Hero

"A musical love story of a criminal."

Dec 16 1983 Not Rated 2h 53m
Action, Drama, Romance

Hero is the story of a criminal transforming and evolving as a good person under the influence of love. Jackie is a baddie with a heart of gold though, who has to settle scores with the area's 'Thakur' and his police officer son Sanjeev Kumar. So he opts for kidnapping their soft spot, Radha, Thakur khandaan's only daughter. Radha is given to understand that Jackie and his gang are police people who have taken her away to the safety of jungles because their house has been invaded by dacoits. The rest of the story is about the gang's camaraderie with Radha in sylvan spots and the discovery of truth by Radha.

Plot

After the death of his parents; Kishan is taken in by notorious criminal, Pasha, who teaches him to further their ends. Years later Pasha gets arrested as a result of the testimony of Retired IGP Shrikanth Mathur. Pasha then instructs Kishan whose name is now Jackie to threaten Shrikanth with death thus to revoke his testimony but Shrikanth fails to comply resulting in Jackie abducting his only daughter, Radha. Jackie feigns innocence in Radha's eyes to prove that he is her protector against all odds where-by they both fall in love. Eventually Jackie's reality comes to light with Radha asking him to surrender to the law which he does and is sentence to a long jail term. In the meanwhile Pasha escapes police custody and after his release from jail Jackie must now rescue Radha, her dad, Shrikanth and Jamuna from the clutches of Pasha who is holding them captive.

Written by

Mukta Ghai, Subhash Ghai, Ram Kelkar

Directed by

Subhash Ghai

Cast

Sanjeev Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff

Crew

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Production Countries

India

Production Companies

Mukta Arts Ltd

Languages

Awards

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Scores
# of Votes
1,002
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA