The Torture Series 6: Marte Dam Tak
Warning: Post contains sexual language and content
If Jeetendra was at the helm of starting the 80s fire of cinematic depression, it were people like Mehul Kumar, Eesmayel Shroff, Pranlal Mehta, Mithun Chakraborthy and many others of the wonderful PKTK club, who willingly or unwillingly put ghee in the fire thereby increasing the depression to many many more years. But in ‘86 they would be joined by a kid, who God put in Viraar, hidden away from the PKTK club (Public Ko Torture Karo club)… for God knew, however talented the kid be, he had the power to turn PKTK’s fire of depression into a firestorm. Alas God could not keep him away from the evil eyes of PKTK.
They found him. Govinda had been doing the rounds of various producers in an attempt to start his filmi career and in doing so, started a new innovation. He had videotaped himself doing scenes, dancing, fighting etc. and would visit the producers’ offices and leave his demo tape at their front desk. And then suddenly one day he started getting calls from various producers, eventually signing up with a dozen producers at the same time.
What is Govinda’s first movie? Until the end of this universe that mystery may never be resolved. I thought it was Love ‘86, since that was the first of his I saw, which was on the Saturday of its week of release. But then there are the gurus of the 80s who debate that it is Ilzaam (actually titled as Jhoota Ilzaam) or Sadaa Suhagan. Though Govinda-jee had 5 films releasing in his very first year in Bollywood, I would like to thank God for the absence of Bollywood hating bloggers in the 80s. Had they been present, I would not have enjoyed any of the movies or gone to see any of 80s movies. Thank You O Lord for your mercy. Unfortunately today if I say I love shits like Partner or hate Krrish, as my expression of a movie reaction, I’ll be crucified online by these New Age Bollywood Blogging Fundamentalists… And to think…
I started PFC so that I could escape my ex-girlfriend’s phone calls. As an excuse I started PFC to justify I’m busy. The darn website has become so big that now I’m trapped between my ex-girlfriend who is now my Biwi-jee on one end and all the Bollywood haters, who have made PFC their home, on the other end.
Imagine a 4 foot pole. Now imagine two 4 foot poles. Now imagine both 4 foot poles being stabbed in my ass. Paste this in the MBA Curriculum. I should be the poster boy. “How to not fuck yourself up by jokingly starting a website”. To help heal my scars you can donate to PFC at paypal.com
It’s hell for me now. And I am the cause of it. I can’t let anyone know that I laughed while watching Partner. The New Age Bloggers will whip my ass. I can’t let anyone know that I watched Aag Hi Aag 23 times. The middle age bloggers will protest and take out morchas. Neither can I let the secret out, that I own a copy of Jeanna does Jenna… for I certainly wouldn’t want to see an angry Biwi-jee parking my ass in the garage for the next 3 months, as the asshole Momar (my jet black cat received in dowry) rolls on my chair holding his stomach while laughing hard. I’m fucked. I’m screwed. PFC tere ko toh main dekh loonga!!!
Back to Govinda’s scars… during the making ofLove 86, Govinda’s costar in the movie, Rohan Kapoor (son of the famous singer Mahendra Kapoor) once mentioned that during the making of the movie, Govinda used to cry in his hotel room, because he was under great pressure by the 100s of offers from 100s of producers. Rohan Kapoor mentioned in his interview, that he advised Govinda to do what his heart said he should do. Taking his advise, Govinda in the next days, signed 25 and more films. Rohan managed perhaps two films and then he disappeared.
Of course there may be a bit of an exaggeration on my part here and there, but such was the state that Govinda was acting in 25 and more movies at the same time and was considered one of the most successful actors in that day and age.
Actors who had less films than Govinda were now considered flops. While those who had more films than Govinda were declared hit-stars. Govinda-jee had somehow become the benchmark to measure an actor’s success in the late 80s.
If the last sentence didn’t sink in, I will repeat for you, dear reader, the sentence again. Govinda-jee, had somehow, become the benchmark, to measure an actor’s success in the late 80s.
I dare Ramsays, Mohan Bhakris and RGVs to make a more horrifying tale than my preceding sentence.
Aamir Khan, thank you so much for de-Govindizing the bloody trend.
The torture series continues…
MARTE DAM TAK (1986)
The starting point of our conversation when PFC author Subrat and I met for the first time was Mehul Kumar. Mehul-jee’s debut in Hindi cinema happened with Marte Dam Tak. The impact of his debut is still felt today by us. Having made successful Gujarati films, Mehul-jee now eyed Bollywood. And was welcomed with open arms by the PKTK club.
I sat for quite some time… struggling to create a few jokes in this stand up routine for MDT. Then I gave up. There are movies where your jokes can’t make a dent on the movie. On careful analysis of this issue you will find that, this happens, when the movie itself is a big joke on us. So, instead of trying to conjure up some standup humor, I will simply and sincerely tell you, dear reader, the story of Marte Dam Tak, scene by scene, which I am sure, you will never forget till marte dam tak.
