Summaries

Violence against the guilty becomes the weapon of an independent filmmaker after his film becomes a victim of piracy before its official release.

Films are not just films, but something that reflect the brutal reality of the society and its people. Thus, a filmmaker is no less than a social worker. Vikas Kumar (Prashast Singh) works hard and makes an independent film, which soon becomes a victim of piracy. The film gets leaked online before its theatrical release, and shatters Vikas. Enraged, he devises a plan to find the one who pirated the film in front of him. He tracks, finds, and interrogates many. No one had any idea that pirating an independent filmmaker's film would trigger his violent and angry side. Apart from delivering a sharp and relevant message, BHAIYYAJAAN explores the psychology of a filmmaker's mind: how he struggles to make a film when no one supports him, and also when it comes to release the film. Filled with action and emotion, this independent film brings to light the struggles faced by an independent filmmaker, and of course, by his INDEPENDENT film as well.

Details

Keywords
  • gore
  • blood
  • extreme violence
  • interrogation
  • mercilessness
Genres
  • Action
  • Drama
Release date Jan 2, 1999
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) TV-MA
Countries of origin India
Official sites Official Twitter
Language Hindi
Filming locations Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 57m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

Vikas Kumar or Bhaiyyajaan (Prashast Singh) is an independent filmmaker who interrogates a man about how and why he got his film leaked, giving him various reasons for not having done so. Upon getting no reply, he crushes the man's finger with a stapler and beats him down. Later, he types a message to the actual person behind this under the name of Guna. While his work goes on, a police officer starts paying visit to his house almost on a regular basis, suspecting him of having kidnapped and killed the criminals. Vikas easily manages to avoid getting pinpointed and continues his work to catch the real conspirator. Then some light is thrown on his past: how a strange man entered, copied his film from his laptop and even injured Vikas with a hammer on his head when the latter attempted to stop him.

Vikas keeps remembering how good his life was when piracy didn't strike him. Another flashback shows how the news of his film's piracy spread like fire in the news, eventually ruining its essence apart from the distributor's resulting in backing off from the film's distribution. This fuels Vikas's rage and he decides to become a vigilante with a mission to not just destroy the conspirator but also to not let him ruin anyone else's films, ever.

Back to present, Vikas plays a tricky game with the distributor, eventually making him agree to distribute his next film. Now aware of Vikas's plan and surprisingly hiding in the former's house since long, the conspirator finally shows up and tries to strangulate Vikas with a USB cable. A major fight ensues in which Vikas further gets stabbed in his chest and faints, but soon wakes up and manages to stab the conspirator deep into his chest. Before raising a wooden scale, Vikas asks the conspirator one last time "Why did you leak my film?" He continues to speak his heart out about his views on film piracy and his struggles as an independent filmmaker. But getting no answer, Vikas finds it unable to control himself and ends up killing the conspirator brutally with the wooden scale by hitting him very hard on his head, multiple times.

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