Viruddh (विरुद्ध) 2005

Published on April 25, 2015 in Cinema

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Banner	Amitabh Bachchan Corporation, Satyajeet Movies Pvt. Ltd.
Director	Mahesh Manjrekar
Writer	Mahesh Manjrekar
Producer	Amitabh Bachchan
Music Director	Anand Raj Anand, Roop Kumar Rathod, Bhavdeep Jaipurwale, Ashit Desai, Ajay Atul, Violin Brothers
Cinematography	Vijay Arora
Film Editing	Rahul Bhatawkar
Art Director	Priten Patil
Camera Operator
Assistant Cameramen	Asit Biswas
Playback Singers	Abida Parveen, Ajit Parab, Roop Kumar Rathod, Sunali Rathod, Jagjit Singh, Shankar Mahadevan

Character	Actor/Actress
Vidhyadar Ramkrishna Patwardhan	Amitabh Bachchan
Sumitra	Sharmila Tagore
Amar V. Patwardhan	John Abraham
Ali Asghar	Sanjay Dutt
Jenny Mayer	Anusha Dhandekar
Arora	Prem Chopra
Vidhadhar's friend	Sharat Saxena
Swati Chitnis	Beena Banerjee
Bharucha	Shivaji Satam
Police Inspector	Sachin Khedekar
Harshwardhan Kadam	Amitabh Dayal
Anderson (British Consultate)	Tom Alter
Asha	Tanvi Hegde
	Ninad Kamat
Politician	Viju Khote
Judge	Naresh Suri
Hawaldar	Rocky Verma
Special appearance	Bipasha Basu

The movie begins with Amar (John Abraham) narrating the story of his family and himself. Amar is the son of Vidyadhar (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sumitra Patwardhan (Sharmila Tagore), a middle class couple in India. Amar lives and works in London and he sends some of his salary to them. One day Amar returns home with Jenny Mayer (Anusha Dandekar), his girlfriend, and announces his intention to get married to her. Initially reluctant, his parents are pleased and happy for the two. One day, Amar goes out celebrating with his friends, whilst his parents and Jenny organise a surprise party for him.

Outside a pub, Amar witnesses a murder and, while trying to apprehend the killer, he gets mortally wounded in the fight. Amar succumbs in the hospital. The assailant is identified as Harshwardhan Kadam, son of a minister Kadam. Soon, the police start covering the case up. Amar is implicated in false charges of drug peddling. Witnesses and close friends of Amar too give false statements. The torture doesn't end there, as police try to implicate Jenny as his accompolice.

Vidyadhar decides that it is not good for Jenny to live there, especially since she is expecting Amar's child. Vidyadhar bails her out and implores her to return before she is locked up for good. Harshwardhan goes scot free meanwhile and Vidyadhar decides to seek justice on his own. Ali Asgar, a mechanic and an acquaintance of Patwardhan's, decides to help them. Soon, Ali succeeds in procuring a gun for Vidyadhar.

Vidyadhar decides to confront Harshwardhan in his own office. Harshwardhan cockily lets him enter in and starts taunting him. Vidyadhar accuses him and Harshwardhan arrongantly confesses his crimes, telling Vidyadhar that he cannot prove a thing. Vidyadhar points the gun at him, upon which Harshwardhan calls his guards. Vidyadhar guns down Harshwardhan and the guards enter in moments later Harshwardhan's dead body collapses down. Harshwardhan's head guard lets Vidyadhar go, claiming that he won't be able to look at his family in the eye if he arrests Vidyadhar.

A case stands up against Vidyadhar, where he reveals a pocket tape recorder on which the whole confession of Harshwardhan is recorded. Based on the proof, Amar is exonerated of all false charges levelled up against him. Vidyadhar is also set free. In an interview, Vidyadhar makes it clear that he doesn't intend to sue Kadam since his son has been killed and Vidyadhar knows the pain.

In the end, it is shown that Vidyadhar is living a happy life with Sumitra, Jenny, and his grandchild. Amar now explains that his father has always been a hero for him since childhood and he is feeling a little jealous of his daughter who is being treated with same affection with which Vidyadhar treated Amar in his childhood. The movie ends with Amar disappearing in light claiming now he can rest in peace.