Scene One
MDT starts with a certain Mathur Saab who’s face you don’t see on the beautiful screen. All you see is Mathur saab giving orders which results in one after another family falling to a volley of bullets, faster than the stomach shoots out shit after a large dose of Triphala Churna.
Guns guns everywhere. It is difficult to find out if all these machine guns are made of teflon or plastic. Guns guns everywhere. As if the producers bought all these from the junk market on sale.
The word “Udado” (Hinglish: Kill them) is used more than the word “fuck” is used in porn. And we are only in the first 10 minutes of the movie. Guns Guns every everywhere. It almost convinces you that all the bhaaji walas, subzi walas, doodh walas, dhaar-karalo walas, are now pushing their thelas (carts) in gully gully carrying machines guns instead of their usual business items. Perhaps in those days we used to hear “Machine Gun Le Lo”, “AK PHORTY SEVEN, MOUSER, REVOLVER WALAAAAA” and etc. from the streets, as the bhaiyya-jees pushed their cart in the blazing sun, toiling, sweating, trying to make a living.
Next Scene
Now suddenly Mathur Saab disappears from the story. Instead now we hear the word RANA. Rana’s entry shot. Car stops. Two white shoes, black pants move out of the car. You know this is the entry scene of a big star. It always started with the shoe. Or the back of the head. Usually you were very good at guessing who the star was in that opening entry just showing the shoe or legs scene.
Yet there were a few instances when you guessed wrong. For example a few years into Govinda’s entry in Bollywood, there was this film where the entry showed two legs… and you screamed Guddi Maruti… turns out it was Govinda. And that day, you knew you had lost the art of guessing the actor quiz, forever.
Next Scene
So Rana walks out of the car and enters the court room, where the judge is about to deliver a sentence on a goonda. Then judge makes the mistake of looking up and then delivers an expression as if he just saw a ghost. Camera moves to Rana. The late Raj Kumar graces the screen. Judge reverses judgement. Raj Kumar walks out as he cleans his nose or perhaps is scratching his nose. And as he walks out, the background music blasts off, as if Rana has won World War III.
Next Scene
Rana’s house. Where all the extras the producer Pranlal Mehta could hire are standing in line. Wish if people could show this discipline while standing at the bus stops, railways stations and the single bathroom in a chawl.
So standing in the line the extras start praising him
“Rana saab because of you shaadi ho gayi”
“Rana saab because of you naukari mil gayi”
“Rana saab because of you bachcha ho gaya“… wait a minute… !
“Rana saab ki jai”… and as the extras pour flower petals on Ranaji, you are showering the screen with your Kolhapuri chappals.
By now you realize that Bombay has two dadas (godfathers). God and Rana. And while you are sitting there realizing this, Raj Kumar is busy throwing his punchlines at a pace that would give the speed of light an inferiority complex.
Dosti aur Dushmani jitni gaadi (thick) ho, utna zyada maza ata hain
I thought it was Lassi if thick that gave more pleasure. Watching Raj Kumar’s films increased your IQ manifold.
Next Scene
Raj Kumar’s gang needs to get a dangerous job done. But the gang has no one who can do this. But Raj Kumar has the solution to all problems. He states he knows a guy who can do the job. The gang asks Who? Raj Kumar blurts out the guy’s resume…
Woh Chust Hain, Chalak Hain, Phurteela Hain
And before you can guess the guy – Superman?, Batman?, Raj Thackeray? they show Govinda dancing on screen. And he is dancing to this song
Naam Se, Kya Lena, Kaam dekho yaaron…
blah blah
Kisko kahan se uthana hain
kisko kahan pahunchana hain
yeh apna dhanda poorana hain…
And this leads all software engineers to take out their resume, a tape recorder and make a song on their resume to create a high impact in the employment market.
Anyways back to…
Next Scene
The job was to kidnap Tej Sapru, brother of Raj Kumar’s competitor in dadagiri. Govinda-jee, because of his skill sets mentioned in his resume, successfully completes the job.
A helplessly screaming Tej Sapru. Raj Kumar enters the scene and goes
Aaj apni awaaz apne seene mein ghont lo taakay tumhari cheekhein sun ke samundar bhi tharra (shake) uthega
Next shot – the ocean. I’m still unable to decipher whether the ocean shot right after Raj Kumar’s dialogue was supposed to be a comedy or a serious situation.
Raj Kumar sitting on a boat as Tej Sapru hangs helplessly and is crying. Though I wonder if he was crying because he was hanging or because he was facing the brunt of Raj Kumar’s dialogue after dialogue. Another dialogue comes out from Raj Kumar saab -
If I hear NO, humare kaanon (ears) se angaray nikalne lagte hain
After this dialogue Tej Sapru can’t take it anymore and agrees to what Raj Kumar wants.
Next Scene
Govinda’s sister. It only means one thing. There is a rape scene that will follow in the later half of the movie.
