Dayavan (1988)
दयावान
Shakti and Shankar are two childhood buddies who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks, in a shanty town. Shakti becomes a sort of 'godfather' for the locals under the name of Dayavan. He falls in love and gets married to a young prostitute. However, their happiness is short-lived, as the gangster lifestyle begins to take its toll.
- Date of release
- 1988-10-19
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 2h 54m
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Director
- Feroz Khan
Casting
- Madhuri Dixit — Neela Velhu
- Vinod Khanna — Shakti Velhu / Dayavan
- Feroz Khan — Shankar Waghmare
- Amrish Puri — Inspector Ratan Singh
- Anupam Kher — Mr. Kohli
- Aditya Pancholi — Dayavan's son-in-Law
- Aanjjan Srivastav — Superintendent of Police
- Amala Akkineni — Sarita
- Anuradha Patel
- Aruna Irani
- Tinnu Anand
- Alok Nath
Interesting facts
Dayavan is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Feroz Khan. It is a remake of the 1987 Tamil film Nayakan, though the original Tamil version was dubbed in Hindi. The film stars Feroz Khan, Vinod Khanna (Dayavan) and Madhuri Dixit (Prostitute) with Aditya Pancholi in important roles.
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