# Taarzan: The Wonder Car (तारज़न: द वंडर कार)
**Taarzan: The Wonder Car** (तारज़न: द वंडर कार) is a 2004 Hindi-language supernatural action thriller directed by the duo Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla and Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla, in which a young man rebuilds his murdered father's car and the car, possessed by his father's spirit, takes revenge on the killers.[1](https://www.justwatch.com/in/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car) It was released in India on 6 August 2004, produced by Gordhan Tanwani for Baba Films.[2](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/taarzan-the-wonder-car-movie-120850)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | 6 August 2004 (India), Hindi language[2](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/taarzan-the-wonder-car-movie-120850) |
| Directors | Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla and Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla[2](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/taarzan-the-wonder-car-movie-120850) |
| Writer | Lalit Mahajan, with Sunny Mahajan also credited on some listings[2](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/taarzan-the-wonder-car-movie-120850) • [3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taarzan-the-wonder-car) |
| Lead cast | Ajay Devgn as Deven Chaudhary, Vatsal Sheth as Raj Chaudhary, Ayesha Takia as Priya Kapoor[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/) |
| Runtime | 2 hours 43 minutes (163 minutes)[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/) |
| Music | Songs by Himesh Reshammiya; background score by Surinder Sodhi[2](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/taarzan-the-wonder-car-movie-120850) • [5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snyU4mb_FQU) |
| Reception | IMDb 5.0/10 from about 6,800 votes; Rotten Tomatoes audience score 26% with no critic reviews counted[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/) • [3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taarzan-the-wonder-car) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
Deven Chaudhary, an automobile engineer, designs a futuristic car and tries to sell the design to a company called Four Fox, whose owners steal the design and kill him; in one account he is placed unconscious in his car and the car is dumped in a nearby lake, where he drowns.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taarzan-the-wonder-car) • [6](https://www.tvguide.com/movies/taarzan-the-wonder-car/cast/2000148152/) Twelve years later his son Raj, a college student who works part-time in a garage, finds the wreck of his father's old car, buys it with money borrowed from his grandmother, and restores it into a sleek futuristic vehicle he names Taarzan.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taarzan-the-wonder-car) • [7](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car-912)
The rebuilt car comes to life in a miraculous way, possessed by Deven's spirit, and begins killing the men responsible for his death, while Raj finds himself implicated in the deaths and pursued by a police inspector determined to see him hanged.[1](https://www.justwatch.com/in/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car) • [7](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car-912) [Ajay Devgn](https://www.edgepedia.org/ajay-devgn) plays the ghost in the machine, appearing as the spirit animating the car.[8](https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/1481/bollywood.hindi/taarzan-the-wonder-car/251/review.htm)
## Production and the real car
The film's title car was built by the car-designing firm Dilip Chhabria Design (DC Design), which unveiled the vehicle on 15 July 2004, before the film's release. The film was reported at that time as a Rs 15-crore thriller produced by Gordhan Tanwani and directed by Abbas-Mustan.[9](https://m.rediff.com/www/money/2004/jul/17wk1.htm) According to IMDb trivia, the car was supposed to be launched commercially after the film, but because the film failed, it was never launched.[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/)
The supporting cast includes [Farida Jalal](https://www.edgepedia.org/farida-jalal) as Mrs. Chaudhary, [Amrish Puri](https://www.edgepedia.org/amrish-puri) as Kartar Singh, Pankaj Dheer as Rakesh Kapoor, Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Anthony D'Costa, Shakti Kapoor as Mahesh Saxena, Mukesh Tiwari as Kailash Chopra, Gulshan Grover as Inspector Khurana, and [Rajpal Yadav](https://www.edgepedia.org/rajpal-yadav) as Havaldar Sitaram.[10](https://ottasia.com/title/movie/277229/taarzan-the-wonder-car?country=SA) • [11](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/fullcredits/) Ravi Yadav was the cinematographer and Hussain Burmawalla the editor; playback singers on the soundtrack included Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Shaan, and K.K.[12](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car/cast/)
