Hathyar (2002 film)

Hathyar: Face to Face with Reality ( Weapon) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film is a sequel to Vaastav (1999). It stars Sanjay Dutt, Shilpa Shetty and Sharad Kapoor. Hathyar begins where Vaastav had ended and focuses on the son of Raghu bhai, Boxer bhai, also played by Dutt.

Plot
The film opens with Rohit Shivalkar (Sanjay Dutt) being shot at by some gangsters including his aide Pakya (Sharad Kapoor) on motorbikes, and being hospitalized as a result. As the doctors operate on him, the story shifts to Rohit's past.

Rohit is refused from being privileged because of the stigma attached to him due to his father Raghunath (Sanjay Dutt) who was a gangster, since his childhood. Except for Munna (Sachin Khedekar), everyone else distance from him in the school. Raghu's demise causes Rohit's grandfather Namdev (Shivaji Satam) to drink to excess, causing him to accumulate debits and die from liver failure. The costs of Namdev's surgery also forces Rohit's mother, Sonu (Namrata Shirodkar) to resort to prostitution all over again, seeking Chaudhary's (Viju Khote) help. As Rohit grows up, he earns a reputation for being a good boxer, until defeating Amar Rane (Inder Kumar). Amar learns how Raghu had murdered his father who was a police officer, and presses Rohit on false charges of drug possession with his uncle's help, harassing him in custody, in spite of Rohit's innocence. Rohit also learns the truth about his mother from Amar as he spots her with Chaudhary, which infuriates him, causing her to end her own life. Rohit now enters a drunken state, and, having grown fed-up of Amar calling his mother a whore, brutally kills him and gets imprisoned. His grandmother, Shanta (Reema Lagoo) reprimands him as she informs him about his mother's suicide as she visits him in the prison.

Years later, Hasan Bhai (Shakti Kapoor) remembers the time Raghu had eliminated the Fracture gang, as he faces trouble with the gang's children, he bails him out. Rohit, just like his father, makes his way up the ranks in the Mumbai underworld, earning the name "Boxer Bhai". He's also in love with his father's friend Bhopu's (Atul Kale) daughter Gauri (Shilpa Shetty), who is enduring a marriage with a physically abusive spouse. Rohit eventually snatches her out of this abusive relationship and remarries her.

Meanwhile, Rohit is also approached by ruling party power broker Digamber Patil (Gulshan Grover) who offers him to fight for elections to get into politics as a corporator. Rohit gets busy in the elections for months and eventually gives birth to a daughter named Shanti. Rohit also wins the elections.

However, Rohit and Gauri's married lives are shattered when Gauri's friend Jyoti's husband Shekhar, who was a police officer and informer of Fracture Nagya (Anup Soni), gets killed by Rohit. Gauri, heartbroken, leaves Rohit and lives at Munna's house. Rohit tries to contact her, but all efforts are in vain. Munna persuades Gauri to go back to Rohit with the help of another police officer who tells her that Shekhar is Nagya's informer. Gauri, convinced gets ready to go back to Rohit but Munna gets killed by Rohit after influenced by Pakya's false story. Gauri, angered, cuts all ties with Rohit, and lives in a small house nowhere. Rohit is eventually attacked by Pakya and his men and is hospitalized as shown in the beginning, but miraculously survives the attack.

It is then revealed that Digamber had conspired with Fracture Nagya against him and gets double-crossed by Pakya due to Rohit's powerful political status and a personal score that had to be settled with Fracture family. A vengeful Rohit recovers and sets out to finish Digamber, Pakya and Nagya. He locates Pakya and Nagya in a guest house. Rohit kills Nagya and is about to kill Pakya, but the latter pleads with him for forgiveness. Rohit, who considered Pakya as his friend, gets enraged by his betrayal due to a hefty bribe by Digamber and kills him. Subsequently, Rohit brutally murders Digamber in a cricket stadium with a bat and goes in hiding.

After the turn of events, Rohit becomes the most wanted criminal and is issued "shoot to kill" orders by the Chief Minister. DCP Kishore Kadam (Deepak Tijori), who is Rohit's guardian and Raghu's best friend, has no other option but to kill him and obey the orders. Before surrendering to the police, Rohit asks for forgiveness from Gauri and says that he was not wrong and wanted to live a normal life, but due to his father's past, he couldn't do that. He requests Gauri to take his daughter far away from the city to not let her life be affected by his dark past, and whatever happens to him, she would not turn back. Rohit commits suicide, and the armed police force attacks Rohit. In the end, Gauri finally decides to leave the city with Shanti.