It stars an ensemble cast of Naseeruddin Shah, Sunny Deol, Chunky Pandey, Divya Bharti (in her major Hindi debut), Sonam, Jyostna Singh.
The film follows Prabhat, an honest police officer, being sent to Kenya on behalf of the Indian Government to capture the dreaded crime lord Ajgar Jurrat and bring an end to his illegal businesses.
[7] Prabhat Singh is an honest and dedicated police officer, but he usually has no time for his family and due to this, his father is constantly at loggerheads with him.
Prabhat is now placed on a mission to apprehend the most dreaded crime Lord, Ajgar Jurrat, who currently lives in Kenya but operates in India.
Prabhat leaves his job and moves to a remote corner of a distant village in India, where he takes in an orphan named Babu, who is his only friend.
In Kenya, they are met by their host, an honest Kenyan Police Officer of Indian Origin, Surya Pratap, a widower with a young daughter.
Prabhat and Akash find and meet Madan's sister-in-law Renuka, who's also seeking vengeance, so she helps them get nearer to Ajgar and offers them some more details on his whereabouts.
After learning the truth and realizing that Prabhat and Akash were right after all, an enraged Surya confronts Ajgar but is captured along with his daughter.
Prabhat and Akash, who have escaped their flight to India, rescue Surya, and the three join hands in the mission to catch Ajgar and his henchmen.
After the mega-success of his 1989 film Tridev, Rajiv Rai decided to embark on another action-thriller with three main male leads, and thus Vishwatma was conceived.
Thus Rai, after considering to launch Suniel Shetty, a personal friend, opted to cast Chunky Pandey instead of Shroff as one of the leads.
The climactic car chase was shot on the open plains of the Masai Mara National Wildlife Reserve.
It features playback singers Amit Kumar and Kumar Sanu (for Naseeruddin Shah), Alka Yagnik (for Jyostna Singh), Sadhana Sargam (for Divya Bharti), Udit Narayan (for Chunkey Pandey), Sapna Mukherjee (for Sonam) and Mohammad Aziz (For Sunny Deol).
For the 2014 movie Kick, the producer Sajid Nadiadwala bought the rights to the song "Saat Samundar" for Rs 1.5 crore.
[8] The other songs that got noticed when the film was released were "Aankhon Mein Hain Kya", "Dil Le Gayi Teri Bindiya" and the title track.