Pukar (1983) Online

1983 Amitabh Bachchan Zeenat Aman Randhir Kapoor Ramesh Behl

Original Title :: Pukar
Genre :: Movie / Action / Drama / Musical
Year :: 1983
Directror :: Ramesh Behl
Cast :: Amitabh Bachchan,Zeenat Aman,Randhir Kapoor
Writer :: Madan Joshi,G.R. Kamath
Type :: Movie
Time :: 2h 41min
Rating :: 6.3/10

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Although India obtained freedom from the British in 1947, Goa and it's territories are still ruled by the Portuguese. A group of revolutionaries want a free Goa and are thus wanted by the Portuguese administration. Amongst them are Purandare, Narvekar, and Dinanath, and when Dinanath's whereabouts are known to the police, he escapes with his young son, Ramdas, and goes to their hideout. With the assistance of Purandare they do manage to escape but are shot. A horrified Ramdas watches as his dad is shot dead by Purandare. This is how Ramdas starts hating revolutionaries. Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie, befriends a girl named Julie, and grows up taking to crime as his career. He soon prospers and lets the villagers also prosper with him. Then when the Police Commissioner is shot dead, Ronnie helps the authorities to apprehend his killer, who is a young man named Shekhar, who is arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to be hanged. It is at this point Ronnie will find out that the ...

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Amitabh Bachchan	-	Ramdas / Ronnie
	Zeenat Aman	-	Julie
	Randhir Kapoor	-	Shekhar
	Tina Ambani	-	Usha (as Tina Munim)
	Prem Chopra	-	Montero
	Shreeram Lagoo	-	Purandare (as Dr. Shreeram Lagoo)
	Paidi Jairaj	-	Narvekarji (as Jairaj)
	Chand Usmani	-	Saraswati
	Viju Khote	-	Kiran Bhandare
	Shubha Khote	-	Young Julie's Mother (as Shobha Khote)
	Hadhic Hartaki
	Azad	-	(as Azaad)
	Narendra Nath	-	Jaggu
	Pratima Devi	-	Ma-Ma (Deaf Lady) (as Protima Devi)
	Sudha Chopra	-	Mrs. Kamat

During the shooting of the film Abhishek Bachchan and Goldie Behl were both banned from the sets due to bad behavior .This was done due to Amitabh and Ravi Behl getting constant distraction from their kids.

RD Burman,Rishi Kapoor,Rakesh Roshan,Gulshan Bawra and film's hero Randhir Kapoor would got to party frequently in Khandala in the cold rains.Once while they were partying they were surprised to see Zeenat Aman reach there with director Ramesh Behl.Zeenat Aman was approaching them with bowl but suddenly slipped in the water and fell down where Randhir Kapoor and Ramesh Behl reached to help her.Gulshan Bawra on seeing Zeenat Aman said Samandar Mein Nahake Aur Bhi Namkeen Ho Gayo Ho Laga Hai Pyar Ka Woh Rang Aur Bhi Rangeen Ho Gayi Ho RD Burman quickly ran and bought his Dictaphone and asked Gulshan Bawra to say the words again this is how the song was made. Samandar Mein Nahake was a big hit in Goa then.Shot on the Keri Beach.

After the accident of Coolie, the end of Pukar was changed to an happy ending.

The song "Jane Jigar" was sampled in the song "Doctors" from the internationally released album UFOs In Bollywood by Ratbath.

The background music was later used in the film Indrajeet.

Randhir Kapoor's major film and also one of his last film as leading actor. Randhir Kapoor was a regular in Ramesh Behl film, Pukar was their last film together.

When Randhir Kapoor was going for the shooting of Pukar, all of his staff used to follow him so that they can see Amitabh Bachchan on the sets.

Tina Munium was a newcomer when she signed Pukar.

Ramesh Behl after the release of his first directorial venture Kasme Vaade, he started Pukar in the year 1979. Pukar was delayed and took about 4 years to get completed. In between the making of Pukar, Ramesh Behl made Basera, Harjaee, Yeh Vaada Raha and even started Jawani.

