Khuda Gawah (1992)


Khuda Gawah Movie Trailer 1992
Crew

Directed by     Mukul S. Anand
Produced by     Nazir Ahmed,Manoj Desai
Music by     Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Cinematography     W. B. Rao
Editing by     R. Rajendran
Distributed by     Glamour Films

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Baadshah Khan
    Sridevi as Benazir Mother/ Daughter Mehndi
    Akkineni Nagarjuna as Inspector Raja Mirza
    Shilpa Shirodkar as Inspector Henna Ranveer Sethi
    Kiran Kumar as Pasha
    (Ali Khan) as Habibullah
    Danny Denzongpa as Khuda Baksh
    Vikram Gokhale as Jailer Ranveer Singh Sethi
    Anjana Mumtaz as Salma Mirza
    Beena as Laxmi Sethi
    Bharat Kapoor as Insp. Aziz Mirza
    Shammi as Khuda Baksh's mother
    Surendra Pal as Humayoon
    Deepak Shirke as Kaalia Danger
    Anjan Srivastav as Kamaljit
    Baby Tabassum
    Vikas Anand as the Judge

Story

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 Habibulla 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 Sethi (Vikram Gokhale) on his trail. In the end he chops off Habibulla's head. He told Ranveer that he would be back in one month to receive punishment (from the Law) for taking Habibulla. Badshah goes back to Afghanistan and marries Benazir; after the time limit he comes back to India and surrenders himself to Ranveer 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 Habibulla's death, his brother Pasha (Kiran Kumar) kidnaps the daughter of jailer Ranveer 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. With Ranveer's daughter as a pawn in Pasha's hands, Badshah admits to killing Ranveer 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, Henna Sethi (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, Raja (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.

Did you know?
  1. The producers originally planned to fly down musicians from Afghanistan to record the background music pieces of the film, but the plans were scrapped.
  2. For a song of Khuda Gawah, recorded on June 17, 1989, Amitabh Bachchan participated in the music sittings on June 14, 15 and 16 at his Juhu bungalow from 7 to 10 p.m. along with music directors Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
  3. The producers hired 20 air-conditioners to keep the atmosphere cool because of the thick woolen costumes.

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