Ghatak

<p>Kashi Nath is a kind-hearted wrestler and the dutiful adopted son of Shambhu Nath, living in . Shambhu Nath, who was a freedom fighter awarded with the , is an honourable and respectable man in town. Kashi, along with Shambhu, comes to for medical treatment for Shambhu and stays with his brother, Shiv Nath. Kashi meets Gauri in the colony and starts liking her. He learns that the colony is being terrorized by the tyrannical gangster, Katya, along with his six brothers. Before Kashi’s arrival, a resident named Sachdev tried to initiate a revolt against Katya, but got ruthlessly killed by him, thereby making Malti, Sachdev’s wife, go mad. Katya and his brothers become enemies with Kashi when he beats up their goons in the process of roughing up Malti. Shambhu is later diagnosed with and only has a few days to live. When Kashi refuses to join Katya’s gang, Katya becomes furious and humiliates Shambhu before the entire colony, by making him bark like a dog. After a series of dramatic events, Shiv is run over to death by Jeena, one of Katya’s brothers. In retaliation, Kashi then kills Antya, another one of Katya’s brothers, and gets arrested. Meanwhile, Shambhu passes away. When Kashi tries to disperse his father’s ashes at the Ghat with the police, the police van gets attacked by Katya’s brothers and goons. Kashi kills all of them, including Katya’s three brothers, and reaches Katya’s home. There he kills Jeena, thereby causing only two brothers to survive, including Katya; however, Kashi is captured in the process. As Katya had Shambhu bark like a dog, he tries to make Kashi behave like an ox in front of the colony, to re-establish his supremacy. Gauri however stands up, arousing the audience to attack as well. Kashi frees himself from the shackles and beats Katya to death. Katya’s entire gang is attacked by the residents. Katya’s sixth and the last remaining brother, Bhiku, is killed by the mob. For retribution, Kashi makes Katya bark like a dog just like Shambhu. He then kills him in front of the residents, but loses control over himself as he keeps beating Katya’s corpse. His nephew then brings him Shambhu’s ashes from crematory rites which brings him back to senses. The ending is a bittersweet one, where Kashi loses every one he loved, but the colony has its freedom at last. was originally signed to play the lead role and an advertisement was commissioned to appear in magazine noting “Welcome back to the Hindi screen”, pointing at the actor’s return to Hindi films after 1985’s . However, due to no producer willing to back the actor in the film, changed the star cast. The music for the movie was mainly composed by R. D. Burman. The song “Koi Jaye To Le Aaye” was the only song composed by Anu Malik, and it became popular. The film was made at a budget of Rs. 62.5 million, did collections of Rs. 327 million India Nett. This film was re-released on 21 March 2025, after 28 years at the Red Lorry Film Festival.</p>