Vijay

About the film

Vijay (English: Victory) is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Yash Chopra. It features an ensemble star cast consisting of Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sonam, Anupam Kher in pivotal roles. Anupam Kher won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance.

The plot of the film was inspired by Chopra's previous film Trishul. The film, released on 12 August 1988, to coincide with India's Independence Day weekend, was a commercial failure.

Plot

Widowed Lala Yodhraj Bhalla lives in a palatial house with his daughter, Suman, and son, Shashiraj. Both of his children are of marriageable age. He gets a shock when he finds out that Suman is in love with a lowly employee by the name of Ajit Bhardwaj, and refuses to give his consent for their marriage. Suman and Ajit get married in a simple ceremony, and Suman moves to Ajit's house, where she soon gets pregnant and gives birth to a son who they name Vikram, affectionately called Vicky. Yodhraj gets another shock when Shashiraj tells him that he would like to marry Rita, who comes from a poor family. Yodhraj asks Shashiraj to go for a trip out of town in his private air-plane. With Shashiraj out of the way, Yodhraj goes to a pregnant Rita and asks her never to see Shashiraj again and leaves a blank cheque with her. The very same day, Shashiraj is killed when his plane crashes; a guilt-ridden Suman moves back into her father's house along with Vikram, leaving Ajit alone and devastated; and a lone Rita gives birth to a young son named Arjun. Twenty five years later, Yodhraj still lives in his palatial house with Suman and Vikram. A grown-up Arjun lives with his adopted father Inder Sen and his family. He meets and befriends Vikram but is completely unaware that they are cousins.

Sometime later, Inder tells Arjun about hiring an accomplished architect for their dream hotel, and that architect turns out to be Ajit, now alone and an alcoholic. He reluctantly agrees to work. Yodhraj is shocked to see him as Inder's company representative. He immediately leaves the meeting and meets up with Suresh Padampati owner of the Padampati Bankers, who also bears a grudge against Inder since his testimony resulted in his father committing suicide. They join hands, along with Inder's security officer Ujagar Singh who bears a grudge against Arjun for getting him arrested.

Situations worsen and it results in Arjun and Vikram becoming enemies, with it also creating a rift between their girlfriends Sapna and Nisha. Inder's company gets saddled with deep debt. In the middle of all of this Arjun gets to know that Rita is his biological mother and is still alive but sick, living in a convent. He goes to visit her. They have an emotional reunion but she dies in his arms thereafter. Inder tells him that Yodhraj is actually his grandfather, and apologises for making family members fight each other, but Arjun refuses to accept it, and pledges to take the fight forward. He, along with his friends, creates problems in Yodhraj and his family. Inder commits suicide due to the high pressure on him to pay the loan back, but Arjun succeeds in winning the elections and defeating Yodhraj. An enraged Vikram attacks Arjun with some hired goons and he is beaten up badly, but they flee when Ajit arrives on the spot. He takes him to the hospital. Ajit then goes to Suman and laments that Vikram had become like Yodhraj, someone who didn't care about humans. Vikram tells him to shut up, after which Suman slapped him. On the way out, Ajit is attacked by Suresh, who shoots him in the arm. Vikram suddenly gets angry and attacks him in retribution. He, along with Suman, both go to Ajit's house, where she tells him to quit drinking. Vikram laments that he grew up without his f…

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Shiv Kumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia, known together as Shiv-Hari. The lyrics were written by Nida Fazli.

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