Coolie

Coolie (1983)

कूली

If you have an item of death in your hands then I have God’s name in my heart.

When Iqbal gets separated from his mother and brother by a flood, he becomes a coolie at Mumbai railway station. He then fights for the coolies rights and faces challenges from a businessman.

Date of release
1983-12-02
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (28)
Runtime
2h 49m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Drama
Director
Manmohan Desai, Prayag Raj

Casting

Interesting facts

Coolie is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film, directed by Manmohan Desai and written by Kader Khan. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan as Iqbal Aslam Khan, a railway coolie, who was separated from his mother Salma due to Zafar's obsession with her. This obsession causes the destruction of her family and her mental breakdown. Years later, fate unites her sons, Iqbal and Sunny and they set out to save Salma from Zafar's captivity. It also starred Rati Agnihotri, Shoma Anand, Suresh Oberoi and Puneet Issar.

Production

Coolie continued Bachchan's role as the "Angry Young Man," though it "was more layered, showcasing vulnerability, empathy, and

Kader Khan, who also stars as the film's antagonist, wrote the screenplay. In addition to having Bachchan play a Muslim protagonist, Khan incorporated elements of Islamic Sufi mysticism into the script, including various Sufi motifs and references.

The film gained notoriety even before its release when Amitabh Bachchan was critically injured on 26 July 1982 in the intestines while filming a fight scene with co-star Puneet Issar at the Bangalore University campus, which almost cost him his life.

In the fight scene, Bachchan was supposed to fall onto a table but mistimed his jump. This resulted in an internal abdominal injury. He was transferred to a Mumbai hospital, where according to the actor, he went into a "haze and coma-like situation", and was "clinically dead for a couple of minutes".

While he was in the hospital, there were reports of widespread mourning, and prayers were offered by many Indians in the country and abroad. According to reports, Rajiv Gandhi cancelled a trip to the United States to be with him.

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