Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Tiranga

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Jun 28, 2012, 8:44:42 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Tiranga

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+'''Tiranga'''
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+aka Tirangaa
+1992 168’ col/scope Hindi
+d/p Mehul Kumar pc M.K. Pics s K.K. Singh
+lyr Santosh Anand c Russi Bilimoria
+m Laxmikant Pyarelal
+lp Raaj Kumar, Nana Patekar, Varsha
+Usgaonkar, Harish, Mamta Kulkarni, Suresh
+Oberoi, Sonika Gill, Manohar Singh, Deepak
+Shirke, Rakesh Bedi, Alok Nath
+
+
+Of the many ‘nationalist’ films made since the
+late 1980s (cf. Roja, 1992; 1942: A Love Story
+and Sainyam, both 1994) this commercial
+success is arguably the most bizarre. In order to
+overthrow the dreaded anti-national terrorist
+leader Pralaynath Gendalswamy (Shirke), the
+government of India hires Brigadier Suryadev
+Singh (Raaj Kumar), providing him with a
+secret commando hideout, secret access to the
+Prime Minister (Nath) and legal carte blanche
+which includes a police massacre of innocent
+people simply in order to enable Singh to
+become a convict, a move apparently
+necessary for his plans. Singh in turn hires the
+renegade cop Shivajirao Wagle (Patekar) and,
+after various skirmishes with the bad guys, the
+two men invade the villain’s hideout and
+scuttle his plan to destabilise the nation with
+rocket attacks on Independence day. The
+chillingly fascist arguments deployed in other
+Patekar-Mehul Kumar collaborations (cf.
+Krantiveer, 1994) are here partially undone
+by the surreal comic strip quality of the film,
+incarnated in Raaj Kumar’s flashy dress and
+uniquely rhetorical dialogue style, but
+extended into the plot by a plethora of smaller
+characters and by the filmmaker’s fascination
+with lethal gadgets with flashing lights (as in
+campy sci-fi effects). The plot extends into
+other areas as the villain’s equally bad son
+Rasiknath impregnates Radha, daughter of the
+evil Central Minister Jeevanlal Tandel (Singh),
+who in turn accuses Sanjiv, son of the fearless
+cop Rudrapratap Chouhan (Oberoi), of having
+raped her, thus providing extra motivation for
+the good guys, as if the filmmakers obscurely
+realised that their brand of nationalism was not
+by itself up to the task. At least some of the
+comic strip effects appear to have been
+intentional, such as the character of Khabrilal
+(Bedi), a police informer who speaks like a
+Doordarshan news reader and whose entry is
+always accompanied by the signature tune of
+Doordarshan’s news programme.
+
+[[Film]]