| 1 | '''Darr''' |
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| 4 | 1993 178’ col/scope Hindi |
| 5 | d/p Yash Chopra pc Yash-Raj Films |
| 6 | st/sc Honey Irani dial Javed Siddiqui lyr Anand |
| 7 | Bakshi c Manmohan Singh |
| 8 | m Shiv-Hari |
| 9 | lp Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla, Shah Rukh |
| 10 | Khan, Annu Kapoor, Tanvi Azmi, Raj Hans, |
| 11 | Neena Softa, Piloo Wadia, Vikas Anand, Dalip |
| 12 | Tahil, Anupam Kher |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | The valiant Naval officer Sunil (Deol) is to |
| 16 | marry the beautiful Kiran (Chawla). The |
| 17 | problem, contextualising most of the film, is |
| 18 | that she is stalked by the shadowy figure of the |
| 19 | psychotic Rahul (Khan). Complicating the |
| 20 | problem is the fact that Rahul is the son of |
| 21 | Sunil’s superior in the Navy (Tahil). The film |
| 22 | claims to introduce an emotion overlooked in |
| 23 | the romance genre: fear. In the process it |
| 24 | dwells, sometimes effectively, on numerous |
| 25 | noir conventions including that of the |
| 26 | murderous villain’s gaze being replicated by |
| 27 | the camera’s POV, putting the viewer in the |
| 28 | position of the murderous voyeur. The film |
| 29 | continued Shah Rukh Khan’s exploration of |
| 30 | ‘negative’ roles considered taboo for leading |
| 31 | men (cf. Baazigar, also 1993). It had one |
| 32 | major song hit, Jadoo teri nazar. |
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