Vishwatma

Vishwatma
Directed by Rajiv Rai
Produced by Gulshan Rai
Starring Naseeruddin Shah
Sunny Deol
Chunky Pandey
Sonam
Divya Bharti
Amrish Puri
Narrated by Naseeruddin Shah
Music by Viju Shah
Cinematography Romesh Bhalla
Edited by Naresh Malhotra
Distributed by Trimurti Films Pvt. Ltd.
Release dates
 24 January 1992
Running time
 181 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

Vishwatma is a 1992 Indian action thriller film directed by Rajiv Rai. This film marked the Hindi film debut of late actress Divya Bharti.The film was a box office success. The music of the film was very successful especially the song "Saat Samundar" which became a favorite and gave Divya Bharti the limelight into Bollywood.

Synopsis

Vishwatma is the story of a man named Prabhat Singh (Sunny Deol) who is an honest and dedicated police officer. He usually has no time for his family and his father is constantly at loggerheads with him. His father believes in peace and opposes bloodshed and disturbance in the country. Prabat is currently on a mission to apprehend the most dreaded crime lord Ajgar Jurrat (Amrish Puri) who lives in Kenya but operates in India. Things take a turn for the worse when Prabhat kills Ajgar's brother in an encounter. An angered Ajgar abducts and kills Prabat's school-going brother. Prabhat's family is devastated and his father blames him for his brother's death. Prabhat's father disowns him from the family. Meanwhile, one of Ajgar's men turns against him and threatens to turn him in to the police. Fearing his arrest, Ajgar has the man, Madan Bhardwaj (Mangal Dhillon) killed on the night of his wedding. Ajgar's son also molests Madan's wife, leaving her traumatised. Thus, Madan's brother Akash Bhardwaj (Chunky Pandey) swears revenge on Ajgar. But Ajgar flees to Kenya and it's almost impossible to bring him back to India in order to try him in court. So, the police commissioner (Dalip Tahil) decides to look for Prabat as he is the only one who can achieve the impossible. Prabhat moves to a remote corner of a distant village in India after his dad disowns him. Prabat's dad also changes his mind and decides to go to persuade Prabhat to take on the mission to bring Ajgar back to India.Prabhat agrees to take on the mission but insists that Akash also join him. Akash agrees as well. And they fly all the way to Kenya on a mission to bring the dreaded criminal to justice in India. There, Prabhat and Akash find Madan's sister-in-law Renuka (Sonam) who's also on the same mission. She helps them get to Ajgar. But this task is not as easy as they may have thought as Ajgar is a respected citizen in Kenya. Prabhat and Akash seek the help of another honest cop, Surya Pratap (Naseeruddin Shah) to apprehend Ajgar. However, Surya Pratap thinks Ajgar is an honorable man. Akash falls in love with Ajgar's daughter, Sonia (Jyotsna Singh) and Prabhat falls for Kusum (Divya Bharti). Renuka falls in love with Surya, despite knowing he has a daughter. Surya's wife committed suicide while Ajgar's son tried to molest her. When Surya learns that Ajgar's son was the reason behind his wife's death, he sets out to take revenge against Ajgar as well.

Finally, the trio succeeds in apprehending Ajgar and his men and bring them to India. And all ends well.

Cast

Music

After the success of the music of Tridev, everyone expected Viju Shah to conjure magic with this film. The soundtrack was well received but did not scale the heights of Tridev. It managed to become popular, especially "Saat Samundar Paar," written by Anand Bakshi and rendered by Sadhna Sargam, This song's background music was inspired from the British duo's song Pet Shop Boys - Heart. The song continues to play on radio stations and at discothèques (remixed) almost 20 years later. The other songs that got noticed when the film released were "Aankhon Mein Hain Kya", "Dil Le Gayi Teri Bindiya" and the title track. Sapna Mukherjee (who won her first Filmfare award with "Oye Oye - Tirchi Topi Wale" in Tridev) sang two tracks in this film, but could not re-create the Tridev magic.

Tracklist

# Title Singer(s) Inspired From
1 "Saat Samundar Paar" Sadhana Sargam Pet Shop Boys - Heart
2 "Aankhon Mein Hai Kya" Mohammad Aziz, Sadhana Sargam, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik,
3 "Dil Le Gayi Teri Bindiya" Amit Kumar, Sapna Mukherjee, Mohammad Aziz & Udit Narayan
4 "Aadmi Zindagi" Mohammad Aziz
5 "Toofan" Amit Kumar, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, Sapna Mukherjee
6 "Saat Samundar Paar (Happy)" Sadhana Sargam & Udit Narayan

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