Guddu (1995)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Prem Lalwani

Writers:

Abrar Alvi (dialogue)
Abrar Alvi (screenplay)

Release Date:

31 July 1995 (India)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Guddu Bahadur is only child in the Bahadur family, consisting of Advocate Vikram, and his wife, Kavita...

Plot Keywords:

Accident | Court | Brain Tumor | Terminal Illness | Atheism

Cast

Deepti Naval	...	Kavita Bahadur
Ashok Saraf	...	Baliya
Manisha Koirala	...	Salina Gupta
Shahrukh Khan	...	Guddu Bahadur
Mukesh Khanna	...	Vikram Prem Bahadur
Vijayendra Ghatge	...	Rehman
Aakruti	...	Sonia
Navin Nischol	...	Dr. Gupta
Maya Alagh	...	Mrs. Gupta
Vikas Anand	...	Dr. Bhatia
Shashi Kiran	...	Fazal
Sudhir Dalvi	...	Judge
Priya Arun
Mehmood	...	Qawwali Singer
Saeed Jaffrey	...	Qawwali Singer

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

India:U

Company:

Veetrag Film Legends

Okay movie with not too incredible story....better than I expected

I saw this movie with a German voice dubbing so I can't say much about the performances. Guddu is about a young man named Guddu(Shahrukh Khan), who is popular in college and has parents who have many conflicts when it comes to religion and science. His father believes that only science can help when it comes to health and money, whereas his mother is deeply religious, or as his father puts it "supersticious". Anyways, Guddu meets Salina(Manisha Koirala) at his college and they clash at first, but somehow this ends in a minor romance...with interesting consequences. What makes the plot thicken(somewhat) is that Guddu is also not completely healthy at this time.

Guddu has an okay soundtrack and the only song that somehow stuck out to me was "Daddy Se Phool". There were some action scenes like many other Indian movies have..a little corny but that's alright. The scenes where Shahrukh has to 'act sick' were really overly dramatic, almost to the point of being funny. His father's role was poorly written and executed. The character seemed to change dramatically in a surprisingly short period of time. His mother was pretty annoying to me as well. Also, I didn't think Manisha got enough screen time. She had a good role but the movie could have been better if her character was more developed. This movie is decent time-pass and moderately entertaining, especially if you are not new to Indian Cinema. Not as bad as I expected but then again I've seen a lot worse.