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Ghaath is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Akashdeep Sabir and produced by Kumar Mohan. The film stars Manoj Bajpayee, Tabu and Om Puri in pivotal roles and Raveena Tandon in a special appearance.




Plot


Krishna Patil aspires to become a police officer and impresses Ajay Pandey of the Police Academy. However, a local gangster, Romesh Bhagwat Dogra, alias Maamu, does not want him to pass the academy and has him disqualified. Enraged by this, Patil drinks heavily and is arrested after a scuffle with Ishwar Mohanlal Ghodbole, a corrupt cop for whom "police" is an acronym for Power, Order Liar, Incompetent, Corrupt, and Encounter. It is only when Patil's father bribes him does Ghodbole release him. Patil becomes disillusioned with the system in general. One day he meets Kavita Chaudhary, who recently lost her father, and shares Patil's view of the system. They begin a relationship.
Patil's sister Mansi marries Divakar. Soon after their marriage, the couple dies when their building collapses. The building was constructed by Maamu, who had Municipal Officer Khairnar killed after he refused to hush up the inquiry. Patil learns of this and, together with Chaudhary and his friends, battles the gangster.




Cast


Manoj Bajpayee as Krishna Patil
Tabu as Kavita Chaudhary
Om Puri as Ajay Pandey
Aparna Bhatnagar as Suman Ajay Pandey
Anupam Kher as Ramakant Patel
Arshad Warsi as Divakar
Sheeba as Mansi Patil
Mukesh Tiwari as Ishwar Mohanlal Ghodbole
Irrfan Khan as Romesh Bhagwat Dogra alias Maamu
Johnny Lever as Screwdriver
Makarand Deshpande as Happy Singh
Mehul Buch as Hiten
Sachin Khedekar as Khairnar
Tinnu Anand as Vilas Rao
Raveena Tandon in a special appearance in "Baba Meri Ye Jawani"
Narayani Shastri as Varsha Khainar (Khainar's daughter)
Raju Mavani as Salim Haatela
Daya Shankar Pandey as Mamu Goon




Production


Akashdeep directed the film, produced under the banner of K. Bhagyalakshmi Pictures. This was the first film in which Khan and Kher appeared together. Initially, Akashdeep was not pleased with Khan's acting and was planning to replace him. It was on the insistence of Bajpayee that Akashdeep retained him. Bajpayee was acting with Khan for the first time, so was Tabu. Raveena Tandon made a special appearance in the film.




Soundtrack


The music for the soundtrack is composed by Anu Malik excepting one instrumental track by Salim–Sulaiman. Lyrics are written by Sameer.

Ronjita Das of Rediff.com opined that the film's music had "nothing to remember". Rashtriya Sahara called the soundtrack "excellent". Sify found the music "grating".




Reception


In her review for Rediff.com, Ronjita Das called the film a replay of Shool (1999), a previous film of Bajpayee, and noted that Johnny Lever had been totally wasted. Sify likened the film to a "routine commercial potboiler" and noted that the "production values aren't too high". It felt that Bajpayee had overacted in certain places and Tabu fell "prey to the mediocrity of the script". A review in Rashtriya Sahara noted that the film's cast was "represented by an impressive line-up of reputed actors".
According to the Indian film trade website Box Office India, the film was made at an estimated budget of ₹3.75 crore (US$450,000) and had a worldwide gross of ₹3.92 crore (US$470,000), earning the label "disaster".




References






External links


Ghaath at IMDb

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