Father) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and produced by Avinash Adik.

It stars Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Das and Om Puri in pivotal roles.

A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers, one a rich, powerful, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately.

These hardships force Rudra to take matters into his own hands and he kills the Thakur's sons when they arrive for their court date.

Rudra confronts the Thakur and apologises for his actions, he agrees to surrender himself to the police in return for his family's safety.