Ghulam-E-Mustafa

Ghulam-E-Mustafa
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Partho Ghosh
Produced by	P.G. Shrikanth Dinesh Gandhi
Screenplay by	Prasanna Kumar Mangesh Kulkarni Imtiaz Hussain
Story by	Prasanna Kumar
Starring	Nana Patekar Raveena Tandon Paresh Rawal Aruna Irani Mohnish Bahl Shivaji Satham Mohan Joshi
Music by	Amar Haldipur Rajesh Roshan
Cinematography	K.V Rammana
Editing by	R. Rajendran
Studio	S.G.S. Cinearts International Eros International
Distributed by	Audio Time D. S. Mittal & Sons Eros International
Release dates	October 31, 1997 (1997-10-31)
Running time	140 minutes (2 Hours and 20 Minutes)
Country	India
Language	Hindi Urdu
Budget	110 lakh (US$180,000)
Box office	89 lakh (US$140,000)

Ghulam-E-Mustafa is a 1997 Bollywood Crime Action Drama film directed by Partho Ghosh, Starring Nana Patekar and Raveena Tandon in the lead role, it was produced by P.G. Shrikanth and Dinesh Gandhi under the S.G.S. Cinearts International and Eros International banners. Set in the early 1996s, Ghulam-e-Mustafa is an action, crime and sad-love story centering around the turbulent and tragic relationship between Gangster Mustafa and Dancer Kavita, a relationship which come to an end with the death of kavita due to his field. It was average film of 1997 despite of having mix to positive reviews movie fails to impress on Indian Box Office earning 8.9 million rupees upon its release despite a 11 million rupee budget.

The movie can undoubtedly be counted among the best movies done by Nana Patekar. This is also one of the better works of the director, Partho Ghosh. The movie has a great deal of emotions and touches the viewer at many places. It not only entertains, but also gives good messages of communal unity and crime never pays.

Plot

Ghulam-e-Mustafa (originally the name of the movie was kept Mustafa but due to opposition of certain religious groups, it was changed to Ghulam-e-Mustafa) who is the henchman and right hand of Saanta Prasad (known as Abba among his man and in the underworld). Abba had adopted and fostered him and hence he feels himself indebted to him for life, doing anything he wants Mustafa to do without giving any thought to its propriety or ethicality. He comes in contact with a teacher Kavita who loves him to the extent of becoming his wife despite knowing everything about his past, present and of course, future, without any regrets. But when she is killed in an attempt on Mustafa's life by his enemies (say the enemies of Abba), Mustafa's profound grief proves to be an eye-opener for him. He realises that the violence in which he has been involved for years in the name of Abba's work considering it as his duty, is nothing more than an outright futile and condemnable phenomena which has made him guilty of taking innocent lives. The pain of losing his beloved make him empathise with the pain of his own victims. A thoroughly changed Mustafa leaves the path of violence and Abba's house too. Abba loves him so much that he realises his pain and consequential change in him and therefore let him go his new way. Mustafa now finds his way leading to the house of Dayanand Dixit, an honest govt. officer, unreasonably trapped by an anti-corruption officer and sentenced to imprisonment resulting in the plight of his family containing his wife, son and daughter. Mustafa enters the pain-stricken house of this Hindu Brahman family as a trespasser and imposes himself upon the family members who initially hate him but with the passage of time come to realise that he has come to their house to play the messiah for them. He saves them from all their enemies including the corrupt anti-corruption officer who has his lustful eye on Dixit's daughter. However the main problem is monetary hardship and the honour of the family. He gets an opportunity to solve this problem by making a deal with Abba who wants the services of his beloved ex-henchman back to reap the electoral harvest by unlawful means for a particular political party. Mustafa agrees to do the wrong thing for the last time in his life in lieu of release of Dixit from jail and his exoneration from the false charges levied upon him as well as a job for Dixit's son and monetary help for his daughter's marriage. However he conveys in good faith to Abba that he will surrender to the authorities for his past crimes after the objectives of Abba as well as himself are fulfilled. This communication leads to the unexpected climax of the movie when Mustafa is shot dead by his loving Abba himself to prevent him from arrest and abolish any possibility of exposure of Abba and the politician, Abba is working for.

