Tahalka

Tahalka तहलका
Promotional poster
Directed by	Anil Sharma
Produced by	K. C. Sharma
Written by	Anil Sharma
Starring	Dharmendra Naseeruddin Shah Aditya Pancholi Javed Jaffrey Amrish Puri
Music by	Anu Malik
Release date	7 August 1992 (1992-08-07)
Running time	167 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹10.25 crore (US$1.5 million)

Tahalka is a 1992 Bollywood action film directed by Anil Sharma and featuring an ensemble cast including Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Aditya Pancholi, Javed Jaffrey, Amrish Puri, Mukesh Khanna, Ekta Sohini, Pallavi Joshi, Sonu Walia, Shikha Swaroop and Firdaus Dadi in her acting debut. The film was the fifth highest grosser of 1992 and was declared a semi-hit by Box Office India.

General Dong (Amrish Puri) is an evil dictator of a kingdom called Dongrila. He has kidnapped dozens of school girls and plans to use them as suicide bombers to bomb populated areas in India. He even puts some girls into the personal harem, pushing the remaining ones into prostitution and trafficks their limbs and organs for money. He is also responsible for murdering the chief of Indian army, General Sinha (Parikshit Sahani). One day, while out for a seaside trip with his daughter, Major Krishna Rao, a General in the Indian Army, happens to notice an island with his daughter and they find a schoolgirl escaping someone. they try to take her on the boat, but she dies. Then leaving dolly with his trusted servant, Major Rao himself creeps forward and sees dong ordering his men to do away with those kids. He calls dong a clown and other names, and overpowers him, though getting a bullet in his arm in the process. Making all the girls board the two boats, he takes dong tied up on board, but then dong's men come and having kidnapped dolly, they free dong from the chamber. Dong warns major rao to come to dongrila and rescue his daughter within the next year i.e., 12 months from that very day. He chants an eerie verse and cuts off one of Krishna Rao's legs, thus making him handicapped.

Krishna Rao recruits the best Indian army officers Captain Ranvir (Naseeruddin Shah), Captain Rakesh (Aditya Pancholi), Captain Javed (Javed Jaffrey), Captain Anju ([Ekta Sohoni]) and former disgraced Major Dharam Singh (Dharmendra). Then he somehow makes Shammi Kapoor, the second senior general and Mr. Iyer, the committee chairman to agree to his plan. They agree on the condition that Krishna' team's victory would be a national victory, but their defeat will be a personal issue. Then Krishna Rao's team starts their journey and they go on a perilous journey between the borders of China and India to rescue Dolly as well as dozens of school girls held in Dong's captive and destroy Dong's kingdom of Dong-rila.