''Aaj Ki Awaaz'' () is a 1984 Indian

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-language

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film produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by Ravi Chopra. The film stars

Raj Babbar Raj Babbar (born 23 June 1952) is an Indian Hindi and Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. three-time member of the Lok Sabha and a two-time member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He was the Pre ...

, Smita Patil,

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, and Vijay Arora. The film's music is by Ravi. The film is based on 1982 Hollywood movie ''

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''. It tells the story of a professor who becomes a vigilante after his sister is raped and his mother is killed. This film was remade in Telugu in 1985 as '' Nyayam Meere Cheppali'', in Tamil in 1985 as '' Naan Sigappu Manithan'' and in Kannada as ''Mahatma''. The censor-board certificate of the movie shows 'Re-revised', implying that censor board objected to certain scenes of the movie, and cleared the movie when it was re-edited. The producers of the movie have been subsequently criticized by many for filming sexual assault scenes in a gratuitous way.

Plot

Professor Prabhat Kumar Varma (Raj Babbar), lives with his widowed mom, and sister, Madhu (Raksha Chauhan), in

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, Mumbai. He is worried about the growing crime rates in the city. He meets the Police Commissioner Sathe (Chandrashekhar) and complains about it. Meanwhile, Prabhat's friend Professor Lalwani (Dheeraj Kumar)'s sister-in-law, Sudha (Sonika Gill), is abducted, raped and killed. Her rapist and killer, Suresh Thakur (Dalip Tahil), is arrested and presented in court. His lawyers manage to prove that Suresh was not in Mumbai during the incident. The court subsequently acquits him. Annoyed by Prabhat's persistence about getting justice for Sudha, Suresh Thakur along with his gang barges into Prabhat's apartment and after tying him up, gangrapes his sister in front of him. They also murder his mother when she tries to call the police. His sister subsequently commits suicide. Prabhat loses faith in the criminal justice system. To avenge the death of his family, Prabhat turns into a vigilante. Every night he roams the city killing rapists and murderers. Inspector Shafi (Shafi Inamdar) starts investigating these crimes and soon Prabhat comes under the police's radar. The inspector eventually manages to capture Prabhat. Prabhat's girlfriend Rajni (Smita Patil) who is a lawyer takes it upon herself to free him and get justice once and for all.

Cast

as Prof. Prabhat Kumar Varma * Smita Patil as Public Prosecutor Rajni V. Deshmukh *

as Jagmohandas *

Om Shivpuri Om Shivpuri (14 July 1938 – 15 October 1990) was an Indian theatre actor-director and character actor in Hindi films. A National School of Drama, New Delhi alumnus, Shivpuri became the first chief of the National School of Drama Repertory Co ...

as Judge *

Dheeraj Kumar Dheeraj Kumar (born 1 October 1944) is an Indian actor, television producer and director. He started Creative Eye Limited, a television production house in 1986. He has acted in both Bollywood and Punjabi films, including '' Sargam'' (1979), ' ...

as Prof. Lalwani *

Shafi Inamdar Shafi Inamdar (23 October 1945 – 13 March 1996) was an Indian actor. He started his film career with the film '' Vijeta'' and continued it in ''Ardh Satya''. He acted in a number of television serials including ''Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi''. His mo ...

as Inspector Shafi * Vijay Arora as Srivastava *

Arun Bakshi Arun Bakshi is an Indian film and television actor and also a singer. He has acted as a character actor in over 100 Hindi films, and as a playback singer has also sung 298 songs. He has also worked in Punjabi and Bhojpuri cinema. He also playe ...

as Inspector Veerkar * Ashalata as Mrs. V.V. Deshmukh * Chandrashekhar as Police Commissioner Sathe *

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as Judge V.V. Deshmukh *

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as Hotel (bar owner) *

Gufi Paintal Sarabjeet "Gufi" Paintal (born 4 October 1944) is an Indian actor and director. His most famous role was that of Shakuni in the TV serial Mahabharat. He is the elder brother of the noted comedian and character actor Paintal. Career Gufi Pai ...

as Orderly in Mental Hospital *

Dalip Tahil Dalip Tahil (born as Dalip Tahilramani; 30 October 1952) is an Indian film, television and theatre actor. He studied at Sherwood College in Nainital, India. After attending Aligarh Muslim University for a year, he graduated from St. Xavier's C ...

as Suresh Thakur *

Dinesh Thakur Dinesh Thakur (1947 – 20 September 2012) was an Indian theatre director, actor in theatre, television and Hindi film, where most notably he appeared as one of the leads in ''Rajnigandha'' 1974 and directed by Basu Chatterjee, which won both Fi ...

as Advocate Dayal *Chandni as Sudha's friend *Deepak Qazir as Kishan Khanna *Sonika Gill as Sudha Advani *

Urmila Bhatt Urmila Bhatt (1 November 1933 – 22 February 1997) was an actress of Hindi cinema. She started acting in Drama Theatre. She joined Sangeet Kala Academy in Rajkot as a folk dancer and singer. It was during that time that her famous Gujarati dra ...

as Mrs. Varma *Raksha Chauhan as Madhu, Prof. Prabhat's sister who gets raped and killed. * Om Katare as Villain

Crew

*''Director'':

Ravi Chopra Ravi Chopra (27 September 1946 – 12 November 2014) was an Indian film and television director, producer and screenwriter. Early life Chopra was the son of producer and director B.R.Chopra and nephew of Yash Chopra. Aditya Chopra and Uday Ch ...

*''Producer'': B. R. Chopra *''Banner'': B R Films

Music

Awards

;

32nd Filmfare Awards The 32nd Filmfare Awards were held in 1985. ''Sharaabi'' led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by ''Aaj Ki Awaaz'' and ''Saaransh'' with 7 nominations and ''Sohni Mahiwal'' and ''Sparsh'' with 5 nominations each. ''Saaransh'', ''Soh ...

: Won * Best Lyricist – Hasan Kamal for "Aaj Ki Awaaz" Nominated *

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– B. R. Films *

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–

* Best Actor –

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– Smita Patil * Best Supporting Actor –

* Best Story – Shabd Kumar

Notes

References

External links

* {{B. R. Chopra 1984 films 1980s Hindi-language films Films scored by Ravi Films directed by Ravi Chopra Hindi films remade in other languages Indian courtroom films Indian rape and revenge films Indian vigilante films Films about rape in India Hindi-language action films 1980s vigilante films Muhammad Iqbal