'''Khuda Gawah'''


1992 193’ col/scope Hindi
d Mukul S. Anand pc Glamour Films
s/co-dial Santosh Saroj co-dial Rajkumar Bedi
lyr Anand Bakshi c W.B. Rao m Laxmikant-
Pyarelal
lp Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Danny
Denzongpa, Nagarjuna, Vikram Gokhale,
Shilpa Shirodkar, Kiran Kumar


Bachchan and the successful team that had
made Hum (1991) went on to make this film
which starts in an unspecified period in tribal
Afghanistan. The hero Badshah Khan
(Bachchan) goes to India to avenge the killing
of heroine Benazir’s (Sridevi) father. He does
so, but in the process becomes involved in an
honour pact with a Rajput police officer
(Gokhale), which eventually forces Badshah to
take responsibility for the cop’s death when the
latter is murdered by a drug-smuggling bandit
(Kumar). Later, when an old Badshah is
released from jail, his daughter, whom he has
never seen, has grown into a second Benazir
(Sridevi again), forcing Badshah to come to
terms with his past. He overwhelms the
narcotics bandit with the help of two young
police officers (Nagarjuna and Shirodkar) who
are more or less his wards by virtue of the old
honour pact. Badshah’s action also reconciles
him with his by-now nearly demented wife
Benazir. The complicated plot is told via an
extravagant camera style including numerous
shots, often from a helicopter, of deserts and
mountain vistas. The film is dedicated to
Manmohan Desai.

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