''Qahar'' is a 1997 Indian

Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

-language

action film Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include l ...

directed and produced by

Rajkumar Kohli Rajkumar Kohli (born 14 September 1930) is an Indian film director. He was famous for directing several popular Bollywood films such as the 1966 ''Dulla Bhatti'' and the 1970s ''Lootera'' starring Dara Singh and Nishi (Nishi later married Koh ...

. It stars Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Armaan Kohli,

Sonali Bendre Sonali Bendre (born 1 January 1975) is an Indian actress primarily known for her work in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. She did modelling assignments prior to making her acting debut with '' Aag'' (1994), which won her the Filmfare Award for N ...

, Rambha and

Deepti Bhatnagar Deepti Bhatnagar (born 30 September 1967) is a former Indian actress and model who worked predominantly in Hindi films, in addition to Telugu films. Her first film role came in Sanjay Gupta's ''Ram Shastra''. She has also appeared in the Telugu ...

in pivotal roles.

Cast

* Sunny Deol as Raja * Suniel Shetty as Inspector Amar Kapoor * Armaan Kohli as Krishna *

as Neelam *

as Sapna * Rambha as Radha *

Raj Babbar Raj Babbar (born 23 June 1952) is an Indian Hindi and Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. three-time member of the Lok Sabha and a two-time member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He was the Pre ...

as Police Commissioner Kapoor *

Gulshan Grover Gulshan Grover (born 21 September 1955) is an Indian actor and producer who has appeared in over 100 films. He is popularly known as the "Bad Man" of Bollywood because of his ability to create an impact with his negative roles in films. Early ...

as Inspector Maroo *

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as Inspector * Paresh Rawal as Velji Patel *

Kiran Kumar Kiran Kumar (born as Deepak Dhar; 20 October 1953) is an Indian screen and theatre actor. He has worked in numerous Hindi, Bhojpuri and Gujarati television and film productions. His latest work in drama is ''Charlie 2''. Personal life Kumar co ...

as Nageshwar Patel *

Raza Murad Raza Murad (born 23 November 1950) is an Indian actor who appears primarily in Hindi films. He has over 250 Bollywood film credits. Murad has also appeared in Bhojpuri and other regional-language films and on Hindi television. Early life He ...

as Minister Dharam Chand * Siddhant Salaria as Siddhant Patel, Velji Patel son. *

Aruna Irani Aruna Irani (born 3 May 1946) is an Indian actress, who has acted in over 500 films throughout Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Gujarati cinema, playing mostly supporting and character roles. She has won two Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Ac ...

as Kanta * Rohini Hattangadi as Krishna's mother. * Chandrashekhar Vaidya as Judge

Plot

Amar Kapoor is an honest and diligent police inspector, and the only son of Commissioner Kapoor, assigned to investigate and bring charges against Krishna, and his friend, Raja. During the course of his investigation, he does locate both Krishna and Raja, but discovers that Krishna is his brother, and Raja is involved in fighting the very forces of corruption, namely Velji Patel, his brother Nageshwar Patel, and a corrupt Police Inspector Maroo, who are all responsible for the rape and brutal murder of Neelam, the love of Raja, that he and his dad have a duty to eliminate. Will they join forces to combat the evil-doers or will fate have something else in store for them?

Soundtrack

This was the first time that Rajkumar Kohli collaborated with Anand–Milind, after mostly working with

Laxmikant–Pyarelal Laxmikant–Pyarelal were an Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Patil Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). He is known by the nickname “Pyromaniac” due to his flaming style of music. Laxmikan ...

and

Anu Malik Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer. He is an Indian National Award and Filmfare Award winning musician, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film indus ...

. The songs were popular on release, especially Dil Junglee Kabootar and Rab Ke Saamne.

References

External links

* 1990s Hindi-language films 1997 films Indian action drama films Films scored by Anand–Milind {{1990s-Hindi-film-stub