Ghulami movie is a Bollywood Hindi-language action and drama film directer is J. P. Dutta while producer is A. G. Nadiadwala.
The film star cast are Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Reena Roy, Smita Patil, Anita Raj, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Raza Murad.
The film was released on 28 June 1985.
- Director : J. P. Dutta
- Writer : J. P. Dutta,O. P. Dutta
- Producer: A. G. Nadiadwala
- Star cast : Dharmendra,Mithun Chakraborty,Naseeruddin Shah,Reena Roy,Smita Patil,Anita Raj,Kulbhushan Kharbanda,Raza Murad
- Narrater : Amitabh Bachchan
- Cinematography: Ishwar Bidri
- Editor : Deepak Y. Wirkud,M. D. Worlikar
- Music director : Laxmikant–Pyarelal
- Production company: Base Industries Group
- Distributor: Nadiadwala Sons Bombino Video Pvt. Ltd.
- Playback singer: Shabbir Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Manhar Udhas, Suresh Wadkar
- Release date: 28 June 1985
- Genres: Action, Drama
- Running time: 201 minutes
- Country: India
- Language: Hindi
Story of the film
The Rajasthani feudal and caste systems are the main subjects of the movie. Son of a peasant, Ranjit Singh Chaudhary (Dharmendra) resides in a village controlled by the wealthy Thakur family, who are the village’s landlords. Ranjit is a teenage student in the country school who is rebellious and defiant against unfair procedures and ingrained caste preconceptions. The landlord’s two boys, who are the same age as him, bully him. Two other students at the same school feel sorry for Ranjit. These are the daughters of the wealthy landlord (sister of the bullies) and the schoolteacher. Raging at the injustice he observes in his surroundings, Ranjit flees to the city.
When Ranjit’s father passes away a few years later, a telegraph calls Ranjit to return to the village and carry out the final ceremonies. When Ranjit arrives, he discovers that the village has not altered. Ranjit is also informed that his father had taken out loans from the landlord to cover his medical bills and other expenses, and that he must now pay back those debts or risk losing the house and land that served as collateral for the loans. Ranjit considers this to be a serious injustice.
His line of thinking is that since the landlord merely owns the land and does no labor, the peasants have been tilling the soil and working hard for many generations, thus if the landlord lends money to a peasant, there is no need for the loan to be repaid. For the sake of the audience, this logic is explained in a protracted and moving monologue.
It is obvious that a class war and revolution are necessary, and Ranjit appropriately sets them off. Accusing him and his relatives of being bloodsuckers, he storms into the landlord’s living room and challenges him to seize the mortgaged land if he dares. The scene set by her former schoolmate leaves a lasting impression on Smita Patil, the landlord’s daughter, who is listening from behind a door. After conducting his father’s burial at home, Ranjit spends time with his other buddy Moran (Reena Roy). A revolutionary vendetta and a love triangle are put in motion.
However, the love triangle is resolved quite swiftly. Bharat Kapoor and Mazhar Khan, the landlord’s sons, try to rape Moran (Reena Roy). Ranjit saves her and they get married because it’s obvious she needs protection. Then, a disgruntled Sumitra (Smita Patil) consents to wed the policeman her father, the landlord, has selected. But she held her unfulfilled love within of her, and her husband quickly found out that she was in love with someone else. Furious, he teams up with his two malevolent brothers-in-law to bring Ranjit to an end.
By now, following one or two random gunfights over the landlord’s men taking their cut of the harvest from the rural peasants, Ranjit was on the run from the law. That means the police department might pursue him, thrash him around in custody, and so forth.
The remainder of the film consists of gratuitous violence. Javar (Mithun Chakraborty), a villager who returned home from the army, and Gopi Dada (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), the village police havaldar, who lost his son to the landlord’s goons because the latter killed him for daring to ride a horse on his wedding day even though he was from a lower caste, support Ranjit in his vendetta. The majority of the protagonists on both sides are slaughtered as the movie comes to a close. The violent ending highlights the brutal reality that the rebels always die, but the cruel and unfair system does not.
Star cast of the film
- Dharmendra as a Ranjit Singh Choudhary
- Mithun Chakraborty as a Javar Pratap
- Naseeruddin Shah as a Thakur Sultan Singh
- Reena Roy as a Moran Singh Choudhary
- Smita Patil as a Sumitra
- Anita Raj as a Tulsi
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as a Havaldar Gopi Dada
- Raza Murad as a Fatehpur’s Thanedar
- Om Shivpuri as a Bade Thakur
- Avtar Gill as a Shaamu
- Bharat Kapoor as a Thakur Shakti Singh
- Mazhar Khan as a Thakur Jaswant Singh
- Sulochana Latkar as Makhan Singh’s wife
- Ram Mohan as a Masterji
- Anjan Srivastav as a Bade Thakur’s Munim
- Surendra Pal as a Daku Suraj Bhan
- Rajan Haksar as a Makhan Singh Choudhary
- Huma Khan as a Singer
Ghulami movie songs and Music
The film Music composer are Laxmikant–Pyarelal while the lyricist is Gulzar.
- “Zeehale Muskin Makun ba-Ranjish”……………………………..Lata Mangeshkar, Shabbir Kumar
- “Mere Peeko (Waqt Bee Jatha) Part I”……………………………..Lata Mangeshkar
- “Mere Peeko (Zehar Hai Raat) Part II”…………………………………Lata Mangeshkar
- “Peele Peele”…………………………….Manhar Udhas, Shabbir Kumar, Suresh Wadkar
- “Mere Peeko (Mujhse Roothi) Part III”…………………………..Lata Mangeshkar
“Mere Peeko” full video song
- Song: Mere Peeko
- Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
- Lyricist: Gulzar
- Music company: T-Series
