Shastra is a 1996 Hindi-language Action Drama movie written by Rumi Jaffery, Imtiaz Patel, Yunus Sajawal and Rumi Jaffry. The movie is directed by Sanjay Khanna and produced by Nadir Irani and Nadeem Irani. One of the employees of Vijay's parents, Babu, is sentence to a long jail term for killing them. In.. Shastra stars Sunil Shetty in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Anjali Jathar, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa, Mohan Joshi, Mukesh Rishi and Mushtaq Khan. The music was composed by Aadesh Shrivastava. Cinematography was done by Najeeb Khan and Teja and editing by Yusuf Khan. The movie has a running time of 144 mins. It was released on 4th October 1996. Shastra was made on a budget of ₹3 crore and it was a hit at box office gross of ₹4 crore.