Hero (II) (1983)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Subhash Ghai

Writers:

Mukta Ghai (story), Subhash Ghai,

Stars:

Sanjeev Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sanjeev Kumar	...	Damodar Mathur
Shammi Kapoor	...	Retd. IGP Shrikanth Mathur
Jackie Shroff	...	Jackie Dada / Jaikishan
Meenakshi Sheshadri	...	Radha Mathur
Amrish Puri	...	Pasha
Madan Puri	...	Bharat
Ranjeet
Bindu	...	Jamuna (Radha's widowed aunt)
Bharat Bhushan	...	Ramu (Jaikishan's Father)
Shakti Kapoor	...	Jimmy Thapa
Urmila Bhatt	...	Sandhya Mathur
Manhar Udhas	...	Singer
Jamal
Rehman Khan
Saifee Khan

Storyline

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.

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Genres:

Musical | Romance

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mukta Arts

Technical Specs

Runtime:

173 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sanjay Dutt was associated with the lead role before he was dropped due to his drug addiction during the early years of his film career.

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Connections

Referenced in Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (2001)

User Reviews

Lambi Judai

This is the movie that shot Jackie Shroff to stardom and for which he still obliges to Subhash Ghai. The movie, in spite of having a simple story line became instant hit owing to its very sensitive touch of direction and great music. 'Ding dong o baby sing song' clicked with the Indian audience after they had already developed a taste for Hindi songs sung in western style - popularly called as Indi pop- introduced by Nazia Hassan . The latter (from the movie 'qurbani') also started a trend of roping in Pakistani singers for Bollywood soundtrack. Hero had Reshma sing the song 'Lambi Judai'. The baritone 'quawwali-like' voice of reshma fascinated the Indian audience so much that two decades later when Ila Arun reproduced the style in 'choli ke peeche kya hai' (again in Ghai's movie Khalnayak) the Indian masses swung to it in a dejavu.

Coming back to the movie, it was also the introduction of the pretty girl Menakshi Sheshadri to the masses (though this was her third movie). The story goes like this, Jaikishan (alias Jackie dada) is henchman with a loyal gang who on the instructions of his master Amrish Puri, kidnaps the pretty daughter of a cop. The rest is the love story where the girl falls in love with her kidnapper and her haughty and dictatorial father, after an initial resistance had to give up to the indomitable love.

Songs are sung when the police raids the gang's jungle hideouts to recover the girl, who is now a cohort of the gang; motorcycle races are won by the protagonist against the other suitor of the girl; high octane emotions in the family to accept a vagabond for son in law; hero's internal conflict of breaching his loyalty(to his godfather) for love etc. etc. Overall a good potpourri and a complete family entertainer which stayed in our early eighties hearts for years. A PERFECT BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL.