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Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswati
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Wikipedia article
'Ganga Jamuna Saraswati' is 1988 Hindi film directed by Manmohan Desai, financed by Harakh Chand Nahata, produced by S. Ramanathan and starring Amitabh Bachchan as Ganga, Meenakshi Sheshadri as Jamuna, and Jaya Prada as Saraswati. Supporting cast includes Mithun Chakraborty, Amrish Puri, Nirupa Roy and Aruna Irani.
The movie was released on 23 December 1988 to excellent collections which dropped following the negative reviews it received. 'India Today' in January 1989 reported that by the second week collections in Mumbai area were ranging between 28 - 40% resulting in the film being declared a box office flop. but performed financially well in 90s Re runs
Plot
Thakur Hansraj (Amrish Puri) is a greedy man who kills his brother-in-law Trilok Kapoor takes the signature of his sister Bharati Devi (Nirupa Roy) on property papers under a false pretext and takes control of her property. Bharati Devi's son, Ganga (Amitabh Bachchan) having taken a pledge to avenge the wrong done to his family, ends up becoming a truck driver.
One day Jamuna (Meenakshi Sheshadri) jumps into his truck to save herself from a goon who is after her. Ganga is forced to stop the truck due to a road block. When it starts raining, Ganga ends up going to a nearby lodge to take shelter, pretending he and Jamuna are a couple. The next day, when the goon returns to take Jamuna away forcibly, Ganga gets into a fight with him. When Jamuna falls in deep ice, in the process of providing her with jism ki garmi, he ends up having sex with her. Ganga is arrested for beating up Thakur's son and is jailed for two years. When he returns, Thakur sends his aides to kill him. A blast takes place at the bridge and Jamuna falls into the river along with her child. Ganga saves his child but cannot find Jamuna.
Jamuna, who loses her memory from the fall, ends up reaching the home of singer Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty), who recognizes her from a qawwali performance she had performed, and falls in love with her. Ganga takes the help of Saraswati (Jayaprada) to take care of his son, and she ends up falling in love with him. The remainder of the movie deals with how Ganga and Jamuna reunite, and the roles played by Saraswati and Shankar, not to forget Ganga's mission to exact revenge on his Thakur uncle.
Cast
*Amitabh Bachchan as Ganga
*Meenakshi Sheshadri as Jamunaa
*Jaya Prada as Saraswati
*Mithun Chakraborty as Shankar Qawaal
*Trilok Kapoor as Thakur Prasad (Ganga's dad)
*Nirupa Roy as Bharati Devi (Ganga's mom)
*Amrish Puri as Thakur Hansraj Singh
*Mahesh Anand as Shakta (Hansraj's Son)
*Bharat Bhushan as Pandit, (Shankar's father)
*Chandrashekhar as Police Commissioner
*Jack Gaud as Bheema
*Aruna Irani as Jamuna's aunt (Cameo)
*Goga Kapoor as Inspector Goga
*Mukri as Manager of Honeymoon Lodge
*Murad as Judge (uncredited)
*Bhushan Tiwari as Jagga
*Dev Kumar as Hansraj's Goon
*Joginder as Ranga
Music
The overall music director for the film was Anu Malik and the lyricist was Indeevar and Prayaag Raj, The song "Tere Dar Ko Chhod Chale" was originally sung by Maqbool Ahmed Sabri who was uncredited for the song, and was later re-recorded in the voice of Pankaj UdhasArchived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/yMoJxCSFQ5w Ghostarchive] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200809061937/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMoJxCSFQ5w Wayback Machine]:
References
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