Aaj Ka Ravan (transl. Today's Devil) is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Imran Khalid and produced by Surendra Srivastava.^[1] It is a revenge drama, with Mithun Chakraborty in the lead role. The film was released on 29 September 2000.^[2]

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Aaj Ka Ravan
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Directed by	Imran Khalid
Written by	Tanveer Durrani (dialogues)
Story by	Khalid
Produced by	Surendra Srivastava
Starring	Mithun Chakraborty
Cinematography	Ashok Rao
Edited by	Sundar Moliya
Music by	Pappu Pawan Shaheen Shyam Anuragi (lyrics)
Production company	Suchitra Art Enterprises
Release date	29 September 2000 (2000-09-29)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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A journalist who is investigating arms deals and other crimes against the state is shot and killed, so Shanti, who is also a journalist, swears that she will bring the culprit Vishtar Nath to justice. One night Shanti gets molested, but a man, Shankar comes to her rescue. She tells him everything and makes him her brother by tying a Raakhee.

One day Shanti gives Shankar a roll of film which implicates Vishtar Nath directly in his illegal arms deals. Shankar immediately takes the roll of film to the police commissioner who subsequently destroys it and gets Shankar arrested for having RDX in his car by a rogue and despicable police inspector. Shankar is beaten black and blue back at the police station and then in the guise of giving him bail is told he can leave.

As he leaves the police station he is confronted by rogue police officers and Nath's men, tied up and is shot several times and left for dead. He is saved by Shanti, but then he gets attacked in the hospital by Nath's goon Bakra. Shankar beats him mercilessly and kills him brutally. This is witnessed by inspector Vikram who tells him that he a "Raavan" (A Devil), and that he is now a killer.

Shankar says he has tried being an angel and a law abiding citizen, but got nothing except humiliation and death threats- so now he is going to be the devil and take down the underworld kingpin Nath. The rest of the film depicts how Shankar takes down the underworld singlehandedly with inspector Vikram hot on his trail, who also loves his sister Shanti.

In all this time taking down the underworld and killing the bad guys, Shankar also has time for falling in love, singing and dancing with his love interest Mona.

• Mithun Chakraborty as Shankar
• Gajendra Chauhan as A.C.P. Rathore
• Siddharth Dhawan as Inspector Vikram Singh
• Mohan Joshi as Vishdhar Nath
• Shakti Kapoor
• Shalini Kapoor as Ramkali
• Kasam Ali as Babbar Bakhra
• Javed Khan
• Mushtaq Khan as Gul Gulewala (Gullu Malwani)
• Indira Krishnan as Shanti
• Vinod Kulkarni as Subhash
• Meenakshi as Mona
• Anil Nagrath as Khilawan
• Master Rashid as Munna — Subhash & Saraswathi's son
• Tej Sapru as Inspector Raman Khatri
• O.P. Sharma
• Ashok Verma
• Zubeda as Saraswathi — Subhash's wife

1. "Haathon Ki Mehendi" - Udit Narayan, Vibha Sharma
2. "Ho Raja Khele Mera Paan Chaila" - Vinod Rathod, Madhushree
3. "Jaane Jaa Janam Tu Janeman" - Babul Supriyo, Kavita Krishnamurthy
4. "Khanka Re Khanka Khangana" - Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal
5. "Khidki Khule Ya Band" - Babul Supriyo, Poornima
6. "Ladki Tu Kamal Hai" - Vinod Rathod

Fullhyd.com gave the film 1 star out of 10, calling the direction non-existent and the music, terrible.^[3]