Ghatak: Lethal

Ghatak:
Ghatak:
	File:GhatakLethal.jpg
Directed by	Rajkumar Santoshi
Produced by	Rajkumar Santoshi
Screenplay by	Rajkumar Santoshi; K. K. Raina
Story by	Rajkumar Santoshi
Starring	Sunny Deol; Meenakshi Seshadri; Danny Denzongpa; Amrish Puri
Music by	R. D. Burman; Anu Malik (songs); Vanraj Bhatia (score)
Cinematography	Ishwar R. Bidri
Edited by	V. N. Mayekar
Production; company	Santoshi Productions
Distributed by	B4U Entertainment
Release date	15 November 1996;
Running time	158 min
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹440 million (US$6.2 million) (Original); ₹755 million (US$11 million) (Adjusted)

Ghatak: Lethal is an Indian 1996 Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, starring Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadri, and Amrish Puri, while Danny Denzongpa plays the antagonist. Marking Santoshi's third collaboration with Deol, Seshadri, and Puri after Ghayal (1990) and Damini (1993), it earned ₹440 million worldwide to become the fourth highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year, and won three awards including Best Supporting Actor for Puri at the 42nd Filmfare Awards, where it was also nominated for three other awards: Best Director for Santoshi, Best Actor for Deol, and Best Villain for Denzongpa. Ghatak is Seshadri's last film to date. The film was later remade in Telugu as Aapthudu starring Rajasekhar and Anjala Zaveri.

Plot[edit]

Kashi (Sunny Deol) is a kind-hearted wrestler and the dutiful son of Shambhu Nath (Amrish Puri) living in Banaras. Shambhu Nath, who was a freedom fighter awarded with Tambra Patra, is an honourable and respectable man in town. Kashi comes to Mumbai with his father for his medical treatment for his throat and stays with his brother Shiv Nath (K. K. Raina). Kashi meets Gauri (Meenakshi Seshadri) and starts liking her. He learns that the colony is being terrorized by a tyrannical gangster named Katya (Danny Denzongpa) along with his other six brothers. Before Kashi's arrival, a resident named Sachdev (Om Puri) tries to initiate revolt against Katya, but gets ruthlessly killed by him, thereby making Malti (Ila Arun), wife of Sachdev, go mad. Katya and his brothers become enemies with Kashi when he beats up their goons when they were beating up Malti. Shambhu Nath is later diagnosed with throat cancer and has only a few days to live.

When Kashi refuses to be a member of Katya's gang, Katya become ferocious and makes Shambhu Nath a dog in front of the entire society. After a series of dramatic events, Shiv Nath is murdered by Jeena (Mukesh Rishi), one of Katya's brothers. Kashi then kills Antya (Deep Dhillon) and gets arrested. Meanwhile, Shambhu Nath dies of cancer. When Kashi was going to disperse his father's ashes at the Ghat with the police, the police van gets attacked by Katya's brothers and goons. Kashi kills all of them including Katya's three brothers and reaches Katya's home. There he kills Jeena, thereby causing only two brothers to survive, including Katya. As Katya made Kashi's father dog, he made Kashi as an ox and takes him to the colony to re-establish his supremacy. But Kashi stands up and Katya's entire gang is then attacked by the residents. The sixth brother Bhiku (Tinu Verma) is then killed by the mob. Kashi makes Katya a dog and asks him to bark. Katya, having no choice, barks on Kashi's instructions. Kashi then kills Katya and the colony gets freedom from his tyranny.

Cast[edit]

Actor	Character	Role	Notes
Sunny Deol	Kashi Nath	Wrestler from Benaras
Meenakshi Seshadri	Gauri
Danny Denzongpa	Katya	Main Antagonist
Amrish Puri	Shambhu Nath	Kashi's Father
K. K. Raina	Shivnath	Elder Brother and Sister in Law of Kashinaath	Shop Owner
Sheela Sharma	Sheela	Elder Brother and Sister in Law of Kashinaath
Om Puri	Sachdev	Shop Owners	Special Appearance
Viju Khote
Anjan Srivastav
Suresh Bhagwat	Gopal
Deep Dhillon	Antya	Brothers of Katya
Mukesh Rishi	Jeena
Tinu Verma	Bhiku
Harish Patel		Brother- In- Law of Katya
Ponnambalam		Fighter of Katya in the Ring	Special Appearance
Makrand Deshpande		Goon of Katya
Ila Arun	Malti	Wife of Sachdev
Navni Parihar		Elder Sister and Brother- In- law of Gauri
Shiva Rindani	Chandru	Elder Sister and Brother- In- law of Gauri
Ahmed Khan		Doctor	Hospital Staff
Ghanashyam Nayak		Receptionist
Santosh Gupta		Ward Boy
Tinnu Anand		Police Inspector
Rohini Hattangadi	Savitri	Wife of Police Inspector (Tinu Anand)
Amitabh Bachchan	Himself	Friendly Appearance
Mamta Kulkarni		Special Appearances and Dancers in the Song "Koi Aaye Toh le Jaye"
Ganesh Acharya

Production[edit]

Originally, Kamal Haasan was signed to play the lead role and the advertisement appearing in Screen read as Welcome back to Hindi Screen, but Kamal withdrew from the film for unknown reasons.^[2]

Soundtrack[edit]

The music for the movie was mainly composed by R. D. Burman. The song "Koi Jaye To Le Aaye" was the only song composed by Anu Malik and it became popular.

#	Song	Singer(s)	Length	Music Director	Lyricist
1	"Koi Jaye To Le Aaye"	Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan	04:09	Anu Malik	Rahat Indori
2	"Nigahon Ne Chheda"	Suresh Wadkar, Sadhana Sargam	06:24	R.D. Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri
3	"Badan Mein Chandni"	Kavita Krishnamurthy	05:55	R.D. Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri
4	"Aaki Naaki"	Asha Bhosle	08:57	R.D. Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri
5	"Ek Dil Ki Diwani"	Suresh Wadkar, Sadhana Sargam	07:29	R.D. Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri
6	"Theme of Ghatak" (Instrumental)		02:28

Box office[edit]

The film was made at a budget of Rs. 62.5 million, did collections of Rs. 265 million and was declared a Superhit.^[3]

Awards and nominations[edit]

42nd Filmfare Awards

Won[edit]

Nominated[edit]

References[edit]

↑ "Ghatak Collections". Retrieved 5 June 2012.
↑ "Kamal Haasan: Lesser known facts". The Times of India. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
↑ "Box Office 1996". Retrieved 5 June 2012.

External links[edit]

Ghatak: Lethal on IMDb

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[1] "Ghatak Collections". Retrieved 5 June 2012.

[2] "Kamal Haasan: Lesser known facts". The Times of India. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2017.

[3] "Box Office 1996". Retrieved 5 June 2012.

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