Indian

Plot synopsis:
Chandra Bose a.k.a. Chandru (Kamal Haasan) is a small-time middle man stationed outside Regional Transport Office, who aids people in greasing the right officials inside the RTO for getting permits and licenses. His assistant Subbaiah (Goundamani), and Paneerselvam (Senthil), a RTO official, are engaged regular tiffs while Aishwarya (Manisha Koirala), Chandru's love interest and an avid animal rights activist also battle it out with Sapna (Urmila Matondkar), the daughter of a RTO official Chandru is trying to hobnob to secure a job for himself at the RTO. Aishwarya is irked by the fact that Sapna (as well her mom) is exploiting Chandru's situation and gets him to do grocery shopping, laundry, and almost every household chors.
Meanwhile, Krishnaswamy, a Beaurau officer, manages to trace his way to Senapathy's house, who is an ex-freedom fighter, also chandru's father. Archived newspaper reports say that Senapathy was a soldier in the Indian National Army, who was an extremist. Senapathi's wife Amirthavalli (Sukanya) details the story on their struggles during pre-independence India, the discrimination by British officials and the Indian Freedom Movement Rebellions against the British atrocities, etc. leading Senapathy marrying Amirthavalli but leaving for Singapore to join Subhas Chandra Bose to be part of the INA. He returns after independence and unites with his wife.
In the present day, when Krishnaswamy tries to arrest Senapathy, he escapes with his expertise in Varma kalai. Senapathy then goes on to commit a murder in front of television audiences by killing a corrupt doctor (Nizhalgal Ravi) who refused to attend immediately to Senapathy's daughter Kasturi (Kasthuri), who was suffering from third degree burns because he insisted on a bribe, which Senapathy refused in the past. Chandru parts ways with his father because of his excessive insistence on honesty and righteousness, and also, he considers these values to be dead and worthless. Public support surges for the Indian as he exposes so many corrupt people. Senapathy does not do his son any favours either. Chandru had earlier taken a bribe and given a safety certificate to a bus with faulty brakes, which eventually killed 40 school children it was carrying, and thus, Chandru is held responsible. Senapathy is bent on giving Chandru the same punishment as he gives others, i.e., death. Towards the end, a chase culminates at airport, where Senapathy kills Chandru, and apparently dies in an explosion. Krishnaswamy discovers that Senapathy escaped moments before the jeep is exploded killing his son in the explosion, while investigating the television footage at airport.
The epilogue shows Senapathy calling Krishnaswamy from a foreign land (Hong Kong), indicating that he will be back should the need for him arise.

Tags: good versus evil, murder

Review:
Still njoying!. I've seen this movie umpteen times.But i still njoy the tricks used by our hero sunny deol to vanish the wrongdoers. script is wondrful in all respects incl. story,screenplay and dialogues.Story is truly wonderful.Screenplay is quite good to make u sit and njoy for 3 hrs.Dialogues mouthed by sunny deol r good enough to give boost to our testo level. Performancewise its sunny deol's show all the way.Denny is as always remarkable as main villain.other actors support well. Songs lacks chartbuster quality but r otherwise hummable."Hum chalein" song appearing in background is soulful. Direction is good. Action scenes are enjoyable. The one and only department in which the film falters is cinematography which is just okay enough to capture,the director's take , on celluloid. BUT still enjoyed its other aspects.. Great action movie!. Indian is truly one of Sunny Deol's best action movies ever, as he shows more patriotism again, but here, he is a tough and clever cop (modern version of Chandrashekhar Azad). He nabs a terrorist, figures out the treacherous games, and one by one, he finishes the baddies. This movie is NOT at all anti-Pak as some believe as they did NOT understand the real essence of the film. However, the film exploits corruption in India itself in police, rich people, etc. who would stoop down so low to be traitors for money by helping terrorists. If more Indian cops were like Rajshekhar Azad (Sunny Deol), then corruption would be so much less. Our Jat hero goes beyond limits to save the country from deadly attacks and is honored by all good. Watch this film with an open mind, and you will like it. This is another personal favorite of mine, and even today, I still love this action movie. Sunny, you rock! Hindustan Zindabad! Jai Hind! Maa Tujhe Salaam! I loved the scene where he saves his 4 sidekicks from the baddies by bashing so many goons at once and also when he roars about being Indian after killing the terrorist. 15/10!. Good film. Hi my name is AARON I am writing this masterpiece movie review This was superb there was lots of good action scenes from this blockbuster film Sunny Deol is superb as the hero shilpa is brilliant they make a great pair in the film Mukesh Rishi was superb as the villain Danny did brilliant in his negative role Songs are splendid rajat bedi is good shakti is brilliant other were excellent performances My rating 8/10 or 4/5 ********\********** or ****\*****. Sunny Deol typical film. Sunny Deol was a huge crowdpuller in 1990s after Ghayal, Damini and then came a time fatigue set in his films, with every film having the same story, same action scenes post late 90s his films started flopping but suddenly he got a blockbuster Gadar Indian released few months later and managed to be an average hit What is different in Indian that we have not seen before? Nothing actually Here too Sunny middle aged(in his 40s) plays a DCP who runs after terrorist The first half also has him romance Shilpa Shetty who is in the film only for that and some cries. He also has some followers like Sanjay Narvekar who treat him like God and in the second half we have Danny making an entry and there are some good scenes between them but other then that the film is the same Sunny film With long dialogues, some funny scenes where Sunny informs a theatre about a bomb, slaps a bus conductor to have a strike and in the end saves the country by difusing a bomb in a climax reminding you of SPEEDDirection by N Maharajan is good, the film was a remake of a Tamil film but is given full Sunny Treatment Music is okay, Deewana stands out, while Thaat Nawabi is okay rest are forgettableSunny Deol does his usual act and is good but nothing new Danny is superb in a done to death role Shilpa as I said dances, cries and thatz it Sanjay Narvekar and rest are okay, Rajat Bedi is teakwood Rahul Dev has a brief role, Shakti Kapoor is okay Raj Babbar has a very small role to speak of, Reema Lagoo is as usual