Hathyar (2002 film)

Hathyar
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Directed by	Mahesh Manjrekar
Story by	Mahesh Manjrekar
Produced by	Ganesh Jain Ratan Jain
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Shilpa Shetty Sharad Kapoor
Narrated by	Sachin Khedekar
Cinematography	Vijay Kumar Arora
Edited by	V. N. Mayekar
Music by	Anand Raj Anand Nitin Raikwar Rahul Ranade
Distributed by	Venus Records & Tapes
Release date	18 October 2002 (2002-10-18)
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹7 crore[1]
Box office	₹9.63 crore[1]

Hathyar: Face to Face with Reality (transl. Weapon) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action crime thriller film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film is a sequel to Vaastav (1999). It stars Sanjay Dutt, Shilpa Shetty and Sharad Kapoor. Hathyar begins where Vaastav had ended and focuses on the son of Raghu bhai, Boxer bhai, also played by Dutt.^[2][3]

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The film opens with Rohit Shivalkar (Sanjay Dutt) being shot at by some gangsters including his aide Pakya (Sharad Kapoor). As the doctors operate on him, the narrator begins the story from the past.

Rohit is ostracized because of the stigma attached to him due to his father Raghunath (Sanjay Dutt) who was a gangster, since his childhood, by all except for Munna (Sachin Khedekar). Rohit's grandfather Namdev (Shivaji Satam) is now a drunkard, accumulates debts and dies of liver failure. Rohit's mother, Sonu (Namrata Shirodkar) is forced to resort to prostitution again for money, seeking Chaudhary's (Viju Khote) help. As Rohit grows up, he earns a reputation for being a good boxer, until defeating Amar Rane (Inder Kumar). Amar learns how Raghu had murdered his father who was a police officer, and presses Rohit on false charges of drug possession with his uncle's help, harassing him in custody, in spite of Rohit's innocence. Rohit also learns the truth about his mother from Amar as he spots her with Chaudhary, which infuriates him, causing her to end her own life. Fed-up of Amar calling his mother a whore, Rohit brutally kills him and gets imprisoned. His grandmother, Shanta (Reema Lagoo) reprimands him as she informs him about his mother's suicide when she visits him in the prison.

Years later, Hasan Bhai (Shakti Kapoor) remembers the time Raghu had eliminated the Fracture gang, as he faces trouble with the gang's children, and he bails Rohit out. Rohit, just like his father, now makes his way up the ranks in the Mumbai underworld, earning the name "Boxer Bhai". He is also in love with his father's friend Bhopu's (Atul Kale) daughter Gauri (Shilpa Shetty), who is enduring a physically abusive marriage. Rohit eventually snatches her out of this abusive relationship and remarries her.

Meanwhile, Rohit is also approached by ruling party power broker Digamber Patil (Gulshan Grover) who offers him to fight for elections to get into politics as a corporator. Rohit also wins the elections. DCP Kishore Kadam (Deepak Tijori), who is Rohit's guardian and Raghu's best friend warns Rohit about the new honest Chief minister, and advises him to mend his ways before it is too late.

Shortly Gauri's friend Jyoti's husband Shekhar, who is a police officer and informer of Fracture Nagya (Anup Soni), gets killed by Rohit. Gauri, heartbroken, moves to Munna's house for a while. Munna persuades Gauri to go back to Rohit with the help of another police officer who tells her that Shekhar was Nagya's informer. Gauri decides to return but Rohit kills Munna after being misled by Pakya that Munna and Gauri are having an affair. Gauri then deserts him and Rohit is devastated by his mistakes. The plot returns to the start where Rohit miraculously survives the attack.

It is then revealed that Digamber had conspired with Fracture Nagya against Rohit and was double-crossed by Pakya due to Rohit's powerful political status and a personal score that had to be settled with Fracture family. A vengeful Rohit recovers and sets out to eliminate Digamber, Pakya and Nagya. Rohit kills Nagya and then kills Pakya at a guest house, enraged by Pakya's betrayal due to a hefty bribe given by Digamber to him. Subsequently, Rohit bludgeons Digamber in a cricket stadium and goes in hiding.

Rohit is now the most wanted criminal in the city and "shoot to kill" orders by the Chief Minister are given to Kishore Kadam. Rohit locates Gauri and asks for forgiveness from Gauri and says that he was forced into a life of crime because of his father's past. He tells Gauri to take their daughter Shanti far away from the city, away from his dark past, as he suicides. Gauri finally decides to leave the city with Shanta and Shanti. The film ends with a note on the irony of destiny by the narrator, presumably Munna's spirit, as the credits roll.

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