Ayub Khan and Madhuri Dixit starrer drama flick, Mrityudand, was released in the year 1997. The movie was directed by Shilpa Shirodkar, Shabana Azmi, Pyare Moahan Sahay, Achyut Pdyar, Om Puri, Mohan Agashe, Ajit Vachani, Mohan Joshi, Raj Kamal and Harish Patel in important characters. The melodious music of the movie was directed by the well known music director duo Anand Milind while the songs were crooned by Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Hariharan, Sadhana Sargam, Alka Yagnik etc.

MLA Durga Pandey ( Harish Patel ) and a contractor named Tirpat Singh ( Mohan Joshi ) are living a wealthy lifestyle and singlehandedly ruling in a village. They both always plans to create misunderstandings between two brothers named Abhay Singh ( Mohan Agashe ) and Vinay Singh ( Ayub Khan ), who are also living in the same village. Abhay Singh leaves his wife, Chadrawati ( Shabana Azmi ) to takes on the life of a temple priest. His wife is then taken care by a villager named Rambaran Manto ( Om Puri ).

On the otherhand, Vinay also meets with a beautiful women named Ketki ( Madhuri Dixit ) and gets attracted towards her. Soo they both get married to each other. Tripat Singh then becomes friendly with Vinay. Ketki tries to convince Vijay that Tripat is not a good guy at all but Vinay refuse to listen her. Tripat then inherit all the property of Vinay by making him sign the property papers in his unconcious state.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Tum bin main
2. Keh do ek baar
3. Raja main to
4. Kab se main
5. Raat mehke to