''Shastra'' is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Sanjay Khanna. The film stars

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and

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. The film was a flop at the box office.

Plot

Vijay Khanna sole ambition is to become a collector like his father was. He is concentrating completely on his studies except for a few disturbances by Pooja who loves him and wants to marry him. Vijay always believed that his parents were in fact murdered and not killed in an accident, by their old faithful security officer Babu. Vijay starts searching for Babu, and finally when he finds him, Babu tells him that he was merely used as a pawn to cover up his parents' murder and the actual killer is roaming freely, and only one man can lead Vijay to the killer and that is Girdhari in Khandala. But before Vijay can find the truth, Girdhari is killed. Vijay and Babu start working in a casino owned by Shanti Prasad. There the local don Rana becomes their enemy, who is after Shanti Prasad's casino and Vijay's life. Finally when Vijay decides to leave Khandala, he learns of the actual murderers. Vijay loses Babu in the fight. Now, Vijay is alone to fight with his enemies. Eventually, he managed to track down the killer of his parents.

Cast

as Vijay Khanna *

as Pooja Prasad * Danny Denzongpa as Babu * Farida Jalal as Aunty * Anupam Kher as Shanti Prasad *

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as Rana *

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as Badshah Khan Khan / (Cameo) * Avtar Gill as Police Commissioner * Mushtaq Khan as Prem * Dinesh Hingoo as Principal Badra * Kunika as Sonia * Gavin Packard as College Punk * Achyut Potdar as Vijay's guardian * Jack Gaud as Sonia's brother * Ali Asgar as Vijay's friend * Lalit Tiwari as Girdhari

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed Aadesh Shrivastav and the lyrics were penned by Shyam Raj . The soundtrack was released in 1996 on Audio Cassette in Trimurti Sounds and Big B Music which consists of 6 songs while Currently its copyright is with T-Series, link of online streaming audio songs https://gaana.com/album/shastra . The full album is recorded by Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet Bhattacharya,

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, Vijeta Pandit,

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, Hema Sardesai,

Sunidhi Chauhan Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Born in Delhi, she began performing in local gatherings at the age of 5 and made her career debut at the age of 13, with the film ''Shastra'' (1996). During the ye ...

, which she making debut as playback singer & Aditya Narayan. #"Kuch Hua Re Hua Re" -

#"Kya Ada Kya Jalwe" - Udit Narayan #"Ladki Deewani Ladka Deewana" - Udit Narayan, Aditya Narayan and

#"More Saiyan" - Hema Sardesai #"Shastra Shastra" - Abhijeet #"Wade Na Ho Kasme Na Ho" - Kumar Sanu, Vijeta Pandit

References

External links

* 1996 films 1990s Hindi-language films Films scored by Aadesh Shrivastava Indian action films {{1990s-Hindi-film-stub