Khudgarz

Director Rakesh Roshan made his debut with this Big Hit Movie. This was a simple tale about friendship that turns into rage. That sounds kind of repeated and boring, but the movie does entertain. There have been many Hit Movies based on friendship Sholay, Yaarana, Dosti friends Forever. Khudgarz was a wonderful heart warming film. I have never been a fan of Jeetendra and Shutrungh Sinha and was not keen on this film. It cam on Sky a few years back and i had nothing else to watch so i went for it. It was a good thing i did, cos i know have the movie at home. Jeetendra gives the Best performance of his career, better then his other Hits Himmatwala, Justice Choudhury and Mawaali. Shutrungh Sinha's Best Role after his character in Kala Pathhar. Govinda and Neelam are hardly there. Amrita is good as usual. Bhanu Priya, the good looking actress has less scope. Anyway, this is worth the watch.

this is perhaps the most superb starrer of jeetu and shatrughan sinha. this movie displays a thoroughly written script, excellent directorial exploits and superb acting by the 2 major stars, their actresses and others.

i really enjoy the crude interplays between jeetu and sinha. seeing best of friends becoming overnight enemies with hatred grown to the level of destroy the other party is alarming. interestingly, they put up excellent acting.

rakesh roshan settles down to write the Hollywood version of cain & abel in the bollywood way. he deserves every commendation in the way he exploits every bit of the script to suit bollywood masala.

khudgarz shows the high intellectual displays of the director, producer, script-writer and all the actors. kudos to all of them.

Khudgarz is one of the finest movie made by Rakesh Roshan. The story is about the friendship between rich & poor, revenge, romance, comedy, dialoguebaazi. I have never like Shatrughan Sinha in any movie except for this one. Songs are good and timeless classics especially Aapke Aa jane se

Khudgarz (stubborn? - self motivated per Gootrans)

Very old and nice movie though quite slow paced t least in the start. Many of the places remind me the movie Pukar with Amit as protagonist and on how the people in out of urban or rural India lived in medium to hard core poverty. The typical Indian humor is not so funny in the westerners as I seems rather ridiculous Even the fight scenes that remind the old Chinese karate movies with a dose of Superman abilities!

It seems that third persons especially corrupted try to corrupt also relationships. It was clear that the tall man made the older friends got enemies and in a way obstruct their children to marry the ex-friends child Also interesting that this movie is based on in a American novel though Indians had very good creativity to restart a story adapted to their standards with a new and very fresh story that is very far from the original (thanks to wiki reading both stories )

And finally the story is very good though the start was rather boring and sow motion. Friendshhip is as love IT even wins

8/10.

Khudgarz review :

"Ek ne nibhaya dosti ka farz, doosra kehlaya Khudgarz"; Vijay Behl used to announce on the popular radio advertisement.

Released at Mumbai's Metro Cinema, Khudgarz was desi adaptation of Jeffery Archer's 'Kane and Abel' which saved producer- director Rakesh Roshan from a definite bankruptcy after the disasterous Bhagwaan Dada (1986).

Good all round performances (Shatrughan Sinha was the show stealer as Bihari), superb music by Rajesh Roshan, technically slick with rich production values; Khudgarz struck the right chord with the audience and became one of the biggest hits of 1987. Rakesh Roshan never looked back after this film and gave numerous hits like Khoon Bhari Maang (1988), Kishen Kanhaiya (1990), Karan Arjun (1995) and Koyla (1997) sticking to his fixation for alphabet K.

P. S. The only flaw I find in Khudgarz was the mis-casting of a roly poly Rishi Kapoor (He was Roshan's bestie in real life) as a beggar!!!!

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.