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Stephanie Dejoode
2nd Lt. Peter D'Souza is an Indian Army officer who wants to join his battalion's specialist commando platoon. His father John D'Souza wants Peter to run the family bakery after him, his fiance Shirley wants him to marry her while his neighbour Kiran tells Peter to follow his heart. Peter leaves for commando training at the Maratha Light Infantry Regimental Centre.
Enter Major Pratap Chauhan. Chauhan is described as a nightmare for every aspiring cadet, and he proves that the "honour" is well deserved. Under his leadership, cadets get exhausted in commando training. He has a sordid past; his mother was a kothewali (a woman who dances and entertains rich people privately to earn money), who was probably sold to one of her customers. That was the last time Chauhan saw her. A classical song that his mother usually sang for practice, seems to dominate his memories of his mother and his own childhood.
The unit resents Chauhan's attitude, but this same attitude moulds them into a formidable unit. Peter hates Chauhan's approach and decides to leave. Chauhan tells him that if he flees from his training, he will be considered a coward in the eyes of the people and his girlfriend. This motivates Peter, and as a result, he completes the training and tops his class. During a rescue operation, he loses the use of his legs and is honourably discharged from the Army. One commando (Diganto, or 2-by-2) loses his life in the operation. Later, he writes to Chauhan inviting him to his marriage.
When Chauhan reaches Peter's address in Mumbai for the wedding, he is informed by a neighbour that Peter is dead. Chauhan learns many shocking truths of Peter's area. Kiran tells him that a group of goons was extorting money from the people of the area. Peter, having taken over his father's bakery refused to pay and challenged them. The gang killed Peter in front of the whole locality, while Peter fought like a soldier until his end. Chauhan finds that not a single person, not even Peter's father, is willing to testify against them out of fear.
Chauhan takes matters into his own hands and speaks to the police and the media in pursuit of justice. The police cite the need for eyewitnesses for filing a case while the media is disinterested. Chauhan felt that the part of civil society became corrupted and spineless. Later when the gang harasses Kiran, Chauhan vents his fury on them. He kills the goons single-handedly and avenges Peter's murder by killing his murderer.
Chauhan is arrested and tried for killing the goons. In court, Chauhan is accused of abusing his powers and taking the law into his hands. An outraged Chauhan fervently reminds the people present of all the hardships suffered by their forefathers and security personnel to keep them safe. He states that people have become too feeble to oppose injustice and, unless this changes, society is lost.
In the end, the judge sends him to a mental institution, keeping his military designations intact. Kiran goes to meet him there with her son. The movie ends with a sequence of Major Chauhan giving army training to hundreds of children.
Incidentally Prahaar was supposed to be an ''Art'' movie but ended up being a huge commercial success. I would never forget the authenticity Nana (Patekar) gave to the character he played. Nana trains a group of Commandos and the movie for most part revolves around the love-hate relationship between the trainer and the victims (the recruits could literally be called so). It also traces the life of one commando in particular, Peter D'Souza, played by Gautam Joglekar who had to leave the Force following a permanent disability. This commando, now confined to his wheelchair returns to his home to find that his father and their family business is under constant threat from the local goons.
Nana is invited to his marriage, with Madhuri. Nana comes with a gift to find that the home is in mourning for the deceased son. Habib Tanvir in the role of Joglekar's father is compelling. Nana stays back in their house and we are taking through some of the finest moments of cinematic experience, the subdued and tense air of a soldier living among civilians just waiting for that 'one' moment (which he eventually gets and on which he acts upon), a widow who has resigned to her fate but starts seeing hope in Nana and Nana finding a friend in that widows son.
But do you know that apart from avid lovers of Hindi film industry, veteran actor Nana Patekar had time and again impressed the Armed forces personnel with his dedication and knack for doing Justice with the role he does on screen and imbibing those traits in his personal life.
Fed up of the all-round negativity, Nana Patekar decided to take matters in his own hand and shed this negative perception of the industry. He decided to act, direct and even write for a new project that would shed positive light on the training of the Armed forces personnel.
Though the film Prahaar was not a commercial success, it was widely appreciated for its near to real portrayal of the Indian Armed Forces. Before and after Prahaar, Bollywood has made several movies based on our armed forces, but they fail to live up to the expectations that this film has set with its accurate presentation of our armed forces personnel.
Even though Nana Patekar was not the lead character of the film Prahaar, he wanted to play his character with full conviction that suits the portrayal of these real-life heroes. To imbibe every trait of an Army officer, Nana Patekar trained for almost three years with Maratha Light Infantry whose Major he was supposed to play in the film Prahaar.
In fact, his unwavering support and respect for the Indian Army continues till date. Call it PR strategy or genuine admiration for the Armed forces personnel, several celebrities have been seen praising, clicking pictures with men/women in uniforms, or making all praise speeches for the Armed forces.
But Nana Patekar differs from them in the sense that he has been materialising his words into actions. For example, when the Kargil War was going on in full swing, Nana Patekar camped among the soldiers in action for more than a fortnight, to support them in every manner possible.
He has been doing everything possible to live up to the honorary rank he once got for his unflinching dedication in portraying the real-life heroes on the bigger screen and for that he deserves to be applauded and if possible, replicated again.
PRAHAAR stands tall among such highly appreciable attempts in Hindi films, which till date remains the only directorial venture of the hugely famous writer-actor-director Nana Patekar. And the thinking actor made this movie just for his own countrymen with a specific social message that we constantly need to fight with the enemy existing within our crumbling society first, before fighting the one attacking the political borders.
Hi Bobby,
I cant tell how happy i am on seeing this film in the "Movies to see before you die" category.
I saw this movie in my childhood for the first time, and many more times after that.
I strongly agree with you when you recommend this movie to the young. Such movies feed responsibility. And i know i was fed too :-)
Thanks,
Jasmeet
Thanks Jasmeet for writing in and yes the movie strongly deserves to be in the list due to its message as well as the execution without looking for any box office returns.
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Produced by Sudhakar Bokade, Prahaar (1991) also starred Madhuri Dixit, Dimple Kapadia, Habib Tanvir, Gautam Joglekar, Makrand Deshpande, Sai Deodhar, Achyut Potdar, Shivkumar Subramaniam, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Vijay Kumar Singh, Cheetah Shetty and Aadesh Shrivastava in supporting roles.
Printed and circulated during the debut release of the film in theaters (somewhere in 1991), this original Bollywood poster was originally designed for publicity of the film but never ended up being used.
This Prahaar movie poster was originally designed in hand painted oil on canvas format by a popular Bollywood poster design studio in Bombay called Studio Link. The printed signature of the studio is seen on the bottom right of this Nana Patekar poster.
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