Hatya

Hatya (translation: Murder) is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and produced by Kirti Kumar. Released on 3 June 1988, the film stars an ensemble cast of Govinda, Neelam, Sujitha, Anupam Kher, Babu Antony, Om Shivpuri, Raj Kiran, Johnny Lever and Satyen Kappu. This film is a remake of Malayalam film Poovinu Puthiya Poonthennal (1986) which was remade into five other languages - in Tamil as Poovizhi Vasalile (1987), in Telugu as Pasivadi Pranam (1987), in Kannada as Aapadbandhava, in Bangladeshi as Khotipuron and in Sinhalese as Veda Barinam Vedak Nehe. Hatya (1988) was a hit at the box office. Hatya was mainly adapted from the Telugu remake of the original Malyalam one because of the differences between the Telugu version and Malyalam version and Hatya (1988) has the same differences that existed in the Telugu remake.

==Plot== On a dark night, an infant boy and his widowed mother, Meena, witness a disabled businessman, Surendra Mohan, and his henchman, Ranjeet, committing the murder of Surendra Mohan's manager, Mohan. As a result, Meena too is brutally stabbed to death by Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet, who proceed to throw Mohan's dead body in the sea, but the boy escapes from the criminals after witnessing the traumatic event. Sagar is a wealthy, but depressed young man, who has turned into an alcoholic as well as a street performer after the tragic deaths of his wife, Sheela, and their newborn son, Raja. After a night of consuming much alcohol, he comes across the same boy sleeping near a waste container on the streets. Being a kind-hearted person, Sagar takes the boy home and names him Raja after his late son, but continues to drink. He attempts to nurture Raja as his own son and is heartbroken when a doctor declares that he is deaf-mute by birth. Meanwhile, Raja sees both Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet several times in the city and unsuccessfully tries to inform Sagar in sign language that they are his mother's murderers. Soon, Surendra Mohan and Ranjeet learn about this development, as well as that Mohan's dead body has been recovered from the sea by Inspector Ashok Gupta. In order to cover up their crime, they keep trying to kill Raja and are nearly successful one night when Sagar is heavily drunk. However, Sagar saves Raja at the last moment and decides to quit drinking after the incident.