Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Muqaddar Ka Sikandar |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Hindi , Urdu |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 189 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Prakash Mehra |
| script |
Vijay Kaul Kader Khan (dialogues) Lakshmikant Sharma (story) |
| production | Prakash Mehra |
| music | Kalyanji-Anandji |
| camera | N. Satyen |
| occupation | |
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Muqaddar Ka Sikandar ( Hindi : मुक़द्दर का सिकंदर , Urdu : مقدر کا سکندر) is a Hindi film by Prakash Mehra from 1978. It is one of the most successful films with Amitabh Bachchan .
action
A small homeless boy lives on the streets of Shimla until he is hired as house help by the rich widower Ramanath. When he soon notices that the boy is becoming too friends with his daughter Kamna, he moves with her to Mumbai ( Bombay ). The boy follows them. There he helps the widow Fatima, who then adopts him and gives him the name Sikandar. She helps him to see his kamna again, whom he always calls Memsaab.
There is a misunderstanding at Kamna's birthday party and everyone thinks Sikandar is a thief. After this incident, Fatima had a heart attack. Before she dies, however, she asks Sikandar to take care of her biological daughter Mehru. The fakir Darvesh Baba encourages him to make the best of his life despite the loss.
Sikandar takes his advice and years later he becomes a rich man. Despite the wealth, Sikandar does not forget his origins and even finances the medical expenses of the now impoverished Ramanath. His hopeless love for Kamna drives him to visit the brothel of the beautiful Zohrabai, who instantly falls in love with him.
In a bar he befriends the lawyer Vishal, whom he passes on to Ramanath. With Vishal's help, Ramanath's business is on the up again. As a thank you, he wants to betroth Sikandar to his daughter, but she has already fallen in love with Vishal. Vishal also loves Kamna, not knowing that she is Sikandar's Memsaab. Only when Sikandar sees them hugging does he not want to stand in the way of happiness. At the wedding of the two, Sikandar is on the verge of death and says goodbye to them. Vishal notices that Kamna is his Memsaab and feels guilty. The funeral takes place on the same day.
music
| song | Singer |
|---|---|
| Dil To Hai Dil | Lata Mangeshkar |
| O Saathi Re | Asha Bhosle |
| O Saathi Re | Kishore Kumar |
| Red Hue Aate Hain Sab | Kishore Kumar |
| Salam-E-Ishq | Lata Mangeshkar |
| Zindagi To Bewafaa | Mohammad Rafi |
| Pyar Zindagi shark | |
| Wafa Jo Na Kigiye |
The lyrics to the music of Kalyanji-Anandji were written by Prakash Mehra and Anjaan .
Awards
Nomination for the Filmfare Award 1979
criticism
Bachchan repeats his typical film character of the loner who is doomed and fixated by his mother, who lives and fights in the urban jungle. Despite aesthetic inadequacies such as the quick and erratic cuts, which have to cover up deficits in the filming, the roots of the story in Bombay and Bachchan's outstanding portrayal confirm the actor as an icon of the Bombay lumpenproletariat.
Web links
- Muqaddar Ka Sikandar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 437