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	'''''Koyla''''' ({{Translation}} Coal) is a 1997 [[India~~\|Indian~~]] [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller]] film directed, co-written and produced by [[Rakesh Roshan]], which stars [[Shah Rukh Khan]], [[Madhuri Dixit]] and [[Amrish Puri]], [[Johnny Lever]], [[Ashok Saraf]], [[Salim Ghouse]], [[Deepshikha]] and [[Himani Shivpuri]] in supporting roles. [[Mohnish Bahl]] makes a special appearance. The film was released worldwide on 18 April 1997 and was declared an average at the box office, grossing over {{INR}}28.5 crore worldwide against a budget of {{INR}}11.90 crore. Critics praised the action sequences performed by Khan, and it emerged as the 8th most successful film of 1997 in India. Some scenes of the film were shot in [[Tawang]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]].		'''''Koyla''''' ({{Translation}} Coal) is a 1997 [[India]]n [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller]] film directed, co-written and produced by [[Rakesh Roshan]], which stars [[Shah Rukh Khan]], [[Madhuri Dixit]] and [[Amrish Puri]], [[Johnny Lever]], [[Ashok Saraf]], [[Salim Ghouse]], [[Deepshikha]] and [[Himani Shivpuri]] in supporting roles. [[Mohnish Bahl]] makes a special appearance. The film was released worldwide on 18 April 1997 and was declared an average at the box office, grossing over {{INR}}28.5 crore worldwide against a budget of {{INR}}11.90 crore. Critics praised the action sequences performed by Khan, and it emerged as the 8th most successful film of 1997 in India. Some scenes of the film were shot in [[Tawang]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]].

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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{{short description|1997 film by Rakesh Roshan}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Koyla
| image = Koyla.jpg
| caption = DVD Cover
| director = [[Rakesh Roshan]]
| producer = Rakesh Roshan
| writer = Anwar Khan (dialogues)
| screenplay = Ravi Kapoor [[Sachin Bhowmick]]
| story = Rakesh Roshan
| starring = [[Shah Rukh Khan]] [[Madhuri Dixit]] [[Amrish Puri]]
| music = [[Rajesh Roshan]]
| cinematography = Sameer Arya
| editing = Sanjay Verma
| studio = Filmkraft Productions Pvt. Ltd.
| distributor = [[Yash Raj Films]] [[Sony Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1997|04|18|India}}
| runtime = 167 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{Estimation}} {{INR|12 [[crore]]}}<ref name="BOI financials">{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=2690|title=Koyla - Movie - Box Office India|website=www.boxofficeindia.com}}</ref>{{better|reason=Box Office India includes print and advertising costs in their budget figures, out of step with all other periodicals across the globe. Budget is cost of production, excluding advertising.|date=April 2020}} {{small|(Note: figure contains print and advertising costs)}}
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|28.5 crore}}<ref name="BOI financials" />
}}

'''''Koyla''''' ({{Translation}} Coal) is a 1997 [[India|Indian]] [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller]] film directed, co-written and produced by [[Rakesh Roshan]], which stars [[Shah Rukh Khan]], [[Madhuri Dixit]] and [[Amrish Puri]], [[Johnny Lever]], [[Ashok Saraf]], [[Salim Ghouse]], [[Deepshikha]] and [[Himani Shivpuri]] in supporting roles. [[Mohnish Bahl]] makes a special appearance. The film was released worldwide on 18th April 1997 and was declared an average at the box office, grossing over {{INR}}28.5 crore worldwide against a budget of {{INR}}11.90 crore. Critics praised the action sequences performed by Khan, and it emerged as the 8th most successful film of 1997 in India. Some scenes of the film were shot in [[Tawang]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]].

==Plot==
{{plot|date=September 2020}}

Shankar is a handsome mute man, raised by the powerful Raja, to whom he is completely loyal. However, Raja treats him like a slave. He is also tormented and unnecessarily beaten by Raja's younger brother Brijwa, a sadistic and violent [[psychopath]]. The elderly Raja is a ruthless and cruel man with a large appetite for young women who kills anyone who dares to defy him, however lately he has proven to be unable to perform in the bedroom and continues to fall asleep as he is bored of his beautiful secretary Bindiya, who lusts after Shankar. His doctor suggests a younger woman, who may be able to satisfy him.

One day Raja sees Gauri, a happy young innocent village girl, and begins to dream about her and wishes to marry her, however, despite her greedy aunt and uncle want her to marry Raja, Gauri wants to see a picture of her future husband first.

Aware that Gauri would instantly reject the elderly Raja, he sends her a photo of Shankar. Gauri instantly falls in love with him and the wedding proceeds. However, before the ceremony is completed, she discovers that it's not Shankar whom she is marrying and faints; Raja orders the priest to continue with the ceremony, even though the marriage would be invalid while Gauri is unconscious.

When Gauri regains consciousness, she discovers Raja trying to "[[consummate]]" with her and learns they're married, which shocks her. She refuses to submit herself to him by attempting [[suicide]], so he imprisons and tortures her. One night Gauri tries to commit suicide, however, Shankar and his friend save her and she finally meets Shankar. She slaps and accuses him of ruining her life. however. Shankar's friend reveals that Shankar was innocent in this whole affair, a shocked Gauri tries to apologize, but Shankar leaves before she can.

