Sir (1993 film)

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Sir
Sir (film).jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Written byJay Dixit
Produced by Mukesh Bhatt
Starring
Cinematography Pravin Bhatt
Music by Anu Malik
Production
company
Distributed byVishesh Films
Release date
  • 9 July 1993 (1993-07-09)
Running time
151 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Sir is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Mahesh Bhatt starring debutant Atul Agnihotri and Pooja Bhatt in the lead roles, with Naseeruddin Shah playing the title role. Paresh Rawal and Gulshan Grover play the villains. [1] The core plot is based on the 1967 British film To Sir, with Love, about a teacher attempting to help and reform troubled students, with Bhatt turning it into an action-drama with the additional element of the Mumbai underworld. [2] The film was remade in Telugu as Gangmaster , with Rajasekhar.

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Plot

Mumbai-based college lecturer Amar Verma lives with his wife, Shobha, and 6-year-old son, Kunal. When a war breaks out between gang lords Veljibhai and Chhapan Tikli alias Jimmy, a number of innocent bystanders fall victim, one of whom is Kunal. This devastates the Verma family. Shobha walks out on Amar, who then devotes his life to his students. Many years later, when he finds out that a student, Pooja, is afflicted by stammering, he decides to help her. He finds out that she is the only child of gangster Veljibhai.

Amar meets with Veljibhai, discusses the gang-war scenario, then meets with Chhapan Tikli and does the same. Amar gets the gangsters to agree on a truce so that he can take Pooja and the rest of the students on a field trip to Bangalore. Amar will soon find out that neither Veljibhai nor Chhapan Tikli has any intention of keeping any truce. As the two dons engage in a fight to the finish, it seems that Amar may well have jeopardized his own life as well as the lives of Pooja and the other students. An additional complication arises with Pooja falling in love with her classmate Karan and wishing to marry him against the wishes of her father.

Cast

Awards and nominations

AwardCategoryRecipients and NomineesResults
39th Filmfare Awards Best Supporting Actor Naseeruddin Shah Nominated
Best Villain Gulshan Grover
Paresh Rawal Won
Best Dialogue Professor Jay Dixit
41st National Film Awards Best Supporting Actor Paresh Rawal [4]

Music

Sir
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedJuly 1992
Recorded1992
Genre Film soundtrack
Length56:13
Label Lara Music
Anu Malik chronology
Izzat
(1991)
Sir
(1992)
Chamatkar
(1992)

This album was very popular when realise, most popular songs in album "Sun Sun Barsat Ki Dhun", "Aaj Hamne Dil Ka", "Yeh Ujli Chandani Jab" most of the songs sung by Kumar Sanu also sang Alka Yagnik & Kavita Krishnamurthy etc.

"Sun Sun Barsat Ki Dhun" was recreated in 2021 by Rochak Kohli in the voice of Jubin Nautiyal. The video of the song became very popular on YouTube. Nautiyal's voice was well praised by the audience.

All lyrics are written by Qatil Shafai; all music is composed by Anu Malik.

No.TitleSinger (s)Length
1."Sun Sun Barsat Ki Dhun" Kumar Sanu 7:20
2."Aaj Hamne Dil Ka"Kumar Sanu Kavita Krishnamurthy 7:09
3."Yeh Ujli Chandani Jab"Kumar Sanu Alka Yagnik 7:16
4."Band Hothon Se" (Female)Kavita Krishnamurthy6:27
5."Hamse Badal Gaya"Kumar Sanu6:42
6."Jis Din Suraj Ki"Kumar Sanu8:38
7."Band Hothon Se" (Male)Kumar Sanu6:14
8."Odh Ke Andhera"Alka Yagnik6:50
Total length:56:13

References

  1. "Happy Teacher's Day: Main Hoon Na's Sushmita to TZP's Aamir, 5 filmy teachers we can't imagine Bollywood without". India Today. 5 September 2016.
  2. Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, and Paul Willemen. Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. New rev. ed., Routledge, 2014, p. 1977.
  3. "Atul Agnihotri goes down the memory lane as his debut film,'Sir' clocks 26 years". The Times of India. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  4. "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.