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| Gunda | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kanti Shah |
| Written by | Bashir Babbar |
| Produced by | Anil Singh |
| Starring | Mithun Chakraborty Mukesh Rishi Ishrat Ali Shakti Kapoor |
| Cinematography | Salim Suma |
| Music by | Anand Raj Anand |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Goldmines Telefilms |
Release date | |
Running time | 129 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Gunda (transl. Goon) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film written by Bashir Babbar and directed by Kanti Shah. Starring Mithun Chakraborty, Mukesh Rishi and Shakti Kapoor, the film was produced by Anil Shah and the music was composed by Anand Raj Anand. Earlier the film was titled as Gundagiri but later it was changed.[citation needed] The narrative revolves around a coolie who vows to exact revenge upon a crime lord and his cronies after they kill his loved ones. It is widely considered the Citizen Kane of bad movies.
The film was released on 4 September 1998. Over time, the film has gained a cult following, selling over 2,000 VCD copies at a single outlet.[1] It also received a limited re-release in 2018.[2] The same year, actor Deepak Shirke who played politician Bachubhai, revealed that the film was shot without a script.[3]In 2017 also Mukesh Rishi who played a role of Bulla had mentioned that he felt very guilty and ashamed of himself while saying his dialogue.Upon its release in 1998, the film was withdrawn from theaters because the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) received complaints from college girls who felt offended by the violence and vulgarity in the film.
Plot[edit]
The film opens with the home minister offering gangster Lambu Atta (Ishrat Ali) 50 lakhs to kill the politician Bachchu Bhigona (Deepak Shirke). This is in response to Bachchu Bhigona ordering Bulla (Mukesh Rishi) to kill the minister. Lambu Atta was a mentor to Bulla, until Bulla became more powerful than him, leading to enmity between them. Lambu Atta wished to kill Bulla and his accomplices first, and received protection from the police via the home minister.
Lambu Atta killed one of Bulla's goons. This angered Bulla and his accomplices, which included his meek brother Chuttiya (Shakti Kapoor), Pote (Mohan Joshi), Ibu Hatela (Harish Patel), Inspector Kale (Rana Jang Bahadur), and Kala Shetty (Rami Reddy). To settle the score, Bulla kills Lambu Atta's brother Kundan. Lambu Atta bounces back by raping and subsequently killing Bulla's sister. In response, Bulla managed to corner and kill Lambu Atta, even as Lambu Atta offered to surrender and become Bulla's slave. With Lambu Atta out of the way, Bulla sends Kala Shetty to finish Bachchu Bhigona's work and kill the home minister in front of the police. He escapes the police and runs to the airport, where he encounters Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty). Shankar beats up Kala Shetty and hands him over to the police, creating a rift between Shankar and Kala Shetty's boss, Bulla.
Shankar works as a coolie in a shipyard and is the son of a police inspector. He lives comfortably with his father, his sister Geeta (Sapna Sappu), and his pet monkey Tinchu. Shankar also has a girlfriend named Ganga, who wants to marry him as soon as possible, but Shankar wishes to marry off Geeta before moving ahead with Ganga. When Shankar meets Bulla and his gang, Bulla declares that he has fixed the date when Shankar will die at their hands.
Meanwhile, Chuttiya meets Lucky Chikna (Razzak Khan), a pimp, and Gulshan, who marries innocent women and hands them over to Lucky Chikna for prostitution. Chuttiya wants a girl from them the way Haseena was handed over to Bulla. Bulla gets Haseena pregnant but threatens to kill her if she did not abort the baby.
Bulla organises fights at the shipyard, and offers one lakh rupees to anyone who could beat their prizefighter. Shankar takes up the challenge so that he can give the one lakh to a fellow coolie who needed it for his daughter's marriage. The animosity between Shankar and Bulla rises after Shankar manages to easily beat the fighter. Since Kala Shetty was in jail, Bachchu Bhigona suggests to Bulla that he take over Kala Shetty's area of the town where he can start collecting protection money from shopkeepers. While Bulla's muscleman Naata (Bajrangi) was beating up a shopkeeper, Shankar's father intervenes. However, Naata beats up Shankar's father after which Shankar himself intervenes and beats up all the goons.
