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A poetic romance between ishaan (Ajay Devgan) and Suman (Tabu) set against
the concrete Bombay cityscape, opens the film Ishaan, the only son of an
affluent business family and Sunny, the grandson of the head of the business
house, are being groomed to take over the work. They share a strong male
bonding, Ishaan's controlled & silent strength an anchor to Sunny's flamboyant
and recklessly violent streak. The business, a construction empire built by
Ishaan's father Nahar Singh and Sunny's grandfather is rotted in violent and
unlawful activities. Ishaan, sheltered in comfort and security, begins to
question his environment as his relationship with Suman, and idealistic young
woman, opens a new world to him. As his love for her grows, so does his fear of
losing her. Ishaan is caught between a life steeped in violence and his love for
Suman who abhors violence. Torn by his desire to leave the world of crime and a
sense of loyalty to his father and his friend Sunny, Ishaan unwillingly gets
drawn deeper into violence, and finds himself a participant in an act of
gruesome cold-blooded massacre. His quite but firm resolve to withdraw from the
business clashes with Nahar Singh's pragmatism, to build power at any cost and
to legalize crime with that power and with Sunny's refusal to release him from
his oath of loyalty. The events escalate with Ishaan's arrest, and Nahar Singh's
murder. Ishaan is finally forced to make a choice between personal loyalty and a
larger allegiance to Society and Truth. Thakshak is a story about an individual
caught in the eternal moral conflict, a choice between personal relationship and
social responsibility. This conflict is manifest in Ishaan's character in the
film who symbolizes the youth of today, caught in a web of personal
relationships, their apathy to social responsibility, he is backoned to look
beyond his own world by the idealistic Suman. Her love gives |
Title
Thakshak 
