Tridev
Tags: good versus evil, murder, flashback

Plot synopsis:
Bhujang (Amrish Puri) is powerful crime Boss who wants to rule India. After the Assassisnation of an honest politician the police department comes under huge pressure. Inspector Karan Saxena (Sunny Deol) manages to catch an arms dealer Ramesh Tejani who helps him arrest Don who supplies firearms for Bhujang. Karan is engaged to Divya Mathur (Madhuri Dixit) the daughter of Commissioner Mathur . Divya's brother Ravi (Jackie Shroff) is a street fighter who fights small criminals, and is hated by his father Commissioner Mathur for his violent nature. Karan's father is a respected judge.
Later on Karan Saxena is framed by Bhujang and his brother with the help of Ramesh. But Ramesh due to his guilt consciousness tells judge, Karan's father everything. Ramesh and judge is killed by Bhujang and his sons and Karan's father death is made to look like suicide due to Karan's crime. Corrupt Inspector Suraj Singh works for Bhujang. Even though Commissioner is aware of Karan's honesty: but being under pressure from seniors he transfers Karan to a village. There he meets a crusader named Jai Singh (Naseeruddin Shah) who fights criminals and help poor. Jai Singh meets actress Renu (Sonam_(actress)) and they fall in love. Karan comes to know that Jai Singh is not a bad guy. In his childhood his father who was a freedom fighter, was murdered by Dacoit Bhairav Singh. The police headed by Mathur refused to listen to the statements of Jai.
When the Mathur's daughter Divya is abducted in order to release Bhujang's brother, Ravi breaks the law and releases his sister. Being an outlaw he joins the criminals. There Ramesh's sister Natasha Tejani (Sangeeta Bijlani) who has joined them to avenge her brother's death and working with journalist Shrikant Verma is shocked to see Ravi as a new member of the gang. When the police decides to bring Karan back, Bhujang, Don and Bhujang's two sons decide to kill him. Before trying to kill Karan, they reveal that they killed his father. Karan is shocked to see Ravi and Suraj Singh working for his enemies. When they burn the entire house with petrol after tying him on his bed, Ravi without anyone's knowledge puts a knife just under Karan's hand. The whole house burned. Karan struggles to get the knife but whether he is successful remains unknown. Jai Singh is unable to save his friend as he mocks Commissioner Mathur that he is late once again. Jai Singh leaves the village in sorrow. But later on Karan rises from the remains and swears vengeance as he is presumed dead.
Meanwhile, Divya is shocked about Karan's death. Jai Singh meets Renu who is the daughter of a politician. He hires Jai as Renu's bodyguard. Karan continues to destroy Bhujang's arms and properties and they all get confused about their new enemy. Meanwhile, Karan and Ravi meet and decide to help each other. Before Jai and Renu could declare their love, her father engages her to Bhujang's son. In the party Jai recognizes Bhujang as Daku Bhairav Singh, the one who killed his father. Later on journalist Srikant is poisoned by Bhujang's son with the help of the corrupt inspector.
Natasha and Ravi understands each other and express their feelings for each, understanding the constant threat they live on. Unable to bear the loss due to Karan's works Bhujang decides to rob a bank. Ravi informs Karan . Jai Singh overhears the conversation between Renu's father and her fiancé. At first Renu refuses to believe him but in the bank she is shocked to see her fiancé as bank robber. There the corrupt inspector is forced to stop robbery by Karan and is killed. The entire group of criminals and Jai is shocked to see Karan alive. During the funeral of Bhujang's son who died in the shootout, Karan, Ravi and Jai exposes their identity and escape.
Bhujang captures a large group of policemen and Natasha, Renu, Divya along with Manriji (Renu's Father) : and demand the release of the three heroes whom they frame as dangerous criminals. At the end the three who calls themselves as Tridev attacks the hideout and destroy the enemy.

Review: truly is a volcanic saga best movie of 1989.
