Vijay (1988 film)

Vijay (English: Victory) is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Yash Chopra.

The film, released on 12 August 1988, to coincide with India's Independence Day weekend, was a commercial failure.

[1] Widowed Lala Yodhraj Bhalla (Anupam Kher) lives in a palatial house with his daughter, Suman (Hema Malini), and son, Shashiraj (Raj Babbar).

He gets a shock when he finds out that Suman is in love with a lowly employee by the name of Ajit Bhardwaj (Rajesh Khanna), and refuses to give his consent for their marriage.

Yodhraj gets another shock when Shashiraj tells him that he would like to marry Rita (Moushumi Chatterjee), who comes from a poor family.

The very same day, Shashiraj is killed when his plane crashes; a guilt-ridden Suman moves back into her father's house along with Vikram, leaving Ajit alone and devastated; and a lone Rita gives birth to a young son named Arjun.

A grown-up Arjun (Anil Kapoor) lives with his adopted father Inder Sen (Saeed Jaffrey) and his family.

They join hands, along with Inder's security officer Ujagar Singh (Gulshan Grover) who bears a grudge against Arjun for getting him arrested.

Situations worsen and it results in Arjun and Vikram becoming enemies, with it also creating a rift between their girlfriends Sapna (Meenakshi Sheshadri) and Nisha (Sonam).

Inder commits suicide due to the high pressure on him pay the loan back, but Arjun succeeds in winning the elections and defeating Yodhraj.

An enraged Vikram attacks Arjun with some hired goons and he is beaten up badly, but they flee when Ajit arrives on the spot.