Director: Kuku Kohli; Writer: Iqbal Durrani; Producer: Dinesh Patel; Cinematographer: Thomas A. Xavier; Editor: Suresh Chaturvedi; Cast: Amrish Puri, Ajay Devgun, Jagdeep, Madhu Raghunath, Arif Khan, Aruna Irani, Satyen Kappu, Raza Murad
Summary: The hit film that introduced Devgun as a new
star for the 90s. The plot is a drama about
machismo in which the orphaned Ajay
(Devgun) battles the drug-peddling son of his
college trustee. When violence breaks out, he
is mysteriously saved by a mafia don (Puri)
who, it turns out, is his unacknowledged father.
Ajay marries and has a son who is kidnapped,
first by the gangster-father and then again by
the don’s enemies. Ajay is reconciled with his
father and together they eventually confront
the real villains of the story. Much of the film’s
violence is choreographed more effectively
than is usual in Hindi films (cf. the locker-room
fight in the men’s hostel and the hero’s Mad
Max-type motor-cycle stunts). The virtual
absence of a romantic sub-plot is typical of the
aggressive crime thriller, using extensive
political references, that came to dominate 90s
Hindi cinema (cf. Prahaar, 1991). The several
musical hits confirmed the music directors
Nadeem-Shravan as major film composers of
the early 90s.
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