Gabbar Is Back

Gabbar Is Back
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Krish
Produced by	Sanjay Leela Bhansali Viacom 18 Motion Pictures Shabinaa Khan
Written by	Rajat Arora
Story by	A. R. Murugadoss
Based on	Ramanaa by A. R. Murugadoss
Starring	Akshay Kumar Shruti Haasan Suman Talwar Sunil Grover Jaideep Ahlawat
Music by	Songs: Chirantan Bhatt Yo Yo Honey Singh Manj Musik Background Score: Amar Mohile
Cinematography	Nirav Shah
Edited by	Rajesh G. Pandey
Production company	Bhansali Productions
Distributed by	Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date	1 May 2015 (2015-05-01)
Running time	131 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹72 crore (US$11 million)
Box office	₹105.48 crore (US$16 million) Worldwide

Gabbar Is Back is a 2015 Indian vigilante-action drama film directed by Krish and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Viacom 18 Motion Pictures. Featuring Akshay Kumar and Shruti Haasan in the lead roles, the film is a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Ramanaa, directed by A. R. Murugadoss, which was later remade in Telugu as Tagore in 2003 and in Kannada as Vishnu Sena in 2005. Suman Talwar, Sunil Grover and Jaideep Ahlawat appear in supporting roles with Kareena Kapoor Khan in a cameo. Akshay Kumar's acting was critically praised.

The police get information that 10 tehsildars across Maharashtra have been mysteriously kidnapped. But they are mysteriously returned – except the most corrupt officer, who is hanged in public. The police get a CD from mystery man 'Gabbar' who says his mission is to target corrupt officers. Police driver Sadhuram (Sunil Grover) is convinced that he can crack the mystery of who is Gabbar – but his superior officers humiliate and insult him in front of all the other officers.

On his way home, Professor Aditya Singh Rajput (Akshay Kumar) is stopped by lawyer Shruti (Shruti Haasan), who makes him drive her and a pregnant woman to the hospital, but the woman delivers in the car with Shruti's help. When Shruti wants to thank Aditya for helping her, she finds he has already left. Sadhuram finds from the tehsil to the district offices that there's one honest officer in each department. He is convinced that all these honest officers have a link to Gabbar. Shruti and Aditya become close and one day, she gets hit by a scooter and Aditya takes her to Patil Hospital. Although not badly injured, doctors at Patil Hospital insist on taking expensive tests and Aditya realizes how helpless patients and their families are fleeced and often, inhumanly treated. A poor woman mourns her deceased husband in the civil hospital nearby. Aditya tells her he'll get her medical insurance. He checks in her husband as a patient to Patil Hospital. The hospital tries to swindle money out of Aditya by pretending to treat the already dead man, making Aditya pay heavily for tests and medicines. Aditya then shows them the death certificate, which proves that they knowingly admitted a dead man. The young owner of the hospital, Vikas Patil is furious when Aditya releases the video of the hospital's corruption to the media. However, Vikas is killed by an angry mob. His father, a powerful builder Digvijay Patil (Suman Talwar), sees Aditya in the hospital CCTV footage and is stunned to realize that this is the same man he had supposedly killed five years ago.