Director: Ram Gopal Varma; Writer: Ram Gopal Varma; Producer: Ram Gopal Varma; Cinematographer: W.B. Rao; Editor: Nivas; Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Aamir Khan, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Avtar Gill, Achyut Potdar, Reema Lagoo, Shammi, Rajesh Joshi, Ram Mohan, Shammi, Shefali Shetty, Suman, Tarun, Rajeev Mehta, Ramdas, Nitin Chandrakant Desai, K.B. Jatin, Haniif Sheikh, Himanshu, Madhur Bhandarkar, Sanjay Goradia, Saroj Khan, Aditya Narayan, Neeraj Vora
Duration: 02:29:38; Aspect Ratio: 1.636:1; Hue: 12.136; Saturation: 0.211; Lightness: 0.313; Volume: 0.161; Cuts per Minute: 13.546; Words per Minute: 60.131
Summary: Varma’s first Hindi venture is remembered
mainly as the sensational introduction of
former child actress Matondkar (e.g. Shekhar
Kapur’s Masoom, 1982) as the Hindi cinema’s
most recent sex symbol. Playing an out-ofwork
movie actress, she is discovered by a
major star (Shroff) who introduces her into the
film industry. This leads to problems when her
boyfriend (Khan), a lower-class Bombay youth
who sells movie tickets in the black market,
finds it difficult to cope with her success. The
film is dominated by its several Rehmancomposed
song hits, amongst the biggest in the
’90s in Hindi, e.g. Aayi re (sung by Asha
Bhosle) and Tanha tanha, shot with
considerable energy and inventiveness.
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