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| producer = Nitin Keni
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| writer = [[Shaktimaan]]
| story = [[Shaktimaan|Shaktimaan Talwar]]
| narrator = [[Om Puri]]
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| starring = [[Sunny Deol]]<br>[[Amisha Patel]]<br>[[Amrish Puri]]<br>[[Lilette Dubey]]
| starring = [[Sunny Deol]]<br>[[Amisha Patel]]<br>[[Amrish Puri]]<br>[[Lilette Dubey]]
| music = [[Uttam Singh]]
| music = [[Uttam Singh]]
| cinematography = Najeeb Khan
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| editing = A.D. Dhanashekharan<br>Keshav Naidu<br>Arun V. Narvekar
| editing = Keshav Naidu
| distributor = [[Zee Telefilms]]<br>[[T-Series]]
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| released = 15 June 2001
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| runtime = 178 mins
| runtime = 178 mins
| country = [[India]]
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| language = [[Hindi]]/[[Urdu]]/[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
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Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnil Sharma
Story byShaktimaan Talwar
Produced byNitin Keni
StarringSunny Deol
Amisha Patel
Amrish Puri
Lilette Dubey
Narrated byOm Puri
CinematographyNajeeb Khan
Edited byKeshav Naidu
Music byUttam Singh
Distributed byZee Telefilms
Release date
June 15, 2001
Running time
178 mins
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi/Urdu/Punjabi
Budget₹18.5 crore (US$2.3 million)[1]
Box office₹72 crore (US$9.0 million)

Gadar: Ek Prem Katha is a 2001 Bollywood movie starring Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel, and Amrish Puri. Gadar: Ek Prem Katha clashed with Aamir Khan starer Lagaan at the box office.

Plot

Set in 1947 during the Partition of India, the film tells the story of a truck driver, Tara Singh (Sunny Deol), a Jatt Sikh, who falls in love with a Muslim girl, Sakeena (Amisha Patel), belonging to an aristocratic family.

The story begins with Muslims being attacked by Sikhs and Hindus in India when trying to migrate to Pakistan on a train in response to the killing of Hindus and Sikhs going to India from Pakistan To get revenge,Muslims react by doing the same thing. During the Hindu-Muslim riots that erupted soon after the Partition, Tara saves Sakina from a murderous mob chasing her as she failed to get onto the train after being pushed and lost in the crowd. As the mob want to rape her and then murder her, Tara Singh defends Sakina and then converts her to Sikhism to protect her.

While driving back to Tara's house, the story has a major backflash showing the relationship between Tara and Sakina before this incident and how they knew each other. Tara is a lorry driver, but his real ambition is to become a singer. Some girls in college who are friends of Sakina fool Tara that they have got him a shot a annual music show in return for his doing a for favour for them. Tara performs badly in from of the music teacher, who is portrayed by Sakina (Amisha Patel). His friend then gives him tablets that help him prove his singing skills. Soon after it is shown that Sakina is not the real music teacher, which saddens him. When performing on the music function Sakina announces that she will not do her act instead gives Tara a chance to sing despite the will against the seniors at the college.

Subsequently and back to present, Sakina starts living in Tara’s house and their respect culminates into love.

Sakina and Tara singh get married and become parents of a baby boy. Their life seems like a bed of roses, until Sakina sees an old newspaper that has a photograph of her father (Amrish Puri), whom she believes had been killed during the riots during the Partition.

Her father is now the mayor of Lahore. When Sakina calls him from the Pakistani Consulate in Delhi, he arranges to fly her to Lahore. But Tara and their son, who are supposed to accompany her to Lahore, are told at the last minute that their visa formalities have not been completed, which compels them to stay in India. This does not stop Tara. He and his son accompanied by a friend enter Pakistan illegally at the border. There they find out that Sakina is getting married. They reach her before the marriage can start and reunite.

Seeing this, Sakina's husband-to-be attacks Tara but is instead injured by him. A large fight was about to break until the priest stops them, as this can end up harming Sakina's father's career in politics. Ashraf Ali (Amrish Puri) agrees for their marriage under two conditions: They should live in Pakistan, and Tara should adopt Islam.

These conditions are accepted by Tara in public the next day which was against Ashraf Ali's plans. He makes Tara insult his country to make him believe he is a true Pakistani, which enrages him and this makes him kill the mob that was hired by Ashraf to kill him.

Tara, Sakina, their son, and friend escape.

After a long turmoil they get a cotton mall train which will be their ticket to India. But Ashraf Ali finds out and he takes some men to stop them. In the fight Sakina gets shot by her own father. In the hospital Sakina in a coma which makes Ashraf Ali realise his mistake. Sakina gains consciousness after having a nightmare. The movie ends with Ashraf Ali accepting Tara as his son-in-law and they return to India.

Filming locations

A part of Gadar was shot at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and at other several locations in Shimla. Although the film is set in 1947, it features the music of "Que sera sera" which was first published in 1956.

The movie was also shot in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh where the city was depicted as Lahore, Pakistan.[2]

Cast

Crew

Box office

Gadar was a blockbuster and was nominated for several awards. The movie grossed almost Rs. 72,00,00,000 and is now the 9th highest grossing Bollywood movie (as of 2010) when adjusted for inflation of all time. The movie could also be outpointed as one of the highlights of the career of Sunny Deol.

Music

Untitled

The music is composed by Uttam Singh. The song listing is as follows.

Song Singer(s)
"Udja Kale Kawan - Folk" Udit Narayan
"Musafir Jaane Wale" Preeti Uttam & Udit Narayan
"Main Nikla Gaddi" Udit Narayan
"Udja Kale Kawan - Marriage" Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Nihar S
"Hum Juda Ho Gaye" Preeti Uttam, Udit Narayan, Nihar S
"Udja Kale Kawan - Search" Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Nihar S
"Aan Milo Sajna" Ajay Chakraborty, Parveen Sultana
"Traditional Shaadi Geet " Preeti Uttam
"Udja Kale Kawan - Victory" Instrumental

Awards

Winner:

Nominated:

See also

References

  1. ^ Shubhra Gupta. "Blockbuster bucks trend". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2001-08-20. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Government of India: Lucknow

External links

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