Dilwale

Plot synopsis:
The movie begins in Goa, where Raj leaves his auto repair shop to confront Mani for stealing a man’s cell phone. Mani tells Raj that he is stealing it for his younger brother, whom he must care for after both of their parents died. While out driving, Veer sees a woman, Ishita, hitchhiking but his friend refuses to pick her up. However, after he stops the car to urinate and leave his friend and went back to ishita, and he agrees to take her where she needs to go, damaging the car in his rush to get there. For penance, Raj forces Veer to work in the shop day and night. Veer’s friend Siddhu provides him with coffee so he can stay awake to fix the car. However, he falls asleep anyway and awakes to find that the car’s sound system has been stolen. Siddhu takes it to a pawn shop to sell it, having stolen the sound system while Veer was asleep.
The men of the local gang leader, King, try to sell drugs at a crab shack. Veer beats them up after they threaten Ishita. They then come back later to exact revenge on Veer, but Raj breaks up the fight. Raj’s men find him at the hospital where Veer is staying and tell him they know where to find King’s men. Raj goes to King's hideout, incapacitates the gang members, and burns their drug stash. Raj tells King’s men his gangster name, Kaali. King stops by Raj’s shop the next day to present a deal where Raj will fix all of King’s cars in exchange for protection.
The film then flashes back to Bulgaria. Raj is in a car chase with a rival gang, trying to make off with a container of gold, when he accidentally runs over a woman, Meera. When he gets out to help her, the rival gang catches up with him, and he has to leave. Later, Raj runs into Meera again, who works as a sketch artist. He reveals to her that he is a gangster, and that he is the son of Randhir Bakshi, the leader of the gang. Veer attends a boarding school where Raj only comes to visit once a month. Randhir and Raj talk about how Raj was adopted. Raj meets with Meera again, and she asks him to take care of some guys who are troubling her. She also asks him to celebrate her birthday with her the next day. He promises to take care of a job early and then meet her in the evening. The next day, Raj is engaged in a car chase. His car gets blown up and rolls over, trapping him inside. He is confronted by Meera, who he finds out is the daughter of the rival gang’s leader, Malik. She reveals that their entire relationship so far was designed so that Malik’s gang could have a chance to kill him. She holds a gun to his head, but she chooses to spare his life this time. Later, Raj gets a new car and engages in a car chase with Meera, eventually pushing her car to the edge of a cliff. He saves Meera from falling off the cliff, then tells her that the next time he sees her, he will kill her. Despite this warning, she later comes to his home and tells him that she loves him. At first he refuses to listen to her, but then he admits that he loves her, too. They make plans to tell their parents about their relationship.
The film quickly flashes back to Goa, where Veer discovers that Siddhu has been putting sleeping pills in Veer’s coffee so that he fell asleep on his shift, allowing Siddhu to steal items from the shop. Veer is upset, but Siddhu explains it is for his girlfriend, Jenny. They agree to help each other secure girlfriends. As a consequence, Veer reveals his feelings to Ishita. Upon finding out about their relationship, Raj wants to meet Ishita’s family. When Raj visits Ishita’s house, he discovers that Meera is Ishita’s older sister.
The film then quickly flashes back to Bulgaria, where Malik agrees to meet Randhir, but, secretly, he plans to kill him. The meeting breaks into a shootout, during which Malik shoots Randhir. Randhir then shoots Malik, and both men die. Raj holds Randhir and takes the gun out of his hand. Meera finds Raj and believes that he killed her father, for which she shoots Raj; however, he survives the gunshot. Both Meera and Raj decide to move far away from Bulgaria and start a new life.
The film is again in Goa, where Veer and Ishita come up with several plots to bring Meera and Raj together. As a side plot, Mani steals King’s car and brings it to the shop, where Veer discovers drugs in the trunk and decides to burn them. Ishita tells Raj that Meera has not forgotten her first love. King comes to Meera’s house one night, but Raj, as Kaali, shows up and stops them from causing her any harm. King asks Meera later if she knows Kaali, but she refuses to acknowledge their relationship.
Meera issues an ultimatum that in order to marry Ishita, Veer must move in with Meera. Meera also tells him that Raj is adopted and not his blood brother. Veer says that he loves Ishita, but he cannot abandon his brother. Raghav, one of Malik’s men, decides to tell Meera that Raj did not kill Malik, but that Malik had shot Randhir, who had shot Malik in return. Upon learning this, Meera tells Veer that he can marry Ishita and stay with Raj. At this process Raj and Meera gets reconciled.
Siddhu and Jenny get married. King shows up at the wedding, having tracked down his stolen car, which is now being used as the bride and groom’s getaway car. King starts to cause a disturbance, but Raj beats him up. King then tries to shoot Raj, but accidentally shoots Meera who tries to save Raj, however Meera survives and King gets beaten to death hence Raj and Meera reunite in hospital.

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Review:
Wonderful, entertaining classical movie of the 1990's.
