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 Title
Shakti The Power
Cast Nana Patekar, Karishma Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan, Sanjay Kapoor;
Guest Aishwarya Rai
Director Krishna Wamsi
Genre Action
Year 2002
Nandini lives in a picturesque Suburb of Los Angeles, with her bachelor uncles,
who have dedicated their lives to bring her up in a sheltered, loving and
pampered environment, She is beautiful , loving and intelligent young lady,
though a trifle spoilt. Her uncles have established a moderately successful
department store, which keeps them economically completely secure.
Nandini meets and falls in love with Shekhar - a self made man, without a family
- Who's been in the US for six years. Nandini and Shekhar marry and soon have a
Kid.
Everything is perfect and happy for three years after their marriage, when one
day Shekhar comes upon a new item on TV about carnage in a village in Northern
India. He gets very agitated and reveals to Nandini that his mother may have
been hurt and wants to visit her for a few days. Nandini is very surprised that
he has a family, but insists on accompanying him to his village.
There she discovers that his family, headed by his charismatic, powerful and
extremely violent father. Narsimha has been at war with another family for
several generations. She is shocked and completely unnerved by this violent way
of life here. Since Shekhar's mother is fine she keeps insisting that they
should go back to their home in the US.
However, things take a nasty turn when a member of the enemy family is captured,
and then publicity beheaded in the courtyard of Shekhar's father Narsimha's
house. She is shocked beyond words. More that that, she is now very apprehensive
of the influences that may occur on her three-year old son to whom her
father-in-law is very attached. Out of this concern, she gets into a couple of
very intense confrontations with her father-in-law is very attached. Out of this
concern, she gets into a couple of very intense confrontations with her
father-in-law leading to a very intense situation within the family.
Unfortunately, her father-in-law is tricked by his politician associate into
sending Shekhar to meet the collector, and brutally murdered by the enemy
family. Nandini is heart-broken and wants to leave for the US immediately. But,
her father-in-law now insists on keeping her son with him.
She fights this decision, but to no avail, as he is strong and extremely
stubborn. So, she tries to escapes on her own. After two failures, she is locked
up in an outhouse. Fortunately, the women of the family are compassionate and
help her to escape with her son. Her father-in-law sends his men to track her
down and bring the grandson back.
When they manage to coner her on the outskirts of the town, a stranger
intervenes and saves her from them. He is a pretty bootlegger whose only
ambition in life is to go to Dubai and earn lots of dollars. She hires him with
all the dollars that she has to help her and her son reach airport. and protect
them from the goons.
Thus begins a dangerous and eventful journey, wherein the nameless bootlegger
escorts her protecting her from her father-in-law's men as well as the enemy
family who is also out to kill her son. Back in their house, upon seeing her
husband murderously plotting to destroy Nandini, her mother-in-law congronts him
and threatens to immolate herself if he persists in his intensions.
On the rough terrain, the enemy's goons catch up with Nandini. Just when it
seems as if she won't make it. the bootlegger manages to stop a train by
breaking the signal. He then single-handedly prevents the enemy goons from
attacking Nandini and her child, Finally he makes sure that Nandini and her
child escape in the train but ends up getting fatally injured by them. He dies
holding his dreams of dollars in his hands.
Just as Nandini reaches the airport and feels secure, to her utter dismay her
father-in-law lands up there. However he has a change of heart and he begs for
forgiveness from her. He pleads with her to bring her son i.e., his grandson to
perform his last rites when he dies. Blessing her, he leaves and Nandini makes
her way to the US with her son.
   
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