Ghulam

Infobox_Film
name = Ghulam
ग़ुलाम
غلام


imdb_id = 0190419
writer = Anjum Rajabali
starring = Aamir Khan,
Rani Mukerji
director = Vikram Bhatt
producer = Mukesh Bhatt
distributor = T-Series
released = June 19, 1998
runtime =
language = Hindi/Urdu
music = Jatin Pandit,
Lalit Pandit
awards = | budget =

"Ghulam" (Hindi: ग़ुलाम, Urdu: غلام, translation: "Slave") is a 1998 Bollywood film directed by Vikram Bhatt. The film made average Box Office business. Although, not well known the movie is a direct lift of the 1954 classic On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando.

ynopsis

Ghulam means a warriorslave. Sidharth (Aamir Khan) is an amateur boxer who does not work, preferring to loaf about with friends. His older brother Jai (Rajit Kapoor) works with a gangster, Raunak Singh (Sharad Saxena) who rules the neighborhood, terrorising merchants and demanding protection money. As a child Sidharth idolized his father, an ex-freedom fighter, whom he saw committing suicide in guilt after a visit from an old acquaintance. This fact is something that Sidharth is in denial about for most of the plot, until it is exposed by his brother. Sidharth meets a girl, Alisha (Rani Mukerji), who rides with a motorcycle gang, and Hari, a social worker. The film tells the story of Sidharth's romance with Alisha and his reformation.

Cast

*Aamir Khan...... Siddharth Marathe (Sidhu)
*Rani Mukherjee...... Alisha
*Deepak Tijori...... Charlie
*Sharat Saxena...... Raunak Singh (Ronnie)
*Akshay Anand...... Hari
*Rajit Kapoor...... Jai, Siddhartha's brother
*Meeta Vasisht...... Siddharth's lawyer
*Dilip Tahil...... Siddharth's father
*Raju Kher
*Madhu Malhotra
*Ashwin Kaushal
*Ashutosh Rana...... Shyamsundar Agrawal
*Daya Shanker Pandey
*Umesh
*Razzak Khan
*Kiran Randhawa
*Mukhtar Ahmed
*Shaikh Sami
*Rakesh
*Prithvi Zutshi
*Amin Hajee...... Black Tiger (Champion Boxer)
*Robert Slater
*Prithvi

Music

Infobox Album | Name = Ghulam
Type = Album
Artist = Jatin-Lalit


Genre = Feature film soundtrack
Label =

Tips

Trivia

*Rani Mukerji became known as the "Khandala Girl" after the hit song "Aati Kya Khandala". [http://www.rediff.com/entertai/1998/jul/15rani.htm]
* This was the only movie in which Rani Mukerji's voice was dubbed. Fact|date=February 2007
* Rani Mukerji's role was first offered to Pooja Bhatt. [http://members.aol.com/shridj/bollywood/top1998.html]
* Adapted from Marlon Brando starrer On the Waterfront.
* A sequence in the film shows Aamir Khan running on rail tracks towards an oncoming train, which misses him by a few feet as he jumps off the tracks. 1.3 seconds was the only difference between Aamir and the train. This stunt was actually performed, and by Aamir himself. It won him the Best Stunt award, but he later criticized himself for taking such an unnecessary risk. [http://www.india-today.com/itoday/25051998/cinema.html]

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190419 IMDB entry on Ghulam]
* [http://www.filmimusic.com/Ghulam/index.htm Streamed songs of movie]