Tridev is one of my favourite movie of all time, Its one of those films that you cannot get over it, at the end of the film you feel as though reaching for the rewind button, anyway this movie is absolutely awesome, I watched it on Max television in 2005, I am really out of words, basically all the stars played there part very specifically and very well done, Rajiv rai created a situation, where all the audience would get hyped up to see what happens in the next scene, honestly this movie is the best, after tridev became superhit in the 1989, Rajiv rai delivered another action packed movie "Vishwatma" in the year 1992, Rajiv thought of bring the starcast from tridev into Vishwatma, but unfortunelty Jackie became a Father and his fortuneteller told him not to go abroad, because the majority of the shooting were involved in kenya, so they replaced Chunky Pandey, nevertheless I would recommend you guys to watch Tridev, seriously at the end of the film you guys will reach for the rewind button..
Tridev indeed A volcanic saga of three Angry men.
Karan Saxena who is a very honest and dedicated inspector is being transferred to Madhupur when he sets out to investigate about corruption, murder and idealism in his community.
The police suspect is that a criminal called Bhujang/Bhairav Singh (Amrish Puri) is involved in every crime of the country.
While in Madhupur, Karan befriends Jai Singh another victim of Bhujang's terror.
While Ravi who is Divya's (Madhuri Dixit) brother has doubt for Bhujang in his mind too.
He, however, ends up and fall in love with a cabaret dancer Natasha (Sangeeta Bijlani).
All three men decided to form a gang called Tridev and destroy Bhujang and his gang..
A nostalgic action flick with wonderful music..
I watched this film many times as a kid, and it always kept me on the edge of me seat.
This of course is not an example of great filmmaking or storytelling, but it still works as a masala flick, and is actually quite slick for a movie of its sort.
The action scenes are typical for the times but are quite fun to watch.
There are three heroes in this film, and all three are very good: Jackie Shroff doing the nonchalant guy in search of himself, Sunny Deol playing the angry-young-man, while obviously Naseeruddhin Shah steals the show in a ceaselessly amusing role, which he plays with a great deal of humour and seems to have no qualms about ridiculing himself.
Then there are the three hot ladies - the pretty Sonam, the impossibly stunning Madhuri Dixit, while actually it is the beautiful Sangeeta Bijlani who gets the meatiest part in what is possibly her best role, and does the most of it in addition to having a very nice chemistry with Shroff.
And there's the music, and what an amazing soundtrack it is.
Each song is a gem and holds such great nostalgic value for me.
"Tirchi Topiwale" and "Main Teri Mohabbat Main" are great numbers, but it is "Gali Gali" which is one of my all-time favourite songs.
A true gem of a song - soulful, melodious, and wonderfully written, composed and arranged with a rare touch of psychedelia.
This number was one of the first that shot the phenomenal Alka Yagnik to fame, and her rendition is flawless.
Other than that, Tridev works as a nice thriller which should not be taken too seriously but enjoyed, and there's plenty to enjoy here..
Tridev- An explosive saga.
I have extremely fond memories of this classic.
Out of Naseer Udin Shah, Sunny Deol and Jackie Shroff it was Sunny Deol that stood out as the angry cop Karan Saxena.
Amrish Puri was superb as Bhujang in one of my favourite roles of his.
There was also so many other characters, including Anupum Kher as the devoted Pollice commissioner.
The music is so good it deserves a special mention.
My personal Favourite is Oye Oye. The director Rajiv Rai went on to make other great movie including the superb follow up Vishwatamma, Mohra and the suspense thriller Gupt.
Unfortunately he has hit a rough patch with this recent releases Pyar Ishq and Mohabbat and Asambhav flopping.
Rajiv Rai has a reputation for repeating his cast, Sunny Deol came in Tridev and its follow up whilst Naseer Uddin Shah starred in Tridev, Vishwatamma and Mohra.Character actors like Tej Sapru have appeared in almost all of his movies.
Tremendous fun..
A masala film of the 80's.
Tridev , as my title suggests, is a typical masala flick of the 80s - top heroes with lady loves, great songs and dances, action, dialogues...it's a 3 hour entertainer.
But perhaps nowadays nobody will have the patience to go through it all.Story is about 3 frustrated young men fed up of the inefficient law system in the country and set out to bring justice on their own.The good - Dialogues, catchy songs,action sequences, plot of the movie The bad - Weak background score (quite silly at times), jobless ladies.It you are a fan of Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff or Naseeruddin Shah, then watch this..
