Tirangaa (film)

Tirangaa
File:Tirangaa DVD cover.jpg DVD Cover
Directed by	Mehul Kumar
Produced by	Mehul Kumar
Written by	K. K. Singh
Starring	Raaj Kumar Nana Patekar Harish Kumar Mamta Kulkarni Varsha Usgaonkar Deepak Shirke Manohar Singh
Music by	Laxmikant–Pyarelal Santosh Anand (lyrics)
Cinematography	Russi Billimoria
Edited by	Yusuf Sheikh
Production company	M. K. Pictures
Release date	29 January 1993
Running time	168 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹120.25 million

Tirangaa (transl. Tricolour) is a 1993 Indian action drama film starring Raaj Kumar, Nana Patekar, Varsha Usgaonkar, Harish Kumar and Mamta Kulkarni. The movie was a blockbuster. At the time of 1993 Bombay bombings, Plaza cinema, Mumbai was also bombed where the movie was being shown, leaving 10 dead and 37 injured.

Plot

The film starts with the kidnapping of three nuclear scientists by Pralayanath Gendaswami (Deepak Shirke) as he plans to build nuclear missiles for an invasion of India. Meanwhile, Deputy Inspector General of Police Rudrapratap Chauhan (Suresh Oberoi) an honest police officer is murdered by Pralayanath Gendaswami since he has been on his hitlist. Rudrapatap's son Harish (Harish Kumar) is the only witness of his murder. When the scientists are gone missing, police calls Brigadier Suryadev Singh (Raaj Kumar) to take matter into his hands. Suryadev allies with honest but hot-headed Police Inspector Shivajirao Wagle (Nana Patekar) who spends a lot of time being suspended due to his temper. When Central Minister Jeevanlal Tandel who is an ally of Pralayanath Gendaswami sets up a meeting with him to inform him about Suryadev Singh, Pralayanath Gendaswami questions why is there information about his glory and not a single photograph of his face. At that moment Suryadev Singh enters the auditorium and reveals that he is the one whose face Pralayanath Gendaswami was so eager to see.

Meanwhile, on the New Year's Eve Harish and his friends witness an attempt of murder on Radha Tandel. They rush her to hospital but later on flees as the staff calls police to inquire about the case. Police then trace Harish by his wallet which was left at hospital and charge him with an attempt to rape on Radha.

After knowing who Suryadev is, Pralayanath Gendaswami tries to kill him by planting bomb in his car. But Suryadev's car is a high tech vehicle and hence he makes an escape with his driver/bodyguard Bahadur from a below passage door in car. Then the news is widespread that he has been murdered.

But Suryadev escapes and tells this news to Pralayanath through a TV interview. Pralayanath tries to kidnap Professor Khurana but Suryadev and Waghle fail his attempt. Then Pralayanath tries to kill Harish and his friends, but one of his friends sacrifice his life to save him on the eve of Raksha Bandhan. Pralayanath then again tries to kidnap Professor Khurana but fails to do so, and instead takes the fuse conductor to make his missiles work. Waghle and Suryadev track him down through their trans-meter. Suryadev foils Pralayanath's missiles by taking out the fuse conductors and guns him down. Waghle finishes off Pralayanath's son. The film ends with the 15 August programme concluding successfully.

Cast

Actor	Character	Role	Notes
Raaj Kumar	Suryadev Singh	Brigadier
Nana Patekar	Shivajirao Wagle	Police Inspector
Suresh Oberoi	Rudrapratap Chauhan	DIG
Harish Kumar	Sanjay Chauhan	Son of DIG Chauhan
Varsha Usgaonkar	Shanti Verma	Wagle's love interest
Mamta Kulkarni	Sandhya Gupta	Sanjay's Fiancée and love interest
Deepak Shirke	Pralayanath Goondaswami	Terrorist Mastermind and the sworn enemy of India
Manohar Singh	Jeevanlal Tandel	Chief Minister	Corrupt Politician and ally of Goondaswamy
Arjun	Rasiknath Goondaswami	Criminal Son of Pralayanath
Alok Nath		Home Minister of India
Satyen Kappu	Gupta	Doctor	Parents of Sandhya Gupta
Aparajita Bhushan	Mrs Gupta	Doctor Gupta's Wife
Anjana Mumtaz	Mrs. Chauhan	DIG Rudrapratap's Wife
Sujit Kumar		Commissioner	Police Staff
Shehzad Khan		Inspector who arrests Sanjay Chauhan for rape of Radha Tandel
K. K. Raj	Patania	DCP	All Corrupt Police Staffs and Allies of Goondaswamy
Joginder	Satyavadi Dubey	Police Inspector
Mahavir Shah		Jailor
Krishan Dhawan	Rangaswamy	Professors/Nuclear Scientist
Sudhir Dalvi	Nasrul Hasan
Mukesh Rawal	Khurana
Vikas Anand		Judges	Judge during first hearing against Suryadev Singh
Kamaldeep	Hariprasad		Judge during second hearing against Sanjay Chauhan and Friends
Dharmesh Tiwari		Defence	Lawyers
Arun Mathur		Public Prosecutor
Bob Christo	Bob	Goondaswami's Foreign agent
Gavin Packard	Tom
Daboo Malik	Alok Verma	Sanjay Friends
Girish Malik	Ali Khan
Rakesh Bedi	Khabrilal	Police Informer
Pankaj Berry	Sinha	Junior Doctor, Assistant to Dr. Gupta
Sonika Gill	Radha Tandel	Daughter of Jeevanlal Tandel
Mehul Kumar	M.K. Tiwari	Municipal Commissioner
Ghanashyam Nayak	Ram Lakhan	Servant to Dr Gupta
Bandini Mishra	Anita Chaudhary	Murdered by Rasiklal
Anil Yadav	Babban	Goondaswami's henchman

Songs

All lyrics are written by Santosh Anand.

1. "Pee Le Pee Le Oh More Raja, Pee Le Pee Le Oh More Jani" - Mohammed Aziz, Sudesh Bhosle
2. "Ise Samjho Na Resham Ka Taar" - Sadhana Sargam
3. "Oye Rabba Meri Jaan Bacha Le Phans Gayi Dil Ke Rog Me" - Kavita Krishnamurthy, Mohammed Aziz
4. "Yeh Aan Tirangaa Hai" - Mohammed Aziz
5. "Ise Samjho Na Resham Ka Taar" (Tragic) - Sadhana Sargam
6. "Yeh Aan Tirangaa Hai" (Version 2) - Mohammed Aziz
7. "Aaj Ki Shaam Pyar Karne Walon Ke Naam" - Mohammed Aziz, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan
8. "Jaane Mann Jaane Mann" - Sadhana Sargam, Mohammed Aziz

In popular culture

Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Asghar Muqaddam refers to the movie for the incidence of planting explosives during interrogation in the movie Black Friday.

External links

• Tirangaa on IMDb