Director: Mansoor Hussain; Writer: Mansoor Khan; Producer: Nasir Hussain; Cinematographer: Najeeb Khan; Editor: Dilip Kotalgi, Zafar Sultan; Cast: Aamir Khan, Ayesha Julka, Deepak Tijori, Pooja Bedi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Duration: 02:39:03; Aspect Ratio: 1.905:1; Hue: 329.700; Saturation: 0.115; Lightness: 0.276; Volume: 0.197; Cuts per Minute: 19.239
Summary: Successful teen musical follow-up by the
makers of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988).
Set in Dehradun in the colonial public schools,
the story features the traditional sports rivalry
between the rich Rajput College and the more
middle-class Modern School. The hero Sanju
(Khan) leads a gang of no-hopers while his
sincere elder brother Ratan tries to win the
annual cycling race, trained by his father
Ramlal (Kharbanda) who also runs the local tea
shop and student hang-out. The rivalry spills
over into other areas when the rich and sexy
new girl in town (Bedi) is wooed by both hero
and villain (Tijori), the dance and sports star of
the rival Rajput College. Sanju pretends to be
rich, but is eventually ditched by the girl when
the truth comes out, after which he accepts his
childhood sweetheart Anjali (Julka) and wins
the cycle race. The film loosely adapts the
Archie comics idiom, still popular among
Indian teenagers, and that of Randal Kleiser’s
Grease (1978), furthering Aamir Khan’s familiar
‘boy next door’ image.
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