## Reception
The film was a box-office failure.[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/) On IMDb it holds a 5.0/10 rating from about 6,800 votes, and IMDb lists 3 wins and 7 nominations in total.[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/) • [13](https://www.imdb.com/hi/title/tt0435437/) Rotten Tomatoes reports a Tomatometer with zero critic reviews and a Popcornmeter score of 26% from more than 100 audience ratings.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taarzan-the-wonder-car)
The critic Subhash K. Jha, reviewing the film at release for Nowrunning, compared the supernatural automobile to a mix of the benign Volkswagen Herbie of Walt Disney's *The Love Bug* and the killer convertible in [John Carpenter](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-carpenter)'s *Christine*, and judged that once the car appeared the directors settled for a straight revenge story with no other dimension to the plot; he also noted that the film marked the debut of [Vatsal Sheth](https://www.edgepedia.org/vatsal-sheth).[8](https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/1481/bollywood.hindi/taarzan-the-wonder-car/251/review.htm) A Hindi-language press account similarly records that [Ayesha Takia](https://www.edgepedia.org/ayesha-takia) entered films in 2004 with *Taarzan: The Wonder Car* and remained in Bollywood until 2011.[14](https://archive-epaper.vaartha.com/media/Swatantra%20Vaartha/2025-04/6563-11%20Apr%202025/sv-main10.pdf) The Times of India's entertainment section lists the film as a Hindi drama with a UA certificate and carries a related news item in which Ajay Devgn revisited the film as a cult thriller on the completion of 22 years.[15](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-details/taarzan-the-wonder-car/movieshow/61315451.cms)
## Availability
As of the retrieved listings, the film streams in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and JioHotstar (free with ads).[1](https://www.justwatch.com/in/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car) [JustWatch](https://www.edgepedia.org/justwatch) reports that the title is not available for streaming in the United States but is available in the United Kingdom and three other countries.[16](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car) The official Baba Films upload of the full movie on YouTube had drawn over 112 million views and about 877,000 likes as of its listing.[5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snyU4mb_FQU)
## References
1. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car streaming: watch online, JustWatch (India)](https://www.justwatch.com/in/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car)
2. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car Movie (2004), Gadgets 360 / JioHotstar listing](https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/taarzan-the-wonder-car-movie-120850)
3. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taarzan-the-wonder-car)
4. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car (2004), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/)
5. [Tarzan The Wonder Car Comedy Movie, YouTube (Baba Films official upload)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snyU4mb_FQU)
6. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car, TV Guide cast & plot summary](https://www.tvguide.com/movies/taarzan-the-wonder-car/cast/2000148152/)
7. [Taarzan - The Wonder Car (2004), BollywoodMDB](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car-912)
8. [Taarzan - The wonder car Movie Review by Subhash K. Jha, Nowrunning](https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/1481/bollywood.hindi/taarzan-the-wonder-car/251/review.htm)
9. [DC's Taarzan to zoom soon, Rediff.com India News (17 July 2004)](https://m.rediff.com/www/money/2004/jul/17wk1.htm)
10. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car, OTTASIA cast listing](https://ottasia.com/title/movie/277229/taarzan-the-wonder-car?country=SA)
11. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car (2004), IMDb full cast & crew](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435437/fullcredits/)
12. [Taarzan – The Wonder Car Cast & Crew, Bollywood Hungama](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car/cast/)
13. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car (2004), IMDb (Hindi page, awards)](https://www.imdb.com/hi/title/tt0435437/)
14. [Swatantra Vaartha e-paper, 11 April 2025 (Ayesha Takia debut note)](https://archive-epaper.vaartha.com/media/Swatantra%20Vaartha/2025-04/6563-11%20Apr%202025/sv-main10.pdf)
15. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car movie details, Times of India eTimes](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-details/taarzan-the-wonder-car/movieshow/61315451.cms)
16. [Taarzan: The Wonder Car streaming: watch online, JustWatch (US)](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/taarzan-the-wonder-car)
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