Khuda Gawah
Tags: revenge

Plot synopsis:
During a Buzkashi competition with a neighbouring tribe in Afghanistan, Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bachchan) falls in love with Benazir (Sridevi) and wants to marry her. Benazir agrees to marry him, on the condition that he must bring her the head of Habibullah, who killed her father. Badshah Khan goes to India to search for Habibullah. He finds Habibullah in a prison and breaks him out to take him back. He has the jailer Ranveer Singh (Vikram Gokhale) on his trail. He chops off Habibullah's head. When confronted by Ranveer, he tells him that he would be back in a month to receive punishment for taking Habibullah. Badshah goes back to Afghanistan and marries Benazir; after the time limit, he comes back to India and surrenders himself to Ranveer Singh, who he addresses as "Rajput Khan" and is jailed for five years. While Badshah Khan is away, his childhood friend Khuda Baksh (Danny Denzongpa) assumes the role of a guardian for Benazir.
To avenge Habibullah's death, his brother Pasha (Kiran Kumar) kidnaps the daughter of jailor Ranveer, Heena, in return for Badshah. Badshah finds out about this and escapes from jail; he confronts Pasha, only to have Inspector Aziz Mirza (Bharat Kapoor) kill Ranveer Singh. With Ranveer Singh's daughter as a pawn in Pasha's hands, Badshah admits to killing Ranveer Singh and is sentenced to 15 years. When Aziz's wife (who thinks of Badshah as her brother) visits him, she ends up killing her husband to protect Badshah, but Badshah takes the blame for that murder as well since he believes that her son Raja needs her.
At that time, Benazir sends Khuda Baksh to check on Badshah. Due to his very long stay in prison, Badshah makes Khuda Baksh promise to take care of his daughter Mehndi and tell his wife Benazir that he is now dead so that she can move on rather than wait for him. Benazir goes mad when she hears the news that her husband is dead.
On coming out of prison, Badshah meets with his now grown daughter, Mehndi (also Sridevi), who has found out that her father is still alive and has come to India to look for her father; the daughter of Ranveer Singh, Heena (Shilpa Shirodkar), who is also in the police force and knows all about Badshah's past and respects him as her uncle; and the son of Inspector Aziz Mirza, Inspector Raja Mirza (Nagarjuna), who has found out that it was Badshah who had killed his father and is out for vengeance. In a twist of fate, Raja is in love with Mehndi, even though he wants to kill her father.
In this are added old enemies and rivalries when Pasha, now a major crime lord, gets involved. Benazir and Khuda Baksh are kidnapped by him. The truth is eventually revealed to Raja about his father, and he joins of hands with Badshah and Heena to beat their mutual enemy.

Review: Brilliant movie of sacrifice!!!!.
This was a wonderful movie which had so much to offer.
It shows us how love can mean sacrifice.
It was truly refreshing watching this movie.
Badshah Khan and Benazier are simply too good.
I'd write this down as a classic of all times.
Music was outstanding, dialogue was strong, characters were excellent, nothing wrong with it..
superb.
This one is surely one of Amitabh most underrated classics.
Amitabh's third film with Mukul Anand (after Agneepath and Hum) in a phase in which he had no hits except for Hum. When this film was launched it had sanjay Dutt in the role of Nagarjuna.
But although Sanjay Dutt and Abhishek Bachchan are like brothers now and Sanjay sees Amitabh Bachchan as a father figure now there was quite a hungama between Amitabh and Sanju at that time.
And only because of a song.
For the movie HUM a song was recorded JUMMA CHUMMA sung by Sudesh Bhosle and kvita Krishnamurthi.
Everybody knew the song was going to be a hit.
But the master of copies BAPPI LAHRI took the tune and used it for THANEDAAR starring Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri Dixit and created his own Tamma Tamma Loge.
Bachchan was upset and Sanjay stepped out of the movie.
farah Naaz (a pretty actress- now more known as Tabus elder sister) was supposed to play Shilpa Shirodkar's role but because Sridevi had a double ole in this movie (and according to me it's her best double role ever) Farah did not have the guts to do the film and opted out.
A good film with splendid performances by Bachchan and Sridevi- actually their best film of all the films they did together (Inquilaab and Aakhree Raasta beibg the other two.)..
Unexpected.
First of all, I hate Bollywood movies..
they lack of great stories..
lack of good actions..
lack of good dialogues..
and there is no comparison with western movies..
Briefly they are make me sick.A few days ago I was searching in youtube for some songs and appeared in suggestions the song "Tu Na Ja Mere Badshah" I saw it and in fact I liked it, then I search for the movie to see and I was SURPRISED.!!This movie strongly surprised me..
the story is great..
dialogues are very good, even the director did a very good job comparing to the movies at that time "1992"..The most thing surprise me is that how could Indian could do a romance movie about Muslim characters because I know the Hatred and tensions in that part of the world.!Anyone looking for a great story with full of passion and meanings of love..
friendship..
honor..
I recommended this movie..The story-line was great..
the actors did wonderful job especially Sridevi as Benazir and Kiran Kumar as the mad guy Pasha..
The final scenes are incredibly full of emotion..
and I admit it: for first time in my life I stopped the movie many times because I could not tolerate that high degree of emotion.!!
I gave the director 9 out of 10 The actors 8 of 10 The writer 9 of 10 the songs 10 of 10 But for the final scenes I gave all of them 10 out of 10..One more thing..
if you can't watch the movie with a good translation of the songs..
don't watch it.finally..
I rated the movie 10 out of 10..
I rarely do such thing..
I do not remember giving such rate except only for V for Vendetta...
romance and adventure galore.
shot on actual locations in afghanistan nepal and india this film transports youto a world of subcontinental adventure and romance intelligent colourful and sensitively directed this film is a must for viewers who would like to see an indian spielberg a thing of beauty joy forever.
