Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Pratighaat

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Jul 17, 2012, 8:33:15 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Pratighaat'''
+1987 164’ col Hindi
+d/ed/co-sc N. Chandra pc Usha Kiron Movies
+p A. Rama Rao, Ramoji Rao st/co-sc T. Krishna
+dial Jalees lyr/m Ravindra Jain c H. Laxmi
+Narayan lp Sujata Mehta, Arvind Kumar, Charan Raj,
+Rohini Hattangadi, Mohan Bhandari, Ashok
+Saraf, K. Srinivasa Rao, A. Rama Rao, Nana
+Patekar
+
+
+Continuing on a more ambitious scale his
+contributions to lumpenised political activity in
+India (cf. Ankush, 1985), Chandra pits a
+violent criminal-political gang against a small
+group of morally upright citizens in the
+fictional town of Dharampura. The bad guys
+are led by the dreaded gangster Kali Prasad
+(Charan Raj), who runs his own court and
+police with the help of a crooked lawyer
+(Saraf). On the side of the good is the young
+college lecturer Laxmi (Mehta), the fiery Durga
+(Hattangadi) whose husband was killed by
+Kali, and former policeman Karamveer
+(Patekar), who goes mad when his wife is
+raped by the gangster. Laxmi is stripped in
+public by Kali, after which - having reformed
+her unruly students - she contests a local
+election with their help in an effort to defeat
+the villain. Kali wins the election through booth
+capturing and terror. In the end Laxmi kills the
+gangster in a public gathering, using his
+election symbol of the axe, invoking in the
+process the legend of Parashuram.
+
+[[Film]]