhgar Ali * Tiku Talsania as Havaldar * Ishrat Ali as Inspector Shinde *

as Police Commissioner

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Anu Malik and released by Tips Music. The background score was composed by Aadesh Shrivastava.

References

External links

* 1995 films 1990s Hindi-language films Films scored by Anu Malik Indian remakes of American films Indian vigilante films Indian action films Films directed by Sanjay Gupta 1995 action films 1990s vigilante films Hindi-language action films {{1990s-Hindi-film-stub