Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Hum

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Jun 28, 2012, 5:22:42 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Hum'''
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+1991 184’ col/scope Hindi
+d Mukul S. Anand pc Romesh Films s Ravi
+Kapoor, Mohan Kaul dial Kader Khan
+lyr Anand Bakshi c W.B. Rao m Laxmikant-
+Pyarelal
+lp Amitabh Bachchan, Kimi Katkar,
+Rajnikant, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa,
+Kadar Khan, Govinda, Deepa Sahi, Shilpa
+Shirodkar, Romesh Sharma, Annu Kapoor
+
+
+Beginning with silhouetted scenes (cf. Sam
+Fuller’s Underworld USA, 1960) in the Bombay
+dockyards recalling Deewar (1975) and
+ending with the star’s bloodshot eyes
+advancing towards the quivering villain,
+Mukul Anand’s hit provides a lexicon of
+Bachchanalia. Tiger (Bachchan), a petty
+collector of protection money, changes sides
+when his friend Gonsalves (Sharma) leads the
+exploited dockers against Mr Big, Bakhtawar
+(Denzongpa). The perfidious Inspector
+Giridhar (Kher) and his sidekick (Kapoor)
+manipulate the bloody confrontations so that
+Bakhtawar is jailed for Gonsalves’ murder, his
+family is exterminated and Tiger, together
+with his two brothers (Rajnikant and Govinda)
+and their families, is banished from the city.
+Years later, after idyllic family scenes and a
+complicated plot involving high-level scams in
+the Indian Army, the Bachchan clan has to go
+into action against a bunch of terrorists in
+pseudo-hippy costumes and equipped with an
+assortment of armaments. The high point of
+the film, refurbishing an ageing Bachchan
+image, is the big musical number Jumma
+chumma (taken from Mori Kante’s Akwaba
+Beach album) with Kimi Katkar performing in
+a bar filled with sweaty, beer-swilling and
+foot-stomping dockers whose collective
+ejaculation takes the form of spraying the star
+with whatever liquid is available. The scene is
+repeated, as the gang-rape connotations are
+replaced by those of movie-star mania, when
+Katkar becomes a star and both she and
+Bachchan are mobbed by crazed fans. The
+film received an unprecedented saturation
+release in over 400 cinemas.
+
+[[Film]]