After a vicious battle, he kills one of the cannibals but spares the other, and the people of Mohenjo Daro surge even stronger behind him. In the arena outside the city, Sarman faces the ferocious Tajik mountain cannibals Bakar and Zokhar. It is now up to Sarman to defeat the evil Maham and avenge his father. Maham then took Srujan's place as the new Senate Chief. Chaani's father and Durjan – Sarman's uncle – were coerced by Maham to betray Srujan, and the latter was killed. He had Srujan framed and arrested for hoarding gold. The wise Senate Chief Srujan ( Sharad Kelkar), who is revealed to be Sarman's father, opposed this, but Maham won the vote to build the dam. Maham had discovered that the mighty Sindhu River held vast gold deposits, so he decided to place a dam on the river and divert its course to mine the gold. Maham entered Mohenjo Daro as a trader and quickly rose to become the trade chief. On the night before Sarman's clash with Bakar and Zokar, the head priest reveals to him how Maham was expelled from Harappa for illegal trade with the Sumerians. Sarman proposes that if he wins, Chaani will be released from her engagement, and Maham accepts the terms. Maham discovers Sarman and Chaani love each other and that Sarman is the leader of the tax revolt, and so he challenges Sarman to fight Bakar and Zokar, his two champions. Chaani reveals that she has been forcibly betrothed to Moonja, Sarman's enemy, who is cruel and ruthless. Upon meeting, the head priest strangely appears to recognize Sarman. Sarman is enchanted by Chaani's heavenly beauty and charm and falls in love with her.
Sarman gains access to the upper city by showing his uncle's amulet and meets Chaani ( Pooja Hegde), the elegant and gorgeous daughter of the head priest ( Manish Choudhary) of Mohenjo Daro. While Sarman is trading, Maham proposes to impose an additional tax on the farmers so that the city may grow, but Sarman leads the farmers to oppose the taxes so that their families don't starve to death. He also learns that the unicorn he sees in his dreams is the symbol of the city, and feels as if the city is oddly familiar to him. He gives Sarman a seal that contains an inscription of a unicorn that Sarman often sees in his dreams, suggesting he use it only once in a life or death situation.Īrriving in Mohenjo Daro, Sarman learns that the city is ruled by the tyrannical Senate Chief Maham ( Kabir Bedi) and his wicked son Moonja ( Arunoday Singh). Sarman attempts to sneak away to the city at night with his friend Hojo ( Umang Vyas), but is caught by Durjan, who relents and allows both friends to go. He asks his uncle, Durjan ( Nitish Bharadwaj), to allow him to go to Mohenjo Daro to trade their family's goods, but his uncle refuses. Sarman kills a crocodile that has been terrorizing his village's fishermen and is hailed as a hero. The film opens in 2016 BCE with Sarman ( Hrithik Roshan), a young man from the village of Amri, who lost his parents at a young age.
Mohenjo Daro marks the last film production of UTV Motion Pictures, as after the film, there are only two Disney releases, Dangal and Jagga Jasoos, which marked producer Kapur's final projects under Disney-UTV before his contract with the company lapsed on 1 January 2017. The film was released worldwide on 12 August 2016, and received generally mixed or negative reviews from critics, and is considered to be a major box office flop. Rahman with lyrics penned by Javed Akhtar. The score and soundtrack are composed by A. The film was shot in Bhuj and Mumbai with brief schedules in Bhedaghat ( Jabalpur) and Thane. Gowariker took over three years to research and develop the script, working closely with archaeologists to ensure authenticity in the representation of his fictional story. Set in 2016 BC at the height of Indus Valley Civilization, the story follows a farmer Sarman (Hrithik Roshan), who travels to the city of Mohenjo Daro and falls in love with a high-status woman (Pooja Hegde), and who must then challenge the city's elite, and fight against overwhelming odds to save their civilization. It is a cinematic presentation based on the ancient Indus Valley civilization, and its city Mohenjo-daro, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur for UTV Motion Pictures and Sunita Gowariker for Ashutosh Gowariker Productions (AGPPL), and featuring Hrithik Roshan and Pooja Hegde in the lead roles. Mohenjo Daro is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language period action-adventure film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker.