Thar

Year: 2022

Actors: Harshvardhan Kapoor, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Anushka Kaushik

Duration: 108 min

In 1985, Siddharth Kumar (Harshvardhan Kapoor), a mysterious antique dealer, travels through Munabao, a remote Rajasthani village situated in the Thar desert near the Pakistan border, that has been rocked recently by violent killings. Dacoits have stolen drugs from a storage house in the guise of stealing dowry from a wedding home. Dacoits kill the mom and dad (Babulal), while the daughter Babita was having sex with her lover in a nearby field. She rushes to her house upon hearing shots and sees the Dacoits fleeing in their jeeps. A man is found lynched nearby and it seems he was also killed by Dacoits. The lynched man is named Suva. Police Inspector Surekha finds drugs in Suva's purse.Siddharth has come to Munabao in search for a man named Panna (Jitendra Joshi), saying that he has work for him in the city, which pays good money. Search for Panna takes Siddharth to a house where he meets his wife Chetna (Fatima Sana Shaikh) and is attracted to her. Panna's brother Dhanna and his wife Gauri (Mukti Mohan) lives next door to Chetna.As Inspector of Munabao, Surekha Singh (Anil Kapoor), investigates these killings, when he crosses paths with Siddharth. Bhure (Satish Kaushik) is Surekha's constable. Arjun Singh (Akshay Oberoi) is the local aristocrat and looks down upon Surekha, who could never progress beyond being a simple inspector. Surekha's wife wants Surekha to be safe at all costs, even if the cost is him not being promoted beyond Inspector for his entire career.Panna returns and is told that his friend Suva has been lynched. Panna finds out about Siddharth meeting Chetna in his absence and beats Chetna up. Siddharth meets Panna and says he wants hire him, Dhanna and his friend Kanwar for making idols. Panna warns him to stay away from Chetna and agrees to work for him at a premium. Siddharth takes Panna and Kanwar to an isolated ruin and captures them both. He tortures Panna & Kanwar to a slow death. At night he goes back to Chetna and says Panna has gone to the city for supplies and has asked him to stay at his place by paying rent for a room.Surekha interrogates Babita and finds that she had seen the Dacoits escaping and identified one of them as a man from the neighboring village. Surekha travels to the village with Bhure and are attacked by the Dacoits in their jeeps. Surekha and Bhure manage to kill 2 men and destroy their jeep. Dacoit Hanif Khan (Rahul Singh) watches the proceedings from afar. He sends a warning to Surekha, vowing to kill him and his son. Surekha investigates and finds that Hanif Khan is a Pakistani and served in its army. Babulal was his agent in India. Babulal betrayed Hanif by selling drugs by himself. This is why Hanif killed Babulal.Surekha visits Panna's home where Chetna informs him that Panna has gone to Delhi for work and that his employer Siddharth is staying in the house, by paying rent. Siddharth says he is an antiques dealer and is in the area to source merchandise. Dhanna returns to the village. Siddharth continues to brutally torture Panna and Kanwar, just like Suva was tortured before he was lynched. Siddharth lures Dhanna with the same deal as Panna and takes him to the same ruin and starts torturing him.To torture them further, he attached a bucket with a rat in it to their body. With the bloody brutality that unfolded at the fort, Siddharth started to live in Panna's house as a tenant, lying to Chetna that her husband wished for it. As her husband cried for help in the abandoned fort, Chetna felt an affection for the outsider. As they made love, Dhanna managed to free himself and escape from the fort though because of immense blood loss, he collapsed on the ground.The next morning, Siddharth dragged Dhanna's body back inside, but he noticed a little boy witnessing the whole incident. As he followed him, the boy lost control of his step and fell into a pit, where he was severely injured. The police followed the track, but they were soon attacked by Hanif Khan and his men as they believed that the police were after them. Meanwhile, Dhanna's wife Gauri noticed the growing proximity between Siddharth and Chetna, and she feared for her husband. She went to the police and confessed the truth.Dhanna and Suva had bought lands ten months back where they started growing opium, but they kept it a secret from Panna and Kanwar. Surekha Singh searched the farm that they had bought and found a letter sent from the address that he had previously seen on Siddharth's driving license. He realized that they were all linked. Panna, Kanwar, and Dhanna, had entered Siddharth's house in Delhi after being called by Suva. Suva worked there, and he called his friends to steal the valuables from the house, though they were interrupted when his wife Cheryl (Mandana Karimi) entered. Startled by the sudden emergence of the wife, the four men grabbed hold of her, but what followed was inhuman torture. They forced themselves on his wife and mutilated her body. When Siddharth entered the house, he saw his wife lying lifeless on the floor. Her face was unrecognizable from the hours of torture by the beastly men. That was when he decided to seek revenge. He had a diary in which he planned in detail the way he would carry out his revenge plan. The police found the diary in his room (In Chetna's house) and noticed that he had mentioned a fort for the execution of the plan, so the police tracked it down. Meanwhile Siddharth had told Chetna that he was leaving, and she decided to go with him. On the way to the fort, Siddharth shows Cheryl's photos to Chetna, but she still doesn't understand.Just when the police (Surekha and his men) reached the fort, Hanif Khan and his men started attacking them. Surekha lost his men in the attack, and he was shot in the leg by Hanif, though he managed to shoot Hanif in the end. As he reached the fort, he found Siddharth burning the body of Panna in front of Chetna. He shared with her the shameful deeds of her husband. When Surekha asked him to give up, Chetna shot Siddharth in the chest. The revenge had finally come to an end. After 6 months, we are told that Chetna is pregnant with Siddharth's child. Even though he died, the brutal incident will forever remain etched in her heart as she now carries his child. Chetna was not arrested by the police since all those who acted against the law were killed. In the end, Surekha gives Chetna a lift in his jeep.

Genre: Action   Crime   Drama   Thriller   Western