Pukar (1983 film)

Pukar
Directed by	Ramesh Behl
Written by	Madan Joshi G.R. Kamath
Produced by	Ramesh Behl
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Zeenat Aman Randhir Kapoor Tina Munim Prem Chopra
Cinematography	Peter Pereira
Edited by	Nand Kumar
Music by	R.D. Burman
Distributed by	Rose Movies
Release date	18 November 1983 (1983-11-18)
Running time	162 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹1.80 crore
Box office	₹,4.2 crores(equivalent to ₹44 crores or US$6.2 million in 2019)[1]

Pukar (transl. Call) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language action film, directed by Ramesh Behl, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Randhir Kapoor, Zeenat Aman and Tina Munim. It is a film about freedom fighters trying to liberate Goa from the Portuguese.

Purandare (Shreeram Lagoo), Narvekar (P. Jairaj) and Dinanath (Sudhir Dalvi) are part of a separatist group that aims to rid Goa’s territories of the Portuguese. In a shootout with the Portuguese police, Purandare and Dinanath are injured. Dinanath asks Purandare to shoot him because he doesn’t want to die by the hands of the Portuguese. Purandare kills him at Dinanath’s behest. This is witnessed by Dinanath’s son Ramdas who gets the wrong idea that Purandare killed him.

Ramdas runs away to Mr Dayanand (Om Shivpuri) who shelters him. Portuguese police arrive again and seemingly kill Dayanand and his wife for Ramdas’ whereabouts. In the next scene, Purandare arrives to Dayanand’s house in search for Ramdas. Ramdas takes one look at Purandare and runs away. I was a bit confused because the Portuguese police seemingly killed him by stomping their foot on his throat and in the next scene, he just has minor bruises. Even the background score made it look like he died. Anyway, I’m not that bothered about that yet.

Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie to avoid association with Indian revolutionaries. He is teased by a few kids about his name and the following fight fast forwards 2 decades. Ramdas/Ronnie grows up to be a lanky, career criminal (predictably Amitabh Bachchan) who has a babe girlfriend Julie (Zeenat Aman). Ronnie helps out another criminal Hasmok (Sujit Kumar) evade capture from Police Inspector Monteiro (Prem Chopra)

Ronnie comes across Purandare once again - Purandare’s gang wants ammunition to help their revolution against the Portuguese. Ronnie betrays them to the police twice and in the second encounter, Purandare loses his life.

Shekhar (Randhir Kapoor) quickly gets involved into the action. He steals Ronnie’s gold, frees a rebel (Viju Khote) from hospital, assassinates the Portuguese police chief and is sentenced to be hanged, all while making Ronnie his number one enemy. The fact that everyone likes Shekhar than Ronnie makes Ronnie even angrier. He goes to kill Shekhar’s parents for whatever random reason and finds out they are the same people who sheltered him when the police was after him in childhood. This makes him understand why Purandare killed his father in childhood and he swears to save Shekhar from the death sentence. In a climactic battle, Ronnie and Shekhar succeed in killing the Portuguese.

Scenes of the film were shot in Daman and Diu.^[2]

Music Direction: R. D. Burman, Lyrics: Gulshan Bawra, Audio: Polydor now Universal Music Group

The music for all the songs were composed by Rahul Dev Burman and penned by Gulshan Bawra.

#	Title	Singer(s)	Duration
1	"Samandar Mein Nahake"	R. D. Burman	04:48
2	"Tu Maike Mat Jaiyo"	Amitabh Bachchan, R. D. Burman	06:12
3	"Jane Jigar Duniya Main"	Kishore Kumar, R. D. Burman	06:13
4	"Tu Mere Liye"	Asha Bhosle	04:17
5	"Bachke Rehna Re Baba"	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, R. D. Burman	06:25
6	"Maarein Ge Ya Mar Jaayenge"	Asha Bhosle, R. D. Burman	05:21

• Pukar at IMDb