Ziddi () is a 1997 Indian action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa, starring Sunny Deol and Raveena Tandon. It follows a short-tempered and stubborn Deva, who is feared because of his ruthless ways and severe punishment to the local hoodlums and later avenges the death of his siblings. It went on to become one of the biggest Bollywood hits of 1997, grossing Rs 292.5 million (US$5.4 million) at the box office. The film was remade in Tamil as Dharma, starring Vijayakanth.The 1998 Kannada movie One Man Army was an unofficial adaptation of this movie. The film also was remade in Bangladeshi in 1998 as Shanto Keno Mastan, starring Manna, Shahnaj and Humayun Faridi, directed by Montajur Rahman Akbar. Plot Deva (Sunny Deol), an angry young man, lives with his widower father advocate lawyer Ashok Pradhan (Anupam Kher), brother Akash (Sachin Khedekar) and sister Guddi (Richa Ahuja). He is greatly vigilant about the well-being of his family – an intrinsic reason of his fury and stubbornness. One day a man named Vilas tries to molest Guddi and forcefully grabs her hand. Deva, in a fit of extreme rage, rips off the hand of the man. Deva is arrested, and is sent to jail for 4 years. After his liberation from jail, Deva with his henchmen form a tribunal of justice called "Deva Ki Adaalat", where he punishes the evil-doers, mostly the tyrants over the poor. Soon, Deva's name is filed as one of the top four criminals of the city, the other three being Jindaal (Raj Babbar), Laal Singh (Shahbaz Khan) and Khan (Sharat Saxena). These three men are in an effort to do away with Deva, who acts as an impediment to their illegal activities. Asst. Commissioner of Police Inder Saxena (Ashish Vidyarthi) has a genial relationship with Deva and his family, but is secretly planning to apprehend and punish him under legal task, in case adequate evidences are gathered by police against Deva. Concurrently, a club dancer Jaya (Raveena Tandon) falls for Deva. In due course of time, Inder marries Guddi. One day, Akash stops at a building under construction erected by "Laal Builders" to deliver some goods. Incidentally, at the top floor of the building he eavesdrops the three crime bosses - Jindaal, Laal Singh and Khan devising an evil plot to kill the CM (Virendra Saxena) and frame Deva for the murder. In great panic, Akash flees