''Sailaab'' (English: ''Flood'') is a

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film of 1990 directed by

Deepak Balraj Vij Deepak Balraj Vij is an Indian film director, predominantly within the Hindi film industry. He is the director of ''Mumbai Godfather'', ''Malik Ek'', and ''Aaya Toofan''. He directed "Aika Dajiba", a Marathi movie released on 13 August 2010. H ...

, starring

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and

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in lead roles. This film is a remake of 1988 Tamil film

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won the

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for Madhuri's dance for the song "Humko Aaj Kal Hai Intezaar". The song also features in "Top 10 songs of Madhuri Dixit" published by

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Plot

Dr. Sushma Malhotra (

) treats her patient; a kind thief and killer (

), who has lost his memory in an accident. She renames him Krishna. For the care she takes, Krishna falls in love with her and then they get married. But after they are married, Inspector Ranjeet Kapoor (

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) warns her that her husband was set to kill her before his accident and may again attempt to kill her, but she disregards this. In another accident while taking photographs of Sushma, Krishna falls down and hurts his head. This injury brings back his old memories about his beloved sister's suicide at her failed marriage because Sushma attached a false photo of them and wrote a false letter she was pregnant with his child which results in him trying to kill her. He says his name is Rajeev and claims Sushma killed his sister, but Inspector Ranjeet arrives in time to stop him and tell him a criminal named Monty actually killed his sister. Together, Inspector Ranjeet and Rajeev find Monty and his gang and Monty confesses to killing Rajeev's sister because he wanted to blackmail him. Rajeev kills him while Inspector Ranjeet kills his gang. An injured Rajeev regrets harming his wife and they are united, saying that he is not Rajeev, he is her "Krishna".

Cast

as Rajeev / Krishna *

as Dr. Sushma Malhotra *

Kulbhushan Kharbanda Kulbhushan Kharbanda (born 21 October 1944) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. He is best known for his role as the antagonist Shakaal in '' Shaan'' (1980), Starting off with the Delhi-based theatre group 'Yatrik' in the 1 ...

as Dr. Din *

as Inspector Ranjeet Kapoor *

Shafi Inamdar Shafi Inamdar (23 October 1945 – 13 March 1996) was an Indian actor. He started his film career with the film '' Vijeta'' and continued it in ''Ardh Satya''. He acted in a number of television serials including ''Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi''. His mo ...

as Inspector Haidar Ali *

Om Shivpuri Om Shivpuri (14 July 1938 – 15 October 1990) was an Indian theatre actor-director and character actor in Hindi films. A National School of Drama, New Delhi alumnus, Shivpuri became the first chief of the National School of Drama Repertory Co ...

as Mr. Mathur * Leena Kamat * Kishore Namit

Awards

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for the song "Humko Aaj Kal Hai Intezaar".

Soundtrack

The songs are composed by

Bappi Lahiri Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and ...

and lyrics were penned by

Javed Akhtar Javed Akhtar (born 17 January 1945) is an Indian poet, lyricist, screenwriter and political activist. Known for his work in Hindi cinema, he has won five National Film Awards, and received the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 200 ...

Aadesh Shrivastava Aadesh Shrivastava (4 September 1964 – 5 September 2015) was a music composer and singer of Indian music. Initially, he had worked as a drummer to music composers including R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan before working independently as a music d ...

did background music for the film.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0100539, Sailaab 1990 films 1990s Hindi-language films Films scored by Bappi Lahiri Hindi remakes of Tamil films Films directed by Deepak Balraj Vij Indian crime drama films