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{{Infobox film
| name = Gumrah
| image = Gumrah (1993 film).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Promotional poster
| director = [[Mahesh Bhatt]]
| producer = [[Yash Johar]]
| narrator =
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = [[Sanjay Dutt]]<br>[[Sridevi]]<br>[[Anupam Kher]]<br>[[Rahul Roy]]
| music = [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
| cinematography = [[Pravin Bhatt]]
| writer = {{ubl|Sujit Sen|[[Robin Bhatt]]}}
| screenplay =
| editing = Sanjay Sankla
| studio = [[Dharma Productions]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|1993|09|24}}
| runtime = 150 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Gumrah''''' (English transl. mislead) is a 1993 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[ action crime]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Mahesh Bhatt]] in a screenplay written by Sujit Sen and Robin Bhatt. The film stars [[Sanjay Dutt]], [[Sridevi]], and [[Anupam Kher]].

Loosely based on the Australian miniseries ''[[Bangkok Hilton]]'', in the film, seeing Roshni's talent for singing, Rahul gives her a break and they eventually fall in love. On a trip to [[Hong Kong]], she is arrested for possession of cocaine, not knowing that it is all Rahul's doing.

''Gumrah'' was critically well received upon its release with major appreciation drawn towards Sridevi's performance, which many consider as one of the finest performances of her career and earned her a nomination for [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] at the [[39th Filmfare Awards]]. The film was also a commercial success grossing {{INRConvert|545|m}} worldwide against its {{INRConvert|200|m}} budget. Thus it became the [[Bollywood films of 1993|seventh highest-grossing film of 1993]].<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=3785
|title=Gumrah— 18 May 5 p.m.
|date=16 May 2003
|publisher=[[Screen Weekly]]
|access-date=2009-09-09}}</ref>

==Plot==
Roshni ([[Sridevi]]) is the only child of Sharda Chadda ([[Reema Lagoo]]). Her father, Prakash Chadda ([[Anupam Kher]]), left before she was born and she has no knowledge of where he went. After her mother learns she has a fatal illness, she asks her family friend to take Roshni to Mumbai so she learns to live without her and be independent. Roshni is introduced to Rahul Malhotra ([[Rahul Roy]]) and they share a mutual attraction. When he learns that she is an aspiring singer, he assists in her career so she becomes popular. She has a devoted fan named Jagannath alias Jaggu ([[Sanjay Dutt]]), who is a petty thief. He is in love with her, but she rejects him. Roshni's mother reveals on her deathbed that Roshni's father is alive and had been forced to abandon his family over a government level criminal accusations exacerbated by Roshni's grandmother's reluctance to allow him back home. She tells Roshni that that she is free to go find her father.During a trip, she and Rahul take to [[Hong Kong]] to look for her father, Roshni is arrested for trafficking cocaine and Rahul disappears. Jaggu brings an attorney, but she is quickly found guilty and sentenced to death, remanded to a prison where inmates are kept barefoot and in squalid conditions. Jaggu visits the prison and runs afoul of two guards, themselves lovers, who beat him in front of Roshni. The attorney works to help them escape. A fight ensues between Roshni and the female guard, in which the latter is killed. The warden intervenes and is killed by Jaggu, they escape and return to India. At the airport, Prakash is questioned by the police and Roshni learns that he is her father, and that he had fled the country years earlier when he has been wrongfully accused of treason. Later at Rahul's house, Rahul admits that he had been dealing with drugs that resulted in Roshni's arrest. She slaps him for deceiving her and gets him arrested. With Prakash's blessings, Roshni and Jaggu get married.

==Cast==
{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
*[[Sanjay Dutt]] as Jagan "Jaggu" Nath
*[[Sridevi]] as Roshni Chadha
*[[Rahul Roy]] as Rahul Malhotra (Main Antagonist)
*[[Anupam Kher]] as Prakash Chadha
*[[Soni Razdan]] as Angela
*[[Reema Lagoo]] as Sharda Chadha
*[[Kunika]] as Female cop in Hong Kong
*[[Tom Alter]] as Inspector Phillip
*[[Bob Christo]] as Male cop in Hong Kong
*[[Anang Desai]] as Ahuja
*[[Laxmikant Berde]] as Pakya
*[[Kamini Kaushal]] as Sharda's mom
*[[Avtaar Gill]] as Roshni Uncle
*[[Mushtaq Khan]] as Police Inspector
*[[Mahesh Anand]] as Tiger, Opposition Fighter in Hong Kong
{{div col end}}

==Reception==
The soundtrack for the film was the second successive hit (after ''[[Khalnayak]]'') for the music director duo [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]].
<ref>
{{cite journal
|year=1993
|title=Cine blitz
|journal=Cine Blitz
|publisher=Blitz Publications
|volume=19
|pages=98
|issn=0971-9970
|oclc=18389308
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjIqAAAAYAAJ&q=six+track+album+of}}</ref><ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=13410
|title=Title Track
|date=8 September 2006
|publisher=[[Screen India]]
|access-date=2009-09-09}}</ref> When it screened in Nigeria, it is remarked that audiences loved and knew the film. "They cheered at tense points, thumping their seats and stamping their feet. At other points they mimicked dialogue and shouted out responses to the heroes and villains, the film was also well received at the Indian box office and was the seventh highest grossing Hindi film of 1993."<ref name="Book1">
{{cite book
|last=Larkin
|first=Brian
|title=Signal and noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria
|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]
|year=2008
|edition=illustrated
|pages=146–147
|isbn=9780822341086
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kr8s3YlZSGcC&q=%22Gumrah%22%2C%22Mahesh%20Bhatt%22&pg=PA147}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! # !! Title !! Singer(s)
|-
| 1
| "Main Tera Ashiq Hoon"
| [[Roop Kumar Rathod]]
|-
| 2
| "Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar"
| Talat Aziz, [[Kavita Krishnamurthy]]
|-
| 3
| "Yeh Hai Sharabkhana"
| [[Asha Bhosle]]
|-
| 4
| "Duniya Kismat Aur Khuda"
| Roop Kumar Rathod
|-
| 5
| "Tere Pyar Ko Salam O Sanam"
| [[Alka Yagnik]]
|-
| 6
| "Ram Kasam Mera Bada Naam Ho Gaya"
| [[Vinod Rathod]]
|}

{{Mahesh Bhatt}}
{{Dharma Productions}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gumrah (1993 Film)}}
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1993 films]]
[[Category:1990s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Mahesh Bhatt]]
[[Category:Films scored by Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
[[Category:Indian crime drama films]]
[[Category:Films set in Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Indian action thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian thriller films]]

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