No, the other Skaktiman.

 

 Shaktimaan (1997-2005) is a long running TV serial that finally answers the question "What if Clark Kent was Captain Marvel?", starring Mukesh Khanna as the stalwart superhero who always makes the right choice.  Shaktiman (1993) is an action movie and family drama featuring Mukesh Khanna as an ordinary man who makes a number of questionable choices.  It's important to know the difference.

Khanna plays Diler, who manages the Shimla home of Rai Bahadur Laxminarayan (Kulbhushan Kharbanda).  Diler's wife Parvati (Anjana Mumtaz) has just given birth to a son, and while Rai Bahadur is happy for his employee, it's a painful reminder that he and his wife Lakshmi (Beena Banerjee) cannot have children.  Diler overhears his employers wishing to adopt his child, and over Parvati's objections he makes the offer, certain that this will give his son a better life.  The deal is made, and Lakshmi and Rai Bahadur name the boy Vikram, or Vicky, which is a dangerous choice.  Nine times out of ten in Bollywood, a character named Vicky is going to be a spoiled college bully, and there's a high correlation to being played by Gulshan Grover..

The Laxminarayans return to Bombay.  (It won't be called Mumbai until 1995.)  Three years pass, and it turns out that Lakshmi is pregnant.  The family return to Shimla, and Rai Bahadur is immediately called back to Bombay.  It's terrible timing; Lakshmi promptly meets with an accident and dies just after giving birth.  Diler makes another poor choice and tells Parvati that they should kill the baby, ensuring that nothing disrupts Vicky's cozy life.  She is rightly horrified and flees with the baby, and when Rai Bahadur returns Diler tells him that Lakshmi and the baby both died, and he's already cremated them so there's no need to investigate any farther.

 Parvati arrives in Bombay, but she has no idea how to find Rai Bahadur, so she settles into a life of grinding poverty in order to provide for the baby, who she names Amar.  Time passes, and then the movie becomes a college romance.  Amar (Ajay Devgn) is now a stolid working class hero who loves  his mother.  He also loves Priya (Karisma Kapoor), a lovely and charming rich girl who happens to be the daughter of the Police Superintendent (Parikshit Sahni), a fact which will be important later.

Vicky (Gulshan Grover) has turned out to be a spoiled college bully with his own little posse of henchmen.  He manages to be worse than the usual Bollywood Vicky, in fact; Adult Amar is introduced beating up Vicky to stop him from assaulting a female classmate, but nobody bothers to tell anybody about the assault, so Vicky doesn't face any consequences.  (This will also be important later.)

The college romance section establishes character, but nothing much actually changes.  Amar loves Priya, and she loves him.  Vicky continues to be a creep, and is continually plotting to get rid of Amar so that he can have Priya, but she's not interested and responds with pranks.  They go to Shimla on a school trip, and then come back.  There's a little fighting.

 

Vicky is being spoiled by his father's secretary/comic relief Dimagchand (Tiku Talsania). who does nothing to curb his bad behavior.  Diler, who has repented of his terrible choices and become a taxi driver, occasionally pops up and gives the boy Shaktimaanish advice, hoping to set his secret son on the straight and narrow, but as far as Vicky is concerned he's just a random cab driver and not worth listening to.

 The genre shifts again when Amar leaves college to become a police officer.  Vicky goes from bad to worse, which fits in with the plans of crime lord Tiger (Ajit).  Tiger lends the boy money as part of a scheme to punish Rai Bahadur for testifying against his son.  

And then things get complicated.  Priya, who is apparently still in college, is harassed by another student (Shashi Kiran), which makes her so angry that she publicly threatens to kill him.  Vicky is so angry that he actually does kill him; this is not really to protect Priya, he's just drunk and territorial.  Tiger and his men quietly take pictures of the murder, while Diler, who happens to be passing by, takes the body and sends Vicky away.  Diler drives around trying to find somewhere to hide the body, and winds up stashing it in the trunk of a parked car . . . which happens to belong to Priya.  She discovers the body and decides to hide it rather than tell the police, by which I mean her father and Amar.  And while she's trying to hide the body she's spotted (and photographed) by Vicky.  

So, Priya is being blackmailed by Vicky, who wants her to marry him.  Vicky is being blackmailed by Tiger, who wants to use the young idiot to help him get revenge and money.  Amar is placed in charge of the murder investigation, because of course he is.  Diler is tormented by his misdeeds, both old and new.  And Parvati is still hoping that she will somehow find her husband and everything will be fine.  (Everything is not fine.)

Shaktiman's plot is not anything really new or groundbreaking; it's basically four stock Bollywood plots in a trenchcoat, and each of the plots have been done better in other movies; there are noticeable plot holes.  On the other hand, the elements of the plot are presented well.  Gulshan Grover gets a bit more screen time than usual for his weasely villain act, and even manages a bit of pathos.  Ajay Devgn beats people up with style and enthusiasm and fight choreography lifted from Jackie Chan movies.  Mukesh Khanna makes a fine tragic hero.  And nobody sells a dance number like Karisma Kapoor.

 

This is a very early 90s Bollywood movie.  (You can tell by the costumes.)  It's not exactly good, but there's always something going on.