Desh Premee
Desh Premee | |
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Laxmikant-Pyarelal | |
Production company | S.S. Movietone |
Release date |
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Running time | 165 mins |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹30 million[1] |
Box office | ₹72 million[1] |
Desh Premee (transl. The Patriot) is a 1982
It was the fifth collaboration of Manmohan Desai and Amitabh Bachchan. The film fell short of the standards of the previous films by this duo garnering mixed reviews and becoming a moderate success at the box office. It did celebrate silver jubilee in Hyderabad.
The film is dedicated to the memory of
Synopsis
Master Dinanath is a freedom fighter and participated in the war against the British in 1942 and independence was eventually won in 1947. But after independence, the people's love for their country seems to be diminishing and they are too busy betraying it like ex British landlord Thakur Pratab Singh. In 1967 Master Dinanath finds out about Thakur Pratab Singh's illegal activities such as
They settle into a slum called Bharat Nagar, which is divided into four sections with a don in each of different backgrounds: Punjabi, a Tamilian. Bengali and Muslim. All of them love their own section, but nobody thinks of themselves as Indian except Masterji. Masterji tries to bring peace between the four dons and once they settle their differences, the four underworld dons use the Masterji's stay in Bharat Nagar to cover up their own illegal activities.
15 years later in 1982, Masterji's now grown-up son Raju turns out to be the opposite of his father. He starts working for Thakur Pratap Singh, unaware that Thakur had once kidnapped his mother and sister. Will Raju find out what Thakur did to his family? Will Master Dinanath find out his son is not who he thinks he is? and will Master ever find his wife and daughter again?
Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan as Master Dinanath and Raju (dual role)(father and son)
- Hema Malini as Asha, Raju's wife
- Sharmila Tagore as Bharati (Master's wife)
- Parveen Babi as Dr. Preeti (Master's daughter)
- Navin Nischol as Inspector Deepak Singh (Thakur Pratap Singh's son)
- Uttam Kumar as Ghosh Babu
- Shammi Kapoor as Shamsher Singh
- Sudha Chopra as Shamsher Singh's wife
- Amjad Khan as Thakur Pratap Singh
- Premnathas Puthu Anna
- Parikshat Sahnias Ghulam Ali
- Prem Chopra as Don
- Kader Khan as Sher Singh
- Jagdish Raj as Retired Major (Dr.Preeti's guardian father)
- Geeta Siddharth(guardian mother)
- Jeevan as Munim
- Yusuf Khan as Thakur Pratap Singh's aide
- Shivraj
- Gurbachan Singh
This is one of the last films of legendary actor Uttam Kumar who died between filming. Actor
The music of the movie was fairly popular. Two Kishore Kumar songs and one Mohammed Rafi song were pictured on Amitabh Bachchan. "Khatoon Ki Khidmat Mein" was influenced by "Hum Kaale To Kya Hua Dilwale Hain" from Gumnaam. For this song, Amitabh Bachchan also dressed and acted like Mehmood, on whom that song was picturized. Laxmikant sang "Gore Nahin Hum Kaale Sahi", a duet with Asha Bhosle, and his voice was used on both Amitabh Bachchan and Prem Chopra. Bhosle sang for Hema Malini. Navin Nichol had one song and Amit Kumar sang for him, a duet with Kishore Kumar "Jaa Jaldi Bhaag Jaa".
The movie celebrated a golden jubilee in Hyderabad Ramakrishna 70MM theatres, and was hugely successful on re-release in the 1980s and 1990s.
Soundtrack
Song | Singer |
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"Jao Ji Jao" | Lata Mangeshkar |
"O Bekhabar Bedardi" | Lata Mangeshkar |
"Mere Desh Premiyon" | Mohammed Rafi |
"Khatoon Ki Khidmat Mein" | Kishore Kumar |
"Ja, Jaldi Bhag Ja, Nahin Baba Nahin" | Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar
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"Gore Nahin Hum Kale Sahi" | Laxmikant
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References
- ^ a b "Desh Premee 1982 Movie Lifetime Worldwide Collection". 4 August 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ ANI (23 April 2016). "Amitabh Bachchan marks 30 years of Desh Premee". financialexpress.com. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
External links
- Desh Premee at IMDb