This was the only Amitabh Bachchan movie that Tina Munim appeared in.

An animated cartoon picture of Amitabh's character "Ronny" was used on the cover of the mixed compilation album "Charas Babu" (2017).

This film is one of the rare films in which Amitabh Bachchan was in a negative role.

Some of the background music was used in Andhar Bahar.

The film was based on Goa Liberation.

Jagdish Aurangabadkar a popular film photographer played the hangman in the climax of the film.

Last time Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman worked with each other during Amitabh Bachchan's angry young man stardom image and temporary sabbatical from films during his political stunt.They worked together after 20 years in Boom 2003.

Kareena Kappor was a kid and accompanied Randhir Kapoor on the sets.During the scene where she Randhir Kapoor gets beaten by Amitabh Bachchan she got scared as she felt someone is really beating her father and ran towards him and hugged him.

Collection of film suffered as on two weeks after its release Coolie 1983 was released.But managed to complete 100 days at some centers.

Film completed silver jubilee in Calcutta's Opera House Theater.

After Pukar Amitabh Bachchan and Randhir Kapoor worked only in one film.20 years later in Arman 2003.

Shiva Rindani debuted in the film in a small role in the film.

Goan carnival is showed twice In he film.Towards the start during name credits and during climax in the song Maarenge Ya Mar Jaaenge.

Amitabh Bachchan has hatred towards freedom fighters of his country.But in the climax he learns the truth and fights against Portuguese army .Similarly Saif Ali Khan's character was modeled in Rangoon 2017.

Amitabh's car crash scene background music was reused in the film Karishmaa during a Kamal Haasan police chase scene.

The dance music Vinod Mehra was dancing to in the beginning of Khud -daar , was used for the restaurant scene for Zeenat Aman's birthday.

The background music was reused in the film Sitamgar.

The film was delayed due to Amitabh's Coolie accident.

Randhir Kapoor announced that Pukar would be his last film. Though a few old projects were still stuck since the last 1970s (Khazana,Jaanejaa).

Tina Munium was in for the shock of her life. One day she was told that Pukar was almost complete. She was confused as she barely shot for the film. She was then told she only had 4 scenes in the film. She was unaware her role would end up so small.

RD Burman sang almost all songs for Amitabh and Kishore sang for Randhir perhaps due to the fight between Amitabh and Kishore as Amitabh had refused to do a guest appearance in Kishore's film but later Kishore sang for him in Shaheenshah and Toofan.

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Kagrel

Pukar directed by Ramesh Behl is a time-pass movie.

It does not have anything new or extra-ordinary to offer.

Story: Although India obtained freedom from the British in 1947, Goa and it's territories are still ruled by the Portuguese. A group of revolutionaries want a free Goa and are thus wanted by the Portuguese administration. Amongst them are Purandare, Narvekar, and Dinanath, and when Dinanath's whereabouts are known to the police, he escapes with his young son, Ramdas(Amitabh Bachchan), and goes to their hideout. With the assistance of Purandare they do manage to escape but are shot. A horrified Ramdas watches as his dad is shot dead by Purandare. This is how Ramdas starts hating revolutionaries. Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie, befriends a girl named Julie, and grows up taking to crime as his career. He soon prospers and lets the villagers also prosper with him. Then when the Police Commissioner is shot dead, Ronnie helps the authorities to apprehend his killer, who is a young man named Shekhar(Randhir Kapor), who is arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to be hanged. It is at this point Ronnie will find out that the people he had assisted in the past are all against him and sympathize with the revolutionaries. Angered, he grabs a gun to kill Shekhar's parents - and it is here that Ronnie will find out who they really are - and why Purandare shot his dad.

The story is good.

The direction is average.

The music is okay.

The dialogs are well-worded.

Performances: Amitabh Bachchan is superb.Randhir Kapoor is very good.Tina Munim and Parveen Babi are wasted.Prem Chopra excels in a small role.Pinchoo Kapoor and Sharat Saxena are fine in supporting roles.

All in all Pukar is a time-pass movie!

Forcestalker

It's generally held that we learn something every day, and my piece of education for today consisted of the fact that the Portugese occupied Goa from the 16th century to 1961, when it was reclaimed by the people of Goa with assistance from the Indian Navy. I learnt this largely from the film PUKAR (1983).

Ramdas is a young boy whose father is a member of the Goa liberation party (terrorists or freedom fighters, depending on your perspective), and whose name means something like "Patriotism". One night he witnesses his father being shot by another member of the revolutionary party... but he doesn't realise that it was at his father's request, since he was wounded running from the police and preferred to die than be captured and tortured. Blaming them for his father's death, Ramdas grows up hating all people that call themselves "Patriots"... he changes his name to "Ronnie" to avoid association with them. As he gets older he goes into the smuggling business, and his lust for wealth and power drive him up the ladders until he is a very powerful crime boss. He is a benign enough crime boss, and puts some of his profits from smuggling back into the community... however, he still has a burning anger towards the Goan patriots, and uses all his power and influence to have them killed and captured when he can.

The little boy who witnesses his father's death, grows up to be a bigshot gangster and hides a deep anger towards his father's killers is pretty much the archetypal Amitabh Bachchan character, and one he'd played many times previously to PUKAR. What makes PUKAR unusual is that the killers are not totally immoral crooks for once - they're considered by most of the population of Goa to be heroes. Ronnie is still an angry young (ish) man, but his anger is not necessarily well directed. Although he's still the main character, we're not meant to agree with Amitabh's beliefs or actions... in fact, in many ways he is the villain and we're supposed to actively dislike him. Given that Amitabh is one of my personal heroes, this made me feel rather uncomfortable

One thing that many a Hindi movie teaches, however, is that a man can never escape the destiny given to him by his name. Even though Ramdas refuses to acknowledge his name, the viewer feels fairly certain it will catch up with him... or will it?

Films about revolutions and revolutionaries are pretty rare for Hollywood (does THE MATRIX count?), and as far as I know for most of the world's cinema. It's only really through Indian cinema that I've had any real exposure to them except perhaps as villainous terrorists. Patriotism is a word even more venerated in India than it is in America, and people fighting and dying to liberate their country from foreign occupation are generally well considered... after all, it's not that long since India gained independence from long British occupation. Hearing India's popular entertainment king Amitabh denounce patriotism and collaborate with the Portugese occupiers/oppressors is particularly strange!

Although PUKAR was a big hit and has a very high score at IMDB, I don't consider it to be one of Amitabh's better films. Even though he's always played the "Dark Hero", his role in Pukar isn't one that fits him too well, though he still gives a good performance. Perhaps if it was the first Amitabh film I'd seen I'd have appreciated it more, but I think the problems are more than just discomfort in seeing Amitabh in an unfamiliar role. The story telling is not handled as well as in his better films such as SHOLAY or MUQADDAR KA SIKANDAR, with several jumps and holes that left me a little confused as to exactly what was going on. The film didn't bring out the wide range of emotions in me that I'd hoped, either - perhaps because of the slightly clumsy story telling, or because the quality of acting on display wasn't all that high (notably, Zeenat Aman is thoroughly beautiful but not a good actress). Perhaps if I'd been more familiar with Goa's history I'd have appreciated/understood more.

The film is still quite enjoyable, with a pretty good balance of drama and action. Although it doesn't rank amongst Amitabh's great films, it must be noted that those films are so great that not being one of them is hardly a major failing. Taken as a part of Amitabh's career it's clearly placed on the downswing, but taken as a film in it's own right it's a pretty watchable 160 minutes.

7/10

Defolosk

1983 was one of Amitabh's worst years as not only did he act in flop films but his accident during Coolie almost killed him. Coolie was mainly a hit because of that accident and honestly, it was one of Manmohan Desai's bad films. However, 1983 was more a crass year for Bachcan because he acted in films like Mahaan,Nastik, Pukar, and Andhaa Kanoon all of which sank without a trace.

