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Tezaab
Film poster
Directed by N. Chandra
Written by N. Chandra
Kamlesh Pandey
Produced by Dinesh Gandhi
Starring Anil Kapoor
Madhuri Dixit
Anupam Kher
Chunky Pandey
Mandakini
Kiran Kumar
Suresh Oberoi
Cinematography Baba Azmi
Music by [Laxmikant Pyarelal] [Javed Akhtar (lyrics)]
Release date

11 November 1988

Running time
173 mins
Country India
Language Hindi

Tezaab (transl. Acid) is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action romance film starring
Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles. The film gave Dixit her first big
break, making her an overnight star. in addition to reaffirming Kapoor's star
status, after a successful Mr. India (1987). The film was produced and directed by
N. Chandra. The music was composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal.

Tezaab released on 11 November 1988, and proved to be a major commercial success at

the box office, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year. It ran in theatres
for more than 50 weeks, becoming a golden jubilee success. With Tezaab, N. Chandra
scored a box office hat-trick with his previous hits Ankush (1986) and Pratighaat
(1987).[1] The film is also popular for the song "Ek Do Teen", which was a
chartbusting success.[2] It received positive reviews from critics upon release,
with praise for its story, screenplay, dialogues, soundtrack, and performances of
the cast.

At the 34th Filmfare Awards, Tezaab received a leading 12 nominations, Best Film,
Best Director (Chandra), Best Actress (Dixit) and Best Supporting Actor (Pandey),
and won 4 awards, including Best Actor (Kapoor), Best Female Playback Singer (Alka
Yagnik) and Best Choreography (Saroj Khan), the latter two for the song "Ek Do
Teen". At the ceremony, Kapoor scored his first Best Actor win, while Dixit
garnered her first-ever Best Actress nomination.

The film was remade in Telugu as Two Town Rowdy, with Daggubati Venkatesh and in
Tamil Rojavai Killathe, with Arjun. The core storyline is loosely based on the 1984
film Streets of Fire.
Plot

When Inspector Singh (Suresh Oberoi) learns that Munna (Anil Kapoor) is about to
reach his region of jurisdiction, he checks Munna's record. Munna is identified by
Inspector Singh as Cadet Mahesh Deshmukh, a talented Cadet he first met at the
scene of a Nasik bank robbery a few years prior, where Mahesh's parents and
numerous other bank employees had been brutally murdered by a gang of thieves.

Following the bank incident, Inspector Singh finds Munna, rekindles their
connection, and inquires as to his whereabouts. Munna/Mahesh responds by saying:

With his sister Jyoti, he had relocated to Bombay, where they had met Mohini, a
poor and miserable woman who was compelled to dance in order to support her father
Shyamlal (Anupam Kher). Because she earned money for him by dancing in adjacent
nightclubs, he is a drunk who does not want to marry Mohini off. He acted similarly
against his wife (Suhas Joshi), and when she disobeyed him, he attacked her with
acid. After that, Mohini's mother killed herself.

In his youth, Shyamlal had taken a huge loan from Lotiya Pathan (a dreaded
gangster) and the only way to repay it was to make Mohini dance. Shyamlal also has
to deal with Chote Khan, the younger brother of Lotiya, who was involved in the
Bank robbery and had killed Mahesh/Munna's parents, and also Chote Khan was
arrested due to Mahesh/Munna.

After release/bailout, immediately Chote Khan had attempted to rape Jyoti, but
Mahesh killed Chote Khan in self-defense. For this, Mahesh/Munna was arrested and
sentenced to one year in jail, after which he changed his name to Munna.

On learning the whole story from Mahesh/Munna, Inspector Singh allows him to
complete his task and stipulates some conditions, including the time and date of
return/surrender.

When Lotiya hears that Mahesh/Munna is back in town, he kidnaps Mohini. Shyamlal
now approaches/begs Munna to get Mohini rescued ASAP and requires that she be
returned to him only. Mahesh rescues Mohini, and they rejoice to see each other
again after a long time, but Mahesh asks Mohini to return to her father; Mohini
becomes sad again as she had expected to follow with her lover.

As he had promised Inspector Singh, Munna surrenders whereupon he is tried and

tested in Court and then sent to prison for some time.

After a retrial, Munna is acquitted of his charges and plans to start afresh in
another city – Goa. However, his sister Jyoti convinces Mahesh/ Munna not to forget
his lover Mohini – so Mahesh/Munna sends his friends- Guldasta and Baban – to
explain to Mohini where her lover is now.

The evil father, Shyamlal, overhears Mohini's plans to escape and is enraged, and
he tries to stop Mohini from leaving. Guldasta and Shyamlal have a fight in which
both die, but Mohini manages to escape safely, and Mohini meets Munna again.

However, Lotiya, learning of Munna's acquittal, conspires to kill him as revenge

for his brother's death – so they all meet up at a dockyard. Baban (Chunky Pandey)
gets a tip of Lotiya's conspiracy and challenges Lotiya. Lotiya gets enraged, and a
fight between him and Baban ends in Lotiya getting defeated. Baban wants to kill
Lotiya in the fit of rage, but Munna intercepts him and stops him from committing
murder.

