Director: J.P. Dutta; Writer: J.P. Dutta, O.P. Dutta; Producer: H.A. Nadiadwala; Cinematographer: Ishwar Bidri; Editor: Deepak Wirkud; Cast: Sangeeta Bijlani, Dharmendra, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Asha Parekh, Paresh Rawal, Satyajeet, Shyama, Amrita Singh
Duration: 02:49:17; Aspect Ratio: 1.649:1; Hue: 6.160; Saturation: 0.100; Lightness: 0.268; Volume: 0.394; Cuts per Minute: 15.724
Summary: One of Sanjay Dutt’s early hits in his current
loner mould. In distant Rajasthan, Avinash
(Dutt) and Suman (Singh) are married as
children. As they grow up, feudal clan rivalry
between their families causes Avinash to leave
his wife and to move to Bombay with his
pacifist parents (Kharbanda and Rawal) where
he becomes involved in gang violence. The
fearsome Khushal Khan (Dharmendra),
protector of Avinash’s family, has a weakness:
his good younger brother Samiulla Khan
(Kapoor) will not talk to him. Eventually, a
third storyline emerges as the ‘real’ villain
comes on the scene: a Tamil gangster (Rawal)
who caused Khushal Khan to become a
criminal. All the characters struggle to achieve a
degree of control over their circumstances
while the director undercuts their efforts by
resorting to ‘mythic’, overpowering Bombay
locations (N. Chandra and Mukul S. Anand
territory) which nevertheless give the
impression of being sets because of the patchy
lighting, the overbearing soundtrack or the
relentless shot-reverse-shot editing pattern.
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