Pukar (1983 film)

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Pukar
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Directed by Ramesh Behl
Written byMadan Joshi
G.R. Kamath
Produced byRamesh Behl
Starring Amitabh Bachchan
Zeenat Aman
Randhir Kapoor
Tina Munim
Prem Chopra
CinematographyPeter Pereira
Edited by Nand Kumar
Music by R.D. Burman
Distributed byRose Movies
Release date
  • 18 November 1983 (1983-11-18)
Running time
162 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget1.80 crore
Box office,4.2 crores(equivalent to 44 crores or US$6.2 million in 2019) [1]

Pukar (transl. Call) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language action film, directed by Ramesh Behl, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Randhir Kapoor, Zeenat Aman and Tina Munim. It is a film about freedom fighters trying to liberate Goa from the Portuguese.

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Plot

Purandare (Shreeram Lagoo), Narvekar (P. Jairaj) and Dinanath (Sudhir Dalvi) are part of a separatist group that aims to rid Goa’s territories of the Portuguese. In a shootout with the Portuguese police, Purandare and Dinanath are injured. Dinanath asks Purandare to shoot him because he doesn’t want to die by the hands of the Portuguese. Purandare kills him at Dinanath’s behest. This is witnessed by Dinanath’s son Ramdas who gets the wrong idea that Purandare killed him.

Ramdas runs away to Mr Dayanand (Om Shivpuri) who shelters him. Portuguese police arrive again and seemingly kill Dayanand and his wife for Ramdas’ whereabouts. In the next scene, Purandare arrives to Dayanand’s house in search for Ramdas. Ramdas takes one look at Purandare and runs away. I was a bit confused because the Portuguese police seemingly killed him by stomping their foot on his throat and in the next scene, he just has minor bruises. Even the background score made it look like he died. Anyway, I’m not that bothered about that yet.

Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie to avoid association with Indian revolutionaries. He is teased by a few kids about his name and the following fight fast forwards 2 decades. Ramdas/Ronnie grows up to be a lanky, career criminal (predictably Amitabh Bachchan) who has a babe girlfriend Julie (Zeenat Aman). Ronnie helps out another criminal Hasmok (Sujit Kumar) evade capture from Police Inspector Monteiro (Prem Chopra)

Ronnie comes across Purandare once again - Purandare’s gang wants ammunition to help their revolution against the Portuguese. Ronnie betrays them to the police twice and in the second encounter, Purandare loses his life.

Shekhar (Randhir Kapoor) quickly gets involved into the action. He steals Ronnie’s gold, frees a rebel (Viju Khote) from hospital, assassinates the Portuguese police chief and is sentenced to be hanged, all while making Ronnie his number one enemy. The fact that everyone likes Shekhar than Ronnie makes Ronnie even angrier. He goes to kill Shekhar’s parents for whatever random reason and finds out they are the same people who sheltered him when the police was after him in childhood. This makes him understand why Purandare killed his father in childhood and he swears to save Shekhar from the death sentence. In a climactic battle, Ronnie and Shekhar succeed in killing the Portuguese.


Cast

Production

Scenes of the film were shot in Daman and Diu. [2]

Soundtrack

Music Direction: R. D. Burman, Lyrics: Gulshan Bawra, Audio: Polydor now Universal Music Group

The music for all the songs were composed by Rahul Dev Burman and penned by Gulshan Bawra.

#TitleSinger(s)Duration
1"Samandar Mein Nahake" R. D. Burman 04:48
2"Tu Maike Mat Jaiyo" Amitabh Bachchan, R. D. Burman06:12
3"Jane Jigar Duniya Main" Kishore Kumar, R. D. Burman06:13
4"Tu Mere Liye" Asha Bhosle 04:17
5"Bachke Rehna Re Baba"Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, R. D. Burman06:25
6"Maarein Ge Ya Mar Jaayenge"Asha Bhosle, R. D. Burman05:21

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