Cast

• Nana Patekar as Ghulam -E- Musthafa
• Raveena Tandon as Kavita
• Paresh Rawal as Shanta Prasad/Abba
• Aruna Irani as Bhagya Laxmi (Mrs. Dixit)
• Shivaji Satam as Dayanand Dixit
• Swapnil Joshi as Vikram Dixit
• Radhika as Vidya Dixit
• Mohnish Bahl as Bipin Verma
• Tiku Talsania as Qawwali singer
• Satish Shah as Qawwali singer
• Mohan Joshi as Mahesh (Club Owner)
• Sulabha Deshpande as Kavita's Mother (uncredited)
• Vishwajeet Pradhan as Bishwajeet Pradhan (Mahesh's Brother)
• Ashwin Kaushal as Ashwini Kaushal (Mahesh's Son)
• Ravi Behl as Arun
• Dev Malhotra
• Asha Sharma as Arun's mother
• Brijesh Tiwari
• Jayant Sawarkar

Production

Development

In early 1996 P.G Srikanth and Dinesh decided to make the film, on the script which is given by Tamil writer Prasanna Kumar. Before that Subhash Ghai was approached to direct the film, but later on due to unknown reasons Partho signed for directing the film, under banners of Dinesh Gandhi's, S.G.S. Cinearts international studio and with the collaboration of marketing partner Eros International production house.

Casting

Left:Raveena Tandon. Right:Nana Patekar

As the things were clear both producers hunt for the character of Ghulam-e-Mustafa, many options were on list but, but both of them decided to take the role of Mustafa to Nana Patekar without any screen test, fist Juhi Chawla was approached for the role of Kavita, but Jhui walked out due to her already lined up filming schedules, later on Raveena gave the screen test for kavita and got the role after one week of the

Filming

Principal photography for the film began in January 1997 with film's lead cast. The film was shot in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, at studios Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Kamalistan Studios, Andheri, Mumbai, Najabhai Jewellers, Mumbai, Polachi, Kerala, Vauhini Studios, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Vijaya Studios, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Although due to bombing and explosive shooting scenes film was shot in abandon area, of Tamil Nadu. Film was only shoot in India south side due to the south cast and creww of the film, film was also dubbed in Tamil and Telugu for South Indian People.

Soundtrack

Ghulam-E-Mustafa
Soundtrack cover
Soundtrack album by Amar Haldipur Rajesh Roshan
Released	September 25, 1997 (1997-09-25)
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	29:07
Label	Time Audio
Producer	P.G. Shrikanth Dinesh Gandhi
Amar Haldipur chronology
Yaar Mera Payar 1996 Ghulam-e-Mustafa 1997
Rajesh Roshan chronology
Papa Kehte Hai (1996) Ghulam-e-Mustafa (1997)

The music of the movie was released under the label Time Audio. Rajesh Roshan composed the music for the film and Background Score was given by Amar Haldipur, with lyrics penned by Anand Bakshi. Sabri Brothers have given their voice for film. Kavita Krishnamurthy and Hariharan were the much praising singers of the film due to their and film only biggest hit Tera Ghum Mera Ghum. Alka and Udit again sang duet which was passable but was not hit. The music is not great but very touchy. The songs may not have been chartbusters but their melody and meaningfulness can be easily felt while listening. Lovers of emotional songs should definitely listen to 'Tera Gham, Mera Gham, Ek Jaisa Sanam'.

Reception

Ghulam-e-Mustafa was not a commercial success but it received mixed to positive reviews, Bollywood Hungama rate the film with 6 points out 10, while on Rotten Tomatoes film aggregate is 55% and on IMDb film earns 6.4 rating based on 201 critics.

Box Office

Ghulam-e-Mustafa failed at box office earning only 8,9 million rupees over its 11 million rupee budget.

External links

• Ghulam-E-Musthafa at the Internet Movie Database