Dayavan is a September 1988 Hindi remake of the very famous Tamil movie called Nayagan

Nayagan

Nayagan is a Indian film, written, directed, and co-produced by Mani Ratnam which released on 21 October 1987 coinciding with Diwali. Upon release, the film got rave reviews across India. Kamal Hassan's performance as Velu Naiker earned him a National Film Award for Best Actor. The film also...

, which starred Kamal Hasan. The movie starred Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna

-Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...

, Feroz Khan

Feroz Khan

Feroz Khan was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry...

 and Madhuri Dixit

Madhuri Dixit

Madhuri Dixit is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi films. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she established herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses and most accomplished dancers. She appeared in numerous commercially successful films and was recognised for several of...

 in lead roles and was directed by Feroz Khan

Feroz Khan

Feroz Khan was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry...

. The film had a famous kissing and bathing scene between Madhuri and Vinod.

Plot

After having witnessed his dad being killed by the local South Indian police, and being orphaned and homeless, Shakti Velhu develops a hate, and distrust of the police in India. He is befriended by another homeless boy named Shanker, who asks him to accompany him to Bombay's slumlands, where they live with a kind-hearted Muslim named Karim Baba, and his daughter, Shama. This is where Shakti and Shankar spend their childhood. When they mature, they take to petty crime. Here too, Shakti witnesses police brutality and atrocities, especially at the hands of sadistic, alcoholic, and womanizing Police Inspector Ratan Singh. When Karim Baba is arrested, jailed, and found hanging by his neck in police custody, Shakti hunts down Ratan Singh, and kills him in broad daylight in front of the several hundred people. An investigation is launched, but no one comes forward as a witness. Thus Shakti gets his reputation as a Don with a good heart viz. Dayavan. Shakti marries local prostitute, Neelu, and has two children, Suraj and Sarita. He becomes even more powerful and influential all over Bombay, and his working partners are powerful criminal dons who have ruled over Bombay for eons. Shakti eventually replaces these dons, and becomes Bombay's only Don. This creates enemies for him and his family, but he believes since he has not really done any harm to anyone, he and his family will be safe. It is this belief that will take a heavy toll on his life and that of his family, when the truth dawns that he, himself, is responsible for being kind to a man, who will ultimately bring forward ruin to the Velhu family.

Cast

• Vinod Khanna
  Vinod Khanna
  -Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...
  
   .... as Shakti Vellu aka Dayavan
• Feroz Khan
  Feroz Khan
  Feroz Khan was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry...
  
   .... as Shanker
• Madhuri Dixit-Nene .... as Neelu
• Amrish Puri
  Amrish Puri
  Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
  
   .... Inspector Ratan Singh
• Anjan Shrivastava .... Superintendent of Police
• Aditya Pancholi
  Aditya Pancholi
  Aditya Pancholi is an Indian film actor working in Hindi Cinema. Aditya has also proved his worth in many villainous roles as well, the recent being Dum Maro Dum. His performance in Yes Boss and the double role in Jung was very well received.-Early life:He's the son of the filmmaker Rajan...
  
   .... Dayavan's Son in Law
• Amala
  Amala
  Amala is a given name in India. It may also refer to:* Amala , a South Indian actress* Amala and Kamala, two girls discovered in 1920, who were raised by wolves in India* Amala , a West African meal...
  
   .... Sarita
• Anuradha Patel
  Anuradha Patel
  -Early life:She was born in Mumbai. She is the maternal grand daughter of famous Hindi actor Ashok Kumar.-Personal life:She is married to actor Kanwaljit Singh. They have two sons Sidharth and Aaditya and a god-daughter, Mariam, who resides in the United States....
  
   .... Shama
• Aruna Irani
  Aruna Irani
  Aruna Irani is an Indian actress. An accomplished actress and dancer of her time, Aruna Irani has acted in about 300 movies, with many memorable acting performances to her credit...
  
   ... Tara
• Huma Khan .... Dancer
• Tinnu Anand
  Tinnu Anand
  Tinnu Anand is an Indian actor and director from Bollywood, who is most known as the director of Amitabh Bachchan's movies including, Kaalia , Shahenshah , Main Azaad Hoon and Major Saab .He is the son of veteran writer Inder Raj Anand and uncle of director Siddharth Anand.Anand recently...
  
   .... Ratan Singh's Son
• Ramya Krishna
• Alok Nath
  Alok Nath
  Alok Nath is an Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood movies. He is most notable for playing the role of Haveli Ram in Ramesh Sippy's television series, Buniyaad.-Early life:...
  
   .... Karim Baba
• Naresh Suri .... Tora Swami