After the super success of Shakti(1982), Amitabh returned with Pukar which was something extremely different for it's time. The film was about Goa and it's independence from the Portugese people. However, Amitabh is against the revolutionaries because he saw his father get killed by the revolutionaries. What he didn't know was his father died because his father was in condition where he couldn't escape any longer from the police. Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie and slowly becomes a rich man due to his illegal works. Randhir Kapoor watches his uncle one of the last revolutionaries die because of Ronnie's betrayal in providing them some weapons. Randhir or Shekhar himself becomes a revolutionary and vows to free Goa from these Portugese people. Amitabh gets Shekhar arrested but later, he realizes what a mistake he has committed. Shekar and the revolutionaries weren't bad, the police and the Portugese were bad. Roonie saves Shekar from getting hanged and the film ends after an action packed climax.

The biggest problem with the film is the sudden change of sides which is unconvincing. Ronnie suddenly changes sides nearing the end because he sees that Shekhar's father was the same guy who saved him from getting arrested in his childhood. This reason is not strong enough for one man to realize his mistake and stop being on the bad side. The movie has several well handled scenes but the flow is missing in parts. The romantic portions are boring and the film drags till Shekhar vows to save Goa from these Portugese people. The ending is stretched but the outcome is good.

Direction by Ramesh Behl is good in parts, he could've handled the early and post interval portions better. The abrupt change of Amitabh and the dragged song before the climax makes his direction weak.

Amitabh Bachchan is a talented superstar for a reason, his expressions are good and his dialog delivery is amazing. His action is also quite good. Randhir Kapoor is good in his part, he saves the film in the second half because the drag makes the movie boring. Zeenat Aman is gorgeous and her acting is good as well. Tina Munim is OK, she doesn't have much of a role. Om Shivpuri is good, but he doesn't get a big role like he did in some of his previous movies with Amitabh Bachchan. Prem Chopra as the sinister villain is good, he overacts a little in some parts though. The rest provide decent support.

Music is the best part of the film, Bachke Rehna is a good song while Tu Mainke is good as well. Samundar Me is one of the best and is catchy as well. The other songs are good as well.

On the whole, Pukar is one of those different Bachchan films that flopped. It could've been better but it's much better than Ramesh Behl's next film Indrajeet(1991) which was worse.

I am hcv men

Ramesh Bahl returned with Amitabh and Randhir Kapoor after Kasme Vaade which was a hit. Pukar released in 1983 when Amitabh was hospitalised and his career started going downhill. Pukar also is a rare film on Goa's Liberation(1961) though not logically correct yet the film is quite watchable. The film has Amitabh as Ramdas(rare name) his friend being a freedom fighter of Goa, while running from the Portuguese government he gets injured and he tells his friend Shreeram Lagoo to shoot him which he does but Ramdas mistakes it and starts hating revolutionaries. The film also has Randhir Kapoor who becomes a revolutionary. The film as i said is not at all realistic but it's watchable. The first half moves a fast pace, soon Amitabh from a small guy becomes a big person, sadly the film does have some funny scenes, one among them being Amitabh dressed as a zorro to rob Prem Chopra. There are some well handled scenes, however the film does succumb to the clichéd formula towards the end.

Direction is decent Music by RD Burman is awesome, The songs became a big hit Samunder Mein Nahake, Bachke Rehna re Baba are superb while Tu Maike Mat Jaiyo(sung by Amitabh, RD Burman) too was a hit Maarenge Ya and Jaane Jigar too are good numbers RD Burman sang almost all songs for Big B maybe due to the Kishore-Amitabh spat that time though Kishore sang for him in Mahaan and Sharaabi in that period.

Amitabh who for some reason wears dark shades even in night scenes for half the film carries his part like only he could however his character could be better. Randhir Kapoor is decent in his role Zeenat Aman and Tina Munim are good in their roles Prem Chopra as Monteiro is good too Shreeram Lagoo, Satyen Kapoo, Sharad Saxena are all good rest are all okay

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