Aaj Ka Ravan

A journalist who is investigating arms deals and other crimes against the state is shot and killed, so Shanti (Indira Krishna), who is also a journalist, swears that she will bring the culprit Vishtar Nath (Mohan Joshi) to justice. One night Shanti gets molested, but a man, Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty) comes to her rescue. She tells him everything and makes him her brother by tying a Raakhee.

One day Shanti gives Shankar a roll of film which implicates Vishtar Nath directly in his illegal arms deals. Shankar immediately takes the roll of film to the police commissioner who subsequently destroys it and gets Shankar arrested for having RDX in his car by a rogue and despicable police inspector (Tej Sapru). Shankar is beaten black and blue back at the police station and then in the guise of giving him bail is told he can leave.

As he leaves the police station he is confronted by rogue police officers and Nath's men, tied up and is shot several times and left for dead. He is saved by Shanti, but then he gets attacked in the hospital by Nath's goon Bakra (Kasam Ali). Shankar beats him mercilessly and kills him brutally. This is witnessed by inspector Vikram (Siddarth Dhawan) who tells him that he a "Raavan" (A Devil), and that he is now a killer.

Shankar says he has tried being an angel and a law abiding citizen, but got nothing except humiliation and death threats- so now he is going to be the devil and take down the underworld kingpin Nath. The rest of the film depicts how Shankar takes down the underworld singlehandedly with inspector Vikram hot on his trail, who also loves his sister Shanti.

In all this time taking down the underworld and killing the bad guys, Shankar also has time for falling in love, singing and dancing with his love interest Mona (Meenakshi).

• Mithun Chakraborty as Shankar
• Gajendra Chauhan as A.C.P. Rathore
• Siddharth Dhawan as Inspector Vikram Singh
• Mohan Joshi as Vishdhar Nath
• Shakti Kapoor
• Shalini Kapoor as Ramkali
• Kasam Ali as Babbar Bakhra
• Javed Khan
• Mushtaq Khan as Gul Gulewala (Gullu Malwani)
• Indira Krishnan as Shanti
• Vinod Kulkarni as Subhash
• Meenakshi as Mona
• Anil Nagrath as Khilawan
• Master Rashid as Munna — Subhash & Saraswathi's son
• Tej Sapru as Inspector Raman Khatri
• O.P. Sharma
• Ashok Verma
• Zubeda as Saraswathi — Subhash's wife

1. "Haathon Ki Mehendi" - Udit Narayan, Vibha Sharma
2. "Ho Raja Khele Mera Paan Chaila" - Vinod Rathod, Madhushree
3. "Jaane Jaa Janam Tu Janeman" - Babul Supriyo, Kavita Krishnamurthy
4. "Khanka Re Khanka Khangana" - Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal
5. "Khidki Khule Ya Band" - Babul Supriyo, Poornima
6. "Ladki Tu Kamal Hai" - Vinod Rathod

• Aaj Ka Ravan at IMDb
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