| 1 | '''Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja''' |
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| 4 | 1992 190’ col/scope Hindi |
| 5 | d Satish Kaushik pc Narasimha Enterprises |
| 6 | p Boney Kapoor s/lyr Javed Akhtar c Baba |
| 7 | Azmi m Laxmikant Pyarelal |
| 8 | lp Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Jackie |
| 9 | Shroff, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever, Bindu, |
| 10 | Deepak Qazir, Ajit Vachhani, Dalip Tahil, |
| 11 | Akash Khurana, Siddharth |
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| 14 | Romeo (Kapoor), the handsome safecracker, |
| 15 | encounters the sexy Seema (Sridevi), a rival in |
| 16 | his profession. The two are hired by the |
| 17 | criminal Chukran (Kher) to steal some |
| 18 | diamonds. In return, Chukran promises to |
| 19 | reveal the name of the man who killed Seema’s |
| 20 | father. Chukran himself had killed both |
| 21 | Seema’s and Romeo’s fathers, and both had |
| 22 | grown up together at an orphanage and were |
| 23 | childhood sweethearts. Chukran, the criminal |
| 24 | mastermind, had also killed his own good twin |
| 25 | brother Manmohanal (Kher again), which |
| 26 | allows him to pose as a millionaire |
| 27 | philanthropist. Jackie Shroff plays the honest |
| 28 | cop, pursuing both Romeo and Chukran, who |
| 29 | is revealed to be Romeo’s long-lost brother. |
| 30 | The film’s mixture of elements from |
| 31 | Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (1955) with the |
| 32 | penny-dreadful world of Spielberg includes the |
| 33 | famous scene of Romeo and Seema hanging |
| 34 | over a cauldron of acid before they are rescued |
| 35 | by Romeo’s pet pigeon Django. Made as a |
| 36 | spectacular and touted as the most expensive |
| 37 | Indan film ever, it was a financial disaster, a feat |
| 38 | later trumped by Ghai’s even more expensive |
| 39 | Trimurti (1995). Most of the money was spent |
| 40 | on spectacular sets and elaborate, sometimes |
| 41 | innovative, song picturisations. |
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