Director: Yash Chopra; Writer: Honey Irani, Javed Siddiqui; Producer: Yash Chopra; Cinematographer: Manmohan Singh; Editor: Keshav Naidu; Cast: Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla, Shah Rukh Khan, Annu Kapoor, Tanvi Azmi, Raj Hans, Neena Softa, Piloo Wadia, Vikas Anand, Dalip Tahil, Anupam Kher
Summary: The valiant Naval officer Sunil (Deol) is to
marry the beautiful Kiran (Chawla). The
problem, contextualising most of the film, is
that she is stalked by the shadowy figure of the
psychotic Rahul (Khan). Complicating the
problem is the fact that Rahul is the son of
Sunil’s superior in the Navy (Tahil). The film
claims to introduce an emotion overlooked in
the romance genre: fear. In the process it
dwells, sometimes effectively, on numerous
noir conventions including that of the
murderous villain’s gaze being replicated by
the camera’s POV, putting the viewer in the
position of the murderous voyeur. The film
continued Shah Rukh Khan’s exploration of
‘negative’ roles considered taboo for leading
men (cf. Baazigar, also 1993). It had one
major song hit, Jadoo teri nazar.
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