Himmatwala (2013 film)

The story, set in 1983, begins with Ravi winning a fight in a nightclub. He is known as 'Himatwala', which means 'courageous man'. He then travels to Ramnagar village, where he is reunited with his mother, Savitri, and his younger sister, Padma. They are living a miserable life.

Savitri tells Ravi that their father, Dharamurthy, was a respected and honest temple priest. However, he was framed by Sher Singh, the tyrannical landlord, who had seen him commit a murder and framed him for robbing the temple. Distraught, Ravi's father took his own life. Seeking revenge, the young Ravi tries to kill Sher Singh but fails. When their house burns down, Savitri tells Ravi to run away because Sher Singh will kill him.

Fuelled by a thirst for revenge, Ravi beats up Narayan Das, Sher Singh's manager and brother-in-law, and issues a threat to Sher Singh. The next day, Ravi publicly humiliates Sher Singh's daughter, Rekha, for having beaten up her innocent driver. In retaliation, Rekha sets a tiger on Ravi in the village. However, her plan backfires. She falls from the terrace and is about to be attacked by the animal when Ravi jumps and saves her. Rekha falls in love with Ravi, and later saves his life by thwarting her father's schemes.

Meanwhile, Ravi finds out that Padma is in love with Shakti, Narayan Das's son. They both object. However, Sher Singh informs Narayan Das that marrying Shakti to Padma would give them the upper hand over Ravi, as they could mistreat Padma to control him. Padma now knows that the man living with her is not the real Ravi, who died in a road accident. Before he died, Ravi had asked Sher Singh to look after his family. Initially upset, Padma reconciles with Ravi after he saves her life.

Shortly after Padma and Shakti marry, both father and son start to mistreat her. Seeking revenge, Ravi uses Rekha against her own father, just as she advises him to do. After Rekha tells her father, Sher Singh, that she is pregnant with Ravi's child, he begs Ravi to marry her. Ravi eventually punishes Narayan Das and Shakti by making them do all the household chores. He also wins the election for sarpanch, after which Sher Singh finally returns all the property documents that he had illegally taken from the villagers.

However, Shakti overhears Rekha and Ravi discussing the fake pregnancy and realises that Ravi is not who he says he is. Enraged by this information, Sher Singh sends twenty of his men to kill Ravi. While they are beating him, the same tiger that Ravi had previously fought appears and saves his life. Ravi then brutally beats Shakti, but as he is about to kill Sher Singh, his mother stops him.

Ultimately, Sher Singh, Narayan Das and Shakti ask Ravi, Savitri, Padma and the other villagers for forgiveness.

The soundtrack includes remakes of the songs from the original version of the film, "Taki O Taki" and "Nainon Mein Sapna". The song promo of "Naino Mein Sapna" was released on 8 February 2013. The background score was composed by Sandeep Shirodkar, while the songs are composed by Sajid–Wajid and Sachin–Jigar. Lyricist Indeevar wrote for "Taki O Taki" and "Nainon Mein Sapna", alongside Sameer Anjaan, who wrote for all the songs except a disco-based song, for which lyricist Mayur Puri wrote.

The first look poster of Himmatwala film was released on 23 March 2013, whilst the trailer was released on 24 January 2013.^[6] The film was theatrically released on 29 March 2013.^[7][8]