While Masaan showed the youth succumbing to the Varanasi’s rigid values, in Ghatak Sunny Deol’s character derived his strength from the very same value systems. While only a part of the film was shot (and indeed set) in Varansi, Sunny Deol’s shots against the ghats and the city’s famous wrestlers are some of the most memorable ones in the movie.

And as the young Deol leaves the town for the big city, the morals of the holy city work as his moral compass in the bad big city world.