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Director:
B. Gupta
Writers:
Sunil Priyadarshi (screenplay)
Sunil Priyadarshi (story)
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Release Date:
31 December 1987 (India) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi more
Plot:
In this Indian take on the classic superhero story, a young baby from the doomed planet Krypton is sent to Earth... more | add synopsis
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quite the thriller more

Cast

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Urmila Bhatt ... Superman's Foster Mother
Birbal ... Birbal Chamcha
Bob Christo ... Bob
Dharmendra ... Superman's Biological Father
Preeti Ganguli ... Woman from Zambia
Rajan Haksar ... Goga
Dinesh Hingoo ... Rustom
Puneet Issar ... Shekhar 'Superman'
Jagdeep ... Towffle
Jankidas ... Jankidas
Shakti Kapoor ... Verma (chairman of the underworld)
Ranjeeta Kaur ... Superman's Biological Mother
Ashok Kumar ... Superman's Foster Father
Lalita Kumari ... Mrs. Jankidas
Guddi Maruti ... Guddi Jhunjhunwali
Murad ... Chief of the other planet
Sonia Sahni ... Editor
Sudhir ... John (No. #6)
Piloo J. Wadia ... Lucy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Indian Superman (India: English title)
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Country:
India
Language:
Hindi
Color:
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Borrows several minutes of footage and a sound bite from Superman (1978). more
Movie Connections:
Features Superman (1978) more
Soundtrack:
Beat It more

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4 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
quite the thriller, 7 May 2002
10/10
Author: junkmail-5 from Chicago, IL

This movie, though it's in a language I don't speak and is subtitled in a language I don't read, was perhaps one of the major focal points of my life. After seeing this film, all I wanted to do was go out and save people's lives, in the style of the great Superman himself... complete with underwear worn on the outside of my clothes.

If you are ever lucky enough to see this movie, I warn you: you can't be put off by the cheesy special effects or the lame combat sequences. It's the essence of what the movie is about, the basic understanding of the good which drives Superman to do the deeds he does for us on the silver screen, the meaning behind each and every meticulously selected tree branch which gives this movie its awe-inspiring, breathtaking quality. I give it three thumbs up.

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