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'Tezaab' is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action romance film starring Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles. The film gave actress Madhuri Dixit her first big break, making her an overnight star. It reaffirmed Anil Kapoor's star status, after a successful 'Mr. India' (1987).

The film was produced and directed by N. Chandra. The music is by LaxmikantPyarelal. 'Tezaab' is known for the song "Ek Do Teen", which was a chart success.According to Usha Iyer, the song "took sixteen days of laborious rehearsal and seven days of shooting, including a continuous twenty-four-hour shoot to produce." For Madhuri Dixit, "It was like a classroom for me. I learned how to dance for the camera with this song." Iyer, 'Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema' (Oxford Univ. Press, 2020), 184; It ran in theatres for more than 50  weeks, becoming a golden jubilee, and it was the highest blockbuster at the box office for the year 1988 in Bollywood. With 'Tezaab', N. Chandra scored a box office hat-trick with his previous hits 'Ankush' (1986) and 'Pratighaat' (1987).

'Tezaab' was critically acclaimed and garnered 4 Filmfare Awards from 12 nominations. Anil Kapoor won his first Best Actor award, and Madhuri Dixit garnered her first-ever Best Actress nomination.

The film was remade in Telugu as 'Two Town Rowdy', with Daggubati Venkatesh and in Tamil 'Rojavai Killathe', with Arjun. The core storyline is loosely based on the 1984 movie 'Streets of Fire'.

Plot



Inspector Singh (Suresh Oberoi) gets a tip about Munna (Anil Kapoor), entering his jurisdiction, so he checks Munna's file. Inspector Singh recognises Munna as cadet Mahesh Deshmukh, a brilliant cadet whom he met a few years ago at a bank robbery crime scene in Nasik, whereby Mahesh's parents and many other bank employees were mercilessly killed by a gang of robbers.

Inspector Singh tracks Munna, re-kindles his relationship and asks him where he disappeared after the bank incident. To which Munna/Mahesh replies:

He had shifted to Bombay with his sister Jyoti, where he met an impoverished and unfortunate but kind-hearted and gentlewoman, Mohini, who was forced to dance to make money for her father Shyamlal (Anupam Kher). He is a drunkard who does not want to marry off Mohini because she made money for him by dancing in nearby nightclubs. He behaved similarly with his wife (Suhas Joshi), and when she had refused to do as he wished, he threw acid on her. Mohini's Mother committed suicide thereafter.

In his youth, Shyamlal had taken a huge loan from Lotiya Pathan (a dreaded gangster) and the only way to repay it was to make Mohini dance. Shyamlal also has to deal with Chote Khan, the younger brother of Lotiya, who was involved in the Bank robbery and had killed Mahesh/Munna's parents, and also Chote Khan was arrested due to Mahesh/Munna.

After release/bailout, immediately Chote Khan had attempted to rape Jyoti, but Mahesh killed Chote Khan in self-defense. For this, Mahesh/Munna was arrested and sentenced to one year in jail, after which he changed his name to Munna.

On learning the whole story from Mahesh/Munna, Inspector Singh allows him to complete his task and stipulates some conditions, including the time and date of return/surrender.

When Lotiya hears that Mahesh/Munna is back in town, he kidnaps Mohini. Shyamlal now approaches/begs Munna to get Mohini rescued ASAP and requires that she be returned to him only. Mahesh rescues Mohini, and they rejoice to see each other again after a long time, but Mahesh asks Mohini to return to her father; Mohini becomes sad again as she had expected to follow with her lover.

As he had promised Inspector Singh, Munna surrenders whereupon he is tried and tested in Court and then sent to prison for some time.

After a retrial, Munna is acquitted of his charges and plans to start afresh in another city Goa. However, his sister Jyoti convinces Mahesh/ Munna not to forget his lover Mohini so Mahesh/Munna sends his friends- Guldasta and Baban to explain to Mohini where her lover is now.

The evil father, Shyamlal, overhears Mohini's plans to escape and is enraged, and he tries to stop Mohini from leaving. Guldasta and Shyamlal have a fight in which both die, but Mohini manages to escape safely, and Mohini meets Munna again.

