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Zakhm
	; Movie poster for Zakhm
Directed by	Mahesh Bhatt
Produced by	Mukesh Bhatt; Pooja Bhatt
Written by	Mahesh Bhatt; Tanuja Chandra; Girish Dhamija
Starring	Ajay Devgan; Pooja Bhatt; Sonali Bendre; Kunal Khemu; Akshay Anand; Nagarjuna Akkineni
Music by	M.M. Kreem
Cinematography	Nirmal Jani
Editing by	Sanjay Sankla
Release date(s)	15 December 1998
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Zakhm (Devanagari: ज़ख़्म, meaning wound) is a 1998 Bollywood film directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Ajay Devgan, Pooja Bhatt, Sonali Bendre, Kunal Khemu and Nagarjuna Akkineni.

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Mrs. Desai and her son Ajay

The film opens with an argument between the music director Ajay (Ajay Devgan) and his wife Sonia (Sonali Bendre) over whether to give birth to their child in a foreign country or in India (because of the insecurity caused by 1992 riots). Ajay soon learns that his mother (Pooja Bhatt) has been burned by a group of Muslim rioters while leaving a church and is in critical condition. Via flashback, there are presented the struggles his mother had to undergo in order to raise her children. She was in love with a Hindu film producer (Nagarjuna Akkineni) but was not allowed to marry him on account of her Muslim faith. He marries her but does not document or acknowledge their marriage as it was done without any traditional upholdings. The fact that she had children with a Hindu man forces her to hide her faith and live her life as a Christian women even in front of her son. After his father's death, Ajay realises his mother is a Muslim and makes him promise to bury her according to the Muslim faith when she dies, for it is only through a proper burial that she will be able to find herself reunited with her lover in heaven. Ajay's mother succumbs to the burns.However, Ajay's task is impeded by a fundamentalist leader Subodhbhai (Ashutosh Rana) and his disciple Anand (Akshay Anand), who happens to be Ajay's own brother.

The lyrics were written by Mrs. Pushpa Patel (Professor of English literature at the Bombay University). The song Gali me aaj chand... remains popular today.