It's like a riptide...not really..
Rajiv Rai's 'Tridev' is very much the typical multistarrer flick on the 80s.
With its over the top action sequences, songs appearing out of nowhere, heroines who are there for eye-candy, repetitive coincidences etcetera.
Let's start with the good side.
The catchy soundtrack is quite good, my favourite song being 'Gali Gali Mein Firta Hai'.
The 'heroines' are quite pretty.
While there is Sonam and Madhuri Dixit, they can easily be overlooked when a sizzling Sangeeta Bijlani appears on screen (however, she is an awful dancer).
Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff and Naseeruddin Shah are cast as the action heroes and it is Shah who steals the show with his over the top performance by providing some excellent comic relief.
The late Amrish Puri is a delight to watch when he plays the over the top villain.
'Tridev' is quite entertaining in parts.
It's not as boring as for example, Feroz Khan's 'Janbaaz'.
I fast forwarded most of the dishum dishum action sequences and maybe it's not such a bad movie to play on your DVD player while you're cooking or ironing your clothes.
Campy..
Very Good movie and family entertainment..
Master piece of late 80's.
I watched this movie on TV but I must say that this is true thriller, suspense and spell bounding movie.
Acting is average by Sunny Deol(Karan) but Naseeruddin Shah(Jay Singh) and Jackie Shroff(Ravi Mathur) rocked this movie.
Other actors including Amrish Puri (Bhujang) is true villain.
He knew about the moods and balance of acting.
Bassy voice and deep personality suits for this character and he plays it off nicely.
Anupam Kher(Mumbai Police Commissioner) did a great job and he was looking a real life police commissioner.
Renu(Sonam) was looking hot.
Now this movie tells that if you want to show hot actresses then there is no need to remove clothes unnecessarily.
A movie can be good if it has content and the spice for audience.
I liked the work of Ravi Rai(Director).
He had control over film and no overacting.
That is what we call a disciplined movie which has "only" everything to please viewers.
Hats off to this Masterpiece.
I think Bollywood should take lessons from earlier movies rather than redoing the Hollywood flicks which only worsen the charm and viewers abuse them when they leave theaters in running movies....
A truly volcanic saga.
Before Rajiv Rai's VISHWATMA (1992), this film came out in 1989The two movies bear a lot of similarities with the cast, the same trio with a hatred for the villain (Amrish Puri being the villain in both the films), lavish locations and at least 1 chart buster songThe film is done-to-deathThe film starts off quite nicely and has some over-the-top scenes but this was 80s masala The film gets more interesting when Sunny Deol is posted to Madhavpur and where he meets the savior Naseeruddin Shah Eventually Sunny Deol discovers his hatred for the terrorists and discovers that Jackie Shroff is part of them Or is he?Sunny Deol makes an angry cop and this type of roles suit him Naseeruddin Shah is a pleasure to watch and does make a good innocent villager Jackie Shroff has a small role Amrish Puri is menacing and makes a balancing villain Anupam Kher is good Sharat Saxsena is usual.
Typical 80s action film.
Rajiv Rai after YUDH in 1985 returned with TRIDEV(1989) which was a typical 80s action film The film moves at a decent pace with stunts, music and comedy The story is done to death but handled wellThe film starts off well and keeps your interest alive, there are several overdone scenes perhaps which 80s boasted of and several masala ingredients The film started the speciality of all RR films, long list of henchmen and goons Direction by Rajiv Rai was good, Music was a superhit by Kalyanji Ananji, with OYE OYE topping the charts sung well by Amit Kumar Other songs were good too especially GALI GALI Action scenes were as usual Sunny Deol was going through a roughphase those days before GHAYAL though this film and CHAALBAAZ did well in 89 yet he was labelled a non actor and didn't shout how he did today In his role he is average but in one scene when he is tied to a bed he is expressionless Naseeruddin Shah excels and the role brought him fame showing his versatility Jackie Shroff in a smaller role did well Amrish Puri excels as Bhujang, though a done to death role for him Anupam Kher though looking young to play Jackie's dad still did a good job The heroines which include Madhuri, Sangeeta Bhijlani didn't get much scope Amongst rest Sharat Saxena is as usual, Shekhar Suman is okay