Khuda Gawah

Khuda Gawah

Directed by	Mukul S. Anand
Produced by	Nazir Ahmed Manoj Desai
Written by	Raj Kumar Bedi Santosh Saroj (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Mukul S. Anand
Story by	Santosh Saroj
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Sridevi Nagarjuna Shilpa Shirodkar Danny Denzongpa Kiran Kumar
Music by	Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Cinematography	W. B. Rao
Edited by	R. Rajendran
Distributed by	Glamour Films
Release dates	8 May 1992 (1992-05-08)
Running time	193 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Khuda Gawah (translation: God is witness) is a 1992 Bollywood epic Romance drama film produced by Nazir Ahmed & Manoj Desai on Glamour Films banner, directed by Mukul S. Anand. starring Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Nagarjuna, Shilpa Shirodkar, Danny Denzongpa in lead roles and music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The film recorded as Super Hit at box office.

Khuda Gawah had lavish production values and was extensively shot in India, Afghanistan, Nepal and Bhutan. The film won much acclaim for all its actors and especially the lead pair Sridevi and Amitabh Bachchan. Both stars won Filmfare nominations for their work. The film won four Filmfare awards including Best Director and Best Action and went on to become the second-highest-grossing film of 1992.^[1] It entered India's Limca Book of Records as the first Bollywood film to use surround sound technique. A Sequel to the movie is being planned by producer Manoj Desai.^[2]

Plot

During a Buzkashi competition with a neighboring tribe in Afghanistan, Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bachchan) falls in love with Benazir (Sridevi) and wants to marry her. Benazir agrees to marry him, on the condition that he must bring her the head of Habibullah, who killed her father. Badshah Khan goes to India to search for Habibullah. He finds Habibullah in a prison and breaks him out to take him back. He has the jailer Ranveer Singh (Vikram Gokhale) on his trail. In the end, he chops off Habibullah's head. He told Ranveer that he would be back in one month to receive punishment for taking Habibullah. Badshah goes back to Afghanistan and marries Benazir; after the time limit, he comes back to India and surrenders himself to Rajput Khan and is jailed for five years. While he is away he leaves his childhood friend Khuda Baksh (Danny Denzongpa) to take care of his wife.

To avenge Habibullah's death, his brother Pasha (Kiran Kumar) kidnaps the daughter of jailor Ranveer, Heena, in return for Badshah. Badshah finds out about this and escapes from jail; he confronts Pasha, only to have Inspector Aziz Mirza (Bharat Kapoor) kill Ranveer Singh. With Ranveer Singh's daughter as a pawn in Pasha's hands, Badshah admits to killing Ranveer Singh and is sentenced to 15 years. When Aziz's wife (who thinks of Badshah as her brother) visits him, she ends up killing her husband to protect Badshah, but Badshah takes the blame for that murder as well since he believes that her son Raja needs her.

At that time, Benazir sends Khuda Baksh to check on Badshah. Due to his very long stay in prison, Badshah makes Khuda Baksh promise to take care of his daughter Mehndi and tell his wife Benazir that he is now dead so that she can move on rather than wait for him. Benazir goes mad when she hears the news that her husband is dead.

On coming out of prison, Badshah meets with his now grown daughter, Mehndi (also Sridevi), who has found out the truth finally and has come to India to look for her father; the daughter of Ranveer Singh, Heena, a, (Shilpa Shirodkar) who is also in the police force and knows all about Badshah's past and respects him as her uncle; and the son of Inspector Aziz Mirza, Inspector Raja Mirza (Nagarjuna), who has found out that it was Badshah who had killed his father and is out for vengeance. In a twist of fate, Raja is in love with Mehndi, even though he wants to kill her father.

In this are added old enemies and rivalries when Pasha, now a major drug lord, becomes involved. Benazir and Khuda Baksh are kidnapped by him. The truth is revealed to Raja about his father, and all of them join together to beat their mutual enemy.

Soundtrack

Khuda Gawah
Film score
Released	1992
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	56:40

The music is composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Lyrics are penned by Anand Bakshi.

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Tu Mujhe Kabool (Part 1)"	Kavita Krishnamurthy, Mohammed Aziz	08:05
2.	"Tu Na Ja Mere Badshah"	Alka Yagnik, Mohammed Aziz	05:08
3.	"Rab Ko Yaad Karoon"	Kavita Krishnamurthy, Mohammed Aziz, Chorus	09:02
4.	"Mere Watan Mein Maine"	Alka Yagnik, Suresh Wadkar, Chorus	07:54
5.	"Main Aisi Cheez Nahin"	Kavita Krishnamurthy, Mohammed Aziz, Chorus	08:41
6.	"Deewana Mujhe Kar Gaya"	Alka Yagnik, Mohammed Aziz, Chorus	08:38
7.	"Sar Zameene Hindustan"	Amitabh Bachchan	01:07
8.	"Tu Mujhe Kabool (Part 2)"	Lata Mangeshkar, Kavita Krishnamurthy	08:05
Total length:			56:40

Reception

The film did good business with BBC reporting that "it ran to packed houses for 10 weeks in Kabul".^[3] Khuda Gawah still remains popular in the Afghan country and Rediff reported that the film is "in great demand after the opening of cinema halls in the country".^[4]

Awards

Khuda Gawah won several Filmfare Awards in the year of its release, namely:

References

↑ http://www.ibosnetwork.com/asp/topgrossersbyyear.asp?year=1992
↑ "Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi might come together for Khuda Gawah sequel". Retrieved 23 October 2013.
↑ BBC. "Bollywood eyes Afghan market".
↑ Rediff. "Exit Taliban. Enter Bollywood".

External links

Khuda Gawah at the Internet Movie Database

Awards
Preceded by Saudagar	Filmfare Award for Best Director 1992	Succeeded by Damini

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