So Govinda’s sister is sleeping. On the dining table. Next to the dinner. Waiting for Govinda. She eats only with her brother. Before your eyes can go paani paani at this melodramatic scene, your khatarnak logic kicks in. What women sleeps in the dining table next to delicious looking halwa puri? Of course you’ve seen women sleeping on the dining table in real life, but in those cases, the halwa puri is nicely floating inside their stomach, not on the darn table. Who knows? Only Mehul Kumar-jee has the answer.
Govinda jee arrives.
Govinda: Aray tune khana nahin khaya
Sister: Tumhe toh maloom hain ke main tumhare bina khana nahin khaatee.
One would like to know how many days the brother and sister repeatedly exchange this conversation with each other. Either both have weak memories or both greet each other with the above two sentences… instead of what us common people use like “Good Morning”, “Good Evening”, “Hi”, “Hello”, “Teri Jaat Ka..” etc. etc.
Then Sister starts crying. Govinda puzzled and starts crying. Sister goes “Nahin nahin yeh khushi ke aanso hain“… By putting this scene and dialogue in the movie, it is quite clear that Mehul Kumar-jee thinks that you are watching a Hindi movie for the very first time in your life (and if it is true why the fuck would one watch a movie called Marte Dam Tak)… or you and I, are like the brother and sister, suffering from weak memories.
Next Scene
Govinda who is a thief wants to get his sister married who is not a thief. Remember his resume? Tez, Chalak, Phurteela? Somehow as it usually happened in the 80s, however intelligent the hero may be, he always managed to find the worst boy and the worst family for his sister. Govinda in MDT is no different.
For the love of God, one would have to be REALLY REALLY REALLY DUMB to get his sister married to a family who’s head is Shri Shri Shri C.S. Dubey. Just look at the picture on the left. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT TO FUCK YOURSELF AND YOUR SISTER’S LIFE UP? But Govinda doesn’t listen to your cries and even goes ahead and agrees to a dowry of 2 lakhs. C.S.Dubey now wants 3 lakhs… reason as usual is Bachche ko dactar banaya, likhaya, padhaya… and I wonder what education did my parents give me that I received a black cat in dowry, whose sole aim in life is to kick my ass.
Next Scene
Govinda in Karate uniform teaching karate to students and barking instructions in Chinese that even the poor Chinese will have a hard time to decipher. Right in the center of the class is a nanga tree, where the last leaf that grew on the tree was in the year 1565. And on one of these branches is our heroine Farah Naaz (elder sister of Tabu) hiding and learning the secret skills of karate.
Open ground. Nanga tree. Tree right in the center of the training. And no asshole sees the girl hiding in the tree secretly learning karate without paying fee. Pakdo Chor Chor!!!
Then Farah-jee falls, Govinda catches, love at first sight. But first we all need to know the deep deep deep mystery as to why Farah-jee wearing a black Ninja dress is secretly hiding on a tree to learn Karate.
Flashback
Next Scene
Alok Nath is a judge. Farah Naaz his daughter. Alok Nath sends danger criminal Om Puri to jail. Watch Om Puri 10 times thinner jet black hair in this movie. On going to jail Om Puri warns Alok Nath
Saamp ko pitaray mein rakhte hain, salakhon ke peeche nahin
And Om Puri says this line with such earnestness that you start researching what countries on Mother Earth keep snakes behind bars and how come the dumb snakes can’t find their way out through the gaps between those bars. Now that I think of it, how dumb are the people of that country that keep snakes behind salakhens… Only Mehul Kumar-jee has the answer.
So as usual, Om Puri, watches the movie Sholay, escapes from jail and kills Alok Nath. As producer Pranlal Mehta was running short of cash, he has Farah’s mother too, die of shock. Chalo char din ka paisa bach gaya!
Next Scene
Flashback over. Farah-jee utters closing dialogue
“So I’m here to take baap ka badla, searching for my father’s murderer. Suna hain Bambai mein insaan aur haiwan dono ko chupne ki jaga milti hain“… Govinda is happy. Maybe because Farah called him an insaan instead of Bewakoof Insaan (remember CS Dubey?) and he is now very clear why Farah wears a Ninja dress and wants to learn karate.
Next scene leaves us with some confusion. There is Govinda now in a karate dress. Farah in a Ninja dress. The goal is to learn karate but Govinda is teaching Farah – shooting of bottles with a gun.
Before you can scratch your head to get some sort of clarification, the scene moves to a song and dance situation. Bright sunlight. Heavy rains. Garden in Bombay. Pink Roses. Tons of Balloons. Perhaps this is the new location of Govinda’s karate class.
Next Scene
Shakti Kapoor, carrying a “I’m having an orgasm” expression throughout the movie, be it a serious scene, angry scene, song scene, dance scene, happy scene, drinking scene, even Raj Kumar is talking scene… Shakti-jee carries just one expression. I’m having an orgasm.