However, Lotiya, learning of Munna's acquittal, conspires to kill him as revenge for his brother's death so they all meet up at a dockyard. Baban (Chunky Pandey) gets a tip of Lotiya's conspiracy and challenges Lotiya. Lotiya gets enraged, and a fight between him and Baban ends in Lotiya getting defeated. Baban wants to kill Lotiya in the fit of rage, but Munna intercepts him and stops him from committing murder.

Meanwhile, Lotiya regains his strength and goes to attack Munna with a club. Baban dies, deflecting the attack. Munna fights back at Lotiya and is about to kill him, but Inspector Singh interrupts just in time to stop him from taking the law into his hands. Inspector Singh recognizes he's breaking the law but allows Munna to fight Lotiya as he sees this as a way of Munna letting go of his anger and hatred he holds within himself. As Munna defeats Lotiya, Lotiya quickly gets up and tries to attack and kill Munna, but Inspector Singh kills him with his service pistol, and justice is served finally.

; Alternate ending

Baban does not die here; excluding this fact, the rest of the ending is exactly like the original.

Cast



* Anil Kapoor as Mahesh "Munna" Deshmukh

* Madhuri Dixit as Mohini Dhanyekar

* Anupam Kher as Shyamlal Dhanyekar, Mohini's father

* Chunky Pandey as Sushim "Baban" Choudhry, Munna's friend

* Suparna Anand as Jyoti Deshmukh, Munna's younger sister

* Kiran Kumar as Lotiya Pathan

* Annu Kapoor as Abbas Ali / Guldasta

* Suresh Oberoi as Inspector Gagan Singh

* Tej Sapru as Rantej Saxena

* Johnny Lever as Kainchee Singh, Munna's friend

* Mahavir Shah as Inspector Tarachand Gupta

* Salman Khan as Rookki

* Jack Gaud as Mukut Bihari

* Dinesh Hingoo as Marwadi Seth

* Achyut Potdar as Namrish Deshmukh, Munna's father

* Vijay Patkar as Chiraunji Surwadhre, Munna's friend

* Jaywant Wadkar as Aman Pratap Ahuja, Munna's friend

* Mandakini as Nikita Sharma (Cameo appearance)

* Suhas Joshi as Sumira Dhanyekar, Mohini's mother (Cameo appearance)

* Ravi Patwardhan as Lawyer, Public Prosecutor

Soundtrack



The song 'Ek Do Teen' was inspired by the opening bars of an old popular song "Chanda mama door ke" composed by the famous yesteryears music composer Ravi for the film 'Vachan'. The film's soundtrack album sold more than 8million units, becoming the second best-selling Bollywood music album of 1988, behind only 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'.

'Ek Do Teen' was subsequently recreated for another movie 'Baaghi 2', sung this time by Shreya Ghoshal.

'So Gaya Yeh Jahan' also remade for another movie. On 2013, this song was remade for Nautanki Saala! sung by Nitin Mukesh with composer LaxmikantPyarelal. On 2019, this song remade again for movie Bypass Road, sung by Nitin Mukesh featuring Jubin Nautiyal and Saloni Thakkar with composer Raaj Aashoo.

Awards



;34th Filmfare Awards:

;;Won

* Best Actor Anil Kapoor

* Best Female Playback Singer Alka Yagnik for "Ek Do Teen"

* Best Choreography Saroj Khan for "Ek Do Teen"

* Best Dialogue Kamlesh Pandey

;; Nominated

* Best Film N. Chandra

* Best Director N. Chandra

* Best Actress Madhuri Dixit

* Best Supporting Actor Chunkey Pandey

* Best Music Director LaxmikantPyarelal

* Best Lyricist Javed Akhtar for "Ek Do Teen"

* Best Male Playback Singer Amit Kumar for "Ek Do Teen"

* Best Female Playback Singer Anuradha Paudwal for "Keh Do Ke Tum"

References




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