Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Prahaar

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Jun 28, 2012, 5:35:04 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Prahaar'''
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+1991 166’ col/scope Hindi
+d/co-s Nana Patekar pc Divya Films Combine
+co-s Sujit Sen dial Hriday Lani lyr Mangesh
+Kulkarni c Debu Deodhar m Laxmikant-
+Pyarelal
+lp Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Madhuri
+Dixit, Habib Tanvir
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+
+Patekar’s weirdly fascist fantasy of a military
+Pied Piper followed by naked boys about to be
+transformed into a glorious army of bullies
+which will sort out the mess created by
+‘emasculated’ people in the real world. The first
+half of the film lovingly portrays a dictatorial
+Major Chouhan (Patekar himself) subjecting the
+youthful male bodies to some gruelling tests.
+We learn that the major’s Messianism is rooted
+in a tragic childhood: his mother was sold as a
+prostitute and he spends the rest of his life
+compensating for the helplessness he felt then.
+When one of the major’s wards is killed by
+gangsters extracting protection money from his
+father, the local baker, Patekar confronts the
+thugs, but the ordinary folk in the area do not
+understand the need for drastic action and the
+hero is forced to massacre the villains in the
+dead of night, watched only by the widow of
+one of their former victims. The climax is, in
+the light of subsequent events in Bombay, a
+chillingly deliberate orgy of violence. The
+ensuing court case sentences Patekar to a
+lunatic asylum, where he fantasises about his
+naked, pubescent army.
+
+[[Film]]