| 1 | '''Hathyar''' |
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| 4 | 1989 186’ col/scope Hindi |
| 5 | d/st J.P. Dutta p H.A. Nadiadwala dial O.P. Dutta |
| 6 | lyr Hasan Kamal c Ishwar Bidri m Laxmikant- |
| 7 | Pyarelal |
| 8 | lp Dharmendra, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, |
| 9 | Amrita Singh, Sangeeta Bijlani, Kulbhushan |
| 10 | Kharbanda, Paresh Rawal |
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| 12 | |
| 13 | One of Sanjay Dutt’s early hits in his current |
| 14 | loner mould. In distant Rajasthan, Avinash |
| 15 | (Dutt) and Suman (Singh) are married as |
| 16 | children. As they grow up, feudal clan rivalry |
| 17 | between their families causes Avinash to leave |
| 18 | his wife and to move to Bombay with his |
| 19 | pacifist parents (Kharbanda and Rawal) where |
| 20 | he becomes involved in gang violence. The |
| 21 | fearsome Khushal Khan (Dharmendra), |
| 22 | protector of Avinash’s family, has a weakness: |
| 23 | his good younger brother Samiulla Khan |
| 24 | (Kapoor) will not talk to him. Eventually, a |
| 25 | third storyline emerges as the ‘real’ villain |
| 26 | comes on the scene: a Tamil gangster (Rawal) |
| 27 | who caused Khushal Khan to become a |
| 28 | criminal. All the characters struggle to achieve a |
| 29 | degree of control over their circumstances |
| 30 | while the director undercuts their efforts by |
| 31 | resorting to ‘mythic’, overpowering Bombay |
| 32 | locations (N. Chandra and Mukul S. Anand |
| 33 | territory) which nevertheless give the |
| 34 | impression of being sets because of the patchy |
| 35 | lighting, the overbearing soundtrack or the |
| 36 | relentless shot-reverse-shot editing pattern. |
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