# Pukar (1983 film)

Pukar (transl. Call) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language action film, directed by Ramesh Behl, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Randhir Kapoor, Zeenat Aman and Tina Munim. It is a film about freedom fighters trying to liberate Goa from the Portuguese.

## Plot

Purandare (Shreeram Lagoo), Narvekar (P. Jairaj) and Dinanath (Sudhir Dalvi) are part of a separatist group that aims to rid Goa’s territories of the Portuguese. In a shootout with the Portuguese police, Purandare and Dinanath are injured. Dinanath asks Purandare to shoot him because he doesn’t want to die by the hands of the Portuguese. Purandare kills him at Dinanath’s behest. This is witnessed by Dinanath’s son Ramdas who gets the wrong idea that Purandare killed him.
Ramdas runs away to Mr Dayanand (Om Shivpuri) who shelters him. Portuguese police arrive again and seemingly kill Dayanand and his wife for Ramdas’ whereabouts. In the next scene, Purandare arrives to Dayanand’s house in search for Ramdas. Ramdas takes one look at Purandare and runs away. I was a bit confused because the Portuguese police seemingly killed him by stomping their foot on his throat and in the next scene, he just has minor bruises. Even the background score made it look like he died. Anyway, I’m not that bothered about that yet.
Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie to avoid association with Indian revolutionaries. He is teased by a few kids about his name and the following fight fast forwards 2 decades. Ramdas/Ronnie grows up to be a lanky, career criminal (predictably Amitabh Bachchan) who has a babe girlfriend Julie (Zeenat Aman). Ronnie helps out another criminal Hasmok (Sujit Kumar) evade capture from Police Inspector Monteiro (Prem Chopra)
Ronnie comes across Purandare once again - Purandare’s gang wants ammunition to help their revolution against the Portuguese. Ronnie betrays them to the police twice and in the second encounter, Purandare loses his life.
Shekhar (Randhir Kapoor) quickly gets involved into the action. He steals Ronnie’s gold, frees a rebel (Viju Khote) from hospital, assassinates the Portuguese police chief and is sentenced to be hanged, all while making Ronnie his number one enemy. The fact that everyone likes Shekhar than Ronnie makes Ronnie even angrier. He goes to kill Shekhar’s parents for whatever random reason and finds out they are the same people who sheltered him when the police was after him in childhood. This makes him understand why Purandare killed his father in childhood and he swears to save Shekhar from the death sentence. In a climactic battle, Ronnie and Shekhar succeed in killing the Portuguese.

## Cast

* Amitabh Bachchan as Ramdas/Ronnie
* Randhir Kapoor as Shekar Nagare
* Zeenat Aman as Julie
* Tina Munim as Usha
* Prem Chopra as Montero
* Sudhir Dalvi as Dinanath, Ramdas Father
* Shriram Lagoo as Purandare
* P. Jairaj as Narvekar
* Om Shivpuri as Dayanand, Father of Shekhar Nagare
* Chand Usmani as Saraswati, Mother of Shekhar Nagare
* Pinchoo Kapoor as Mr Kamat, father of Usha
* Sudha Chopra as Mrs Kamat, mother of Usha
* Sujit Kumar as Hasmukh
* Satyendra Kapoor as Gopal
* Viju Khote as Kiran Bhandare
* Shubha Khote as Young Julie's Mother
* Narendra Nath as Jaggu
* Sharat Saxena as Pablo
* Radha Bartake as Anjali, Gopal Daughter
* Shiva Rindani
* Gurbachan Singh as Godfre
* Gautam Sarin as Portuguese police Officer
* Azaad Irani as Latif
* Cezar D'Mello as unnamed dancer

## Production

Scenes of the film were shot in Daman and Diu.

## Soundtrack

Music Direction: R. D. Burman, Lyrics: Gulshan Bawra, Audio: Polydor now Universal Music Group
The music for all the songs were composed by Rahul Dev Burman and penned by Gulshan Bawra.
| # | Title | Singer(s) | Duration |
| 1 | "Samandar Mein Nahake" | R. D. Burman | 04:48 |
| 2 | "Tu Maike Mat Jaiyo" | Amitabh Bachchan, R. D. Burman | 06:12 |
| 3 | "Jane Jigar Duniya Main" | Kishore Kumar, R. D. Burman | 06:13 |
| 4 | "Tu Mere Liye" | Asha Bhosle | 04:17 |
| 5 | "Bachke Rehna Re Baba" | Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, R. D. Burman | 06:25 |
| 6 | "Maarein Ge Ya Mar Jaayenge" | Asha Bhosle, R. D. Burman | 05:21 |