When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests Dr. Michael Dang, the leader of the international terrorist group PSO, the group blast the jail Dang is lodged in killing huge numbers of inmates including two of Vishwa's sons and his daughter-in-law; with Dang escaping in the process. Vishwa, who now calls himself Dada Thakur, enlists three death row inmates and sets out to avenge his family's slaughter.
Acting
Dilip Kumar's volcanic grief as the stoic Dada Thakur.
Direction
Subhash Ghai balancing three hours of chaos with emotional beats.
Stunts
Pre-CGI explosions where every car death is a practical effect.
Director
Subhash Ghai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ghai allegedly wrote the prison break sequence after visiting Tihar Jail and becoming obsessed with institutional failure as cinematic spectacle.
The film released during peak Punjab insurgency, making its terrorist villain uncomfortably timely and government-approved in ways that aged complicatedly.
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