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Mangal Pandey (1982 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Mangal Pandey' is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language action film, produced and directed by Harmesh Malhotra. It starred Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen Babi in lead roles.
Plot
Abused by his step-mother; Rajmer, Jaipur-based young Mangal faces more trauma when his father Havaldar Rajnath Pandey is shot dead by Daku Lal Singh. He then gets separated from his sister, Deepa, who is adopted by a drug dealer, Kulbhushan, who re-names him 'Tiger'; and then joins hands with criminal don, Jaganlal. Then he gets into a confrontation with Police Inspector Vijay Shukla and ends up killing him. Police launch a manhunt and ultimately come to the conclusion that he was killed in a train accident. He does survive and takes this opportunity to return home. He will be welcomed by a recently widowed Deepa but will face the shock of finding out that he was not only responsible for her widowhood but also had a hand in the abduction and subsequent trauma of his nephew, Munna.
Cast
* Shatrughan Sinha as Mangal Pandey / Tiger
* Parveen Babi as Kavita
* Farida Jalal as Deepa Pandey
* Kader Khan as Inspector Vijay Shukla
* Ajit as Lal Singh / Jaganlal
* Satyen Kappu as Sarju / Suraj Singh
* Jagdeep as Parwaz Mirza
* Neeta Mehta as Sushma Gupta
* Viju Khote as Kavita's molestor in Pinto's Motel
* Sudhir as Sub-Inspector Desai
* Chandrashekhar as Constable Rajnath Pandey
* Iftekhar as Inspector / Superintendent R. P. Gupta
* Ashalata Wabgaonkar as Mrs. R. P. Gupta
* Ram Mohan as Sujit
* Mohan Sherry as Kulbhushan
* Yusuf Khan as Peter
Soundtrack
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