So Shakti Kapoor calls Raj Kumar and tells him that he will rob Raj Kumar’s maal that is arriving on fuck-it-if-I-know-the-beach. Then night scene. Boat carrying Raj Kumar’s maal worth two crores arrives at fuck-it-if-I-know-the-beach.
Shakti Kapoor, who is the elder brother of Tej Sapru and his goons attack Raj Kumar’s goons. Now Shakti Kapoor has a walking stick which is actually a long rifle. The scene shows Shakti Kapoor loading his walking stick rifle with one bullet and then fires 12 bullets from his walking stick rifle. That darn device clones bullets inside it!!!
In one shot Shakti Kapoor in water aims the walking stick towards the sky. Two feet away is a man standing on the boat. Shakti-jee with the walking stick aimed at the sky fires, man two feet on the side gets hit and dies. Curve the bullet. The technology existed in Bollywood 21 years before it landed in Hollywood. And the techies in Hollywood are still beating their brains to achieve what Shakti-jee achieved so easily in the scene – Right Angle the Bullet Technology.
Anyways, back to the story – Tej Sapru dies in the cross fire of sutli bombs and laxmi brand diwali bombs. Shakti-jee in red and white striped suit drops his walking stick rifle and cries and grieves through his “I’m having an orgasm” expression… stupid enough to ask, a dead Tej Sapru, “Kisne mara tujhe”
Next Scene
Raj Kumar’s phone rings and he is informed his maal has been stolen by Shakti and gang.
Did you know?: in all his movies of the 80s and 90s Raj Kumar never touched the phone to his ears, wig, face and mouth. He always held the phone 6 feet away from his face and it always appeared as he was speaking to the phone rather than the person on the phone.
Anyways, plan is to get his maal back. So Farah is disguised as a call-girl (disguised?) and is sent to Shakti Kapoor’s house who opens the door with “I’m having an orgasm” expression. Farah makes Shakti drink while singing this song…
Dhere Dhere Kholoongi main
Saare Raaz Badan Ke
And like idiotic perverts we sit waiting for the Raaz to be opened. Perhaps she has a tatoo on her shoulder… perhaps there is a birthmark which matches the birthmark on Shakti Kapoor’s chest. Brother – Sister!!!… or something else. Disappointingly that raaz is never opened.
But Shakti Kapoor finds himself in Raj Kumar’s den… Raj Kumar’s gets his maal back and lets go of Shakti Kapoor and Shakti Kapoor’s “I’m having an orgasm” expression.
Next Scene
It turns out that Om Puri is the brother of Shakti Kapoor and they both vow to take revenge.
Then somehow Mathur Saab drops in. Yes the Mathur Saab who was not seen but heard in the first two minutes of the movie. Seems Mathur Saab had destroyed Raj Kumar’s family when Raj Kumar was not a Godfather but a police constable… sorry sub inspector.
Raj Kumar wants Govinda to get Mathur for him. Confusion follows. Someone else called Mathur saab is killed by Govinda. The mistaken and now dead Mathur saab leaves behind a wife who’s goal in life is to flow Ganga and Jamuna from her eyes and a daughter who is blind.
At this time Pranlal Mehta must have gone to Mehul Kumar “Dude so many characters so much money going down the drain… kuch karo”… So Mehul Kumar lays off a few characters… beginning with the usual suspects who are doing no kaam dhaam… like Govinda’s sister.
Shakti Kapoor, the late Manek Irani and gang do chiti chiti bang bang on Govinda’s sister who then is bumped off.
Govinda angry, vows revenge, makes the blind daughter of mistake-Mathur his sister, wears a pilot uniform and traps Mathur Saab, played by Kulbhushan Kharbanda, who unknowingly steps into the cockpit of his helicopter, thinking it’s his pilot but it is Govinda, who then points a gun at him, flies the helicopter and takes him straight to Raj Kumar.
All the while, while flying the helicopter Govinda is pointing the gun at Kharbanda-saab. Why? What the fuck could Kharbanda do? They were in the fucking air and even without the gun, if Kharbanda did anything they would come crashing down. What the hell were Mehul Kumar and the team thinking?
So Kulbhushan Kharbanda is bumped off by Raj Kumar. Producer Pranlal Mehta very happy. Kitne paise bach gaye!
Next Scene
Ganpati Celebration. Somehow both dons Raj Kumar and Ompuri worship the same Ganpati on the same street. As if there is no other Ganpati celebration anywhere else in Bombay.
Raj Kumar throws challenge. “Om Puri, I will be there at Ganpati. Try killing me if you can”
Shakti Kapoor and Govinda on opposite gangs dance and sing
“Muqabala Muqabala”… which in the song is pronounced as Moookaaaabeeeelaaaaa
Raj Kumar arrives. Shot. Declared dead.
Next day at Shamshan Ghat. Om Puri and Gang arrive to go “hahahaha” over his dead body. Raj Kumar wakes up. He was faking it. HAHA to you bastards. Kaisa chutiya banaya
Guns guns everywhere. Shooting. Bomb blasts. Om Puri dead. Shakti Kapoor dead. He dies and leaves the “I’m having an orgasm” expression intact on his face. Raj Kumar dead. But before he dies… looooooong lecture… to Govinda and Farah who look like they will die if Raj Kumar continues his lecture for another second. Mercifully for them Raj Kumar dies.
