Lack-lustred and alcoholic Pratap Narayan Tilak is given a rude awakening when he meets with journalist Megha Dixit, and decides to instill some sense of justice and fair play within his community, and get them to assertively defend their rights and freedom. He is met with strong resistance, both from within his very own community, the police, and some very powerful and influential politicians. Unable to bear the injustice, and frustrated at his community to act proactively, Pratap decides to take the law into his own hands, resulting in chaos, violence, and uncertainty for everyone, and a path to his own grave.
Nana Patekar Dimple Kapadia Atul Agnihotri Mamta Kulkarni Farida Jalal Paresh Rawal Tinnu Anand Danny Denzongpa Bindu Desai Ishrat Ali Shafi Inamdar Mushtaq Khan Mahesh Anand Sujit Kumar Ram Mohan Vikas Anand Ghanshyam Nayak Viju Khote Babbanlal Yadav Asha Sharma Raj Dutt Janardhan Parab Maheswari Girish Malik K.K. Raj Zubair Khan Arun Mathur
A good, entertaining film that blends social harmony, violence against women, religious disagreements, corruption, and many other topics. It contains some of the best dialogue and scenes ever. The scenes where Nana encourages the little child to throw stones, when he encourages the woman to stand on her and fight, and the last, most amazing scene, where Nana injures the hand of an elderly man and says, "yeh dekh khoon isme se konsa musalman konsa hindu kaa," are three of my favorite moments from the film.
A super entertaining movie which might be cringy at times but director Mehul Kumar brings out best social messaging if that's related to corruption or women empowerment to religious harmony that's easy to digest and practically possible unlike Canada Kumar mvie where hyper personified deshbhakti is difficult to take.
Remeber the scene where Nana Patekar takes a stone and hammers his hands and shows his blood and he does the same to another man of different religion and then says "Yeh le tera khoon, mera khoon ab bata kiska khoon hai" humble yet deep social analogy.
interesting how it poisons masala with brash cynicism, perfectly fitting with nana's presence. our krantiveer roams around in indifference, knowing justice but thinking of it as a farce. till the fire reaches home and he is directed by a fierce dimple kapadia, as a journalist. both equally broken and angry form one of the most tender bonds on film.
Things I didn't like at all:
1. This topic should have been Handled with much more seriousness, inclusion of songs, poorly executed romantic angle and the monotonous cliched supporting characters and their motivations just didn't work for me
2. Editing and Direction of this film sucks