Director: Subhash Ghai; Writer: Subhash Ghai, Ram Kelkar; Producer: Subhash Ghai; Cinematographer: Ashok Mehta; Editor: Waman B. Bhosle, Gurudutt Shirali; Cast: Rakhee Gulzar, Jackie Shroff, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit, Anupam Kher, Ramya Krishna, Pramod Moutho, Sushmita Mukherjee, A.K. Hangal, Neena Gupta, Mangal Dhillon, Ali Asghar, Sudhir Dalvi, Ahmad Ansari, Arun Bali, Anand Balraj, Banjara, Balli Grover, Harshavardhan, Navtej Hundal, Ranjit Indori, Muni Jha, Sudarshan Khurana, Sunil Mehta, Aloka Mukherjee, Prakash Parekh, Kumar Parvesh, Jagdish Punjabi, Vijay Kumar Puri, Manu Raj, Anil Rajput, Siddharth Randeria, Devendra Randhawa, Vinod Raut, Anil Saxena, Nazir Shaikh, Hansdev Sharma, Pritam Sharma, Gopi Shinde, Siddharth, Daljit Singh, T.S. Tarana, Arun Verma, Sunder Verma, Subhash Ghai
Duration: 02:59:28; Aspect Ratio: 2.257:1; Hue: 2.935; Saturation: 0.151; Lightness: 0.215; Volume: 0.202; Cuts per Minute: 15.039; Words per Minute: 44.921
Summary: Ghai’s controversial hit presents the ‘villain’
Sanjay Dutt as exemplifying ‘today’s youth’.
Dutt plays Ballu, a gangster and political
criminal responsible for several assassinations,
who is employed by the film’s main villain,
Roshi Mahanta (Moutho). When Ballu escapes
from prison without divulging the name of his
employer, the police inspector Ramkumar
(Shroff) sends his colleague and girlfriend
Ganga (Dixit) to infiltrate the gang
masquerading as a dancing girl. The film
capitalised on the off-screen history of Dutt
who, shortly after its completion, was arrested
and imprisoned for alleged involvement in the
Bombay communal riots of 1993, an incident
popularly seen as a ‘real life’ re-enactment of
what remains his definitive screen role. It was
also controversial for the accusations of
vulgarity levelled against its megahit song Choli
ke peeche, ‘What’s beneath the blouse’, which,
as a BBC report on the film put it, ‘had all of
India hot under the collar’. Ghai has argued
that the song merely adapts a traditional
Rajasthani folk lyric.
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