Mashaal

Mashaal is a 1984 Bollywood film. Produced and directed by Yash Chopra, it starred Dilip Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Rati Agnihotri, Nilu Phule, Iftekhar, Saeed Jaffery, Gulshan Grover, Alok Nath, Madan Puri and Amrish Puri. The role played by Anil Kapoor was first offered to Kamal Haasan, but after Kamal Haasan declined the offer, the role went to Anil Kapoor. Vinod Kumar Dilip Kumar plays a respected, lawabiding citizen who turns to crime for exacting revenge. The movie was based on the wellknown Marathi play Ashroonchi Zhali Phule written by famous Marathi writer Vasant Kanetkar.

During his investigations, Vinod finds that S.K. Vardhan Amrish Puri, a wealthy and respected man in the society, is behind many malpractices. Vinod starts exposing S.Ks illicit business of drugtrafficking and selling hooch. Initially, S.K. tries to buy Vinods silence by bribing him, but when Vinod decides to stand up to S.K., the latter inflicts misery on Vinod by having him thrown out of his rented house via the landlord. That very night, Vinods newspaper office is burnt down by S.K.s men. Helpless, and on the streets, tragedy strikes Vinod and Sudha further when Sudha, who is ailing, dies on the road, leaving Vinod distraught and heartbroken.A disillusioned Vinod realizes that S.K. will always trump him, since people also support him. Instead of trying to expose S.K., Vinod now decides to follow S.Ks footsteps in order to destroy him. Vinod, in association with Kishorilal Saeed Jaffrey, starts producing illicit hooch and doing other illegal businesses to earn lots of money the thing, Vinod retrospectively feels, he lacked, and the shortage of which led to the tragedies in his life. In a very short time, Vinod becomes a very rich man. All this time, Raja, who is in Bangalore for his studies, is blissfully unaware of these developments. The only other person exposed to this truth is Geeta, who has grown resentful of Vinod and has started working in another newspaper. ........

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