Gadar: Ek Prem Katha

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Gadar: Ek Prem Katha

Movie Poster
Directed by Anil Sharma
Produced by Nitin Keni
Written by Shaktimaan
Narrated by Om Puri
Starring Sunny Deol
Amisha Patel
Amrish Puri
Lilette Dubey
Music by Uttam Singh
Cinematography Najeeb Khan
Editing by A.D. Dhanashekharan
Keshav Naidu
Arun V. Narvekar
Distributed by Zee Telefilms
T-Series
Release date(s) 15 June 2001
Running time 178 mins
Country India
Language Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi
Budget Rs. 18.5 million[1]

Gadar: Ek Prem Katha is a 2001 Bollywood movie starring Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel, and Amrish Puri.

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[edit] Plot

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

The story begins with sikh and hindus being attacked by muslims in Pakistan when trying to return to Indian on a train. to get revenge the sikhs and hindus react with doing the simular 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 by being pushed and lost in the crown. As the mob want to rape her and the murder her, Tara Singh defends Sakina and then convers her to Sikhism in order to protect her. while driving back to Tara's house, the story has a major backflash showing the relationship between Tara and Sakina was before this insident and how they knew each others. Tara is a lorry driver, but his real ambition is to become a singer. Some girls in college that are friends of Sakina fool Tara that they have got him a shot a annual music show in ruturn for a favour that Tara Singh did them. Tara performs badly in from of the music teacher, who is portraied by Shakina (Amisha Patel) as asked to by their friends. his friend then gives him tablets which helps him reperform and 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 within the college. Subsequently and then back to present, Sakena starts living in Tara’s house and the respect culminates into love.

Sakeena and Tara get married and become parents of a baby boy. Their life seems like a bed of roses, till Sakena lays her hands on an old newspaper that has a photograph of her father (Amrish Puri), who she believes had been killed during the riots that took place during the partition.

The father is now the Mayor of Lahore and when Sakeena 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 back on the Indian soil.

[edit] Filming locations

A part of Gadar was famously shot at Bishop Cotton School. A major flaw in the movie is that the plot of 1947 shows the music of "Que sera sera" which was first published in 1956 !

[edit] Cast

  • Sunny Deol ... Tara Singh
  • Amisha Patel ... Sakeena
  • Amrish Puri ... Ashraf Ali (Sakeena's father)
  • Lillete Dubey ... Shabana (Sakeena's mother)
  • Vivek Shauq ... Darmiyaan Singh
  • Master Utkarsh Sharma ... Charanjeet
  • Suresh Oberoi ... Taya
  • Madhu Malti ... Tayee
  • Pramod Mautho ... Gurdeep (Tara's father)
  • Mushtaq Khan ... Gul Khan
  • Dolly Bindra ... Gul Khan's wife
  • Rakesh Bedi ... Vaidya
  • Vishwajeet Pradhan ... Daroga Suleiman
  • Tony Mirchandani ...
  • Samar Jai Singh ... Salim
  • Ahsaan Khan ... Abdul Ali
  • Vikrant Chaturvedi ... Kalim
  • Asha Bachchani ... Zaheera
  • Naresh Sharma ... Baldev
  • Rajshree Seem ... Baldev's wife
  • Pratima Kazmi ... Greedy Woman
  • Gyan Prakash ... Wali Mohammed
  • Amita Khopkar ... Bano
  • Prince Deepak ... Jumman
  • Rahul ... Aslam
  • Kanika Shivpuri ... Tara's mother
  • Malvika Shivpuri ... Tara's mother
  • Charan Preet ...
  • Tarika Khanna ... Baby Sakina
  • Master Polyster ... Baby Aslam
  • Santosh Gupta ... Chanta
  • Om Puri ... Narrator

[edit] Crew

[edit] Box office

Gadar was a blockbuster and was nominated for several awards. The movie grossed almost Rs. 70,00,00,000 and is the eighth highest grossing Bollywood movie when adjusted for inflation of all time. The movie could also be outpointed as one of the highlights of the career of Sunny Doal.

[edit] Music

Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
Studio album by Uttam Singh
Released 2001 (India)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label
T-Series
Producer Uttam Singh
Uttam Singh chronology
Farz
(2001)		 Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
(2001)		 Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai
(2002)

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

[edit] Awards

Winner:

Nominated:

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Shubhra Gupta. "Blockbuster bucks trend". The Hindu Business Line. http://www.blonnet.com/2001/08/20/stories/102044a2.htm. Retrieved 2001-08-20. 

[edit] External links

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