Ghatak is a very underrated movie, directed by rajkumar santoshi has brought us some well made movies like Ghatak, damini, Andaz apna apna, chinagate, ghayal, etc. out of all his movies Ghatak has to be the best, not that others weren't good, but this movie has the best dialogues ever. Also the music is by r.d. burman and anumalik together.
The movie stars: Sunny deol, amrish puri, meenakshi sheeshadri, danny denzongpa, tinu anand,
The movie is about Kaashinath(sunnydeol) he was left on the streets of banaras is picked up from the streets by shambunath (amrishpuri). Shambunath is a good samaritan, freedom fighter, and a social worker and commands great respects in the town he lives with his now son kaashinath. The local people of the twon do not even want to name their newborn children without his blessings. The Most closest person to shambunath in life is his son kaashi, shambu has a anotehr son, but lives in the city. kaashi to admires respect his father shambu more then anything else in the world.
A local doctor advises kaashinath to take his father to mumbai for medical treatment, So they both leave for the city, where also the elder brother shiv lives . On their arrival in mumbai the father and son are baffled by the silence in the locality where shiv resides. Kaashi also realizes that the existence of his brothers and the fellow shopkeepers depends on the mercy of the don name kaatiya and his six brothers. Who has terrorized the whole city, nobody in their mind has the guts to stand up to them. Katiya has unleashed a reign of terror to grab their land by hook or crook. The doctor diagnoses shambunath's disease as cancer in the advanced stage and says that shambunath has a little time to live.
Kaashi who falls in love with gauri(meenakshi sheeshadri) who understands his problems and is the only solace during his depressing and difficult moments. Katiya with the help of his brothers heaps atrocities on the town people and kaashi's brother shiv also becomes a part of it, and kaashi's father who was humiliated right infront of the townpeople, dies right after because cancer.
Kaashi embraces violence to eliminate katiya and his six brothers, who couldn't forget The humiliation of his father at the hands of katiya who forced him to come down on all four and bark like a dog. The cold blooded killing of his brother and the townspeople.
Kaashi had his reasons for choosing his lethal (ghatak) path.
The direction by rajkumar santoshi is just superb, most people think his best direction is the legend of the bhagat singh, But this was the movie he should have been praised for. He just takes a simple story and fills it with beautiful dialogues, and gets nice performances from each one of his cast members. He and sunny deol always made a great team, Ghayal which got sunny deol his first film fare award, then damini which got him a supporting actor award, but also a bigger award national award.
The performances are one of the best I have ever seen,
Sunny deol as kaashinath sets the screen on fire with powerful dialogues delivery although it was hardhitting screaming role sunny deol shined as kaashinath, his emotional scenes with amrish puri, when he finds out that he's at the last stage of cancer, The scene where amrish puri is made a dog and is asked bark, The scene where the police officer's are bothering him. This sure was an award worth performance, they never nominated him for best actor, or anything, The award was given to aamir khan for raja hindustani, the movie I thought why it was a hit. Amrish puris, best performance in this movie of his lifetime it's a pleasure to watch amrish puri do these kinds of roles, I simply loved the scene when he tells his older son that kaashi is his best son. Amrish puri also got a supporting award for this performance. Danny also gives his best performance as the don kaatiya I always fellt that danny was an underrated actor, who could do any kind of a role, danny proved himself long time ago in the movie agnepath as kancha china, but before that he also got a supporting award for a movie called lahoo ke do rang starring vinod khanna, a old movie. Meenakshi sheeshadri gives her second best performance after the movie damini She was also a good actress, nobody could match her dialogue delivery. k.k rana who played sunny deol's brother was fantastic. Tinu anand does a good job also. The whole cast of the movie was superb.
Great dialogues from the movie
Jo gurda rakhta hai usse hi jeene ka haq hai sirf wahi jiyega
Yeh majdoor ka haath hai kaatiya loha pigla kar uska akar badal deta hai, yeh taqat khoon pasiney se kamayie hoyie roti ki hai mujhe kisi ke tukron pe palne ki zarurat nahin.
Pinjre mein akar tu sher bhi kuuutta ban jaata hai kaatiya tu chahta hai tere mein jahan kuuuutta banke rahun tu kahe tu bhonkon tu kahe tu katun, darakar logon ko woh jeeta hai jiski hadiyon mein paani bhara hota hai. agar marad banne ka itna hi shock hai tu kuuutton ka sahara lena chood de katiya.
Kaashinaath tune tu kaatiya ke jahan kuuutta banke nahin rehna chaha, par tera baap kuuuutta bankar mere samne dum hila raha hai mere talve chat raha hai, kuuutte ka pilla kuuuuta hota hai sher nahin tera baap kuuutta hai tu kuuutte ka pila.
Char aadmiyon ki zarurat nahin hai mujhe akela kaashi hi kaafi hai mer arthi ko kanda dene ke liye, vapas bana chala jayunga wahi jakar dum todonga apne kaashi ke paas.
Yeh mera aacha bhai hai meri bahut izzat karta hai mujhse puchey bina koi kaam nahin karta, lekin aaj yeh mujhse puchey bina mar geya, mujhe bola hota hai mein tujhe marne nahin deta re.
The music in the movie was good also, koi jaaye tu le aaye was really good the dance by mamata kulkarni was nice also.
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