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Interaction Arjun is a 1985 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Arjun
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Arjun's father is a simple man and has surrendered to living a poor
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rival politician to expose the corrupt local MP. However, he soon
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discovers the murky world of politics and realizes that he is just being
Starring Sunny Deol
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‫ﻓﺎر ﺳ ﯽ‬ film are owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment.[2] Raj Kiran
Anupam Kher
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Music by Rahul Dev Burman
Edit links 1 Plot
Production Cineyug Productions
2 Cast company
3 Music Distributed by Eros Entertainment
4 Award nominations
Release date 10 May 1985
5 References
Country India
6 External links
Language Hindi

Plot [edit]

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Unemployed but tolerant and kind hearted Arjun Malvankar ( Sunny Deol) stays in the suburbs of Bombay with his
father and step mother and step sister. Mr. Malvankar (A.K. Hangal) still works at an old age to make both ends meet.

One day, Arjun beats up a group of ruffians who are thrashing a poor man for not paying extortion taxes. With this
incident, Arjun's life changes. Arjun invokes the wrath of the local goon, who orders more people to go and beat him,
but this time he is assisted by five of friends, Arjun beats them up badly and sends them back. The goons warn Arjun's
parents to advise him against his activities, lest he gets himself killed. Arjun is arrested but let off with a warning by the
cops. However, a new inspector, Ravi Rane (Raj Kiran), notes that Arjun is actually doing the right thing. He later falls
in love with Arjun's sister.

Arjun is approached by Geeta ( Dimple Kapadia), a journalist who asks him for a favour which he obliges, and after
which they both fall in love with each other.
The minister Deen Dayal Trivedi (Prem Chopra), who is behind all illegal activities in the city, and who is also
supporting the don, gets to know of Arjun. He thinks that Arjun is working for his rival Shiv Kumar Chowgule (Anupam
Kher), whose party is trying to get nominated for the upcoming elections, and orders that he and his friends should be
eliminated. The gang attacks and kills one of Arjun's friends, Mohan (Satyajeet), in public. Though Arjun tries his best,
no one comes forward to give witness to the murder out of fear, because of which the killers are left free. Arjun goes
and beats up the killers till he is stopped by police.

Now Arjun is approached by Shiv Kumar Chowgule and his right-hand man, Babu Ram ( Annu Kapoor), but is simply
turned down. Soon Arjun's family kicks him out of the house, and with nowhere to go, he agrees to go with Chowgule,
thinking that the latter is an honest and upright person trying to eliminate the wicked Trivedi and all his activities in the
city. With Arjun to help him, Chowgule destroys all of Trivedi's activities. He breaks up Trivedi's Matka den operated by
his trusted aides, Anoop (Paresh Rawal). He also manages to lay hold of Anand Patkar ( Shafi Inamdar), a wealthy
alcoholic who is part of the nomination committee for elections and on Trivedi's side. The enraged Trivedi orders Anoop
to murder Anand, which he does but unfortunately gets caught red handed by police.

The film takes a twist when Arjun sees that Chowgule has joined hands with Trivedi and that none of the evidence he
collected has really been published anywhere, as promised by Chowgule. He realizes that the politician is a corrupt
person who was using him for his own gains. The car and house given to Arjun are also confiscated.

Frustrated and angered, Arjun goes to fight the politicians at their speech rally but is simply thrown out. At home with
Geeta, Arjun is visited by his father, who tells him that all his life he has borne wrongdoings and injustice. He blesses
his son, telling him that he is with him in the fight against injustice.

The film then reaches its climax, where Arjun breaks into Trivedi's house and beats him up, then proceeds to
Chowgule's mansion, where he beats up the politician and takes away all the files and evidence of both Chowgule's and
Trivedi's bad activities. However, wounded Chowgule orders his men to chase Arjun and kill him. Arjun is now on the
run in the empty streets of Bombay at night, with goons hot on his heels. They manage to shoot him a couple of times,
but Arjun still runs. He manages to evade them, causing their vehicles to crash, until finally he kills the last goon and
arrives at Inspector Ravi's Police station, where he collapses and gives him the evidence. Chowgule and Trivedi are
finally arrested.

The film ends with Ravi giving Arjun a thumbs up in hospital.

Cast [edit]

Sunny Deol as Arjun Malvankar

Dimple Kapadia as Geeta Sahni (Arjun's girlfriend)
A.K. Hangal as Mr. Malvankar
Shashikala as Mrs. Rukhmini Malvankar
Anupam Kher as Shivkumar Chowgule
Prem Chopra as Minister Deen Dayal Trivedi
Raj Kiran as Insp. Ravi Rane
Supriya Pathak as Sudha Malvankar
Shafi Inamdar as Anand Patkar
Paresh Rawal as Anup Lal
Raja Bundela as Chander
Satyajeet as Mohan
Goga Kapoor as Ranga
Annu Kapoor as Babu Ram
Ghanshyam Rohera as Ashok Babu

Music [edit]

The music of this film was composed by Rahul Dev Burman. The background music, especially during the action
scenes was very catchy and was used for several other movies. The song "Mammaya Kero Maama" was very popular.

Javed Akhtar had written the lyrics.

# Title Singer(s)
1 "Mammaya Kero Kero Kero Mama" Shailendra Singh
2 "Dhadkan Pal Pal" Asha Bhosle
3 "Munni Pappu aur Chunmun" Asha Bhosle
4 "Bhoore Bhoore Aankhonwala" Lata Mangeshkar

Award nominations [edit]

 33rd Filmfare Awards

Best Film - Karim Morani and Sunil Soorma - Nominated

Best Director - Rahul Rawail - Nominated
Best Story - Javed Akhtar - Nominated

References [edit]

1. ^ "Imdb - Arjun" .
2. ^ "Red Chillies Official Website" . Archived from the original on 6 October 2016.

External links [edit]

Arjun on IMDb

V· T · E Works of Rahul Rawail

Gunehgaar (1980) · Biwi O Biwi (1981) · Love Story (1981) · Betaab (1983) · Arjun (1985) · Samundar (1986) · Dacait
(1987) · Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990) · Mast Kalandar (1991) · Yodha (1991) · Bekhudi (1992) · Anjaam (1994) ·
Feature films
Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya (1997) · Arjun Pandit (1999) · Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001) · Jo Bole So Nihaal (2005) ·
Buddha Mar Gaya (2007)
TV series Dharam Yuddh (1988) · Honee Ahonee (1988)

Categories: 1985 films Hindi-language films Indian films Films scored by R. D. Burman
1980s Hindi-language films Indian action drama films Films directed by Rahul Rawail
Hindi films remade in other languages

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