Gang (film)

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Gang
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Directed by Mazhar Khan
Written byMushtaq Merchant (dialogues)
Story byShamsher Khan Baloch
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNadeem Khan
Edited byAfaque Hussain
Music by
Release date
  • 14 April 2000 (2000-04-14)
Running time
165 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Gang is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language gangster drama film [1] directed by Mazhar Khan. [2] The film stars Kumar Gaurav, Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar, Javed Jaffrey, Juhi Chawla and Imtiaz Khan in pivotal roles. The film began production in 1990 and was delayed for 10 years because of director Mazhar Khan's ill health. After his death in 1998, his assistant director helped complete the film for release on 14 April 2000. [3] The film was also the last to feature music by RD Burman, who died in 1994. [4]

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Plot

Four friends, Gangu, Abdul, Nihal and Gary - which forms the word G.A.N.G, get together to start their crime business, but their roots are built on friendship and trust. They succeed in their criminal goals, but later they are attacked by a local gangster Tagdu. As a result, G.A.N.G. retaliates with Tagdu and joins with Lala, a criminal leader with a conscience. But this does not please Abdul as they work for free with Lala and decide to join forces with Girja Singh, another gang leader, for money, to which Gangu strongly disagrees. G.A.N.G. is assigned by Girja Singh to get a body of his close associate from a morgue and they learn that in the cadaver, there is stash of 8 million rupees and later they get their share of 800,000 rupees by Girja, however G.A.N.G. tricks Girja's nephews who were later killed by the latter for letting the men getting their share. Sanam, who is devastated by Gangu's friends, asks him to leave the team as they are into extreme crime business and Gangu, later decides to part ways and request them to quit the crime world for good. However Nihal, Gary and Abdul pacifies Gangu and reconciles again. Tinnie, who's sister of Gary, is later killed by Tagdu and his men as a retaliation of early humiliation by the team, which shatters them. Later G.A.N.G. and Tagdu's men are embroiled in a gang war, in which Gangu is arrested and sentenced to jail for five years.

When Gangu is released, he witnesses that Abdul is now driving a taxi, his mother is well looked after and that Nihal and Gary have also started doing business. It is when Gangu meets Sanam, and proposes marriage, and when Gangu witnesses the team's lavish lifestyle, he is shocked when he realises that his friends are working with Girja Singh again. Nihal and Divya's marriage begins to fall apart as their child is born handicapped due to the former's drug addiction and later Divya commits suicide with her child. This incident shatters Nihal and he goes on a murder spree, for which he is arrested. Girja orders Abdul to kill Nihal, before he gives the statement against him to the court. However Abdul, indebted towards their friendship, kills Girja's henchman instead of Nihal. Finally, Abdul and Gary decides to surrender to the police for the sake of Gangu and seeks the help of the chief minister. But this displeases the latter as if they are arrested, and they will even testify against him, so he plans to murder the G.A.N.G. with the help of Girja and Tagdu.

Tagdu kills Gangu's mother in order to weaken the men, but G.A.N.G. finishes the minister's henchmen, including Tagdu and Girja. Abdul injures the minister by shooting on his legs, however he escapes from the massacre. In the process, Gangu is severely injured and is on his deathbed and asks them for a promise to leave the crime world forever, to which all agree and Gangu dies after. The remaining 3 men were about to surrender to the police, till the point where the minister orders the police for "shoot to kill" and kills them.

6 years later, Lala kills the minister who had ordered the police force to kill G.A.N.G. Lala admits to Sanam that he had killed the minister to end the story so that Gangu's son won't go on the same path as those 4 men did. He later surrenders himself to Shamsher Singh and Sanam shows the photo of the G.A.N.G. to her son, remembering them in peace.

Cast

Development

Director Mazhar Khan had started the project in 1989 which faced years of delays due to his ill-health, scheduling issues and casting changes. Amjad Khan was cast as the main villain but replaced by his brother Imtiaz Khan after his death in 1992. Khan died on 16 September 1998 due to kidney failure, thus keeping the production work on hold. [5] However, in 1999, Mashkoor Chowdhry, the assistant worked on the film's remaining direction, technical aspects and leftover production. [6]

Soundtrack

Gang
Soundtrack album by
Released
  • 2000 (2000)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Universal Music India

The music of this movie was mainly composed by Anu Malik. R. D. Burman composed only one track, Chhodke Na Jana, sung by Asha Bhosle, for the film. But since the movie faced late release and his death, Mazhar Khan signed in Anu Malik for the composition. It can be noted that Anu Malik used some bits of the background score composed by Burman, of the movie, Caravan for the song Dil Hai Bechain in the late composer's remembrance. All of the songs are written by Javed Akhtar.

SongSinger
"Meri Payal Bole" Anu Malik, Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan
"Ye Karo Ye Nahin"Anu Malik, Abhijeet, Hariharan, Roop Kumar Rathod, Jolly Mukherjee
"Dil Hai Bechain" Kumar Sanu, Sadhana Sargam
"Kyon Hum Tum Miley"Anu Malik, Alka Yagnik
"Aaj Tu Maang Le"Abhijeet, Hariharan, Roop Kumar Rathod, Jolly Mukherjee, Sadhana Sargam
"Chhodke Na Jaana" Asha Bhosle

References

  1. 1 2 "Gang (2000)". BBFC . Archived from the original on 5 December 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  2. Basu 2010.
  3. "Rediff On The NeT, Movies: On the sets of Gang". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. "rediff.com, Movies: The Gang review". m.rediff.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  5. "Actor Mazhar Khan, 43, dies of kidney failure". Rediff desk. Rediff. 17 September 1998. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  6. Suggu, Kanchana (21 September 1999). "Four's a Gang". Rediff desk. Rediff. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.

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