Which Vigilante Bollywood film you like the most?

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Below are few vigilante films in Hindi cinema

Zanjeer (1973)

Amitabh Bachchan in Zanjeer'.

For much of Zanjeer's running time, Amitabh Bachchan's Vijay is an upright police officertoo upright. He's framed and sent to jail; when he comes out, he becomes a vigilante of sorts, going after the crime boss who killed his parents, without involving the authorities. This is foreshadowed by a famous scene earlier in the filmcentral in the creation of the "angry young man legendin which Vijay wears civilian clothes instead of his uniform before taking on Sher Khan (Pran).

Mr. India (1987)

In Shekhar Kapur's Mr. India, Anil Kapoor plays Arun Verma, whose watch gives him powers of invisibility, and who uses this to punish corrupt traders and officials and, eventually, defeat crime-lord Mogambo. It was a departure from 1970s vigilante cinema: tackling realistic problems with fantasy and larger-than-life heroism.

Raakh (1989)

Aditya Bhattacharya's pitch-black noir introduced a different kind of Hindi film vigilante anti-herolet down, like his predecessors, by the system, but less righteous about the path of violent revenge he takes up. Aaamir Hussein (Aamir Khan)helped by an embittered cop (Pankaj Kapur)sets out to kill the men who raped his friend. The film refuses to allow its avenging protagonist the moral high ground.

Bandit Queen (1994)

Rape-revenge dramas had become common in Hindi commercial cinema in the 1980s, and the figure of the mythic dacoit went back even further. But, with Bandit Queen, Shekhar Kapur made something new: a melding of vigilante drama and art film; gruelling, realistic, poetic.

Mom (2017)

Sridevi in Mom'.

Recent events, especially the 2012 gang rape in Delhi, have resulted in an increase in vigilante violence by female film characters. In Mom, Sridevi plays a schoolteacher who becomes a cold-blooded killer after her daughter is raped. The film endorses her vengeance, with a police officer abetting her in the final murder.


You can mention a vigilante film missing from the aforementioned list.

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Isn't Sholay also a vigilant movie??
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Good, write up. Would have been even better if the writer knew what Vigilante movies mean. He has mistaken Revenge dramas for Vigilante films.

Big B's Sehenshah is a vigilante movie. Upcoming Bhavesh Joshi is a vigilante cum superhero movie. Director Shankar specializes in making vigilante movies.
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Originally posted by: simplyrdb

Good, write up. Would have been even better if the writer knew what Vigilante movies mean. He has mistaken Revenge dramas for Vigilante films.

Big B's Sehenshah is a vigilante movie. Upcoming Bhavesh Joshi is a vigilante cum superhero movie. Director Shankar specializes in making vigilante movies.

yeah...Indian i.e Hindustani (hindi dubbed),Anniyan i.e Aparichit,Mr India...
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Yes, there's a difference between vigilante films and revenge dramas.
My favourite is Aaj Ki Awaaz.
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Rekhas's Khoon Bhari Maang tops the list
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Aprichit was a good vigilante movie, but it is not BW movie.
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There is a Difference between Vigilante and Revenge films. Writer seems to hv mixed up the two!
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