is able to defuse three bombs, but the fourth explodes—without injuring anyone—before they could reach it. Chauhan uses this success against Shivaji by blaming him for the bomb. Seeing no way out, Shivaji summons Chauhan to the secretariat and creates a situation such that it would seem as if Chauhan was there to shoot Shivaji but failed. To do so, Shivaji takes up a gun, points it to his arm, shoots himself on purpose, and then hands over the gun to Chauhan. The enraged Chauhan attempts to shoot Shivaji, but his shot misses. The security guards shoot down Chauhan and kill him. Apart from that, Manjari's father also comes to realise that Shivaji is a great man who sees duty before everything else and allows Manjari to marry him. The film ends with the state developing under the governance of Shivaji. Cast Anil Kapoor as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad Rani Mukerji as Manjari Ghatge Amrish Puri as Balraj Chauhan Paresh Rawal as Bansal Shroff Johnny Lever as Topi Pooja Batra as Laila Saurabh Shukla as Pandurang Shivaji Satam as Manjari's father Raja Krishnamoorthy as Bhim Rao Gaekwad Neena Kulkarni as Mrs. Gaekwad Rana Jung Bahadur as Kumar Vishal Anupam Shyam as Hemant Mishra Ahmed Khan and Sushmita Sen made special appearances in the song "Shakalaka Baby". Production Nayak: The Real Hero serves as a remake of S. Shankar's 1999 Tamil-language film Mudhalvan, and was the director's first venture in Bollywood. The debut, announced in June 2000, was produced by A. M. Rathnam under the banner of Sri Surya Movies (his second Hindi film after that of Tejasvini, released in 1994), and addressed the issue of corruption in India. According to Shankar, he was motivated to remake Mudhalvan in Hindi because of its subject and did several changes to the original story. In an interview with Filmfare in August 2001, he said that he believed that the topic is well known among Indian people. Anurag Kashyap wrote the dialogue. The role of Shivaji was originally going to be played by Aamir Khan, but Shankar did not cast him, explaining, "... the two of us faced a huge communication gap. His views about [Mudhalvan] didn't match mine." The next actor suggested was Shah Rukh Khan. However, he did not want to play the role after portraying a television presenter in his home production, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000). Shankar's final choice was