Chhote Sarkar is a 1996 Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 romantic drama film directed by Vimal Kumar and written by S. Khan. The film starred Govinda

Govinda (actor)

Govinda is a Filmfare award-winning Indian actor and politician. He has appeared in over 120 Hindi language films. At the start of his career, his acting and dancing skills gained him widespread attention among film viewers. He later gained worldwide fame as a Bollywood icon through comedy films...

 and Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty is an Indian film actress and model. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar , she has appeared in nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading role being in the 1994 Aag. Although she has been through years of decline during her career, Shetty has been...

. It premiered on 22 November 1996.

Plot summary

Amar Saxena (Govinda

Govinda (actor)

Govinda is a Filmfare award-winning Indian actor and politician. He has appeared in over 120 Hindi language films. At the start of his career, his acting and dancing skills gained him widespread attention among film viewers. He later gained worldwide fame as a Bollywood icon through comedy films...

) is a businessman, and the Managing Director of prestigious Khaitan Fans Ltd., India. One day while leaving from a board meeting, he meets a beggar named Jagmohan, who calls him Rohit, and asks him to return home to his ill wife, Seema. Amar denies being Rohit, but feels sorry for him and gives him some money

Money

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, which Jagmohan declines to accept. Curious at his refusal, Amar offers to help. He visits the hospital

Hospital

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 and gets to meet Seema, and ends up falling in love with her. What he does not know that Jagmohan and Seema are plainclothes police

Police

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 officers, who have been assigned to arrest him for the murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

 of Ram Kumar Saxena, Amar's uncle

Uncle

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. Using his wits, Amar manages to convince the Court that he is of unsound mind, and thus escapes being imprisoned, and ends up in an asylum

Psychiatric hospital

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. From here Amar must figure out who has framed him for a murder he did not commit, and why Seema and Jagmohan were so intent to incriminate him.

Cast

• Govinda
  Govinda (actor)
  Govinda is a Filmfare award-winning Indian actor and politician. He has appeared in over 120 Hindi language films. At the start of his career, his acting and dancing skills gained him widespread attention among film viewers. He later gained worldwide fame as a Bollywood icon through comedy films...
  
   .... Amar/Rohit
• Shilpa Shetty
  Shilpa Shetty
  Shilpa Shetty is an Indian film actress and model. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar , she has appeared in nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading role being in the 1994 Aag. Although she has been through years of decline during her career, Shetty has been...
  
   .... Inspector Seema
• Aruna Irani
  Aruna Irani
  Aruna Irani is an Indian actress. An accomplished actress and dancer of her time, Aruna Irani has acted in about 300 movies, with many memorable acting performances to her credit...
  
  .... Amar's aunt
• Sadashiv Amrapurkar
  Sadashiv Amrapurkar
  Sadashiv Amrapurkar is a popular actor who is well known for his performances in Marathi and Hindi films in the 1980s and 90s.He received the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role in 1991 for Sadak — the first time the award was instituted...
  
   .... Dr. Khanna
• Tej Sapru
• Kader Khan
  Kader Khan
  Kader Khan is an Indian film actor, comedian, script and dialogue writer. He graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Mumbai University .-Early life:...
  
   .... Commissioner Jagmohan
• Divya Dutta
  Divya Dutta
  Divya Dutta is an Indian actress from Ludhiana, Punjab, India who appears in Hindi and Punjabi films.- Career :She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana...
  
   .... Meena
• Aashif Sheikh
  Aashif Sheikh
  Aashif Sheikh in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is an Indian film actor.He has acted alongside Shilpa Shetty in a number of films including Chhote Sarkar , Auzaar , Pardesi Babu and Shah Rukh Khan in Army , Karan Arjun and Zamaana Deewana and Divya Dutta in Ishq Mein Jeena Ishq Mein...
  
   .... Lobo (as Aasif Shiekh)
• Avtar Gill
  Avtar Gill
  Avtar Gill is a Canadian darts player.Gill was runner up in the 1986 Canada National Championships losing to Bob Sinnaeve in the final. Gill played in the 1987 World Professional Darts Championship, losing in the first round 3-1 in sets to Belgium's Frans Devooght.-External links:*...
  
   .... Ram Kumar Saxena
• Dinesh Hingoo
  Dinesh Hingoo
  Dinesh Hingoo, born Dinesh Hingorani, is a Bollywood actor who has played mainly comic roles.Hingoo, who has appeared in about 296 films, from Taqdeer to Be Careful , is known for his unique laughter and Parsee accent...
  
   .... Army Officer
• Guddi Maruti
• Yunus Parvez
  Yunus Parvez
  Yunus Parvez was a Bollywood character actor who played supporting roles in over 200 films from the late 1960s to the 2000s. He appeared in the 1996 film Chhote Sarkar.He died on 11 February 2007 at the age of 75...
  
  
• Mehmood Jr. .... Asylum inmate (as Jr. Mehmood)
• Mahesh Gupta
• Gur Bachchan Singh (as Gurbachan)