Director: Aditya Bhattacharya; Writer: Aditya Bhattacharya, Nuzhat Khan; Producer: Asif Noor; Cinematographer: Santosh Sivan; Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad; Cast: Aamir Khan, Pankaj Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, Naina Balsavar, Homi Wadia, Chandu Parkhi
Duration: 02:04:09; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 37.744; Saturation: 0.171; Lightness: 0.143; Volume: 0.179; Cuts per Minute: 5.976
Summary: Aamir Khan’s first starring role prior to his
breakthrough with Qayamat Se Qayamat
Tak later in the year. The story, told in
flashback, focuses on a young man whose
interior monologue accompanies the film. The
hero (Khan) helplessly watches his girlfriend
(Pathak) being gang-raped. To refurbish his
male pride (the woman’s suffering is trivialised
in the film), he spends the rest of the film,
aided by a good cop (Kapoor), avenging the
slighting of his manhood by the gangster and
his henchmen responsible for the rape. The
revenge story is presented as a fatalist
meditation on ‘meaning of life’. Using closeups,
flashing lights and throbbing music
(composed by the rock drummer Ranjit Barot)
under the dialogue, the film tries to induce the
viewer to wallow in the choreography of
violence.
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