Hero

Hero (1983)

A musical love story of a criminal.

Hero is the story of a criminal transforming and evolving as a good person under the influence of love. Jackie is a baddie with a heart of gold though, who has to settle scores with the area's 'Thakur' and his police officer son Sanjeev Kumar. So he opts for kidnapping their soft spot, Radha, Thakur khandaan's only daughter. Radha is given to understand that Jackie and his gang are police people who have taken her away to the safety of jungles because their house has been invaded by dacoits. The rest of the story is about the gang's camaraderie with Radha in sylvan spots and the discovery of truth by Radha.

Date of release
1983-12-16
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (17)
Runtime
2h 53m
Genres
Romance
Director
Subhash Ghai

Casting

Interesting facts

Hero is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film directed by Subhash Ghai. Starring Jackie Shroff and Meenakshi Sheshadri, it marked Shroff's debut in a lead role. Its music directors were Laxmikant–Pyarelal. It became a blockbuster at the box office and established Shroff as a leading Bollywood actor.

Production

Subhash Ghai had initially wanted Kamal Haasan to play the film's lead role, when the project was titled as Sangeet, but his unavailability led to the producers casting debutant Jackie Shroff.

Jackie Shroff revealed in a 2017 interview that he is a huge fan of veteran actor Dev Anand, and during the filming of Hero often said his dialogues in Dev Anand's style. Ghai wanted him to deliver his dialogues like Shatrughan Sinha instead.

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