Josh (2000)

Josh
DirectorMansoor Khan
Budget$6.9 million
Box office₹35.1 crore

Plot

Two rival street gangs - Eagles, who are local residents, and Bichhoos (Scorpions), who are immigrants - reside in the town of Vasco, Goa. The Bichhoos are led by Prakash Sharma, while Eagles are led by Max Dias.

Prakash, a delinquent, uses his gang to engage in underhanded activities within the Vasco real estate market. Max and his twin sister Shirley are orphans belonging to a local motorcycle crew together with the other members of the Eagles. The gangs are sworn enemies and have demarcated the town in order to avoid altercations. They are usually stopped from fighting by Fr. Jacob or the town Inspector.

Rahul, Prakash's brother and a well-educated masterchef working in Mumbai, arrives to visit Vasco after two years, intending to take his family back to Mumbai with him. Rahul decides to tour Vasco and rediscovers his love for the city. While in the territory of the Eagles, Rahul spots Shirley and eventually falls in love with her, deciding to settle in Vasco and open a pastry shop. Rahul unknowingly becomes part of the Eagles - Bichchoos rivalry and gets closer to Shirley, but Max and the Eagles, not approving of Rahul having moved in, destroy the shop and put Rahul in severe debt to the landlord.

Prakash, in desperate need of money, plans to take over the village ground. The ground historically belonged to Alberto Vasco, the landlord of the entire village and the man after whom the town is named. Rahul finds out that the ground was passed from Alberto to a woman named Mary Anne Louise. Unaware of Prakash's schemes, Rahul visits the address listed for Mr. Vasco and it is revealed that Mary was a renter in the Rose villa at 13, Churchill Road, which belonged to Lady D'Costa twenty two years ago. Rahul learns from Mrs. D'costa that Mary is Max and Shirley's mother and the twins are the illegitimate children of Alberto Vasco, born in 1958.

Rahul plans to reveal this information to Shirley in the form of a letter, but it falls into the hands of Prakash. Prakash plots to get Rahul married to Shirley and also kill Max in order to receive Alberto Vasco's valuable land worth 20 lakhs. When Prakash tries to kill Max, a bloody fight breaks out and Max accidentally shoots Prakash, while defending himself. Max is arrested and his trial puts a rift between Shirley and Rahul as he believes Prakash went to Max just to ask Shirley's hand for him and Max killed him without reason. Before Max receives his verdict, Rahul learns the truth and defends Max in court and also acknowledges Prakash's real intentions, by providing documents which proved the land, which Prakash tried to obtain, is Max and Shirley's inheritance as Alberto Vasco, their biological father who distanced himself from his children, put it in their mother's name. Upon hearing this, the judge concludes Max's action as an act of self-defense. Max is released and asks Rahul for forgiveness and his hand in marriage with Shirley, thereby uniting the Eagles and Bichhoos.

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