Kshatriya

Plot synopsis:
The story is about two warring royal Kshatriya Rajput families in Rajasthan, India, based in Mirtagarh and Surjangarh. The Mirtagarh family is headed by Maharaja Bhavani Singh (Sunil Dutt), his wife Maheshwari Devi (Raakhee), his daughter Divya (Dolly Minhas) and younger brother Jaswant Singh (Vinod Khanna). Surjangarh's family is headed by Prithvi Singh (Dharmendra), his wife Suman (Sumalatha), his brother Devendra Pratab Singh and Devendra's son Vijay Pratab Singh. Vijay falls in love with Divya but both families are against them marrying and Mirtagarh's minister Ajay Singh (Prem Chopra) adds fuel to fire by getting Vijay killed even though Bhavani never wanted him dead. Divya commits suicide after hearing of Vijay's death and Prithvi shoots and kills Bhavani in revenge. Jaswant Singh (Vinod Khanna) returns from England and kills Devendra in revenge and vows to kill Prithvi when he is released. Prithvi's son Vinay (Sunny Deol) and Bhavani's son Vikram (Sanjay Dutt) are sent to England as children to get away from the bloody feud between their families.
Twenty years later, Vinay and Vikram are the best of friends living in England. Vikram's cousin and Jaswant's daughter Neelima (Raveena Tandon) also live in London. Vinay and Neelima fall in love and want to marry. This could signal the end of the Mirtagarh and Surjangarh feud. But as soon as Prithvi is released from prison, Jaswant challenges him to a sword battle. Vinay and Neelima intervene them while battling and stop them from killing each other. The truth behind the feud between both families is revealed and Vinay and Neelima are forbidden from marrying. Vinay is told the truth of his father killing Vikram's father and then tells Vikram. Vikram bursts into Surjangarh's mansion and shoots Prithvi and Vinay in a fit of rage shoots back at Vikram. While Prithvi and Vikram survive and are recovering in hospital from their wounds, Vinay and Neelima break off her relationship realising this feud will never end. Vinay decides to visit Jaswant and plead him to let him take Neelima away and end this feud. Jaswant refuses and tells Vinay to leave. As Vinay leaves, he is attacked by Shakti Singh. It is then revealed that Shakti and his father Ajay Singh had killed Vinay's cousin Vijay Pratab Singh and want to kill him too. As Shakti tries to attack Vinay, Vinay kills him with his own sword. Jaswant realises that Ajay and Shakti were the conspirators behind all these deaths between both families. He decides to let Vinay and Neelima go and they decide to return to England and settle there.
Vikram recovers from hospital and challenges Prithvi to a sword battle. Maheshwari prevents Prithvi from accepting Vikram's challenge after she tells him she has forgiven him for killing her husband Bhavani and he should remember that. Vinay decides to accept Vikram's challenge instead to keep his father's honour. As Vinay and Vikram are duelling, their mothers Suman and Maheshwari intervene and decide to hurt themselves to stop their sons fighting. Eventually they do stop and finally the feud ends.

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Review:
A True Indian Epic!. In my humble opinion, this is one of India's greatest films of the 1990s. The wealth on talent on show has never been equalled in any other indian film.The story is basically about two warring families in Rajisthan, and how various members of each family try to end this feud. The film climaxes with a brilliantly choreographed fight sequence between Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dutt. The scenery and musical score during this fight is magnificent, as it is during most of the duration of the movie. My only gripe is the slightly corny scenes set in the UK.Considering the epic storyline being told over two generations, and the large number of characters involved, I get the feeling that the version I saw (which runs for about 180 minutes) had been edited significantly to reduce it to a sensible running time. I would love to see the full version as it would help to flesh out some of the characters.All in all, its another brilliant movie from one of my favourite directors, J P Dutta.. excellent, Fantastic and Superb. Kshatriya is a masterpiece of an Indian film with a heavyweight star cast. Sunny Deol is a actor i wasn't too fond of, but he was good in this film. Sanjay Dutt was superb in this film, he should of been in it for longer. Raveena Tandon looked quite pretty in this film and does a decent job. Divya Bharti looks wasted, but she was nice in this film, rest in piece. Dharmendra is a classic Bollywood actor and plays his role to standards. Vinod Khanna was quite good in this film and gave a good performance. Their are many other supporting actors in this film which include Sunil Dutt. Meenakshi is in this film as well as Kabir Bedi and Rakhee, I don't know if i left anyone out. Best thing about this film is Dharmendra is playing Father to real life son Sunny and Sunil plays father to real life son Sanjay. Its amazing, and is superb.. An Epic of Indian Cinema. JP Dutta dislikes the movie himself! However, with the exception of some corny scenes in London, this move is as good and Epic you can get from Bollywood.The problem with this film is JP was lured into implementing commercial aspects instead of his usual authenticity into this film. Maybe he was trying to win over the mass after their failure of his earlier films.Despite this, the movie is still visually stunning. The action is probably the best ever seen in Bollywood alongside Sholay. The performances are good as in all Dutta films. An Epic of Indian Cinema.