The brothers Donga are the scourge of an unnamed Indian city. Well, Satpal (Mukesh Rishi) and Donga the Great (Anupam Kher) are. Their youngest brother still has to be properly initiated into the world of senseless killing. His great day is to be the killing of the only honest police commissioner alive (Dara Singh). The assassination attempt (with biggest brother and a whole entourage of henchmen) goes well, until an innocent bystander (Jackie Shroff) grabs himself a gun and starts decimating the evildoers, killing the youngest Donga brother. The man's name is Ram Sinha, a pennyless orphan of 38 years in search of a job. The commissioner is filled with enthusiasm for the youth's (at least the DVD back cover calls him that) spine, calls him his son and gives him a police job.
Trying to murder a police man is not a very serious crime in India, so the Great Donga is only sentenced to five years of prison. He swears to wait and then kill Ram Sinha like the dog he is. Puppy-hater!
Ram is one of those untouchable super cops who are all swagger and breach of law. What are these "rights" you speak of?
But all will change when the Great Donga's time is up and his fiendish revenge scheme starts.
Oh Ram Shastra why must you tease me so!? You start out with the interesting family rites of the brothers Donga, continue with a fine shoot-out and completely endear yourself to me with the first appearance of Ram Sinha in his new job. Our hero enters a gangster bar, thrashes a few gangster and furniture, gets invited to a drink, drinks, but does not swallow, instead uses his lighter to spit flames at a poor victim, thrashes some more furniture, steals someone's leg prothesis (used as a drug depot, of course), meets the love of his life (Manisha Koirala), does the silly special effect dance, then first dates & kisses & becomes father in a single musical number and then...very little happens in the following hour. The sense of fun leaves the film forever and is replaced by a deadly combination of Jagdeep and Johnny Lever, mostly boring musical numbers and really not very exciting drama.
The final half hour at least is somewhat entertaining again, in a cheap but effective action film kind of way (even with child throwing!), it's just very difficult to get excited again for a film that tried to bore one to tears.
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