Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Krantiveer

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Jul 3, 2012, 4:42:45 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Krantiveer'''
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+1994 159’ col/scope Hindi
+d/p Mehul Kumar pc Mehul Movies
+s K.K. Singh lyr Sameer c Russi Bilimoria
+m Anand Milind
+lp Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Atul
+Agnihotri, Mamta Kulkarni, Paresh Rawal,
+Tinnu Anand, Danny Denzongpa, Farida Jalal
+Local Maharashtrian ‘anti-hero’ Patekar
+expands his vigilante image (cf. Ankush, 1985;
+Prahaar, 1992) into his first big-budget, solo
+star vehicle. He plays Pratap, the wayward
+grandson of a Gandhian nationalist. Evicted
+from his house for dishonesty, which caused
+the death of his grandfather, he grows up and
+collects rent for a slum-owner (Rawal),
+maintaining a fervent contempt for legality and
+a belief in the basic rightness of taking the law
+into one’s own hands, an ideology repeatedly
+endorsed in the film. From this perspective he
+takes on the might of the corrupt builder Yograj
+(Anand) and the gang boss Cheetah
+(Denzongpa). In the end, sentenced to death,
+he delivers, directly to camera, a spine-chilling
+harangue ostensibly in favour of communal
+harmony, but in fact directly invoking the
+language associated with the Shiv Sena leader
+Bal Thackeray (cf. Anand Patwardhan’s
+Father, Son and Holy War, 1994). The film uses
+the fearless journalist Megha Dixit (Kapadia),
+raped in the film by Cheetah, to reinforce its
+basic message that Pratap’s lumpen-brutalism,
+directly connected with Shiv Sena gangsterism,
+is the legitimate inheritor of the nationalist
+freedom struggle. It also continues director
+Mehul Kumar’s previous odes to macho
+posturing (Tiranga, 1992). The song Love rap,
+picturised on romantic lead Agnihotri and
+Kulkarni, assisted the film’s ominous success.
+
+[[Film]]