Main Azaad Hoon

Main Azaad Hoon is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language vigilante action film adapted from the 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe, by Javed Akhtar, about an opportunistic journalist who concocts a fictitious man in a fictitious article to boost newspaper sales, but when the article gets a huge response, she finds an unemployed man to sit in as Azaad, "man of the masses". The film was directed by Tinnu Anand, and stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shabana Azmi.

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