The End.
PS: The movie also had Paresh Rawal in three scenes
Scene 1: I’m an honest cop
Scene 2: I will marry your (Govinda’s) raped sister, because I’m an honest cop
Scene 3: Fuck it, I don’t remember.
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awesome post ..the photos were a treat
superb !!!
Thank you, from the greatest living Mehulji fan.
Someday, we will live in a fair world and Marte Dam Tak, Paap Ki Aandhi and Nafrat Ki Aandhi will be considered bona fide classics. We “Mehul-putras” will continue our struggle till such a society is established. And for aam janta, the Benefits cell of the Mehul-putra society is actively distributing these classics these days.
Where or how can i watch the film ?
really funny, the bit about Shri Shri Shri C.S. Dubey is damn hillarious!
oz plz keep PTKT series going on…
Thanks for taking me back in the time of films and those songs….that raped my college years. I fondly remember this great film. There was this tale doing the rounds for long – dunno whether fact or fiction
There’s a scene where Jaaani Raj was supposed to tell Govinda on the lines of Krishna-Arjuna chemistry – tumhare paas taqat aue mere paas akal : Jaani changed the dialogue to “tumhare paas taqat hai aur mere pass taqat aur akal dono”
Subrat: Even the greatest living Mehulji fan like you could not catch the factual error in this post ;) MDT was not Mehulji’s debut in Hindi. No Mehulji bhakt can ignore the classic Shabana Azmi sob-fest Anokha Bandhan. The sobbing and wailing competition between the devar (Master Bittu) and bhabhi (Shabana Azmi) on either side of a closed door is stuff classics are made of!
@Aditya, if you are checking IMDB, Anokha Bandhan got a release after Marte Dam Tak… the movie was made and done but did not get a distributor until Mehul Kumar-jee proved his mettle in Hindi Cinema… let me know if you know something different.
@ Aditya: That was some info, coz one does not associate Mehul Ji with sob dramas, though i have seen Anokha Bandhan couple of times on TV.
BTW i think Anokha Bandhan has a somewhat similiar storyline to the Meena Kumari starrer Bhabi Ki Chudiyan.
Was wondering why there was no Chi Chi film of the late 80s yet in this awesome series. I am waiting for your review of the David Dhawan – Govida- Rajesh Khanna classic “Swarg” . That film will prove to the new age film critics that Chi Chi and David Dhawan were not just about comedy – they were also into unintentional comedy.
:-):-) :-) :-) :-)….
“aab laashein aaisi girengi jaise nanhe munne ki nunni se peeshab…..tap…tap…tap”
Gunda, A Kanti Shah Film
ha ha ha….f**kng hillarious…..u rock OZ….gr8 post…how bout sum movies from early 90’s……
I’ll read this series “marte dam tak”
:-)
Ha… Ha… Ha…
This was the best till date. Excessively hilarious.
Oz , please write on Gunda next. (Not sure if it comes under the Torture Series tho).
Oz: I didn’t check IMDB, but I remember Anokha Bandhan from some other childhood memories. My memories might have been mixed due to all the torture of the 80s, but I somehow recall having seen Anokha Bandhan before MDT. Incidentally, MDT was one of the films I watched to escape ragging in college.
Now that I’ve checked IMDB, it also mentions Love Marriage as a prior release to MDT
Anyway, the point was not to make factual corrections in your article. Just trying to emphasize the Mehul ji was so ‘versatile’ – Family dramas to action to socially relevant films. He could torture you in every genre
@ Arthi
Gunda is the mother of all Torture series movies. You dont need to parody it, the dialogues in the movie itself will have u rolling over.
too damn funny…
Gunda v/s Loha
Oz- give links to previous posts in the series here…
It’ hilllariousss.. i love this series. it reminds me of my childhood.. how I used to get crazy over such crappy movies!?!? Oz please put ‘Jeete hain shan se’ (mithun and mandakini flick) some day on ur series if that is also in your sweet memories.. i remember i was a bigg fan of that julie ‘julie johny ka dil tumpe aaya julie’ song. Don’t remember the story though.. but surely it would have been a crap (the star-cast is the proof)
Oz…Marte Dum Tak was a craze in our college wherein a guy used to start the day by singing aloud in class the title song, “Marte Dum Tak” and the whole class hollered the title so loud that we were deafened ourselves..we did that on APSRTC buses too..once we did that in the midst of a marriage ceremony where we were waiters! I remember Dilip Kumar was there and we did it because Mohd. Aziz was singing in that party.
Marte dum Tak hamaari khoon main hai jaani!
