''Dahek - A Burning Passion'' is a 1999 Indian

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-language

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directed by Lateef Binni. The film stars

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and

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. The film deals with love between a

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boy and a

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girl. The movie was a box office disaster.

Plot

Jabbar Bahkshi is the eldest son in the Bahkshi household in modern-day Bombay, India, and rules the entire family with an conservative iron hand. He finds out his sister, Sabina Bahkshi, is having an affair with Iqbal, and is angered because Sabina is not permitted to have an affair. Sabina and Iqbal elope and get married, and decide to stay away from the Bahkshi family. Jabbar hunts them down and kills Iqbal with a sword. Shocked at this brutality at the hands of her brother, Sabina stabs herself with the same sword and dies instantly. Jabbar is arrested by the Bombay Police, and is sentenced to twelve years in prison. His mother is devastated at Sabina's death and decides never to forgive him. After twelve years, Jabbar returns home and finds that his past rules are not being observed, and quickly re-asserts his authority, while his mother refuses to have to do anything with him. Jabbar meets his niece, Neelima Bahkshi, and is shocked to find her the very image of Sabina. He finds out that Neelima is having an affair with a young man, but Neelima, out of fear, denies this. She is indeed having an affair with young Sameer Roshan, and both are in love with each other. When they find out what happened to her aunt, they decide to run away from Bombay and Jabbar. When Jabbar learns of this he is angered, and his anger turns to blind rage when he finds out that Sameer is a Hindu, and he swears to kill them both. The news gets out of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl eloping, and spreads like wildfire, arousing old flames, and creating a growing rift between the Hindus and the Muslims. Extreme elements on both the Hindu and the Muslim sides decide to get involved, and Jabbar decides that he will hunt them and kill them, and if necessary let history repeat itself.

Cast

as Sameer B.Roshan *

as Sabina Bahkshi / Neelima Bahkshi *

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as Jabbar Bahkshi *

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as Bhushan Roshan, Sameer's father * Anang Desai as Javed Bahkshi, Neelima's father *

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as Mrs. Bahkshi *

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as Mrs. Roshan * Achyut Potdar as Hindu Leader * Anil Nagrath *

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as Naseem Bahkshi *

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as Mrs. Javed Bahkshi *

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as Wedding guest

Music

#"Sawan Barse Tarse Dil" -

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, Hariharan #"Jab Se Tumhe Maine Dekha Sanam" -

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#"Kahaa Kare Koi Churaa Liyaa Dil Ko" -

#"Tujhe Dekhte Hi Ye Dil Kho Gaya Hai" -

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#"Meri Jaan Hai Tu" -

#"Aaluvaa Aalovaa, Ho Gori Aajaa Mere Dil Men" -

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#"Meri Jaan Hai Tu (Male)" -

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References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0217351
Review of the film at Apunkchoice
1999 films 1990s Hindi-language films Indian romantic musical films Indian interfaith romance films Films scored by Aadesh Shrivastava Films scored by Anand–Milind