Cast : Raakhee Gulzaar, Mithun Chakroborthy, Sudhir Pandey, Amjad Khan, Ranjeeta, Padma Khanna, Goga Kapoor and others.
Crew
Director: Dulal Guha, PR Chatterjee, Shafique Ansaari, RS Chaturvedi, Abdul Aziz Sajawal, Abhijeet Sen
Story:
Screenplay : Dulal Guha
Dialogues : Shafique Ansaari
Editor : Bimal Roy
Cinematography: DOP: M Raja Ram
Audiography : K S Rane
Sound Recording -Kaushik, HMV Records
Art Director : Bijoy Ghosh
Costumes : Ram Lal Maheshwari, Bada Saab, Leena Daru, Aruna, Meeta
Make-Up : Babu Rao
Hair Style : Khatija, Thelma and Meera
Choreography : Gopi Krishna
Stunts/Action Director : Ravi Khanna
Music Composer: RD Burman, Basu, Manohari, Maruti and Sapan Chakravarthy
Lyrics : Majhrooh
Singers : Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Amit Kumar
Producer : Partho Guha, Gautam Guha
Processed : Ramnord Research Lab
PRO : Gopal Pandey
Stills: Image
Distribution: ?????
Excellent Suspense thriller. And best part is ending line.....Please do not tell anyone about the ending. And I will follow that and not tell anyone what is the ending or suspense.
The film out and out belongs to Dulal Guha and his team of direction and writers.
Also most of the cast and crew is Bengali :)
It was simple, neat and clean execution. I could not stop myself suspecting everyone excluding Ranjeeta, her father and Sudhir Pandey and his constable Asit Sen. I suspected even Goga Kapoor along with rest of cast.
As for some action scenes; the car racing scene was extremely funny.....at such windy speed, Sudhir Pandey's Police Topi was intact without flying anywhere. Even Ranjeeta's hair was not flying. The race driver Mithun had helmet, but Ranjeeta and Sudhir did not wear one. Against Racing Safety rules.
I have always admired Rakhee and Mithun for the variety of roles they picked up while signing for movies.
Rakhee has always looked for meaty roles in her character. Never afraid if that role deglamorised her.
On Mithun - Very nice to see him in sleuth kind of role. Suited him.
And personally I am reminded that how he has never shied in taking up any kind of role that seemed to be entertaining and meaningful. Infact he has ended flooding the market with his own movies that his movies competed with each other, thus compromising getting a blockbuster returns from his starry image. He used to manage making his his movies as Hit, but none became Super Duper Hit. But Mithun has always been like Govinda, going for what his people like. In entertainment business or any business, Mithun is excellent businessman and has been the highest tax payer most of the time. He was from Naxalite background. And even today he remains close to grass roots that way. His loyalties most of the time stay with lesser known people, masses and poor. He has mass appeal because he loves to maintain that and he works for them only. So he never minds going low and cheap to entertain that crowd and to bring his cost or production down can go for any innovative ideas that become bread and butter or career Opportunities for Ordinary people. And all of this well within a business mind that never failed to look for profit. Mithun had this dance show on Bangla TV Star Jalsa. When it became a HIT, he gave this idea for DID to be held across India. Which TV Software, it was I forget...UTV softwares or something. Anyways, then DID took its birth and is now a HIT show. Basically the concept is Mithun Chakroborthy and he gets to be called Grand Master Dada. But its not that openly known that concept is his.
On Mithun - Very nice to see him in sleuth kind of role. Suited him.
And personally I am reminded that how he has never shied in taking up any kind of role that seemed to be entertaining and meaningful. Infact he has ended flooding the market with his own movies that his movies competed with each other, thus compromising getting a blockbuster returns from his starry image. He used to manage making his his movies as Hit, but none became Super Duper Hit. But Mithun has always been like Govinda, going for what his people like. In entertainment business or any business, Mithun is excellent businessman and has been the highest tax payer most of the time. He was from Naxalite background. And even today he remains close to grass roots that way. His loyalties most of the time stay with lesser known people, masses and poor. He has mass appeal because he loves to maintain that and he works for them only. So he never minds going low and cheap to entertain that crowd and to bring his cost or production down can go for any innovative ideas that become bread and butter or career Opportunities for Ordinary people. And all of this well within a business mind that never failed to look for profit. Mithun had this dance show on Bangla TV Star Jalsa. When it became a HIT, he gave this idea for DID to be held across India. Which TV Software, it was I forget...UTV softwares or something. Anyways, then DID took its birth and is now a HIT show. Basically the concept is Mithun Chakroborthy and he gets to be called Grand Master Dada. But its not that openly known that concept is his.
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ReplyDeleteRemember this movie is from the era when the stunts and dance scenes were not well choreographed and technology was not part of film making process. So the technical aspect of the stunt scenes is definitely not very good. What amazed me further is that from 80's standard this is considered to be a B-grade movie and one hardly finds any reference to it.
As far as comparison of MC with Govinda is concerned, it should be other way round. Adding mass-appeal as the USP of a hero was introduced by MC.
Thank you Anveshak.
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