Aatank is a 1996 Hindi-language Action Thriller movie written by Sachin Bhowmick and directed by Prem Lalwani and Desh Mukherjee and produced by Prem Lalwani. Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as their livelihood. The community is oppressed by a powerful gangster named Alphonso. Jesu is an orphan, while Peter is brought up by his aunt and uncle, after the passing away of his mom. The community is all thrilled when Phillips finds black pearls off the coast. But then so does Alphonso, who asks his divers to get all the pearls, thus disturbing the ocean. Peter meets with Suzy D'Silva and they fall in love with each other, and get married. While enjoying a quiet swim on the sea-shore, Suzy disappears. A search is carried out, and a number of human body parts are recovered. With shock and horror this community finds that their livelihood is being threatened by a gigantic, virtually undestructible man-eating shark. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com). Aatank stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Ravi Kissen, Amjad Khan, Vinod Mehra, Nafisa Ali and Asit Kumar Sen. The music was composed by Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar along with Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma and Laxmikant Pyarelal. The movie has a running time of 113 mins. It was released on 1st January 1996. Aatank was made on a budget of ₹1 crore and at the box office it grossed only ₹40 lakh.