Narsimha (1991 film)

Narasimha नरसिंह
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	N. Chandra
Written by	N. Chandra Kamlesh Pandey (dialogues)
Starring	Sunny Deol Dimple Kapadia Urmila Matondkar
Music by	Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Cinematography	Binod Pradhan
Release date	5 July 1991
Running time	214 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Narasimha is a 1991 Bollywood Hindi Action Drama film starring Sunny Deol, Dimple Kapadia, Urmila Matondkar, Ravi Behl and Om Puri. The Film was Directed by N. Chandra and was a commercial success . The movie was debut movie for actor Ravi Behl and actress Urmila Matondkar though she appeared in movies like Bade Ghar Ki Beti in small role. Incidentally, both of them had appeared in many movies as child artiste.

Narasimha, a young and captive man, lives a middle class life with his family in a quiet neighborhood. He gets his beautiful sister married to an eligible young man in their vicinity. On the occasion of his sister giving birth, he returns home to find a communal conflict arise between his neighborhood which spreads in the whole city. He seeks refuge in a dwelling area nearby only to return and find out his whole family has been murdered. With no aim left in life Narsimha decides to turn to crime and alcohol. He later decides to work for a man called Suraj Narayan Singh aka Bapji who is a big goonlord and capitalist of the city and basically controls the law and order of the city and rules over it using muscle power and his immense wealth . Bapji was delighted to get hold of a man like Narsimha who has wits and also muscle power but has lost desire to live and hence Narsimha executes his most difficult works which others can't accomplish. Bapji believes that he has become invincible and nobody can dare protest him since he has the city under his complete subjugation. He considers Narsimha as a weapon which can unlock his most difficult problems and a Narsimha, who is completely dejected from life, accomplishes them without asking any questions. Narsimha remains drunk full day and only comes when summoned by Bapji to execute Bapji's assignments and receive his payments.

However all humanity is not lost in Narsimha and he occasionally helps out people in distress. But he remains drunk most of the time and leads life solely on the money provided by Bapji. Bapji openly declared to the city that since he is so powerful, influential and rich, hence nobody can kill him, not man or animal, neither by weapons nor any device, not in day neither in night, just like the Hindu Mythological Demon King Hiranyakshapu who had obtained the same boon from Lord Barmha after long penance. Hence Bapji asks the people of the city to consider him as their Lord since he completely controls the money and the goon force of the city and practically rules the city as per his own wish. But when Bapji asks Narsimha to kill a young boy named Ravi Rastogi for falling in love with his daughter, Meenu, Narasimha refuses.Witnessing the love of the young couple as well as the revolutionary honest character of Ravi's sister Anita, humanity rekindles again in Narsimha and he joins forces with Ravi and his sister, Anita to force Bapji to get the young couple married. Narsimha openly conflicts with Bapji as he is the only one smart and strong enough to take on Bapji and is aided by his few loyal friends and Anita.The conflict escalates to very large extent and Anita, with Narsimha's help, was successful in rousing local help and mob support against Bapji's Oppressive and illegal rule. Bapji tries all the tricks in book to curb this rising opposition using his goons, muscle men etc. but is thwarted everytime by Narsimha. Narsimha even kills Bapji's famous wrestlers in Bapji's private court in front of entire city and showed the whole city that Bapji was afraid for first time and hence they need not obey Bapji from now on. Bapji was later arrested by police due to his illegal activities after being pressurized by the people of the city led by Narsimha and Anita. While being taken by the police, Bapji was humiliated by the people of the city who were fed up with his long tyranny and oppression.However,later he gets released on bail using his money and employing the best lawyers.