Gumrah (1993 film)

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Gumrah
File:Gumrah (1993 film).jpg
Promotional poster
Directed byMahesh Bhatt
Produced byYash Johar
Written by
StarringSanjay Dutt
Sridevi
Anupam Kher
Rahul Roy
Music byLaxmikant–Pyarelal
CinematographyPravin Bhatt
Edited bySanjay Sankla
Production
company
Release date
24 September 1993 (1993-09-24)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

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 Best Actress at the 39th Filmfare Awards. The film was also a commercial success grossing 545 million (US$7.6 million) worldwide against its 200 million (US$2.8 million) budget. Thus it became the seventh highest-grossing film of 1993.[1]

Plot[edit]

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[edit]

Reception[edit]

The soundtrack for the film was the second successive hit (after Khalnayak) for the music director duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal. [2][3] 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."[4]

Soundtrack[edit]

# 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

References[edit]

  1. "Gumrah— 18 May 5 p.m." Screen Weekly. 16 May 2003. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  2. "Cine blitz". Cine Blitz. Blitz Publications. 19: 98. 1993. ISSN 0971-9970. OCLC 18389308.
  3. "Title Track". Screen India. 8 September 2006. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  4. Larkin, Brian (2008). Signal and noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria (illustrated ed.). Duke University Press. pp. 146–147. ISBN 9780822341086.