Taarzan: The Wonder Car
Taarzan: The Wonder Car, or simply called Taarzan, is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language supernatural action thriller film directed by Abbas–Mustan. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Vatsal Sheth and Ayesha Takia, while Farida Jalal, Pankaj Dheer, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Gulshan Grover and Mukesh Tiwari play supporting roles. Upon release, the film was a box office disaster but gained popularity among children and television audiences. It is loosely based on the American film Christine (1983). This also marked the debut of Ayesha Takia. Ayesha Takia won the Filmfare Best Debut Award. Plot
Automobile engineer Deven Chaudhary (Ajay Devgn), who lives with his mother Suhasini (Farida Jalal) and ten-year-old son Raj, builds a futuristic car with advanced features. He names this design as DC (Dilip Chhabria) . He also owns and maintains an older Morris Minor car that was handed down to him by his late father that he calls "Taarzan", based on the car's mirror ornament that resembles Edgar Rice Burroughs character Tarzan. Deven meets FourFox, a private company to discuss his design. FourFox executive Rakesh Kapoor (Pankaj Dheer) and his partners Kailash Chopra (Mukesh Tiwari), Anthony D'Costa (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) and Mahesh Saxena (Shakti Kapoor) praise the design but disagree over royalties. However, they steal the design and registered it under their own name. This infuriates Deven and he files a complaint with the police. However, the police inspector Sanjay Sharma (Deepak Shirke) who takes his case is secretly on Rakesh's payroll. He, along with Rakesh and his cronies, attack Deven, gag him and lock him in his car. The car is pushed into a river, causing a gagged Deven to die. Twelve years later, his son Raj (Vatsal Sheth), now a 22-year-old boy goes to college where he falls in love with Priya (Ayesha Takia), a rich girl. Raj also works as a part-time mechanic at a garage owned by Kartar Singh (Amrish Puri). One day, he discovers his father's older car Taarzan. He pools money and buys it at 5000 rupees. Raj works with Kartar Singh to repair and upgrade the car in memory of his father. They revamp the car into a more advanced version than Deven's original design, and Raj decides to rename it DC to honor his father's memory. Deven's spirit possesses the car and controls it to seek revenge on his murderers. When Rakesh is abroad, Deven's spirit uses the car to kill his cronies Kailash, Anthony, Mahesh and the police inspector Sanjay. Since the car belongs to Raj, he becomes a suspect in the eyes of Inspector Khurana (Gulshan Grover), the investigating officer. When Rakesh returns to India and learns all his partners have died. Rakesh is revealed to be Priya's father and meets Raj on her insistence. After knowing Raj is Deven's son, Rakesh assumes that Raj has found the truth and is using Priya as a pawn. He decides to kill Raj and take Priya back with him to London and get Priya married to a man of his choice. Raj is shocked as Rakesh tells him the truth about Deven's death. Before Rakesh could kill Raj, Deven's spirit appears and saves Raj. Terrified, Rakesh confesses his crime before everyone. Inspector Khurana arrests Rakesh. Deven says his last goodbye to Suhasini and Raj. With Raj, Suhasini and Priya united, Deven's spirit becomes free, and he ascends to heaven. Raj and Priya live a happy life afterwards. 