Ghulam-E-Musthafa

Ghulam-E-Musthafa (1997)

The film revolves around a gangster named Mustafa (Patekar) who is a contract killer and can go any limit to please his superiors and offers 5 times Namaz. He was adopted by a powerful don Shanta Prasad (Rawal) when he was a child. He calls Shanta as Abba (an Urdu term for father). Abba taught him the crime tactics and made Mustafa his weapon for his illicit crimes. Mustafa's only aide is Sudama, his childhood best friend. Abba shares enmity with the Verma brothers Mahesh, Rohan and Bipin (Pradhan, Joshi and Bahl) which the trio wants to kill Abba. Meanwhile, a dancer Kavita (Tandon) who works in Verma's dance club.

Data di uscita
1997-01-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (11)
Durata
2 h 42 min
Generi
Dramma, Azione, Crime
Regista
Partho Ghosh

Cast

Curiosità

Ghulam-E-Musthafa is a 1997 Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Partho Ghosh, starring Nana Patekar and Raveena Tandon, it was produced by P.G. Shrikanth and Dinesh Gandhi under the S.G.S. Cinearts International and Eros International banners. Set in early 1996, Ghulam-e-Musthafa centers on the turbulent and tragic relationship between Gangster Mustafa and Dancer Kavita, a relationship which come to an end with the death of Kavita due to his field. The film was a remake of the Tamil film Musthaffaa (1996).

Production

In early 1996, P.G Srikanth and Dinesh decided to make the film, on the script which is given by Tamil writer Prasanna Kumar. Before that, Subhash Ghai was approached to direct the film, but later on, for unknown reasons, Partho signed for directing the film, under the banners of Dinesh Gandhi's, S.G.S. Cinearts international studio and with the collaboration of marketing partner Eros International production house.

The film was initially titled Mustafa, but this was changed to Ghulam-E-Mustafa to avoid potential objection from Muslim sects.

As things were clear, both producers hunt for an actor for the character of Ghulam-e-Mustafa, many options were on the list, but both of them decided to take the role of Mustafa to Nana Patekar without any screening test, first Juhi Chawla was approached for the role of Kavita, but Juhi walked out due to her already lined up filming schedules, later on, Raveena gave the screen test for Kavita and got the role.

Principal photography for the film began in January 1997 with the film's lead cast. The film was shot in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, at studios Film City, Kamalistan Studios, Najabhai Jewellers Mumbai, Polachi, Kerala, Vauhini Studios, Vijaya Studios. Although due to bombing and explosive shooting scenes the film was shot in an abandoned area, of Tamil Nadu. The film was only shot in South India due to the South Indian cast and crew of the film.

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