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Hatya
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Wikipedia article
'Hatya' is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Kirti Kumar and starring Govinda, Neelam, Anupam Kher and Sujitha. This film is a remake of Malayalam film 'Poovinu Puthiya Poonthennal' (1986).
Plot
Sagar (Govinda), a wealthy but idle young man. Following a night of consuming much alcohol he finds a homeless and parentless young boy. He takes the boy home and learns that he is deaf and attempts to nurture him and names him Raja. He tries to get information out of him but does not understand anything. Raja's mother has been brutally murdered (by Surendra Mohan and his henchman Ranjeet) as she witnesses a murder committed by this pair. Sagar takes Raja out to fairs and adventures and Raja sees Ranjeet and tries to tell Sagar that he is the one who murdered his mother. Slowly Sagar understands the tale of the story. He meets a girl, Sapna (Neelam) and becomes friends. She takes them to her house. Raja sees a picture of Sapna, her father and shockingly his mother. Sagar wants to unfold the mystery of Raja's incident. He finds out that Raja's mother has been murdered. As he is looking for clues, he gets arrested. To prove his innocence the boy takes them to his house where there was a happy family. They take a sniffer dog to find out clues. The dog sniffs the floor outside the house. the men dig it and find a piece of cloth which his mother was wrapped in and buried there.
Cast
*Govinda as Sagar
*Neelam as Sapna
*Raj Kiran as Inspector Ashok Gupta
*Anupam Kher as Surendra Mohan
*Johnny Lever as Lohar
*Om Shivpuri as Kailashnath
*Sujitha as Raja (Deaf & Dumb Boy)
*Satyen Kappu as Father Joseph Sebastian
*Satish Kaul as Mohan
*Aparajita as Meena (Raja's Mother)
*Lawrence D'Souza as Special Appearance
*Rakesh Bedi as Restaurant Owner
*Vikas Anand as Doctor
*Babu Antony as Ranjit
*Jimmy Pardhan as Jimmy
Awards
'34th Filmfare Awards:'
'Won'
* Best Art Direction Liladhar S. Sawant
* Best Editing J. P. Sehgal
Soundtrack
References
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