- Oz, most clear thing coming out from this torture series
is this that you used to get “very good amount as pocket money” to spend on all these gems pouring down from the hell (if you saw all of them in theatre and not later on TV or VCR etc)
- Love 86 should be treated Govinda’s first release, because it came in market before his other films mentioned in the year 1986. Love 86 was first when audience got to see face of Govinda ji first time on screen and stories of his being a famous dancer among college students all over the Bombay came in to lime light. His broad smile was another talk of the almost all the towns in India.
He was very deeply involved in the acting then and he was one who used to take it very seriously. This secret was revealed by someone in 1989, 3 years after Love 86 was released. Curious audience may watch again, one song of Love 86. There was a song filmed in rain. perhaps something like “Aaa mohabbat ko koi naya naam dein”.
- Films of this torture series belong to a genere where actors had to work very hard to make live those utterly synthetic situations and dialogues and expressions which BUSINESSMEN OF HELL (Nark ke saudagar) Aka DIRECTORS of these films used to put up before these poor actors. Actors always have to fulfil what directors have imagined and these directors were busy in spreading message for a purpose among audience and that message was exposure to the hell. They were doing a social service by cautioning the audience that cinema can be this bad if they dont support good cinema. DD had usurped good subjects, good directors from the cinema and cinema’s left over directors were unable to compete with this new phase. Imagine at same time Ramesh Sippy was busy in making Bunyad. Govind Nihalani was making Tamas, Shyam Benegal was busy in Discovery of India.
Its said bimari ati ghode kee chal se hai aur gadhe ki chal se jati hai. Same happened with hindi cinema. Disease came and fastly spread all over and it took many many years to find some solace and still its infection exists.
Yaar Oz, tu bahot na-insaafi kar raha hai….these movies were classics for we movie goers, those days !!! Oh noooooooooo !!! :-) Anyways….bhai log, your suggestions of films to be taken up by Oz, would be met ONLY if there is a “sister” in the film :-D
Great post dude!! the S.C. Dube wala part was the most hilarious one. Hey! how abt reviewing Dharmendra ji’s films in 80s. They were freaking crappy yaar. Waiting to see more such classic stuff from you. Yaar I feel like catching a 80s PKTK film tonight and laugh my heart out. Good job.
Oz,
That was too good! Mehul Kumar continued to torture us well into the 90s: Tirangaa, Nana Patekar-Dimple Kapadia movie (forgot the name), Mrityudaata. I second reet, a post on ‘Jeete Hain Shaan Se’ please. I remember that movie had Mithun in a double role, one playing himself!
Although, I remember too little of Jeetey Hain Shaan Se now, I think it should make the cut.
Mithun’s “Public ke Paas Time Nahin Hai, Kya?’ refrain and Govinda’s tuchcha shayari which went
“Dadar ke pul ke neeche
Teri ma bhajiya tale
Mera baap kha ke chale”
took mindlessness to another level.
I remember a scene in the climax where Govinda shoots at somebody looking into the mirror of a truck. And that scene was total-paisa vasool for me! It was the greatest kick in my film-viewing experience till that day.
In fact, I made my brother watch the film again for that scene alone.
(P.S. – I swear on narco-analysis, I am not lying.)
Re:Guddi Maruti-no-Govinda
I vividly recall watching Aankhen with my dad. In one song where the chick is trying to get it on with Chi-Chi it cut to a close-up of a rather well-formed bare chest.
“Oh my god, she’s topless!” My dad screams, and then, when the shot zooms out, “…oh no, it’s just Govinda.”
Good times!
Oz i am waiting for your review on GUNDA
… and im waiting for ‘Jeete hain shan se’
@Varun. It was not Govinda but Rajkumar who did that trick…..anyways it was great kick for me too that time and I too watched that movie again with my kid brother especially for that sceane weird, right?
@Mitch, VCD gifted to me with Shri Subrat Maharaj’s hastakshar. Anytime.
@KK, Kanhainya, Will try my best. Thank You!
@Ratnakar, Haven’t seen Anokha Bandhan. Everyday I learn something new! Off to find a copy of this Bandhan.
@ Robin, sure. Coming soon.
@ Arthi V, haven’t seen Gunda yet. Even I have my limits to taking the torture
@ Aditya, Oh I was asking cause, I myself have doubts about MDT being his first. Anyways I should consult IMDB more. And now I never knew Love Marriage was made by Mehul-ji… is it the same one starring Anil Kapoor and Meenakshi Seshadri?
@Sourav, Loha was favorite, really. It released on the same friday as Jalwa. But which Loha are we talking about the one I’ve seen starts Dharmendra, Shatrughan and Karan Kapoor
@D&C, You can click “The Torture Series” under the Tags and Categoreis in the left column or simply type “Torture Series” in the search bar to get all posts.
@Reet, I remember the song… Johnny Johnny… O Boy… those were the years…
@RK, Kripya hamara pocket money ka bhed na kholein… Yes I believe Love 86 was his first release. Yep, DD made the most of it. And even though we slammed it back then… I don’t think any channels today provide the kind of things DD ventured into.