Dilwale (1994) is a romantic, action-packed entertainer of the 1990's decade.
Ajay Devgan for the first time in his acting career, then, did a mentally retarded person's role and his change of image really worked wonders.
Not only was Devgan appreciated widely by both, critics and masses, but this movie, DILWALE(1994) did very well, then at the box-office.
Also, Ajay's female co-star in this movie, Raveena Tandon,not only looked super-pretty in this movie but also danced well in the song numbers, too.
Paresh Rawal, Avtar Gill and Gullu(Gulshan Grover)too have acted well in this triangular love story.I was disappointed though, that the song number," Jo tumhe chaahe usko satana", picturised on Raveena Tandon and Sunil Shetty , was chopped off the editing table.The songs of this movie were outstanding too.This movie, Dilwale(1994), was in reality, Raveena Tandon's first career super-hit.
The best part of this movie, was though Sunil Shetty's under-rated acting as a police officer.
Sunil was even nominated in all the many dozen film awards functions, then for "Best supporting Actor award" category.The songs of this movie were not just a rage, then, but even now many Bollywood fans, go online on the internet to hear this movie's super-melodious songs.
I have already, watched this movie 5 times till date..
Believe it or not I have seen this movie more than 50 times.
This is one of the movies which is very popular in Afghanistan.
I am not sure if Indian people remember this movie or not but Afghans certainly do.
I still hear some of the guys on Afghan local radios asking for this song to be broadcasted for them.
The actors were chosen very well.
I liked both Ajay Devgan and Sunil Shetty in the movie.
I did not like Raveena in the movie.Music: This film's music had great impact on it's audience forcing them to watch the movie for the great songs from NADEEM SHRAVAN.
Also the singers, Kumar Sanu, Alka, Udit has done great job singing songs for this movie.I recommend anyone watching this movie, specially music lovers..
A long journey of action, drama and music.
Dilwale is a good film, except for the similar flaws that most films of the 90's had.Story is about an efficient cop who is give the task of handling a mentally deranged man's case.
The cop soon realizes that the convict is innocent and does all that he can to prove the latter's innocence and bring the culprits to book.The music is noteworthy, with Kumar Sanu's melodious voice in most tracks.
There are many a song in this film.
Some action sequences are good, bit of overacting on Sunil Shetty's part, but otherwise he and Ajay Devgn are cool.
They did make a good pair in this film.The flaw - Some scenes are meaningless, at some places the editing is not smooth, and some sequences are simply exaggerated.
Also some of the songs make the film unnecessarily lengthy.Watch it but watch the time!.
Average Music with Timeless Music.
When this movie originally came in 92, even as a child I remember its songs being played at every corner, such was the success of the music.
Even the songs in the audio cassettes included prologues in form of small conversations.
The movie was just another love story.
The acting too was plain average except for Preash Rawal's Mama Thakur character.
Watch him playing a bad guy to the hilt before joined the buffoonery bandwagon.
Raveena Tandon was really one of the hottest girls of that time.
Just watch her dancing in the songs.
I bet running around trees could not have been much merrier.
And yeah, if you don't believe that Sunil Shetty can't look good(forgive me, tolerable) watch him in this one, he definitely was not bad-looking(could not use good looking for obvious reasons).
Overall, a watchable flick..
What a Intense acting by Ajay Devgn & Sunil Shetty.
Outstanding performance by Ajay Devgn..
Nobody can perform like Ajay Devgn
In this type of intense rol..
Decent romantic film.
Ajay Devgan who started off with Phool Aur Kaante did several action films, After the success of PAK and Jigar rest films bombed in 1993 Dilwale however was a superhit.
The film is a typical romantic story of 90s with twists in the form of Ajay's mental illness,not that it's novel but yet a decent film.
The film starts with Sunil Shetty in a typical 90s style action scene and then goes into flashback of Ajay Devgan, his scene in the mental assylm is superb, though it reminds us of Ittefaq(1969) starring Rajesh Khanna.
THe scenes involving Ajay and Sunil are well handled, the film does have some corny scenes like some comic scenes, Also the romantic track is typical 90s, with many songs and also we have the typical villains but for a 90s film it's superbDirection by Harry Baweja is good Music by Nadeem Shravan became a hit, Kumar Sanu's solo Kitna Haseena Chehra is superb, Saaton Janam(in 2 versions)is superb, while Udit's Mauka Milega too is superb, rest all are good tooAjay Devgn was slowly learning the craft of acting, he does a good job in this film, especially in the mental scenes.
Sunil Shetty is sincere in his supporting act, however his voice and dialogue delivery were very bad those days, especially in high pitched scenes Raveena is okay in her part, Paresh Rawal and Pramod Moutho are good in their villainy,Rami Reddy has no dialogue only keeps staring.
Reema Lagoo is as usual, Saeed Jaffrey is as usual Gulshan Grover plays A Bihari babu who keeps trying for Raveena and provides some funny moments.