Shaan

<p>After diffusing a situation, Shiv Kumar ( ), an honest, brave and upright , returns home to his wife, Sheetal ( ), and their young daughter, Guddi, announcing that he has been transferred to . Shiv has two younger brothers, Vijay ( ) and Ravi ( ), who reside in Mumbai. They are intelligent and capable youths, but spend their time indulging in crooked schemes and conning unsuspecting people. In one of their schemes, Vijay and Ravi convince a corrupt ( ) that Vijay has stolen worth 2.5 and Ravi, a police officer, is searching for him. The manager makes a deal with Vijay to purchase the diamonds stolen by him for ₹10,000, when Ravi returns and threatens to him for helping a criminal. The manager pays an additional ₹5,000 as bribe to Ravi, who then pretends to arrest Vijay for his crime. Later, Vijay and Ravi meet a beautiful young girl, Renu ( ), who owes money to a whom she refers to as Chacha ( ). The due date is past and Chacha threatens to initiate legal actions against Renu, but she offers her car against a loan of ₹30,000 as the car is worth at least ₹1 lakh. Vijay and Ravi (who falls in love with Renu) overhear the conversation and offer to help Renu by purchasing her car for ₹30,000, but it turns out that the car was stolen and the police arrest Vijay and Ravi. After their release from , Vijay and Ravi are helped by a , Abdul ( ), in tracking down Renu and Chacha, who return them the ₹25,000 but have already spent the remaining ₹5,000. Vijay and Ravi are impressed with Renu’s work and advise her and Chacha to join forces with them in conning people. Their next plan is to steal a diamond from an erstwhile queen, Maharani ( ), when she attends a party at a , but a glamorous thief, Sunita ( ), manages to steal Maharani’s necklace before them. After the police begin a search of every individual at the hotel, Vijay notices Sunita hiding the necklace in his and escapes by hiding it in his . He falls in love with Sunita and invites her to join their gang. However, Vijay and Ravi’s following scam along with Sunita, Renu and Chacha as two claiming to walk on water backfires as Shiv reads the posters and arrests his own brothers. However, he later releases the reformed Vijay and Ravi from prison and hopes to shape them into a much honourable life. Meanwhile, a mysterious man ( ) attempts to Shiv twice in the city, but Shiv survives both times. After learning about the two attempts on Shiv’s life, Vijay and Ravi advise him to find a different line of work, stating that his profession is unpredictable, dangerous and unsuitable for a family man. However, Shiv refuses to resign from his job, citing his undying patriotic commitment to his corps and his country. Meanwhile, Shiv is investigating a gang of international and it turns out that they are working for Shakaal ( ), a sadistic international , who is operating from a remote outside while funding crime in Mumbai and rejoicing in pain of his enemies and traitors. The island of Shakaal is equipped with and all sorts of automatic gadgets, including a pack of and a man-eating in an artificial pond below a rotating table with . Shakaal kills Ranjeet ( ), one of his own henchmen, by throwing him into the pond to be hunted by the crocodile on learning that Ranjeet was an to Shiv. Due to the fact that Shiv is progressively getting close to finding out the source of crime in Mumbai, Shakaal has Shiv kidnapped and brought to his island by his henchmen, where he reveals that he had only arranged the previous two attempts on Shiv’s life. Shakaal also tries to influence Shiv to join his criminal forces in exchange of a wealthy and successful life, but Shiv attempts an escape from the island and is pursued by the pack of Shakaal’s hunting dogs. Although he manages to evade them too, Shakaal eventually shoots Shiv fatally on the from his , and has his dumped back to Mumbai. As Vijay, Ravi and Sheetal lament the tragic loss of Shiv, the mysterious man finally approaches them and introduces himself as Rakesh, a and former performer who used to shoot targets . Sheetal identifies Rakesh as the person who of her husband twice, but Rakesh confesses that Shakaal had kidnapped his wife, Roma ( ), and blackmailed him to kill Shiv, and that he had deliberately missed on the two previous occasions in hopes of buying time to save Roma. However, Shakaal had already deduced this and