An Indian Film.
Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi.
Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India.Generally speaking, Indian films have not impressed me.
Some stand out as great, but the more recent ones tend to run much too long and are full of far too much singing and dancing.
This obviously appeals to some people, or they would not be this way.
But it does not appeal to me.That being said, "Khuda Gawah" is actually quite good.
There is still singing and dancing, and the running time is rather long.
But the characters and plot are quite rich, and tell an interesting multi-national story that goes above and beyond the usual fare..
High on drama, low on imagination.
Yes, Khuda Gawah is, lamentably, low on imagination.
What it does have is loads of drama, melodrama, melo-melodrama.
It is hugely unconvincing as a story, even though as a fairytale it might be a good watch for lovers of Hindi cinema.
No one should be giving it too much attention, let alone take the story too seriously.
The portrayal of Afghan people and culture is terribly lacking and even as an epic the emotions are so gushing and exaggerated that few people with normal patience would be able to go through it all.
Ditto for the typical action scenes.
What it does have is relatively good production values, nice locales and impressive costumes.
The idea is interesting, since few filmmakers would be willing to step out of their comfort zone and do something like this, as flawed as the result was.
Amitabh Bachchan is too old for his part, and therefore one cannot take his performance very seriously anyway.
Danny Denzongpa is efficient as the loyal friend.
Sridevi has sure got great histrionics, and it is sad that she was probably not good in choosing the right films.
She rises above a poor script, but who does it really benefit when the quality of a film is not up to the mark and the role is so missing in depth?
She is wasted even though she is responsible for some of the film's brightest moments and does well in both her roles.
Khuda Gawah sure was special, but sadly, not good enough, and for me, it was just a one-time watch.
Watch at your own risk..
God As Witness...Says The Title.
Khuda Gawah tells the story of Badshah Khan and Benazir.
The movie starts with Khan, a Patthani warrior competing with a rival warrior for a carcus.
After 12 minutes of chase and bad editing, the rival warrior's mask falls off, and guess what, she's a very young babe.
Badhshah lustfully stares at this hot chick (who is young enough to be his daughter, oh, but who cares?) and allows her to win the carcus.
This sequence is followed by a terrible song where Badhshah expresses his lust to Benazir (which is the name of the warrior princess) and challenges her.
After the song the warrior princess challenges him back and states hat if Badhshah manages to bring back the decapitated head of her father's enemy, then she will be his.
Badhshah happily accepts the challenge (while maintaining his lustful grin).
While Badhshah is away on his 'pilgrimage'.
Benazir decides to shed her warrior princess image and become a traditional Patthani woman.
Anyway, Badshah meets a bunch uninteresting people in India (except for the only interesting one being Anjana Mumtaz's character) and finds the murderer, decapitates him and brings the head back to Benazir.
The former warrior princess is thrilled (and her eyes hint sadistic pleasure) and they immediately get married.
But Badhshah has to return because he promised a Rajput copper that he'd surrender for having committed a crime.
Benazir is disgusted but she eventually allows him to keep his promise.
Badhshah is also being hunted down by the brother of the murderer of Benazir's father...confused, well watch 'Khuda Gawah' to clear that up.The late Mukul Anand's 'Khuda Gawah' is a mostly enjoyable typical Bollywood operastyle masala.
It's pretty much got all the Bollywood ingredients of songs, 'dishum dishum', good guys, over-the-top villains etc but there are some new additions which is what makes this likable.
The female characters, whether it's Benazir, Salma, Henna or Mehendi are very strong.
Clearly these women do not cling to the men nor are they the usual damsel in distress.
The songs are quite beautiful (with the exception of the first one which is pretty bad) and stay in the viewers mind long after the film's ended.
There's also the refreshing addition of the Pathani culture to the story.
The costumes and desert locations are also a nice touch.'Khuda Gawah' does have a slightly dated look.
The cinematography is dull.
The 12 minute chase sequence in the beginning is tiring to watch.
Perhaps it would have been more engaging if it were better executed.
The sound effect is bad.
The fight scenes dragged a lot and the repetitive slow motion sequences were annoying.
It could have used some editing (but then again, there is something called the fast-forward button).Amitabh Bachchan delivers yet again another irritating performance which was his habit during the 80s and 90s.
He is better in the scenes where he dials down the volume.
Danny Denzongpa is wonderful.
He delivers a memorable performance as Badhshah Khan's loyal friend, Khuda Baksh.
Nagarjuna is alright.
Then newcomer Shilpa Shirodkar holds her own and does nothing short of a fine job.
Vikram Gokhale and Anjana Mumtaz stand out among the supporting cast.
But, 'Khuda Gawah' is clearly, and not surprisingly, Sridevi's film.
Playing two characters in one film is nothing new to this actress and she can just make it look so easy.
Whether it's the courageous warrior turned insane wife Benazir or the vivacious and smart Mehendi, no role seems to be difficult for this actress.
She is simply mindblowing.'Khuda Gawah' also has some suggestive macabre scenes (and I really hope no animals were really killed for this movie) and the ending is quite funny.
But anyway, this is among the few Bollywood 'masala' flicks I enjoyed.
It is far from perfect but the good points that it has are reason enough for me..
This is not an afghani film!!!!
This is not an afghani film!!!!
Its a bollywood potboiler, starring all Indians - not one Afghani actor.
Only a few scenes were shot in Afghanistan, during the rule of the Communist Dr Najibullah, when Kabul was a civilised city, not the rubble pile it has become today.
Its a fun film, all fantasy and popcorn entertainment.
It says nothing about afghans, however - its based on an old Indian conception of the Afghans and their attachment to honor and their word.
Reality is of course very different.