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Synopsis: School-master, Sachidanand Agnihotri lives a middle-class life-style with his family consisting of his wife, Gayetri and son, Vishal. Sachidanand is honest to the core and thus he is unable to keep any permanent job as his honest policy is regarded as a liability. One day he witness Nagesh the son of a wealthy, influential and corrupt social worker, Jaspal Rana raping a female. His attempts to involve the police in this matter only leads to frustration; unable to witness the injustice done to his father Vishal decides to take a stand only to be thrown behind bars. The case is then call up in court and on the advice of advocate, Ashok Pradhan, Jaspal and his men decides to create such situations that Sachidanand find hard to comprehend which weakens him making him unable to explain things in the right manner; thus Pradhan is able to prove to the court that Sachidanand is mentally unfit - under intense pressure Sachidanand commit suicide. Vishal then escapes from prison with an objective
 
IMDB:
5.3
Year:
1998
165 min
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prove his innocence. Therefore,

the court honorably acquits. . .

No!

What's going on?

Vishal Agnihotri,

this is contempt of court!

Vishal Agnihotri,

what are you doing!

Vishal Agnihotri,

this is contempt of court!

Leave him!

I won't run away!

I won't run away!

Magistrate Dogra, Jagdish Khurana's

corpse is lying here.

I have killed him.

And you. . . you

resign from that chair.

You have no right

to sit in that chair.

I have saved you today. You were

about to give the wrong verdict.

And this Khurana, he proved in court

that I have committed no murder.

That I am innocent.

No! I have not committed one,

but four murders.

He was aware of this.

Before coming to court,

he had taken all information from me.

He was aware of how

and when I killed who.

He had asked me from what

distance I had fired the shot.

Whether the bullet hit him

in the head of chest.

The one who I strangulated, whether

he had bled from the mouth or not.

Were his eyes closed or open,

he knew all that.

Are you understanding something,

Magistrate Dogra?

Do you understand?

He had charged me 100 million

to save me.

Jagdish Khurana was not

a protector of law. . .

he sold justice.

I gave my case to him, not to escape

law, but make law realise its folly.

Is this a court?

Is justice imparted here?

Is truth and

deception exposed here?

No, nothing of the sort happens here.

There's only violation.

The violation of law. People like

Khurana violate the law in every court.

And there is also a man like

him sitting in that chair.

And people like them who act as

audience and watch the fun.

For them, whether it is a court

proceeding, or a juggler's trick. . .

their only criteria is to enjoy.

So, are you enjoying?

Enjoy!

Do you understand something,

Magistrate Dogra?

If you just want to have fun,

why put up this pretense of a court?

Put a stop to this all!

Yes, take me to the dungeon.

But all those who I killed

were like him.

They were all rascals like him.

Do you understand something,

Magistrate Dogra?

Do you understand something?

The incident of killing one's

own defense lawyer in court. . .

has shocked the city.

Yesterday, during proceedings,

the accused, Vishal Agnihotri. . .

killed his defence lawyer

Hail Vishal Agnihotri!

Calm down!

Please try to understand my point.

Vishal himself doesn't

want to meet anybody.

Allow us in, we want to

speak to Vishal.

But Vishal doesn't want

to talk to anyone.

Nor does he want to meet anyone.

Do one thing.

Give us some more time.

We will talk to Vishal again & check

if he wants to meet you all or not.

We will leave only

after meeting Vishal.

Quiet! I said none

of you can meet Vishal.

On the demand of many social

organisations & big personalities. . .

the government has agreed

to an inquiry committee. . .

to look into Vishal's case.

This 15 member committee will look

into every aspect of Vishal's case. . .

and give its verdict.

Look Vishal, what you want

or don't want. . .

is definitely your personal view,

your personal decision.

But your case is no more

a personal issue.

Every man in this city

is talking about you.

Infact, the people are even

questioning police honesty.

I know what you

have done is not wrong.

Our system created

this situation before you.

Agreed you have killed

a few outlaws.

But that is not

going to improve things.

There are some more people

who deserve punishment. . .

who are still holding

on to their chair.

When your case is opened

before the committee. . .

people will get to know the truth.

Our department's corrupt officials,

who have supported wrong. . .

those officials should be exposed.

Everyone must know about them.

Vishal, every man connected

to the system is not bad.

There are some

good and honest people.

It is due to these few men

that even today. . .

we have not lost the

faith of the common man in us.

I and many of my officers are

co-operating with the committee.

And I want even you to co-operate.

Alright, I will answer

whatever the committee asks me.

I will watch another show of

pretense of the law, DGP.

But before meeting the committee,

I'd like to go home.

Sachdanand Agnihotri.

Mr. Vishal Agnihotri, the DGP must

have told you about our committee.

I and the other members have been

connected to various aspects. . .

of law and administration.

We have given verdicts

on many serious crimes.

Normally, the law has only one

way of looking at crime.

See the crime as is, & give a

befitting punishment for it.

But yours is the first case where

the law has to deviate from norms.

The aspects of your crime that the

police has kept before the court. . .

like your charge-sheet, the evidence

& witnesses in favour or against you. . .

this committee has no intention

of giving verdict. . .

keeping only those in view.

This committee also wants to see the

other aspect connected with this case.

And I am sure you will

co-operate with us totally.

Mr. Krishnamurthy, you. . .

Mr. Vishal, a crime like murder

happens in a fit of fury.

And after committing the crime,

generally, one feels remorse.

Did you get this feeling

after killing Khurana?

Mr. Krishnamurthy, after giving

verdict on a criminal how do you feel?

Naturally, I feel good,

that I have upheld justice. . .

and have done a good deed

by punishing a criminal.

You feel good after doing a

good deed, you don't feel remorse.

Mr. Vishal must control his speech.

Just one truth got you agitated?

I have not even begun

the chapter yet.

Today, every man here, is talking

of truth, honesty, limitations.

If there was such a thing as law,

the word criminal. . .

would not be prefixed to my name.

I wouldn't take to crime

to getjustice.

People would not call me a murderer.

I have been

accused of several murders.

I was not taught to commit murders.

My father was a school teacher.

Imbibing good values

in children was his job.

He ignored his problems

and lived for others.

I'll show you.

See these applications.

He didn't write these

applications for himself.

He used to make the rounds of

governments offices. . .

to help solve people's problems.

Sometimes for someone's land,

sometimes for a girl's dowry. . .

and sometimes for the

treatment of some poor man.

Read them!

Don't make those noises, idiots.

Does anyone scare the

one who feeds you?

I know you are angry with me

because I didn't come last Monday.

Slow! Can't you see

the pigeons are flying away?

Master, all my work is done on time.

You are half an hour late today.

But Govind. . .

- Master, take your pigeons elsewhere.

If I wait, I'll get late.

I have to take Mr. Chopra's

dog to the vet at 1 O'clock.

And then arrange for my cure.

You are drunk early in the morning?

No Master, I drank to sober

down from last night's high.

You drink in the morning to

sober down from last night's high.

And then get high

in the evening again.

If you always want to be on a high,

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