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Nayak: The Real Hero Dvd

After the chief minister challenges Shivaji Rao to run the state for a day, he accepts and strives hard to put an end to corruption. Due to his success, people force him to join politics.

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Nayak: The Real Hero is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by S. Shankar and starring Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal and Johnny Lever in the lead roles. The film is a remake of S. Shankar’s own successful Tamil film Mudhalvan (1999).

Plot

Shivaji Rao (Anil Kapoor) is an ambitious TV reporter, working for “Q TV” along with his friend Topi (Johnny Lever). While on the job, Rao records a conversation in which the Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan (Amrish Puri) takes an indifferent stand during riots triggered by a fight between some college students and bus drivers, so as not to lose his voter base. Due to police inaction, there is loss of life and damage to property. To explain his actions, Chauhan later agrees to a live interview with Shivaji, during which Rao raises these issues and broadcasts the recorded conversation.

In response to Shivaji’s allegations about the mismanagement by his government, Chauhan redirects the question by instead talking about how difficult his job is due to bureaucracy. He challenges Shivaji to be the CM for a day and experience those problems himself. Shivaji reluctantly accepts the challenge to prove Chauhan wrong. Educated and vigilant, Shivaji handles issues that affect the populace everyday. He manages appropriate housing and employment for the needy, and he suspends inefficient and corrupt government officials. He is assisted by the secretary, Bansal (Paresh Rawal). As the last act of the day, Rao has Chauhan arrested, as he is the root cause of all the corruption. Later, Chauhan posts bail and leaves jail, then passes an ordinance to nullify all orders passed by Shivaji when he was the CM. Insulted by Shivaji’s success as well, Chauhan sends assassins after him although they only destroy his house.

Shivaji falls in love with Manjari (Rani Mukerji), a naive and carefree villager. When he asks her father (Shivaji Satam) her hand in marriage, he refuses on grounds that Shivaji is not employed by the government. As a result, Shivaji begins preparing for the Indian Civil Service Examination. However, Bansal arrives and informs Rao that Shivaji’s popularity has skyrocketed and that people want him to become the next CM. He is reluctant at first, but when Chauhan’s henchmen vandalise Q TV premises to intimidate him, and the people show their support by thronging to his place in huge numbers, he agrees to run for office.

In the ensuing state elections, he wins by a vast majority. Chauhan’s political allies desert him, causing his defeat. Manjari’s father, angered by Shivaji’s decision, refuses to let his daughter marry him. On becoming the chief minister, Shivaji effects many improvements and quickly becomes an idol in the people’s eyes. However his growing popularity is threatened continuously by Chauhan who uses his henchmen to try to kill him or at least tarnish his image as a public hero. But Shivaji promptly answers by digging out all accusations against Chauhan and his allies. This, however, causes a reunion of Chauhan and his allies. After a failed attempt on Shivaji’s life by hiring an assassin, a bomb is detonated at his home, killing his parents (Neena Kulkarni and Kitty).

In the final attempt, Chauhan orders Pandurung (Saurabh Shukla) to destroy law and order and cause bomb explosions in various parts of the city. But a priest is able to overhear a few men planning to detonate bombs. He immediately notifies Shivaji’s office via the “Complaint Box” department. Pandurung is arrested and under tactical inquiry by Shivaji and his secretary, he discloses the location of the four bombs. A Bomb Squad is able to defuse three bombs, but the fourth explodes before they could reach it. Chauhan, however, uses this success against Shivaji by blaming the young CM for the bomb. Seeing no way out, Shivaji summons Chauhan to the secretariat and creates a situation such that it would seem as if Chauhan was there to shoot Shivaji but failed. Shivaji takes up a gun, but pointing it to his arm, shoots himself, and then hands over the gun to Chauhan. Now getting to know that Shivaji had set a trap, an enraged Chauhan attempts to shoot Shivaji, but his shot misses. The security guards then shoot down Chauhan killing him. While dying, Chauhan recalls the events during the interview and says “It was a good interview” and dies. Shivaji, secretly tells Bansal the truth and says that “finally they have turned me into a politician too” but Bansal believes that Chauhan deserved death saying “he instituted politics for a long time for corruption and evil; you did it only once for good” . Manjari’s father also comes to realize that Shivaji is in fact a great man who sees duty before everything else and allows Manjari to marry him.

In the end, the city develops under the governance of Shivaji Rao and his colleagues. The complaint box, where people were supposed to fill in their complaints and information about various threats anonymously, is shown to be empty, signifying that the reasons to be afraid have been taken care of.

Cast

Anil Kapoor as a camera man turned journalist Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, who later becomes the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, He is the lover of Manjari
Rani Mukerji as Manjari: Shivaji’s Lover
Amrish Puri as Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan, depicted as a corrupt politician
Paresh Rawal as Bansal, Chief Minister’s Personal Assistant
Saurabh Shukla as Pandurang
Neena Kulkarni as Daksha Rao Gaekwad, Shivaji’s mother
Shivaji Satam as Manjari’s father
Kitty as Bhim Rao Gaekwad (Voice dubbed by Vikram Gokhale), Shivaji’s father and a cartoonist
Johnny Lever as Topi, Shivaji’s cameramn
Pooja Batra as Laila
Surya as CM Security Officer Manohar
Razak Khan as Topi’s prospective father-in-law (cameo)
Omakuchi Narasimhan as Game show contestant who answers “Machar”
Ponnambalam as Ranga (Voice dubbed by Manoj Pandey)
Rana Jung Bahadur as Vishal Kumar, Balraj Chauhan’s support – 1
Anupam Shyam as Hemant Mishra, Balraj Chauhan’s support – 2
Shah Rukh Khan as (Cameo Appearance)
Sushmita Sen in item number “Shakalaka Baby”

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