In retaliation, Bulla instructs Naata to abducts Shankar's sister Geeta. While trying to molest her, she is saved by Gulshan and Geeta wishes to marry him. Shankar marries off Geeta, but the marriage turns out to be a scheme by Gulshan and Chuttiya, as Gulshan hands her over to Chuttiya for his pleasure. Bulla gives Chuttiya 'Vitamin Sex' (a likely reference to Viagra) for him to overcome his impotency. Geeta dies while being raped by Chuttiya and he disposes of the body in a jungle. Shankar's monkey Tinchu sees this and leads Shankar to Geeta's body. Shankar chases Chuttiya to Bulla's doorstep, where he is confronted by Bulla and his gang. He swears revenge on them.
Shankar's father goes mad with grief upon Geeta's death and confronts Inspector Kale, blaming him for being an accomplice to Bulla. This angers Inspector Kale and he decides to kill Shankar's father. Inspector Kale finds Shankar's father in a lonely spot in the dark, where he chokes him to death. Shankar meets Bulla at his bungalow and swears he will kill all of them in 10 days. After cremating his father, Shankar finds an abandoned baby girl child and adopts her along with Ganga.
Shankar is now on a warpath to kill everyone associated with Bulla. He witnesses an innocent woman's funeral, who died after she was taken advantage of by Gulshan. Shankar finds Lucky Chikna and beats him up to know Gulshan's whereabouts. Consequently, he killed Gulshan. Meanwhile, Ibu Hatela attempted to rape a girl who was handed to him by Gulshan and Lucky Chikna. When the girl escapes, Ibu Hatela searches for her near a graveyard where he finds Shankar. Shankar buried Ibu Hatela into the ground and beheaded him. However, when he tries to assassinate the politician Bachubhai Bhigona, a sniper from another car kills Bhigona. Shankar is caught and charged for the murder, and is sentenced to a life term in prison. Shankar escapes prison the same night, and goes after Inspector Kale. Shankar is then ambushed by several Kung-fu trained goons with knives, submachine guns and grenades. Shankar thrashes them and kills Kale.
After this, Shankar goes after Chikna, who is employed by Bulla to lure village girls to the city and then force them into prostitution. Before killing Chikna, Shankar learns that the baby girl he adopted was in fact Bulla's illegitimate child.
While Shankar hunts for Pote, Chuttiya and Bulla on the other hand kill his girlfriend Ganga. After killing Pote, Shankar goes to kill Chuttiya. Chuttiya then informs Shankar that he is impotent and it was his elder brother Bulla who gave him vitamin sex which put him into a frenzy and made him violently rape Shankar's sister. Thus, to take revenge, Shankar castrates Chuttiya and says that this is what he deserves.
In the climactic scene, Bulla and Shankar have a showdown in the shipyard-airport complex. Bulla is backed up by several dozen auto-rickshaws that run helter-skelter and attack Shankar. Shankar takes out a rocket-propelled grenade launcher from the boot of his car and takes down the auto-rickshaws.
The action quickly switches to a coal mine, where Bulla tries to use the adopted baby which he thinks is Shankar's daughter to gain leverage in the fight. Soon Bulla realizes that the baby is his own, he still uses the baby as a shield. Shankar rescues the girl with the help of his monkey, Tinchu. Again the scene switches to airport where Kala Shetty comes with a helicopter to save Bulla. With a brief fight Shankar kills Kala Shetty and finally Bulla.
Cast[edit]
- Mithun Chakraborty as Shankar / Gunda No. 1
- Mukesh Rishi as Bulla
- Ishrat Ali as Lambu Atta
- Shakti Kapoor as Chuttiya
- Razzak Khan as Lucky Chikna
- Rami Reddy as Kala Shetty
- Harish Patel as Ibu Hatela
- Mohan Joshi as Pote
- Bajrangi as Naata
- Deepak Shirke as Bachubhai Bhigona
- Varna Raj as Ganga
- Gulshan Rana as Gulshan
- Vinod Tripathi as Kundan
- Sapna as Geeta
Soundtrack[edit]
The music was composed by Anand Raj Anand, with lyrics written by Dev Kohli, Satyprakash, and Zail Singh.
