Khudgarz

Plot synopsis:
Khudgarz is the story of two childhood friends Amar a rich boy and Bihari a poor, their bond of friendship was so strong that they could even go to the extent of giving up their lives for each other. Amar falls in love with Jaya, a florist and Bihar with Lata a labourer girl, their love culminates into marriage. Amar's father Brij Bhushan Saxena is a capitalist for him life is just a calculation. Brij Bhushan wants to give a 5-star hotel as a marriage gift to Amar. The land for the construction of the hotel incidentally belongs to Bihar. Bihari had previously turned down several offers of selling his land because the house and land were his father's remembrances. But on Amar's asking Bihari gesture is by making him a fifty percent partner in the profits of the hotel. Brij Bhushan with his calculative mind makes such an agreement by which he lawfully becomes the sole owner of the land. Bihari in good faith puts his thumb impression on the agreement. The 5-star hotel gets ready but on the opening day, a certain section people condemn Bihari's place which is in the same premises of 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 bores the seed of misunderstanding between the two friends. 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 in his confidence, demolishes Biharis place and hotel by a bulldozer, putting the entire blame on Amar's head, saying that Amar in a state of drunkness had ordered him to do so. Amar thinks that he had ordered him to do so the pleads before Bihar that he will make back Bihar's place and hotel with his own hands. But Bihari challenges him that he will not make one hotel but the chain of hotels throughout the country and one day he will supersede Amar and be at the top. Bihar is given shelter by most trusted friend Bhimji Nanji Premji Batiwada a lawyer by profession. In the meantime, Sudhir's activities are exposed before Amar, who sacks him and throws him out of his house. In order to avenge his insult, Sudhir joins hands with Bihari as he was sure that the determination and fire in Bihari will take Bihari to the top. As it is said fortune favours the brave, Bihari is sanctioned loan from the bank - he makes his first hotel, thus taking the first step up by the ladder of success. On this dual moment of happiness, he fixes his sister Lalita's marriage with Sudhir. Amar and pregnant Jaya who have been also invited for the marriage are on their way, but Sudhir sets a trap as he does not want Amar to come face to face with Bihari's mother. He is scared if they do meet, she may clear the misunderstanding between Bihari and Amar. In this trap, Jaya is injured Amar takes her to the hospital where she gives birth to a son and dies. The determination and fire in Bihar enable him to climb further lap. Lata gives birth to a baby girl, Jyoti. There is no end to Bihari's joys. Sudhir takes advantage of Bihari's illiteracy and gets blank papers signed from him, thus becoming Biharis equal partner. Amar's son Kumar and Bihari's daughter Jyoti grow up and knowingly that their fathers are the greatest enemies of each other, they love each other and want to marry.

Tags: revenge, intrigue

Review:
Brilliant film about friendship. Director Rakesh Roshan made his debut with this Big Hit Movie. This was a simple tale about friendship that turns into rage. That sounds kind of repeated and boring, but the movie does entertain. There have been many Hit Movies based on friendship Sholay, Yaarana, Dosti friends Forever. Khudgarz was a wonderful heart warming film. I have never been a fan of Jeetendra and Shutrungh Sinha and was not keen on this film. It cam on Sky a few years back and i had nothing else to watch so i went for it. It was a good thing i did, cos i know have the movie at home. Jeetendra gives the Best performance of his career, better then his other Hits Himmatwala, Justice Choudhury and Mawaali. Shutrungh Sinha's Best Role after his character in Kala Pathhar. Govinda and Neelam are hardly there. Amrita is good as usual. Bhanu Priya, the good looking actress has less scope. Anyway, this is worth the watch.. Good. Rakesh Roshan got more success as a director then actor The film tells the story of how good friends become eniemies The story spans 2 generationsIt starts with late 40 actors(of 80's) Jeetendra and Shatrughan Sinha playing friends and some portions depicting their friendship is crude The story is predictable though but well handled Their break up in their friendship is well handled while the second half shows how their respective children fall in love with each other The film does have some unwanted comedy scenes and some overdone dramaThe film is well directed by Rakesh Roshan Music is good tooAmongst actors Jeetendra does his part well and is subtle here though he and Shatru look too old in initial portions Shatrughan Sinha does his Bihari act well though he overdoes at times Kader Khan does his usual comedy Amongst heroines Bhanupriya is okay, Amrita Singh is alright too Sushma Seth looks too young to play Shatru's mother Kiran Kumar gives a subtle performance Saeed Jaffrey is okay Govinda does a good job though he has come a long way Neelam is adequate. a very interesting saga. this is perhaps the most superb starrer of jeetu and shatrughan sinha. this movie displays a thoroughly written script, excellent directorial exploits and superb acting by the 2 major stars, their actresses and others.i really enjoy the crude interplays between jeetu and sinha. seeing best of friends becoming overnight enemies with hatred grown to the level of destroy the other party is alarming. interestingly, they put up excellent acting.rakesh roshan settles down to write the Hollywood version of cain & abel in the bollywood way. he deserves every commendation in the way he exploits every bit of the script to suit bollywood masala.khudgarz shows the high intellectual displays of the director, producer, script-writer and all the actors. kudos to all of them.