Bollywood movie, Vaastav, directed by Mahesh Manjrekar was released on October 7,1999. The movie starred Sanjay Dutt and Namrata Shirodkar in lead roles while Mohnish Behl, Paresh Rawal, Reema Laagoo and Aashish Vidyarthi also played important roles in the film. The hit music of the film was given by music director duo Jatin Lalit and the songs were sung by Sonu Nigam, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Vinod Rathod etc. The movie did very well at the box office and lead actor Sanjay Dutt won several acclaims for his superb act in the movie.

The movie starts with Raghunath Namdev Shivalkar aka Raghu ( Sanjay Dutt ), who lives with family in Mumbai. He alongwith his best friend Footiya ( Sanjay Narvekar ) starts running a pav bhaji stall. But to his bad luck, he accidently kills a customer who is actually the brother of a gangster. Another gangster, Vitthal Kaanya ( Aashish Vidyarthi ), provides protection to Raghu and Footiya. Raghu becomes the prime hitman of Vitthal and soon becomes a threat to the local masses.

With the help of Raghu, Vitthal becomes the don of Mumbai underworld. Even policticians uses Raghu for their illegal activities. Home Minister, BabbanRao ( Mohan Joshi ) is also the one who uses Raghu for his illegal works. However, there are some other people also who are waiting for Raghu to make an error, so that they can replace him. Soon Raghu makes an error and becomes the prime target of police as well as BabbanRao’s goons. What will happen to Raghu now? Will he be able to save his life from police and goons?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Meri duniya hai tujhme kahin tere bin main kya kuch bhi nahi teri jaan mein meri jaan hai o saathi mere
2. Tere pyaar ne sanam jaado kya kar diya jaane kaisa nasha chaa rahaa
3. apani maan hai duniyaa ki sabse achchhi maan iski mamtaa ke saaye mein ham badhate jaaye aage aage aage