Dabangg

Dabangg ("Fearless") is a 2010 Indian action film, starring Salman Khan, Sonu Sood, and Sonakshi Sinha.

Chubul Pandey (Khan) is your standard Noble Bigot with a Badge from rural India. Chubul fancies himself a Robin Hood wannabe, as he is equally prone to kicking criminal ass as he is of keeping the profits for himself (after giving some of it away). He also has a complicated, borderline-antagonistic relationship with his stepfather Prajapati Pandey (Vinod Khanna) and his half-brother Makkhi (Arbaaz Khan), despite the constant pleas of his mother Naina (Dimple Kapadia) for the three to get along.

Chubul's life becomes complicated on three fronts, almost simultaneously. First, he fall on the bad side of Chedi Singh (Sood), a corrupt politician who very soon sees Chubul as his archnemesis. Second, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful ceramist Rajjo (Sinha), who, while not completely rebuffing his advances, rejects his marriage proposal because she has to care for her alcoholic father. Third, Makkhi is so desperate to marry his girlfriend Nirmala (Mahi Gill) (a union her father disproves for thinking that Makkhi has little character and his father rejects because her family is unable to bring a dowry) that he decides to directly steal from Chubul's savings and have the ceremony before he realizes the money is lost.

One day, Chubul gets home and finds his mother dead and his savings lost. After the funerals, he tries to make peace with his stepfather, but he is rejected. Makkhi invites Chubul to his wedding with Nirmala. Chubul brings Raijo, who has just lost her father, to the ceremony; when he realizes that the ceremony was paid with his stolen money, he immediately marries with Raijo in place of his brother, causing Nirmala's family to cancel the marriage. This causes a rift between the brothers that Chedi is too eager to exploit...

The film has two sequels: Dabangg 2, premiered in 2012, and Dabangg 3, released in 2019; the latter is known for having such a long flashback sequence that it can be practically considered a prequel.

Tropes used in Dabangg include:

Black and Gray Morality: Practically no one in this film is a purely good person.
Establishing Character Moment: Chubul has an especially memorable one.
Driven to Suicide: Raijo's father drowns himself to free her of her self-imposed obligation to never marrying as long as he is alive.
Item number: The famous Munni Badnam Hui.
Shirtless Scene
Why Waste a Wedding?: immediately ater realizing that the wedding of his half brother was paid with money that was originaly his, Chubul hijacks the ceremony and strongarms the priest to marry him and his love interest Rajjo before the actual marrying couple.