Khudgarz (transl. Selfish) is a 1987 Indian Hindi-language action drama film, produced and directed by Rakesh Roshan under the Film Kraft banner. It features an ensemble cast of Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Govinda, Bhanupriya, Amrita Singh and Neelam Kothari with music composed by Rajesh Roshan. The film marks the directorial debut of actor Rakesh Roshan.[2] The movie was a silver jubilee hit on release.
| Khudgarz | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Directed by | Rakesh Roshan |
| Screenplay by | Mohan Kaul Ravi Kapoor |
| Story by | Rakesh Roshan |
| Produced by | Rakesh Roshan |
| Starring | Jeetendra Shatrughan Sinha Bhanupriya Amrita Singh Govinda Neelam |
| Cinematography | Pushpal Dutta |
| Edited by | Nand Kumar |
| Music by | Rajesh Roshan |
Production company | Film Kraft |
Release date |
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Running time | 158 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹95 million[1] |
The movie was remade in Telugu in 1988 as Prana Snehithulu, in Tamil in 1992 as Annaamalai (which went on to be remade in Telugu in 1993 as Kondapalli Raja and in Kannada in 2003 as Gokarna). The movie was based on Jeffrey Archer's 1979 novel Kane and Abel.[3][4]
Plot
editKhudgarz is the story of two childhood friends Amar Saxena and Bihari Sinha. Amar is a young boy from a wealthy family, and Bihari a boy of the same age from an impoverished background. Amar falls in love with Jaya, a florist and Bihari with Lata, a labourer and they marry the respective women.
Amar's father Brij Bhushan Saxena is a money-minded wealthy hotelier, who wants to give a 5-star hotel to his son as a wedding present. The land for the construction of the hotel incidentally belongs to Bihari. Bihari had previously turned down several offers to sell that land because the house and land are his ancestral property.
When Amar requests Bihari to sell the land, the latter agrees because they go back a long way. However, at the behest of Brij Bhushan, the agreement is drafted in a way that Amar and Brij Bhushan become the sole owners of the land. Bihari, in good faith puts his thumb impression on the agreement and loses his ancestral property.
The 5-star hotel gets ready, but on the opening day, some people condemn Bihari's place, which is on the same premises as the 5-star hotel, as a black spot which must be demolished. Amar, who is also convinced with the comments offers Bihari a new house and hotel in return. As Bihari is very sentimental about his hotel and place, he loses his temper and slaps Amar. This sours their relationship.
Sudhir, one of the most trusted workers of Brij Bhushan is a corrupt man. He takes the fullest advantage of the misunderstanding between the two friends and takes Brij Bhushan into his confidence, demolishes Bihari's place and hotel by a bulldozer and claims that Amar, in a state of inebriation had ordered its demolition.
Amar believes Sudhir and pleads for forgiveness from Bihari, offering to rebuild the structure for him. However Bihari does not relent and declares that he will himself build a chain of hotels and outshine Amar one day.
Bihar is given shelter by his most trusted friend Bhimji Nanji Premji Batliwala, a lawyer by profession. In the meantime, Amar learns that Sudhir is a traitor and throws him out of his house. Sudhir then joins hands with Bihari who he perceives to be on the way up.
Bihari is sanctioned a loan from a bank and builds his first hotel. He fixes his sister Lalita's marriage with Sudhir. Amar and his pregnant wife Jaya are also invited to the wedding and are on their way, but Sudhir manipulates so that Amar and Bihari do not come face to face.
In this trap, Jaya is injured, Amar takes her to the hospital where she gives birth to a son and dies. Gradually Bihari becomes more and more successful. His wife gives birth to a baby girl. Sudhir takes advantage of Bihari's illiteracy and gets blank papers signed by him, thus becoming Bihari's equal partner.
As luck would have it, the son and daughter of Amar and Bihari respectively fall in love with each other, despite knowing about the enmity of their respective families. Bihari's wife, Lata decides to pay a visit to Amar's house before things get out of hand. She then overhears a conversation and learns that the loans with which Bihari could grow and prosper were backed by Amar.
Lalita, Bihari's sister who has been suffering physical abuse at the hands of her husband Sudhir learns that he is making plans to kill her brother. She immediately approaches Amar for the safety of Bihari.
Lata informs Bihari about how Amar has been his benefactor. Bihari is crushed on learning about this and goes to Amar and reconciles. The two friends confront Sudhir and thrash him severely but stop short of killing him because he is married to Bihari's sister Lalita.
Cast
edit- Jeetendra as Amar Saxena
- Shatrughan Sinha as Bihari Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
- Amrita Singh as Lata Sinha
- Bhanupriya as Jaya Saxena
- Govinda as Kumar Saxena
- Neelam as Jyoti Sinha
- Kader Khan as Advocate Bheemji Kanji Batliwala
- Saeed Jaffrey as Brij Bhushan Saxena
- Kiran Kumar as Sudhir
- Sudhir Dalvi as Deshmukh
- Praveen Kumar as Giant at Sports Club
- Ghanshyam
- Dinesh Hingoo
- Rishi Kapoor as the Singing Tramp (guest appearance)
- Abhi Bhattacharya as Minister (special appearance) who comes for inauguration of hotel
- Satyen Kappu as Dayal
- Mac Mohan
- Sushma Seth as Seeta Sinha
- Master Javed Hyder as Young Bihari
- Sujay khanta as Drunkard
- Rahul Singh (Master Rinku) as Young Amar Saxena
Box Office
editThe film was a big hit on Box office India and managed to collect ₹9.50 crore worldwide and declared Blockbuster. 'Aapke Aa Jane Se' song from this movie became one of the biggest blockbuster in Indian Cinema.
Soundtrack
editThe songs for this movie were penned by Indivar and music composed by Rajesh Roshan.
| Song | Singer |
|---|---|
| "Zindagi Ka Naam Dosti" | Nitin Mukesh |
| "Yahi Kahi Jiyara" | Nitin Mukesh, Sadhna Sargam |
| "Zindagi Ka Naam Dosti" (Duet) | Mohammed Aziz, Nitin Mukesh |
| "Log Kehte Hain Ke" | Mohammed Aziz, Sadhana Sargam |
| "Aap Ke Aa Jaane Se" | Mohammed Aziz, Sadhana Sargam |
| "Zindagi Ka Naam Dosti" (Sad) | Mohammed Aziz, Nitin Mukesh |
Remakes
edit| Year | Film | Language | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Prana Snehithulu | Telugu | [5] |
| 1992 | Annaamalai | Tamil | [6] |
| 1993 | Kondapalli Raja | Telugu | [7] |
| 2003 | Gokarna | Kannada | [8] |
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