Kohram (1999)


Kohram Movie Trailer 1999
Crew

Directed by     Mehul Kumar
Produced by     Amitabh Bachchan Corporation
Written by     Iqbal Durrani
Music by     Dilip Sen ,Sameer Sen

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Colonel Balbir Singh Sodhi and Dadabhai/Devraj Hathoda
    Nana Patekar as Major Ajit Arya and a Bengali journalist
    Danny Denzongpa as Minister Veerbhadra Singh
    Mukesh Rishi as Changezi
    Jackie Shroff as army officer
    Tabu as Inspector Kiran Patkar
    Jayapradha as Namrata Sodi
    
Story

The story starts with the death of an army officer (Shroff) occurs and it is believed to be the act of a terrorist group headed by Changezi (Rishi). Colonel Balbir Singh Sodhi (Bachchan) is asked to investigate this matter and he ends up discovering that minister Veerbhadra Singh(Danny Denzongpa) is involved in this conspiracy. Colonel Sodhi stages his own death in an attempt to kill Changezi and starts living as Dadabhai/ Devraj Hathoda in Mumbai. Major Ajit Arya (Patekar) is sent in the guise of a Bengali journalist to find out the true identity of Dadabhai/Devraj Hathoda. Once Arya discovers the truth, he joins hands with Colonel Sodhi to bring the minister to justice and terminate the terrorist group. Tabu is shown to be a police officer in love with Major Ajit Arya and Jayapradha is shown as Colonel Sodhi's wife.

Did you know?
  1. Nana Patekar wasn't too keen to sign the movie and rejected it the first time it was offered to him. The producers were thinking of signing up 'Jackie Shroff ' instead, but when they approached Nana Patekar a second time, he decided to join the cast, so Shroff was given a small cameo in the movie.
  2. Mehul Kumar wanted to make another film with Amitabh Bachchan after his box office disaster _Mrityudaata (1997_). The movie was titled 'Aye Watan Tere Liye' and the initial cast was Amitabh Bachchan, Dimple Kapadia, Arshad Warsi and Karisma Kapoor. The script was scrapped and the director decided to make 'Kohram' instead.
  3. It was apparently believed that Amitabh wasn't too fond of reuniting with Mehul Kumar after the way Mrityudaata fared, but because he committed to the director before Mrityudaata, he decided to do the movie.
  4. Director Mehul Kumar's daughter Jahan Bloch played the role of Amitabh Bachchan's child in the film.
  5. Amitabh Bachchan was paid ten million rupees to sign on to the film, and another 20 million rupees to finish it.

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