Director: Mukul S. Anand; Writer: Karan Razdan; Producer: Subhash Ghai; Cinematographer: Ashok Mehta; Cast: Jackie Shroff, Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Mohan Agashe, Saeed Jaffrey, Priya Tendulkar, Gauthami, Anjali Jathar
Summary: Multistar production by Ghai, re-valorizing the
feudal mother-figure in 1990s consumerist
religiosity. Satya (Tendulkar) goes to jail when
she is framed by the Kali-worshipping mystic
Kooka Singh (Agashe). Her three sons grow
up, one an army officer (Shroff), the other two
(Kapoor and Khan) in the pay of the villain. In
the end, the unity of the clan is restored when
the heroes fulfil their mother’s pledge. The film
was one of the most expensive and most
extensively marketed productions in Hindi
cinema in 1995. Its commercial failure
underscored the exhaustion of the genre, itself
a compendium of previous Ghai productions,
this time presented in Dolby sound and
computer-aided special effects.
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