Brother for brother, fire and water. For each other not for life, but for death. I watched this movie three days ago, but it still hasn’t let me go. Of course, this is a completely commercial film, typical and template in the spirit of the 80s of the last century. But somehow he hooked me. I watched it from the filmography of Govindy, and it seems that it was also recently voiced, I do not know if it was previously with subtitles or without voiceovers at all, I have never watched it before, it was just recorded with me, and three days ago I got to it.
The film a la "The Godfather" Francis Ford Coppola (the one with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in the roles), and even the title tune is the same. At first, hearing the painfully familiar melody, I did not immediately understand where it came from, but then, during watching it, it sounded more than once in the most tense moments of the film, and it came to me, father, but it is also "The Godfather", which I watched back in the 90s when I was in high school (we had one TV for the whole family, and had to watch what my parents watched, and then many films showed about the mafia, and Hollywood, and Italian, the most popular of which was the main series). I have only watched it once in my life. I do not like a movie about the mafia, and do not like and do not respect people who kill other people for money (police and the military do not belong to them, they kill defending law, order, the country and peace, and their actions are justified, but the mafiosi kill for money, and this is not forgiven), so I do not like a movie about the mafia, and that film was watched once in my life, I do not want to watch any more. But the title melody from it, included in the list of world masterpieces of instrumental music and heard it often. That's why I immediately noticed this melody. Govinda sang a very beautiful song "Tere kasam" to this music.
It's an interesting story. As always, there is no film description. The main character of the film Prashant (Shatrughan Sinha) works as a porter in the port. He has a wife Parvati (Moushumi Chatterjee) and a younger ten-year-old brother Ram (I don't know the actor's boy, and when he grew up, he was played by Govinda). They live, though poor, but calmly, in love and harmony. And one day, when Prashant helped the police detain smugglers in the port and decided to testify against them in court, they framed him and turned everything so that they accused Prashant himself of smuggling and sent him to prison for two years. It changed their lives. How his wife and brother lived these two years, I will not write, it is necessary to watch, but after leaving prison (also an interesting moment), by the will of fate, Prashant himself becomes the leader of the mafia group, and begins to confront his main enemy, Shakala. His younger brother Ram at school meets a boy named Lakshman, a round orphan. The boys became friends, Ram brought Lakshman to their home and they became like brothers and grew up together. And Lakshman has become a police inspector, and now he has to find the leader of a smuggling gang, whom no one knows.
In general, the story is interesting, although not new. I have watched such stories more than once, and even more so a story based on a Hollywood masterpiece, but adapted to Indian realities, with songs and dances. Lakshman played Kunal Gosvami, I hardly recognized him, in those years he was almost everywhere with a mustache, and then smoothly shaved tall handsome, and even in the form of a policeman, just do not come off.
Couples of the guys were two super-beauties of the actress of those years, Mandakini and Sonam. Mandakini paired with Govinda, Sonam paired with Kunal. The girls were shown very little, they are still not the main characters, but still very significant for the film (not for furniture and not as an appendix to the main characters). When Mandakini first appeared on the screen, I almost fell off my chair. A few years ago, at an Indian forum, I saw a picture of her wearing this terrible blonde wig, this beige dress with small blue flowers, these silver shoes and the terrible blue eyeliner. And then I thought, what kind of movie is this in which Mandakini plays in this disfiguring form? And this comes out of which movie. Thank God that she only sang one song in this form (although the hero of Govindy fell in love with her in this form), and then the whole film went in normal form, in sari and other costumes, and it was nice to look at her.
As in almost all Govinda movies, especially the early ones, the first part is romantic, the second action movie. Govinda is Govinda, of course, all my attention was turned to him. But Shatrughan Sinha also did well, they did not let him live calmly as a porter, so he turned into a mafia boss. Such a tough guy, one look of which was enough to terrify the enemy. Of course, the film is at the level of the late 80s, but Govinda-a-a-a-a-a! So curly, beautiful. But other actors here are amazing. Moushumi I love very much, a very beautiful actress, that in her youth, that older, and most importantly in the role of her daughter-in-law and mother, she is the most believable for me, she radiates warmth and sincerity, I love her infinitely. Shatrughan - an actor, any role he can handle. Mandakini - my plump gray-eyed cutie, I really love her paired with Govinda, Sonam - as a flower, tender and beautiful, and Kunal Gosvami - good, even very. I like everyone here! And the song "Govindy" about a friend came to tears ... Thanks from the bottom of my heart for the voiceover of the film.
All Govinda fans must watch, he is fantastically beautiful here.
10 out of 10