Director: N. Chandra; Writer: N. Chandra, Sayed Sultan; Producer: N. Chandra, Subhash R. Duragkar; Cinematographer: H. Lakshminarayan; Editor: N. Chandra; Cast: Madan Jain, Arjun Chakraborty, Nana Patekar, Nisha Singh, Suhas Palshikar, Master Bobby, Rabia Amin, Ashalata Wabgaonkar, Mahavir Shah, Dinesh Kaushik, Kamini Bhatia, Ravi Patwardhan, Gajanan Bangera, Sayyad, Raja Bundela
Duration: 02:20:21; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 60.091; Saturation: 0.013; Lightness: 0.354; Volume: 0.149; Cuts per Minute: 13.259
Summary: Chandra’s debut film propagates the cause of
the Hindu Shiv Sena, a link emphasised by the
first major Hindi film of Nana Patekar. A gang
of four educated but unemployed men are a
law unto themselves. Reformed by a female
guardian angel (Singh), the four briefly attempt
an entrepreneurial life until the woman is
raped by the very gang leader (and his masters)
against whom the youths are fighting. Revenge
is swift, as is their repentance, creating a
cyclical story of violence and regret. The film
unashamedly rehearses Bombay’s Shiv Sena
ideologies: unemployment is the devil’s
workshop, industry is controlled by ‘rootless
outsiders’ (North Indians, mainly) who
persecute and exploit ‘the natives’. The
relentless violence culminates in the four thugs,
presented as ‘heroes’, being martyred as they
are hanged in a manner reminiscent of India’s
nationalist freedom fighters.
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