@KCP, LOL!!! Yaar, every film had that rape scene. Every Film. Can you believe this!!!
@ Raj, Mehul found his groove in those desh bhakti movies or he would have been lost.
@Vishal, I exactly remember what scene you are talking about. But I enjoyed Ankhen and think it’s one of the craziest potboilers ever. Govinda’s comedy was too good and so was David Dhawan’s crazy uptake of Manmohan Desai’s brand of movies.
@OZ: Found this on the net: Love 86 released on Feb 14, 2006; Ilzaam on Feb 28, 2006, Sada Suhagan on August 15, 1986…so it was indeed Love 86 which was Govinda’s first release. However, the first film he signed IIRC was Tan Badan, released in April 1986
…and Marte Dum Tak was actually a 1987 movie, released on July 17, 1987 (no wonder I remembered it as the movie I went to escape ragging)
Oz, I believe there’s a sudden spurt in demand for DVD’s and VCD’s of the movies being featured in the torture series. They’re being dusted and put back on the shelves of Rental stores.
Any mails from distributors/producers eager to have their movies from the 80’s being reviewed by you ?
Oz,shakti kapoor’s ‘i am having an orgasm’is classic..And looking forward to more of torture series especially a post on Nana Patekar in Mehul Kumar’s Krantiveer..
With this rate all movies released in 80s will qualify for the torture series.
Mithun Dance Dance I donno what prompted Smita Patil to act in this movie?
Jitendra – Aisa Pyar Kahan
Govinda – Aasman Se Ooncha
Govinda – Rajni acted in one movie directed by Pryaagraj I forgot the name
Amitabh Bacchan – Mithun Ganga Jamuna Sarswati
Amitabh Bacchan – Toofan and Jadugar Akeyla
Amitabh Bacchan – Mard
Jackie – Dharmendra Mard Ki Zubaan ( I think Dharmendra was there )
Amitabh Bacchan – Shahensha
Vinod Khanna – Satyamev Vijayetey shockiningly vulgur dialogues.
The list goes on….
Speaking of Mehul Kumar he directed Big B’s comeback movie Mrutyudaata and then one with AB and Nana Patekar which menas AB trusted Mehul Kumar to bring him back in action so don;’t ridicule Mehul Sir.
Oz as usual GREAT post.”Raj Kumar speaking to the phone” was hilarious.Really,Rajkumar and “his dialogues” tortured us a lot.And if Shakti Kapoor carried “I’m having an orgasm” expression througout(in fact in most of his films),Rajkumar carried the “see,I am saying dialogues without ANY expressions” look all through the 80’s.80’s needed an actor who had a lot of energy because he has to do disco,kill his sister’s rapists,avenge his parents murder,romance the heroine,do “emotional” scenes strictly with mother and sister and a host of other activities.Govinda fitted the bill.Hence he was offered huge number of films.
Just a few days back, I was watching Police Public. It’s like any of Raj Kumar’s last few movies. That same style of speaking into the phone (didn’t Nana do the same in Apaharan?) and dialogue-baazi. Man, that Police Public is a demented social murder mystery. He even wore the same type of suits in all his movies.
Didn’t Tirangaa also have the fake death of Raj Kumar’s character to fool the bad guys? Ahem, Mr. Mehul had a lot of tricks up his sleeve.
@Pratik, PolicePublic has the unique distinction of being the only movie in India that shows the act of molestation on a mannequin. Ref. the scene where Raj Kumar’s assistant Harish Patel (?) is holding the mannequin on the roof top waiting for Raj Kumar’s instructions.
Police Public also follows the trend of what female stars did before retiring. Rati Agnihotri does it in Bhavani Junction and here Poonam Dhillon does the same. Stand in 3 scenes, speak, get ready for attempted or completing the rape scene and then go bye bye.
Hahah .. I recall very well Harish Patel’s molestation of that mannequin, in full view of the public mind you. Man, you are a true Bollywood buff, you remember all these details!!
Police Public was actually a copy of a 1988 Mallu movie Oru CBI Diary Kurippu starring Mamooty. The original Mallu movie was a classic thriller, based on a real life incident. It had no songs, barring the theme song, which plays in background. Fabuluous performances by Mamooty, Suresh Gopi and Jagathy as the crack CBI team which investigates the murder.
Oz.. that johny johny song was a huge hit..! It was no.1 favorite of all the orchestra bands that used to perform in marriage functions and reception parties those days.. One more song which was there all time fave was. ‘Mai se meena se na saaki se..’ (govinda n neelam). I even remember young girls n guys doing some crazy dance steps on these songs in the parties
even we as kids used to go ga ga over such songs !!!
Would like if you would cover Hiraasat and Aag Hi Aag – two third degree tortures of a rare breed – the song Hiraaaayaseeeeat Haaaaaaaaaaaaai ……..(by Shabeer…or was it Munna Aziz) haunts me to this day.
