Basti (film)

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Basti
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Produced by Basharat Khan
Starring Samir Soni
Faisal Khan
Sheeba
Shama Sikander
Govind Namdeo
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Narrated by Kader Khan
Cinematography Harish Joshi
Music by Milind Sagar
Distributed by Rajshri Productions
Release date
  • 8 August 2003 (2003-08-08)
Running time
142 minutes
LanguageHindi

Basti is a 2003 Indian crime film. The film stars Samir Soni and Faisal Khan in lead roles, with Sheeba in a special guest appearance, Shama Sikander, Govind Namdeo, Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in supporting roles.

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Plot

The film starts with a voice narrating a small town in Mumbai. A gangster named Kanta wants to destroy the town and is in a battle with Karanjia, who wants to replace the town with a shopping mall. Ramesh "Rama" Kulkarni returns to his town after several years and is greeted by all of his friends, neighbors, and youngest sister, Pinky. It's only Rama's father, Vinayak Kulkarni, a school teacher, who does not greet him and is angered with Rama.

A few days later, Rama's younger brother, Satish, returns after completing his studies. Rama begins guarding his town against the gangsters of the town. Karanjia hires Rama and gives him some money and weapons for his protection. Rama buys gifts for his family, but everyone refuses to take the gifts, and they refuse him into his family. Rama decides to marry Madhu, a girl who has fallen in love with Rama.

During a festival of Shi'a Muslims, Kanta and his gangsters start terrorizing it. Rama and his friends begin fighting Kanta's gangsters until Rama is killed by Kanta's gangsters. Karanjia hires Satish, who decides to take revenge for his brother's death. Satish is in love with a girl named Priya, whom Karanjia treats like his daughter. Satish's family gets destroyed when his sister Pinky is raped by the Minister, and his father is heartbroken at hearing the news. Pinky commits suicide, and Satish's father dies by a heart attack. Satish is outraged and kills the Police Commissioner, who is replaced by the new Commissioner of Maharashtra, Jabbar.

Karanjia has an evil plan to finish the Kulkarni family and rule over the town, where his partnership with Kanta is revealed. Karanjia's goons set out to kill Satish, where Priya saves Satish and gets shot in the heart by herself. It is thought that Satish is also dead. One day, Kanta and his goons start spreading terror in the town, until Satish fights with them and kills Kanta and his goons and is arrested for the murders by Commissioner Jabbar.

After Satish is imprisoned by the court, Karanjia pretends to be sad for Satish, until Satish begins fighting Karanjia and shoots him with his gun. At the same time, Commissioner Jabbar shoots Satish. Both Satish and Karanjia fall and die. The film's moral is that crime should not exist, and everyone should leave peacefully because the end is always wrong.

Cast

Soundtrack

There were four tracks in the film:

  1. "Madhoshiya Hai Tanhaiya Hai" by Sunidhi Chauhan, Udit Narayan
  2. "Locha Labacha Chalega Nahi" by Vinod Rathod
  3. "Gin Gin Kaise Kate Hai Din" by Sunidhi Chauhan
  4. "Chudi Khanake Boli" by Alka Yagnik

The songs were composed by Milind Sagar, and the lyrics were penned by Sudhankar Sharma and Anwar Sagar.

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