Cast
What it is about
In a Bombay municipal construction office, newly arrived clerk Kimtilal Saxena finds that bribery is the norm and decides to profit from it. He soon builds a steady arrangement with an industrialist, a licensing officer and a thug, all of whom need permits for their business. Kimtilal's family life and the friendship between his son Kamal and Vijay, the son of an honest colleague, show how dirty money seeps into every corner of daily life. The film presents bureaucratic corruption as a problem affecting the whole of Indian society in the 1980s.
How it was made
Directed by Rakesh Roshan with music by Rajesh Roshan, the film is a remake of the Tamil film Panam Paththum Seiyum and was later remade in Kannada as Lancha Lancha Lancha. It belongs to Hindi action cinema and mixes political intrigue with family melodrama. Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Farah and Kimi Katkar lead the cast, with Kader Khan playing the corrupt protagonist.
Reception and legacy
The film did not perform well at the box office. It is mainly of interest for its portrait of administrative corruption in 1980s India, approached through commercial cinema, and for being a remake of a Tamil film that was itself adapted into another southern language.
Stills
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