Allah Rakha

Allah Rakha (1986)

Karim Khan is employed as driver for a gangster named Don, who has an accident with his car, and asks Karim to take the blame for it for a hefty sum of cash, which Karim does so, and is imprisoned. But Don does not fulfill his promise, and as a result, Karim's wife, Razia, and new-born son are left destitute. Razia complains to Police Inspector Anwar, who arrests Don and holds him in prison, pending his trial in court. When Anwar finds out that his new-born son, Iqbal, is in need of a pace-maker, which he is unable to afford, he makes a compromise with Don, who lets him have one. Iqbal undergoes surgery and a pace-maker number 786, considered lucky in Islamic faith, is attached to his tiny heart.

Date of release
1986-08-22
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
2h 45m
Director
Ketan Desai

Casting

Interesting facts

Allah-Rakha is a 1986 Indian Hindi-language Masala film directed by Ketan Desai and starring Jackie Shroff in the title role with Dimple Kapadia, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Shammi Kapoor, Biswajeet and Waheeda Rehman in key roles. The film is notable as the protagonist, played by Jackie Shroff, is a Muslim, unusual in Hindi cinema that time.

Production

Kamal Haasan was first approached for the film, but refused to be a part of the project as the makers had not offered him a bounded script. The move subsequently annoyed Ketan Desai's father, Manmohan Desai.

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