Meanwhile, Lotiya regains his strength and goes to attack Munna with a club. Baban
dies, deflecting the attack. Munna fights back at Lotiya and is about to kill him,
but Inspector Singh interrupts just in time to stop him from taking the law into
his hands. Inspector Singh recognizes he's breaking the law but allows Munna to
fight Lotiya as he sees this as a way of Munna letting go of his anger and hatred
he holds within himself. As Munna defeats Lotiya, Lotiya quickly gets up and tries
to attack and kill Munna, but Inspector Singh kills him with his service pistol,
and justice is served finally.

Alternate ending

Baban does not die here; excluding this fact, the rest of the ending is exactly
like the original.
Cast

Anil Kapoor as Mahesh "Munna" Deshmukh

Madhuri Dixit as Mohini Dhanyekar
Anupam Kher as Shyamlal Dhanyekar, Mohini's father
Chunky Pandey as Sushim "Baban" Choudhry, Munna's friend
Suparna Anand as Jyoti Deshmukh, Munna's younger sister
Kiran Kumar as Lotiya Pathan
Annu Kapoor as Abbas Ali / Guldasta
Suresh Oberoi as Inspector Gagan Singh
Tej Sapru as Rantej Saxena
Johnny Lever as Kainchee Singh, Munna's friend
Mahavir Shah as Inspector Tarachand Gupta
Salman Khan as Rookki
Jack Gaud as Mukut Bihari
Dinesh Hingoo as Marwadi Seth
Achyut Potdar as Namrish Deshmukh, Munna's father
Vijay Patkar as Chiraunji Surwadhre, Munna's friend
Jaywant Wadkar as Aman Pratap Ahuja, Munna's friend
Mandakini as Nikita Sharma (Cameo appearance)
Suhas Joshi as Sumira Dhanyekar, Mohini's mother (Cameo appearance)
Ravi Patwardhan[3] as Lawyer, Public Prosecutor

Soundtrack
The song Ek Do Teen was inspired by the opening bars of an old popular song "Chanda
Mama Door Ke" composed by the famous yesteryears music composer Ravi for the film
Vachan (1955).[4][5] The film's soundtrack album sold more than 8 million units,[6]
becoming the second best-selling Bollywood music album of 1988, behind only Qayamat
Se Qayamat Tak.[7]
No. Title Singer(s) Length
1. "So Gaya Yeh Jahan" Nitin Mukesh, Shabbir Kumar & Alka Yagnik 06:04
2. "Ek Do Teen" Amit Kumar, Alka Yagnik 06:15
3. "Keh Do Ke Tum" Amit Kumar, Anuradha Paudwal 07:57
4. "Tum Ko Hum Dilbar" Sudesh Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal 06:43
5. "Dandia Music" (Instrumental) 04:47

Ek Do Teen was subsequently recreated for another movie Baaghi 2, sung this time by
Shreya Ghoshal.[8]

So Gaya Yeh Jahan also remade for another film. In 2013, this song was remade for
Nautanki Saala! sung by Nitin Mukesh with composer Laxmikant–Pyarelal. On 2019,
this song remade again for movie Bypass Road, sung by Nitin Mukesh featuring Jubin
Nautiyal and Saloni Thakkar with composer Raaj Aashoo.
Awards

34th Filmfare Awards:

Won

Best Actor – Anil Kapoor

Best Female Playback Singer – Alka Yagnik for "Ek Do Teen"
Best Choreography – Saroj Khan for "Ek Do Teen"
Best Dialogue – Kamlesh Pandey

Nominated

Best Film – N. Chandra

Best Director – N. Chandra
Best Actress – Madhuri Dixit
Best Supporting Actor – Chunkey Pandey
Best Music Director – Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Best Lyricist – Javed Akhtar for "Ek Do Teen"
Best Male Playback Singer – Amit Kumar for "Ek Do Teen"
Best Female Playback Singer – Anuradha Paudwal for "Keh Do Ke Tum"

References

Madhu Jain (28 February 1989). "Mean street Moghul: Hit director N. Chandra brings
realism to films". India Today. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
According to Usha Iyer, the song "took sixteen days of laborious rehearsal and
seven days of shooting, including a continuous twenty-four-hour shoot to produce."
For Madhuri Dixit, "It was like a classroom for me. I learned how to dance for the
camera with this song." Iyer, Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of
Hindi Cinema (Oxford Univ. Press, 2020), 184; ISBN 9780190938765
"Tezaab (1988) Cast - Actor, Actress, Director, Producer, Music Director".
Cinestaan. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
"A tribute to the music composer Ravi". Video - stage performance, Music composer
Ravi. Dattaram. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
"Song - Chanda mama door ke (Vachan)". SEPL Vintage website. SEPL. Retrieved 5
November 2018.
"Top 25 films between the years 1985-1994". Filmfare. 18 February 2018.
"Music Hits 1980-1989". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 5 February
2010. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
 "Jacqueline Fernandez on recreating "Ek do Teen": You cannot replicate someone
like Madhuri Dixit". 11 February 2018.

External links

Tezaab at IMDb

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