Hatya

On a dark night, an infant boy (Sujitha) and his widowed mother, Meena (Aparajita), witness a disabled businessman, Surendra Mohan (Anupam Kher), and his henchman, Ranjeet (Babu Antony), committing the murder of Surendra Mohan's manager, Mohan (Satish Kaul). As a result, Meena is brutally stabbed to death as well by Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet, who then throw Mohan's dead body off into the sea, but the boy escapes from the criminals after witnessing the traumatic event. Sagar (Govinda) is a wealthy, but depressed young man, who has turned into an alcoholic as well as a street performer after the tragic deaths of his wife, Sheela, and their newborn son, Raja. After a night of consuming much alcohol, he comes across the same boy sleeping near a waste container on the streets. Being a kind-hearted person, Sagar takes the boy home and names him Raja after his late son, but continues to drink. He attempts to nurture Raja as his own son and is heartbroken to learn from a doctor that he is deaf-mute by birth. Meanwhile, Raja sees both Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet several times in the city and unsucessfully tries to inform Sagar in sign language that they are his mother's murderers. After learning about this and that Mohan's dead body too has been recovered from the sea by Inspector Ashok Gupta (Raj Kiran), Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet keep trying to kill Raja, and are nearly successful one night when Sagar is heavily drunk. However, Sagar saves Raja at the last moment and gives up drinking after the event.

Later, Sagar meets a wealthy girl, Sapna (Neelam), at shopping centres a couple of times and she believes Raja to be his son. Sapna befriends Raja and gradually falls in love with Sagar, while she also resembles Sagar's late wife, Sheela. She takes Sagar and Raja to her home where Raja sees a photograph of Sapna with her widowed father, Kailash Nath (Om Shivpuri), and shockingly his mother, who turns out to be Sapna's estranged older sister. Soon, Sapna and Kailash Nath learn from Meena's accquaintance, Father Joseph Sebastian (Satyen Kappu), that Raja is Meena's son and that Meena's whereabouts are unknown. Kailash Nath files a police complaint against Sagar alleging that he might have kidnapped Meena. As a result, Sagar is arrested, tortured and imprisoned by Inspector Gupta for helping a child. To prove Sagar's innocence, Raja takes them to his house where there was a happy family. The police take a detection dog to find out clues and the dog smells the ground outside the house. The police dig the ground and shockingly discover a piece of cloth, in which Meena's dead body was wrapped and buried there. Inspector Gupta concludes that Sagar has killed Meena and an anguished Sapna fails to convince the police that Sagar is not the culprit. In an attempt to prove his innocence, Sagar escapes from police custody and resorts to a blacksmith, Lohar (Johnny Lever), to discover the truth about Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet. With Lohar's help, he sketches a portrait of Ranjeet to help Raja identify him as his mother's killer.

In the process, Sagar visits Surendra Mohan and threatens to expose his crime through Raja. Subsequently, Inspector Gupta seeks Surendra Mohan's consent in allowing Raja to act as witness against Ranjeet, while he also has an evidence has Surendra Mohan's wife had an extramarital affair with his manager, Mohan. When questioned by Inspector Gupta, Surendra Mohan informs him that his wife has gone to Switzerland for some change after her guilt and grief for Mohan's death. However, things take a drastic turn when Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet kidnap both Sagar and Raja from Sapna's home and take them to Sagar's home. While there, Surendra Mohan reveals that he has murdered his wife as well along with Mohan after learning about her extramarital affair with him. Further, he attempts to brainwash Sagar into committing suicide by hanging in his home and threatens to kill Raja if he refuses to do so. Although a reluctant Sagar agrees and nearly succeeds, Raja creates a commotion that allows him to be freed and kill Surendra Mohan by hanging him from the same noose tied for him. Later, a furious Sagar thrashes Ranjeet nearly to death in revenge of Raja's mother's brutal murder and knocks him unconscious. Just then, Sapna arrives at the scene with Inspector Gupta and the police and reunites with Sagar and Raja. As a result, Inspector Gupta and the police arrest a gravely injured and dying Ranjeet for his crimes and acquit Sagar from all charges. In the end, Sagar and Sapna get married and adopt Raja.

• Govinda as Sagar
• Neelam Kothari as Sapna Nath
• Sujitha as Raja
• Raj Kiran as Inspector Ashok Gupta
• Anupam Kher as Surendra Mohan
• Babu Antony as Ranjit
• Johnny Lever as Lohar
• Om Shivpuri as Kailash Nath (Sapna's father)
• Satyen Kappu as Father Joseph Sebastian
• Satish Kaul as Mohan (Surendra Mohan's manager)
• Aparajita as Meena (Raja's mother)
• Lawrence D'Souza as Special Appearance
• Rakesh Bedi as Restaurant Owner
• Vikas Anand as Doctor
• Jimmy Pardhan as Jimmy

34th Filmfare Awards:

Won

• Best Art Direction – Liladhar S. Sawant
• Best Sound – J. P. Sehgal

Lyrics by Indeevar.

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