One night, Bindya is frustrated by Raja's inability to perform and goes to Shankar, but instead finds Raja's brother Brijwa waiting for her. He attempts to rape her, but Shankar stops him. For an unknown reason, he is not able to proceed to thrash his master's brother and he takes a beating and gets framed for attempting to [[rape]] Bindya by Brijwa and is badly beaten by Raja. Bindya confesses that she went to Shankar and is then sent to a brothel controlled by Chandi Bai as punishment by Raja.

When Gauri's brother Ashok comes to see her, Raja forces her to lie to him which she does and says that she is happy as Raja threatens to kill him if she refuses, however, Shankar reveals the truth to him by writing in the dirt and Raja kills him with the help of Brijwa when he comes to rescue her. Moments before he dies, Ashok makes Shankar promise him to save his sister; Shankar and Gauri flee Raja's mansion.

With the help of an old friend, a corrupt DIG, an enraged Raja begins a murderous search to find Gauri and Shankar, however, after a long chase through the mountains and jungle, Shankar uses the survival skills he learned as Raja's servant to kill Raja's men, Raja and his men leave due to being disadvantaged. During that time, Gauri and Shankar begin to fall in love. But unexpectedly, Raja, who has returned with reinforcements, sees Shankar and Gauri near a waterfall and manage to capture them by shooting Gauri in the arm.

Shankar is brutally beaten by Brijwa and the corrupt DIG and Raja slits his throat, then leaves him to die in the mountains; and Gauri is sold to a brothel after Raja discovers that she loves Shankar. There, Bindya saves Gauri from what had been done to her, and in the process, she eventually gets killed by Brijwa. Shankar is found and saved by a village boy who brings him to and his grandfather (a healer) who operates on his throat while he is still unconscious. The healer, who discovers that Shankar is not mute by birth, is able to repair some of the damaged nerves in Shankar's throat, enabling him to speak.

While recovering, Shankar recalls that when he was a boy, his father discovered diamonds in the coal mine, however he and his wife were murdered in front of Shankar by two mysterious men; when young Shankar threatened to tell his parents' colleagues what they did, someone came up from behind him and shoved hot coals into his throat, rendering him mute. Raja who had known Shankar's parents ordered the police to kill those men but unknown to everyone, Shankar included, the police led by the DIG only pretended to kill the men while Raja adopted Shankar. Shankar recovers and returns, first, he fights and kills Brijwa and is reunited with Gauri after rescuing her from the same men that killed his parents, and bought Gauri from the brothel, killing one of the men in the process. Simultaneously, Shankar discovers that Raja was the person who made him mute and who ordered his parents to be killed so he could steal their wealth.

With Gauri's help he kills Raja's other henchman and then reveals the crimes of Raja to Raja's coal miners at which Gauri arrives with her uncle and aunt forcing them to admit their involvement in making her marry Raja. Raja's doctor and his son turn against Raja, notifying everyone that Raja not only deceived Gauri but has been responsible for numerous killings as well as rapes before ordering everyone to throw rocks at him and his men. In the chaos the DIG scares everyone away by throwing grenades but is killed by Shankar who then chases and finally manages to fight and corner Raja, who begs for his life trying to give Shankar reasons for why he should live by pointing out that he adopted him and saved his life, but Shankar disregards this by counterpointing that Raja had adopted him to make him a slave and after dodging a pickaxe thrown at him by Raja kills the evil man by spilling oil and coal around Raja and through that setting him on fire with a burning rock. At last, Shankar and Gauri embrace each other, finally at peace.

==Cast==
* [[Shah Rukh Khan]] as Shankar Hariya Thakur
* [[Madhuri Dixit]] as Gauri
* [[Amrish Puri]] as Raja Sahab
* [[Johnny Lever]] as Chhote (Shankar's friend)
* [[Deepshikha]] as Bindya
* [[Salim Ghouse]] as Brijwa (Raja Saab's brother)
* [[Ashok Saraf]] as Raja Saab's doctor
* [[Ranjeet]] as Dilawar
* [[Jack Gaud]] as Ranveer
* [[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Rawat]] as D.I.G. Saxena
* [[Kunika]] as Rasili
* [[Himani Shivpuri]] as Chandabai (Madam)
* [[Mohnish Behl]] as Ashok Shinde (special appearance)
* [[Razzak Khan]] as a party guest
* [[Shubha Khote]] as Gauri's aunt
* [[Suresh Chatwal]] as Gauri's uncle

==Production==

===Development===

[[Rakesh Roshan]] got the idea of making ''Koyla'' when he was shooting for his another directorial venture, which was delayed-since 1992 and finally released in 2000, titled ''[[Karobaar: The Business of Love]]''. The film tells the story of a simple-hearted village girl who falls in love with her torturing husband's mute servant and how the mute man takes revenge against his boss.