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'Tum Bin Jeena Raas Na Aaye' | Sadhana Sargam, Udit Narayan |
| 2 | 'Nasha Nasha Karta Haiin' | Anand Raj Anand, Poonam Bhatia |
| 3 | 'Aaj Parayi Hokar Behna Jaye' | Mohammed Aziz |
| 4 | 'Kholi Mere Dil Ki Khali Hai Tu' | Poonam Bhatia, Abhijeet Bhattacharya |
| 5 | 'Teri Aankhon Ka Chal Gaya Jadu' | Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kumar Sanu |
Reception[edit]
Reviews[edit]
Ravi Balakrishnan of The Economic Times states 'The Mithun Chakarborthy-starrer has gained a surprising amount of cult popularity over the last year and a half or so, with several adulatory reviews and even fan-sites cropping up. But when we first saw Gunda, back in 2005, a full seven years after its unheralded release in 1998, it was the first any of us had heard of the film or its prolific director, Kanti Shah.'[4] Mayank Shekhar of the Mumbai Mirror says that 'Gladwell hasn't seen Gunda (probably, neither have you). He must. He'd be glad. In my living memory, I have yet to notice a more startling revelation of the mysterious 'tipping point' anywhere of my social circle. Over the past few months, about four unrelated sources from three parts of the world have asked me if I'd seen Kanti Shah's Gunda.'[5]
In 2014, comedians Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath uploaded a review of Gunda on Kanan's YouTube channel, which went viral and became the first instalment in Kanan's 'Pretentious Movie Reviews' series. The video has been taken down since, due to copyright issues. But it is still available to view on YouTube via unofficial uploaders.
Controversy[edit]
On its release in 1998, the film had to be withdrawn from theaters due to complaints received by the Central Board of Film Certification from college girls who were appalled by the excessive violence, sex and obscenity in the film. The film had earlier been rejected by the Central Board of Film Certification due to use of filthy language and obscenity, it was later passed with an A certificate after the film makers made changes to the film. It was alleged that the version running in theaters prior to the withdrawal was the unedited print. The cases filed from Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore have since been withdrawn and the movie has also been cleared.[6]
The movie came in highlights after writer and columnist Chetan Bhagat in his Times of India column claimed that contemporary movies have better content than films like Gunda.[7] This drew protests typically on blogs[8] and Twitter[9] amongst Gunda fans. One of the flaws in Bhagat's column as pointed out by a blogger was that Gunda was released in 1998 whereas Chetan Bhagat quoted it to be a movie of the 80's. Gunda fans have strongly reacted against Bhagat's comments, asking him to leave writing books, in the style of a clichéd Hindi movie script.[8]
Box office[edit]
The film was released on 4-September-1998 on the budget of (₹2 cr) at 95 screen layouts. (21,26,000) tickets were sold out and its ranked in (1084).
In opening day this movie collected (₹1,00,50,000) and at opening weekend it collected (₹58,00,000). First with this movie collected (₹1,00,50,000) and India gross collection was (₹3,69,00,000). Adjusted net gross collection was (₹20,44,57,420) total net gross collection was (₹2,13,50,000) and according to collection film was considered Average at Box Office India.
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Worldwide first week collection was (₹1,00,34,000) and first week collection was(₹1,73,86,500) worldwide gross collection (₹3,71,55,000) and overseas collection was (US$3,71,55,000). It was rated at 7.4/10 stars and it was 46th-highest-grossing film of 1998.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'An A of the B-grade'. The Economic Times.
- ^'Gunda's new run on the big screen'. The Asian Age.
- ^'20 years of Gunda: Deepak Shirke recalls shooting without a script'. Cinestaan.
- ^'An A of the B-grade'. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- ^'Bulla, khullam khulla!'. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- ^'Mithun's Gunda goes off screens after protests'. The Indian Express. United News of India. 25 September 1998. Archived from the original on 25 September 1998. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^Bhagat, Chetan (26 September 2010). 'The great Indian psychotherapy'. The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ abRay, Arnab (26 September 2010). 'Losing My Religion'. Greatbong. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^'Twitter ZalZalaJaagUtha Hashtag'
External links[edit]
- Gunda at IMDb
- Gunda Review by The Great Bong