Yateem is a 1988 Indian action romance drama film directed by J. P. Dutta. The movie stars Sunny Deol, Farha Naaz, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Danny Denzongpa and Amrish Puri. The film was a major hit at the box office.^[2]

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Yateem
Directed by	J. P. Dutta
Screenplay by	J.P. Dutta
Story by	J.P. Dutta
Produced by	Bikram Singh Dahal
Starring	Sunny Deol Farha Naaz Danny Denzongpa Amrish Puri
Cinematography	Ishwar R. Bidri
Music by	Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Release date	2 December 1988 (1988-12-02)
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹3.10 crore (equivalent to ₹100 crore or US$12 million in 2024)[1]

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Yateem revolves around a police officer Shiv Kumar Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a widower, who adopts a bandit's son after killing the brigand in an encounter. The orphan is named Krishna (Sunny Deol) and while Yadav tries to raise him as his own son, Yadav's mother (Dina Pathak) never accepts him. Krishna is taunted by one and all for being a dacoit's son and he would have run away had it not been for the compassion shown by Gauri (Farah Naaz), Yadav's daughter.

Yadav sends Krishna to the police academy and by the time he returns as an inspector, Yadav had remarried. Yadav's much younger new wife Chanchal (Sujata Mehta) treats Gauri as the servant of the house and is also having an affair with Girivar Mathur (Danny Dengzongpa), the local police chief. Chanchal takes a liking to Krishna and sensing that the childhood friendship between him and Gauri might brew into something serious, tries to evoke brotherly love for Krishna within her stepdaughter but fails. Krishna is torn between his love for Gauri and his loyalty to Yadav but before he can take a call, he is posted to Fatehpur Sikri, the very place where his adopted father had killed his biological father. Yadav is worried that Krishna might come face to face with Daku Purkhiya (Amrish Puri), the leader of his late father's gang, and learn the truth. Chanchal tries to seduce Krishna but when he rejects her she gets him jailed by lying that he raped her. With Krishna out of the way, Chanchal then tries to get Gauri married off to Girivar. Krishna breaks out of prison to prevent this. He crashes the wedding and runs off with Gauri, hoping to prove his innocence.

• Sunny Deol as Inspector Krishna Kumar Yadav
• Farah as Gauri Yadav
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Inspector Shiv Kumar Yadav
• Sujata Mehta as Chanchal Yadav
• Danny Denzongpa as Girivar Prasad Mathur
• Amrish Puri as Daku Purkhiya
• Dalip Tahil as Daku Ujagar Singh
• Beena Banerjee as Ujagar Singh's Wife
• Ram Mohan as Ramchandra
• Asha Sharma as Parvati
• Vijayendra Ghatge as Senior Police Officer
• Dina Pathak as Shiv Kumar's Mother

The film was shot on-site at a haveli in the Badonikhurad Village of Datia, Madhya Pradesh.^[3]

All songs are written by Hasan Kamal.