Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra; Writer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kamna Chandra, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Shivkumar Subramaniam; Producer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra; Cinematographer: Binod Pradhan; Editor: Renu Saluja; Cast: Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa, Pran, Chandni, Raghuvir Yadav, Sushma Seth, Manohar Singh, Brian Glover, Gopi Desai, Pramod Moutho, Uday Chandra, Shakti Singh, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kamal Chopra, Shivkumar Subramaniam, Tarakesh Chauhan, Ilyas Sheikh, Shashank Dabral, Kees Van De Klundert, Amar, Hashim, Yusuf, Daljit, Bhakta, Atmadev, Durga, Ishwar, Janardhan, Rohit, Sanjay, Rupera, Billa, Ravi
Summary: A love story set amid the Quit India agitations
during WW2. In the Himalayan foothills, the
blundering, apolitical Naren (Kapoor) falls in
love with the local girl Rajjo (Koirala). Since his
father (Singh) is committed to colonial rule,
while her father is a revolutionary terrorist,
their love affair leads to the exposure of a
terrorist plot to assassinate the evil British
General Douglas (Glover), modelled on
popular versions of General Dyer of the
Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. Eventually, Naren
joins the terrorists led by Shubhankar (Shroff)
and, in a long drawn-out climax, achieves the
deed and leads a popular revolt against the
colonial power. The film, with at times
remarkable camerawork revealing its New
Indian Cinema antecedents, contributes to
the major 90s revival of ‘nationalist’ themes,
recalling the values of the Independence
struggle (cf. Mani Rathnam’s work), even
enjoining the audience to stand up for the
national anthem which closes the performance.
Its enormously successful music was released
after the death of the composer Burman.
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