Director: Ram Gopal Varma; Writer: Ram Gopal Varma; Producer: S. Gopalreddy, K.L. Narayana, Y. Lakshmana Chowdary; Cinematographer: S. Gopal Reddy; Cast: Venkatesh, Sridevi, Paresh Rawal, Rami Reddy, Brahmanandam, Krishna Rao
Duration: 02:24:11; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 20.502; Saturation: 0.066; Lightness: 0.331; Volume: 0.213; Cuts per Minute: 33.234
Summary: When the sexy working woman Satya (Sridevi)
happens upon a clue to some hidden loot, she
is targeted by a gang led by the villain Nayar
(Rawal). Teaming up with a petty crook
Chandu (Venkatesh), the pair are chased
through the film by both the criminals and the
police. This megabudget chase film opens with
a suspenseful bank raid, moves to surreal forest
scenes as the couple rough it beside a camp
fire, and climaxes as the hero fights the
gangsters atop a moving train. Director Varma
shows himself able to assimilate recent
Hollywood styles influenced by TV advertising
and music clips (cf. John Badham’s Bird on a
Wire, 1990). Most of the songs are inserted
with no connection whatever to the plot,
unusual even in a tradition noted for the
autonomy of its song picturisations. Film critic
Rajeev Velicheti (1992) used the film to identify
a recent trend of consumerist cinema in AP
calibrated on the linguistic-regional attitudes of
a Hyderabad-based middle-class. The film was
dubbed in Hindi as Hairaan.
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