Bollywood romantic action movie, Laawaris, directed by Shrikant Sharma and written by Honey Irani was released on March 5, 1999. The movie starred Jackie Shroff, Akshaye Khanna and Manisha Koirala in lead roles while Dimple Kapadia, Govind Namdev, Raza Murad, Rajesh Joshi, Johnny Lever, Dinesh Hingoo and Pramod Muthu also played important characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was directed by the well known music director Rajesh Roshan while the songs were rendered by Udit Narayan, Roop Kumar Rathod, Abhijeet, Shankar Mahadevan, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Alka Yagnik.

The movie starts with Advocate Anand Saxena ( Jackie Shroff ), who shifts into a new locality to live alongwith his wife, Kavita ( Dimple Kapadia ) and their son. The area is ruled by a local goon named Captain Dada ( Akshaye Khanna ), who performs any sort of criminal activity for the don, Uncle Kalra ( Govind Namdev ). Because of his honesty and integrity, Anand and his wife are always mocked at. The local goons makes fun of them and even burn Anand’s motorbike. Captain meets with a beautiful girl named Anshu Mehra ( Manisha Koirala ) and instantly falls in love with her.

He introduces himself as Vijay to her. Little does he knows is that Anshu is the realtive of Anand. He revelas this and befirends Kavita in order to impress Anshu. But when Anand finds out about this, he tells the reality of Captain to Anshu. Anshu get shcoked by this and refuse to even meet with him. However, Captain manage to convince her that he will never perform any criminal activity from now onwards. But problem arises when Kalr sends his goons to kill Captain so that his son can marry Anshu.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Seene mein sulagte
2. Aa kahin door chale
3. Tumne jo kaha main
4. Mere doston mujhe aajkal