''Ghaath'' is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language

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film directed by Akashdeep and produced by Kumar Mohan. The film stars

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and

Om Puri Om Prakash Puri (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films as well as Bengali, Kannada,English, Punjabi and one Telugu film, as well as independent and art films and also starred ...

in pivotal roles and

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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 Dada 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 of 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 has the Municipal Officer Khairnar killed after he refuses to hush up the inquiry. Patil learns of this and together with Chaudhary and his friends battle the gangster.

Cast

as Krishna Patil *

as Kavita Chaudhary *

as Ajay Pandey *

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as Suman Pandey * Anupam Kher as Ramakant Patel *

Arshad Warsi Arshad Warsi (born 19 April 1968) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. He is the recipient of several awards including a Filmfare Award from five nominations and is noted for acting in varied film genres. Before making his acting deb ...

as Divakar *

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as Mansi Patil *

Mukesh Tiwari Mukesh Tiwari (born 24 August 1969) is an Indian actor, who has worked predominantly in Bollywood. and few Tamil films. He is known for playing negative and comic side roles. He entered the film industry in the year 1998 with the movie '' China ...

as Ishwar Mohanlal Ghodbole *

Irrfan Khan Irrfan Khan () (born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan; 7 January 196729 April 2020), also known simply as Irrfan, was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films. Widely regarded as one of the finest actors in In ...

as Romesh Bhagwat Dada alias Maamu *

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as Screwdriver *

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as Happy Singh *

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as Hiten *

Sachin Khedekar Sachin Khedekar (born 14 May 1965) is an Indian actor and director known for his work in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Gujarati language films. His well-known films include '' Kaksparsh'', '' Astitva'' and Shyam Benegal's '' Neta ...

as Khairnar *

Tinnu Anand Tinu Anand (born Virender Raj Anand, 12 October 1945) is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer in Hindi cinema and a few Telugu and Tamil films. Early life He is the son of veteran writer Inder Raj Anand, brother of producer Bittu Ana ...

as Vilas Rao *

in a special appearance in "Baba Meri Ye Jawani" *

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as Khainar's daughter *

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as Salim Haatela *

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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.

made a special appearance in the film.

Soundtrack

The music for the soundtrack is composed by

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excepting one instrumental track by

Salim–Sulaiman Salim–Sulaiman is an Indian score composer duo consisting of siblings Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant. The duo compose music predominantly for Hindi films. Life and early career Salim–Sulaiman's ancestral town is Mundra, Kutch, Gujar ...

. Lyrics are written by

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. Ronjita Das of

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opined that the film's music had "nothing to remember". ''

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'' called the soundtrack "excellent".

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found the music "grating".

Reception

In her review for

, Ronjita Das called the film a replay of ''

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'' (1999), a previous film of Bajpayee, and noted that Johnny Lever had been totally wasted.

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 ''

'' noted that the film's cast was "represented by an impressive line-up of reputed actors". According to the Indian film trade website

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, the film was made at an estimated budget of and had a worldwide gross of , earning the label "

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghaath 2000s Hindi-language films 2000 films 2000 crime drama films Indian crime drama films Films shot in Mumbai Films scored by Salim–Sulaiman Films scored by Anu Malik