Amitabh Bachchan
Vijay Kumar Srivastava/Shahenshah
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Shahenshah (transl. Emperor) is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language vigilante action film starring Amitabh Bachchan in the title role, along with Meenakshi Sheshadri and Praan and Amrish Puri and Prem Chopra.
Feb 12, 1988 · Shahenshah: Directed by Tinnu Anand. With Amitabh Bachchan, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Aruna Irani, Rohini Hattangadi. Vijay who is a corrupt officer by day, turns a vigilante by night in order to make the city crime free.
The movie opens with a corrupt and sniveling bank manager Mathur (Prem Chopra) and crime baron J.K. Verma (Amrish Puri). Mathur is in a financial dilemma as he has illegally loaned J.K. 2.5 million rupees, and J.K. orchestrates a bank robbery to bail him out.
Inspector Srivastav is framed by a wily and cunning gangster, J.K., and unable to prove his innocence, hangs himself, leaving behind his wife, and son, Vijay. Years later, Vijay has grown up and has joined the police force as an Inspector.
Unlike his dad, he is corrupt and does accept bribes to turn a nelson's eye to crime. The City Police are assigned the task of apprehending a customed man called "Shahenshah", who operates at night and targets, tries and kills gangsters in a "Judge and Executioner "style. No one knows the real identity of Shahenshah, as he is feared by the ...
A corrupt police officer is chasing a notorious criminal, whose identity has always been obscure and whom the police have always feared, although strangely enough, the criminal is highly...
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1988 • 185 minutes. 4.4 star. 34 reviews. 43% Tomatometer. Rating. family_home. Eligible. info. play_arrow Trailer. info Watch in a web browser or on supported devices Learn More. About this...