released Roma in a car with failed in retaliation, resulting in Roma’s death in a fiery accident which Rakesh failed to prevent. After learning this, Vijay and Ravi join hands with Rakesh and resolve to destroy Shakaal’s empire and pursue justice for both Shiv and Roma. To that end, the trio seeks the aid of Abdul, who provides them information about Shakaal’s in Mumbai. Even though the trio manages to blow up the warehouse, Shakaal retaliates by having his henchmen target Sheetal and Guddi on a remote , but Rakesh saves them with the help of some in the of a nearby . At the same time, Rakesh and Sheetal are implied to be falling in love with each other with the consent of Guddi. Despite this, Abdul is pursued by Shakaal’s henchmen in the middle of a night, and meets his death after being thrown off a bridge, causing a furious Vijay to break into the illegal of Shakaal’s henchmen and thrash them all for killing Abdul. As a result, a frustrated Shakaal swears death on the trio, and now has Sheetal kidnapped and imprisoned by his henchmen at his island. Meanwhile, the trio is approached by one of Shakaal’s henchmen, Jagmohan ( ), who offers them his help to gain entry at Shakaal’s island, as he was mercilessly thrashed nearly to death by Shakaal for his previous failure. Posing as a , the trio, along with Sunita, Renu and Chacha, manages to enter the island and performs for Shakaal, who later shockingly captures them all and reveals that he had only sent Jagmohan (who was faking his injuries) to trap them in reality. However, Chacha creates a commotion that allows the trio to be freed and thrash Jagmohan and the rest of Shakaal’s henchmen to death. In the process, Vijay also kills the crocodile in the pond, while Ravi and Rakesh kill Shakaal’s remaining two henchmen wearing in a -filled chamber. Just as the trio finally succeeds in capturing Shakaal after avoiding all the and is about to kill him, Sheetal intervenes and refuses to let them do so, pointing out that their action can be disrespectful to the that Shiv upholds. The arguing commotion allows Shakaal to free himself and attempt to attack everyone with a , forcing the trio to fatally shoot him down in , and finally end the ignominious existence of Shakaal. However, Shakaal sets the island to with his dying breath, stating that if he himself is unable to win, he would not let others achieve victory either. Despite this, the trio, their respective girlfriends and Chacha are all able to escape the exploding island on a helicopter to safety, satisfied that they have defeated Shakaal in his tracks for good. Logistical issues relating to other projects in which the cast was involved meant that took three years to make. While drew its inspiration from the American Western and films, took its lead from the films with fancy sets and beautiful costumes. Shakaal, the bald villain (originally to be played by ) played by , was based on the James Bond villain, . A large golden eagle is prominent in Shakaal’s island lair and in the Bollywood obligatory final song-and-dance. The eagle is reminiscent of the golden lamb in Cecile DeMille’s Ten Commandments; construction on the golden eagle required outside experts to be flown in and cost (in Rupees) the equivalent of the chariot scene in Ben-Hur. wanted to repeat the cast of (1975) for this film, but due to date issues, played the role initially offered to , played the role initially offered to , and played the role initially offered to .The film was set and partially filmed on the island of . suffered a , after she completed shooting for the song “Pyar Karne Wale”. Just after that song, there is a scene in the film, where Babi’s character is inside the car and ‘s character gets in the car. This scene was shot when Babi returned from the and she recommenced work by shooting this scene. The music was composed by and the lyrics were penned by . Vocals were supplied by , (both for Bachchan), (for Kapoor and Khan), (for Babi), (for Goswami), and . Mohammad Rafi recorded a rehearsal for the song “Yamma Yamma”, with a final recording scheduled for later. Due to Rafi’s untimely death before the final recording, Burman used the rehearsal. This is the only song where Rafi and Burman sing a duet together. The film grossed 12.5 during its lifetime theatrical run. Adjusted for inflation, the film has grossed ₹271 crore ( 33 ) as of 2023.</p>