Maharaja is a 1998 Indian film directed by Anil Sharma

Anil Sharma

-Biography:He made his directional debut with Shradhanjali with Raakhee Gulzar. He had directed several unsuccessful and unnoticed films in the early 1980s before he started also to produce films with Elaan-E-Jung which was also directed by him and became the first production film of his to become...

. It tells the story of Kohinoor (Govinda

Govinda (actor)

Govinda is a Filmfare award-winning Indian actor and politician. He has appeared in over 120 Hindi language films. At the start of his career, his acting and dancing skills gained him widespread attention among film viewers. He later gained worldwide fame as a Bollywood icon through comedy films...

) who was forced from his kingdom as a child who returns 20 years later to reclaim his rightful place. He had lived in the Himalayas for 20 years because Ranvir Singh had murdered his whole family. The family's former maid's son Ali (Raj Babbar

Raj Babbar

Raj Babbar is a Hindi & Punjabi film actor since 1977 and the current Member of Parliament from Firozabad which he won by defeating Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav & daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav. This is his fourth term as MP, in previous terms he was the part of Samajwadi...

) tells him the truth about his past. From then on, Kohinoor seeks to kill Ranvir. The film ends showing Kohinoor succeeding in killing Ranvir, thus avenging the death of his family and uniting with his ladylove Shaili played by Manisha Koirala

Manisha Koirala

Manisha B. Koirala is a Nepali-Indian actress who works in Indian films, as well as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist. Koirala has primarily worked in Hindi cinema, though she has appeared in several Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films as well...

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