Director: Yash Chopra
Starring: Sunil Dutt, Vinod Khanna, Aamir Khan, Ashwini Bhave
Genre: Action, Romance
Released on: 14 May 1992
Writer: Aditya Chopra (screenplay), Honey Irani
(screenplay), Honey Irani (story), Surendra Prakash (additional
dialogue), Rahi Masoom Reza (dialogue)
IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 (587 Votes)
Duration: 155 min
Synopsis: In a remote
region in India there has been a tradition of settling differences by
fighting a duel with pistols with only one bullet in each of them. Such
was the duel fought by Shankar and Thakur Bhavani Singh, with the latter
emerging as the victor. Years later, Bhavani’s son, Prithvi, returns
from London, meets Shankar’s son, Gora and daughter, Tara, befriends
them, and eventually both Tara and Prithvi fall in love with each other.
When Bhavani finds this out, he wants Prithvi to marry Rajeshwari, who
comes from a rich family, and will destroy Gora Shankar and his tribe of
gypsies. Unable to make up his mind, Prithvi ends up marrying both
women, leading to Tara giving birth to a son, Pratap. Bhavani is enraged
when he this out, he has Tara and a lot of their people slain, and
their homes torched. Gora himself is arrested by the police, and
sentenced to several years in prison. When he is discharged, he asks
Bhavani for a duel, but Prithvi intervenes and is killed. Gora takes
Pratap to live with him, while Rajeshwari gives birth to a boy, Ranvir,
who is raised and brought up by Bhavani. Years later, Pratap and Ranvir
meet as strangers, become friends, only to find out that there is an old
score to be settled – which can only be done when they follow the
time-old tradition of the duel – resulting in only one man surviving.
The question remains, who will survive this time.
