Advantages: Amitabh Bachan and Rishi Kapoor in fantastic form. Great songs. Disadvantages: Its special effects are dated along with parts of the storyline.
This DVD has Amitabh Bachan the indian screen God in his usual supream form. The film is essentially a comedy where Bachan plays a lowly "coolie" who tries to fight injustice. He becomes involved in a kidnapping which eventually leads to romance. He is accompanied by his trusted bird Alla-rakha who proves to be very useful in fight scenes! It is fun film with good acting and great classic songs. It is full of cliches and bizare twists but still works ... ...enterd into the realms of history as it was this film which nearly claimed the life of Mr Bachan. An accident on set during a table top fight scene caused Mr Bachan to be admitted to hospital on a critically ill state. The whole of India went into a frenzy and atempted strange feats to influence the gods into saving Mr Bachan. A devoted fan even ran the lengh of india backwards to persuade god to save Mr Bachan. I would say that if you are a Bachan ...
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