Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999 film)

Hindustan Ki Kasam
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Directed by	Veeru Devgan
Produced by	Veeru Devgan
Written by	Janak-Hriday (script) Tanveer Khan (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Veeru Devgan
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Ajay Devgan Manisha Koirala Sushmita Sen
Music by	Sukhwinder Singh
Cinematography	Ishwar Bidri
Edited by	Suresh Chaturvedi
Production company	Devgan Films
Release date	23 July 1999 (1999-07-23)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Hindustan Ki Kasam (English: Swear on India) is a 1999 Indian action film directed by Veeru Devgan and starring his son Ajay Devgan (in a dual role), Amitabh Bachchan, Manisha Koirala and Sushmita Sen. The film was an average grosser, despite taking a bumper opening. The film is now remembered for being the only Ajay Devgan film which has broken the opening day record in India.

A mother gives birth to twins. The twins' father was an Indian Army officer who died in war. Unfortunately, they are separated at the end of the war when their father was celebrating their recent success in a battle with Pakistan. One of the twins end up in the neighboring Pakistan and is brought up as a Muslim named Tauheed. He was brought up by a terrorist who told him that his mother had died in an attack of Indian army, while the other grows up as a Hindu named Ajay Malhotra. Ajay is a novelist.

The movie begins with a montage of India's diversity and the Wagah border ceremony, as a song describes India's agelessness, sanctity, patriotism, and the Partition of India.

A boy runs in a city with an Indian flag in his hand to celebrate India's 50th Independence Day. He gives it to his impatient father, who grabs the flag by the cloth. An old man kicks the flag off the father's hand, introduces himself as Kabira, and rebukes him for his lack of respect for India. He had lost his right arm. When the boy and several others applaud Kabira, Kabira tells them not to clap for him, but to be more active in loving their country and protecting it from attack. He asks them to say "Jai Hind", and they repeat and salute him.

A commander discusses his strategy to several military officers to stop Pakistan's attacks, by suggesting that evidence for Pakistan's terrorist activities should be collected and presented before the United Nations Organisation, which will then condemn Pakistan as a terrorist state. Meanwhile, a soldier hijacks a Pakistani aeroplane and tells the pilot (Aziz Kashmiri, an intelligence officer) to give to him a floppy disk. He and the pilot fight, and the pilot parachutes out of his aeroplane. The soldier jumps out of the airplane, and continues fighting the pilot in mid-air. He kills the pilot, retrieves the floppy disk, and uses the pilot's parachute to glide his way to the ground.