Gangvaa is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Rajasekhar, starring Rajinikanth and Shabana Azmi.

[4] The basic injustice at the core of Gangvaa is the way the land owning classes take advantage of ordinary village folk.

Early on in the film, a work crew finds a pot full of gold coins and Thakur Mahendra Singh (Amrish Puri) confiscates them to add to his already massive wealth.

It turns out that the rape was actually perpetrated by a totally different guy named Gangvaa (Raza Murad), and righting this wrong helps Gangvaa win Jamna back, but this makes him a new set of enemies that he spends the rest of the film fleeing from.

Also on his tail is a police inspector (Suresh Oberoi), who cannot allow vigilante activities in his district, irrespective of the intention.