शहँशाह

शहँशाह (1988)

Inspector Srivastav is framed by a wily and cunning gangster, J.K., and unable to prove his innocence, hangs himself, leaving behind his wife, and son, Vijay. Years later, Vijay has grown up and has joined the police force as an Inspector. Unlike his dad, he is corrupt and does accept bribes to turn a nelson's eye to crime. The City Police are assigned the task of apprehending a customed man called "Shahenshah", who operates at night and targets, tries and kills gangsters in a "Judge and Executioner "style. No one knows the real identity of Shahenshah, as he is feared by the police department, and respected by the poor and middle-class.

Data de estreia
1988-01-29
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (32)
Duração
3 h 0 min
Géneros
Ação
Realizador
Tinnu Anand

Elenco

Curiosidades

Shahenshah (transl. Emperor) is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language vigilante action film produced and directed by Tinnu Anand with story by Jaya Bachchan and script by Inder Raj Anand. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan in the titular role, alongside Meenakshi Sheshadri, Praan, Amrish Puri, Prem Chopra and Sharat Saxena and Murad in supporting roles. The film marks Bachchan's comeback to films after a three-year hiatus during which he had entered politics. Bachchan still had films releasing during the hiatus as they were projects, which he had previously completed.

Production

Tinnu Anand, who had made the very successful film Kaalia (1981) with Amitabh Bachchan, wanted to make another film with him during the early 1980s. The story of Shahenshah was written by Jaya Bachchan and further refined by Tinnu Anand's father Inder Raj Anand. Even though Anand signed up Bachchan in 1983, the film could not commence shooting because only three days before shooting was to begin in Bangalore, Amitabh fell seriously ill.

Due to Amitabh's illness and his commitments to other movies, the shooting was delayed until 1985. By this time, the female lead of the film, Dimple Kapadia, was replaced by Meenakshi Sheshadri. The iconic costume that Amitabh donned in this movie weighed almost 18 kg, and despite his illness, Amitabh insisted on wearing the costume in all of his fight scenes.

The shooting eventually wrapped up in October 1987. Even though the film was initially planned to be released in November, the release date kept on being pushed back due to the threat of a boycott of the film by some opposition political parties. These parties had had some conflict with Bachchan, while he was a Congress MP, and they maintained bitterness towards him even after he had retired from politics.

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