I am not sure, correct me if I am wrong (and if you consider this request worth replying since the earlier was not worthy of your otherwise elaborated response) but there was this highly enduring scene from Hirasat where Mithun da hits a bunch of goondas with wooden planks indicating station names on a railway platform
he asks each one about his residence and then takes out the respective plank from the slot and goes bang bang
Tum kaha rehte hai ho …..Dahisar ….out comes the Dahisar board, tum kaha Borivli…and so on..
Interesting place : http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2976351851&ref=nf
Please check out Desh Drohi. Please. Trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWatrG4WTI&feature=related
Watch out for the new ’star’ on the horizon: Kamaal Khan…beleive me guys, he’s the BAAP of ‘em all!!!
wow…OZ………..aapke artcile padhkar hamesha aapko standing ovation (khadi/khada taaliyan) deneka mann karta hain…
bahut badhiyan hai…..
and hey have u seen a mithun movie called CHANDAAL…..
mithun for a change plays the baddie basically a serial rapist i think…and he has this peculiar habit of raping woman in the grave ( kabar)…..whoever thought of that man………wicked…..
keep the torture comin…
Oz….
ROTFLMAO
Superb post!
Keep them coming.
Oz bhai gr8 post once again!!!!! Keep it coming. But at the same time a Humble request. Plz next do a write-up On Gunda & Loha tht epitomise the PTKK Club.
Im requesting to u on behalf of all PFCites & Readers.
It will be a fitting article & another fetaher in ur overcrowded cap. Plz hum bhakto ki sun lo aur Gunda N Loha ke upar ek write up karo.
Oz bhai……’Ajooba’ ke bina yeh series adhuri hai!!!!
Gaana yaad hai – “ya Ali ya Ali.. mera naam hai Ali… rehta hun main masjid wali gali”
Brilliant… Inn lyrics kii Gehraai mein kitni Depth hai!!!
Fanta-f’n-stic…I’m laughing my butt off.
When you mentioned Dubeyji…I suddenly remembered the scene where Dubeyji decamps with Govindaji’s “hard-earned” money that he’s kept in the almirah. And the aftermath of that scene. The melodrama was so torturous.
Chhodenge na hum tera saath o saathi marte dam tak.
Naren Bhai …… the song ya Ali ya Ali.. mera naam hai Ali… rehta hun main masjid wali gali” is not from Ajooba but from Shaan………..
Aditya…it is from Ajooba.
Its Big B’s intro song.
The song from Shaan is Aate jaate hue main sabpe nazar rakhta hoon…Naam Abdul hai mera sabki khabar rakhta hoon.
Could we have review of ‘Gangster’ (Dev Anand’s movie from 1994 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275364/). I know its not one of the 80’s movie, but it fits the bill to be in the Torture Series.
Oh Im sorry Naren Bhai & Narcissist…. I got confused between the two!!!! Btw i was also tryin to test my PTKK quotient!!!! N it seems like i have failed :( Nahiiiiiinnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey oz, you write really well!! Had me in splits. Just like Marte Dum Tak did .. How about writing on these torture-fests?
WAQT KI AWAZ(1988) Mithun Sridevi
ABHIMANYU (1989) Anil Kimi
AAKHRI ADALAT (1988) Vinod Khanna Jackie
PAAP KI DUNIYA (1987) Sunny Chunkie
KHATRON KE KHILADI (1988) Dharamji and the gr8 T Ramarao.
PLATFORM(1991) Ajay Devgan and God knows who
Oz, whats hap to the torture series..when is the next one coming???
Oz.. y no more posts in torture series..??
i agree most of the movies made in the 80’s does not stand the test of time. i am talkin about the mainstream commercial movies. but honestly speakin most of us who are posting here to talk shit about those movies may have actually enjoyed those movies back then(lets not be hypocrites). i totally agree that most of the movies made during 80’s or that way round few from the 70’s and 60’s and 50’s will also generate the same kind of effect & can be included in PKTK! the funny thing is the audience was not so mature enough & commercial movies were made for AAM JUNTA! things have changed a lot off late but i’m sure the next generation is gonna laugh at most of the movies made in this era which we love & adore.
THIS IS INDIA~!
in the ganpati song in MDT, one of the prophetic lines uttered by RaajKumar goes like.. aisi goli bani nahi ab tak, jo Rana ko choole… and by the end of the song, he is shot, and is dead (pretends, but ‘officially’, we know that later…)
there was a mithun-mandakini 1988 movie called commando. perfect for torture series.
also, jeete hain shaan se had one of the most talked abt star-cast of those times: Mithun, Govinda, Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri.
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waiting for more of torture series. it has stopped after a brilliant start. oz bhai, got too busy in running PFC or what? these days u r in India. revive the memories…
I am aradent of Raaj Kumar (Jani). I want to collect all Raaj Kumar’s Dialogues. His dialogues delivery is very natual. I was met somany times on his birthday at home. I was collected his all information and photographs which is published in magzine, news paper etc.
I am aradent fan of Raaj Kumar (Jani), his dialogues delivery is very natural.