===Casting===

Roshan approached [[Sunny Deol]] for the role of Shankar after watching the latter's action scenes in the 1996 films ''[[Jeet (1996 film)|Jeet]]'' and ''[[Ghatak: Lethal]]''. But due to unknown reasons, Deol rejected the role. Upon his refusal, the role was offered to [[Shah Rukh Khan]], who had worked with Roshan in his films ''[[King Uncle]]'' (1993) and ''[[Karan Arjun]]'' (1995).

[[Sonali Bendre]] was Roshan's first choice to play the role of Gauri. Later, Roshan replaced her with [[Madhuri Dixit]] for unknown reasons. The film marked the second collaboration between Khan and Dixit following ''[[Anjaam]]'' (1994) after which they also starred in ''[[Dil To Pagal Hai]]'' (also in 1997), ''[[Devdas (2002 Hindi film)|Devdas]]'' (2002) and ''[[Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam]]'' (2002).

===Filming===

[[Principal photography]] of ''Koyla'' began in June 1996. A song of the film, ''Tanhai Tanhai'', and some of the scenes, were shot in [[Tawang]]. Other scenes were also filmed in [[Hyderabad]] and south areas of [[Ooty]].

During the shooting of the film's one of popular songs, ''Ghungte Mein Chanda'', Khan fractured his leg. The other song of the film, ''Dekha Tujhe Toh'', was to be therefore exited from the film because of his fracture, but after Khan's leg got fully well, the song was shot. The sound of real pots were used for the background music of ''Dekha Tujhe Toh''. A scene of the film was loosely inspired from the 1994 [[Hollywood]] film ''[[Forrest Gump]]''.

== Soundtrack ==
Dekha tujhe to became very popular upon release.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! SL No. !! Title !! Singer(s)!! Length
|-
| 1
| "Tanhai Tanhai"
| [[Alka Yagnik]], [[Udit Narayan]]
| 05:35
|-
| 2
| "Badan Juda Hote Hain"
| [[Kumar Sanu]], Preeti Singh, [[Falguni Pathak]]
| 10:30
|-
| 3
| "Dekha Tujhe To"
| Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
| 07:32
|-
| 4
| "[[Sanson Ki Mala Pe]]"
|[[Kavita Krishnamurthy]]
| 06:47
|-
| 5
| "Bhang Ke Nashe Mein"
| Alka Yagnik, [[Aditya Narayan]]
| 06:07
|-
| 6
| "Ghunghte Mein Chanda Hai"
| Udit Narayan
| 06:17
|}

== Box office ==

''Koyla'' grossed {{INRConvert|25.91|c}} in India and $600,000 ({{INR|link=Indian rupee}}2.14 [[crore]]) in other countries, for a worldwide total of {{INRConvert|28.05|c}}, against its {{INRConvert|12|c}} budget. It had a worldwide opening weekend of {{INRConvert|5.39|c}}, and grossed {{INRConvert|9.60|c}} in its first week.<ref name="BOI financials" /> It is the [[Bollywood films of 1997|9th-highest-grossing Bollywood film of 1997]] worldwide.<ref>https://www.boxofficeindia.com/hit-down.php?txtYearlyData=1990-1999&year=1997</ref>

===India===

It opened on Friday, April 18, 1997, across 275 screens, and had a record opening of {{INRConvert|4.06|c}} nett. The film shared the record for the highest opening day with previous record opener ''[[Trimurti (film)|Trimurti]]'' which also grossed {{INRConvert|1.06|c}} nett on its opening day. It went on to break {{INRConvert|3.07|c}} nett opening weekend record set by ''Trimurti'', and recorded highest ever opening weekend of {{INRConvert|3.10|c}} nett. It had a first week of {{INRConvert|5.52|c}} nett. The film earned a total of {{INRConvert|14.88|c}} nett.<ref name="BOI financials" />

===Overseas===

It earned $600,000 ({{INR|link=Indian rupee}}2.14 [[crore]]) outside India.<ref name="BOI financials" />

{| class="wikitable" style="float:centre; width:45%; text-align:center;"
|+ ''''Koyla'''' worldwide collections breakdown
|-
! Territory
! Territory wise Collections break-up
|-
| rowspan="3" | India
| ''Nett Gross'': {{INRConvert|14.88|c}}
|-
| ''Distributor share'': {{INRConvert|8.36|c}}
|-
| ''Total Gross'': {{INRConvert|25.91|c}}
|-
|| International ''(Outside India)''
| $600,000 ({{INR|link=Indian rupee}}2.14 [[crore]])
|-
||'''Worldwide'''
| {{INRConvert|28.05|c}}
|}

== Awards ==
[[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role]] - [[Amrish Puri]] - Nominated

== References ==
<references/>

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0136352|title=Koyla}}

{{Rakesh Roshan}}

[[Category:1997 films]]
[[Category:1990s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1997 action thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian action thriller films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Arunachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian films about revenge]]
[[Category:Films directed by Rakesh Roshan]]
[[Category:Films scored by Rajesh Roshan]]
[[Category:Masala films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Sachin Bhowmick]]
[[Category:Films about rape in India]]
[[Category:Indian rape and revenge films]]
[[Category:Tawang Town]]

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