'''Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja'''


1992 190’ col/scope Hindi
d Satish Kaushik pc Narasimha Enterprises
p Boney Kapoor s/lyr Javed Akhtar c Baba
Azmi m Laxmikant Pyarelal
lp Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Jackie
Shroff, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever, Bindu,
Deepak Qazir, Ajit Vachhani, Dalip Tahil,
Akash Khurana, Siddharth


Romeo (Kapoor), the handsome safecracker,
encounters the sexy Seema (Sridevi), a rival in
his profession. The two are hired by the
criminal Chukran (Kher) to steal some
diamonds. In return, Chukran promises to
reveal the name of the man who killed Seema’s
father. Chukran himself had killed both
Seema’s and Romeo’s fathers, and both had
grown up together at an orphanage and were
childhood sweethearts. Chukran, the criminal
mastermind, had also killed his own good twin
brother Manmohanal (Kher again), which
allows him to pose as a millionaire
philanthropist. Jackie Shroff plays the honest
cop, pursuing both Romeo and Chukran, who
is revealed to be Romeo’s long-lost brother.
The film’s mixture of elements from
Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (1955) with the
penny-dreadful world of Spielberg includes the
famous scene of Romeo and Seema hanging
over a cauldron of acid before they are rescued
by Romeo’s pet pigeon Django. Made as a
spectacular and touted as the most expensive
Indan film ever, it was a financial disaster, a feat
later trumped by Ghai’s even more expensive
Trimurti (1995). Most of the money was spent
on spectacular sets and elaborate, sometimes
innovative, song picturisations.

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