In times where we see how a middle class family from Delhi gets embroiled unceremoniously into the murder of their own daughter, the real life story of the Aarushi Talwar murder case in the movie Talvar; where a Netflix show – ‘Making a Murderer’ – shows the story of Steven Avery, an American man who served 18 years of his time in a false sexual assault case and was sentenced again for life imprisonment for the murder of a photographer Teresa Halback, we know that no one is safe in this society. And the law can bite you on your ass like a rabid dog even if in the farthest possibility there is no apparent connection of yours with the incident. This dystopia was portrayed even long ago and such stories are reminiscent of the 1990s, when the Sunny Deol starrer Ghayal came out. Ghayal was a fictional story of a young boxer who faces the most redoubtable adversary in a potent concoction of business treachery, dirty political tricks and law ineptness. Ghayal means ‘wounded’ in English, which indicates that Ajay Mehra, the family man, the good guy, a law abiding citizen is wounded by the terrible circumstances he’s been implicated in. He is not down and out; he is just waiting for the right moment to strike back. Not only does he gets charged with the murder of his brother played by Raj Babbar but is also blamed of having an illicit relationship with his sister-in-law played by Moushumi Chatterjee.
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