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^ "Hero Was an Important Film for Me: Subhash Ghai".
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Best Female Playback Singer – Anuradha Paudwal for "Tu Mera Hero Hai"Ĭomposed by the musical duo Laxmikant Pyarelal with lyrics written by Anand Bakshi.
Best Music Director – Laxmikant–Pyarelal.
The Yamaha Rajdoot 350 bike was heavily promoted in this movie. Younger audiences enjoyed the performances, and critics applauded Ghai for using fresh faces at a time when Amitabh Bachchan was the dominant star in Bollywood. Both actors were in demand after its release and began a long association with Ghai. Hero ran for 750 days in many cities in India. The film was declared a "blockbuster" at the Indian box office, with Shroff and Sheshadri becoming stars after its release.
Shammi Kapoor as Police Commissioner Shrikanth Mathur.
Jackie Shroff as Jackie Dada / Jaikishan.
In the end, Shrikanth lets Radha marry Jackie. Jackie comes at the last moment and frees all of them. After his release from prison, Pasha desires revenge against both Shrikanth and Jackie, so he kidnaps Radha, Shrikanth and Daamodar. After many days and events that follow, Daamodar finds out that Jimmy is a drug smuggler. Despite everything, Shrikanth kicks him out of his life. (He happened to be one of the judges at the Miss India contest when I had taken part, he was the one to ask me my on-stage question and he approached me in the flight on the way back. When Jackie comes back, he starts work in a garage and tries to reform himself. Karz has been one of my most favourite Hindi movies of all times and Rishi Kapoor my favourite hero for a very very long time. Jimmy misunderstands the situation and falls in love with Radha. To prevent Radha from marrying somebody else, he calls his friend Jimmy ( Shakti Kapoor) to put on a show that Radha and Jimmy love each other. Transformed by true love, Jackie surrenders to the police and is imprisoned for two years.īack home, Radha tells her brother Daamodar ( Sanjeev Kumar) the truth. He tells her that he is a police officer and they fall in love however, she finds out that he is a gangster but does not leave him and urges him to surrender. He then kidnaps Shrikanth's daughter Radha ( Meenakshi Sheshadri). Jackie goes to Police Commissioner Shrikanth Mathur ( Shammi Kapoor) and warns him. To get out of the situation, he writes to his best man, Jackie ( Jackie Shroff). The film starts with Pasha ( Amrish Puri) being taken to prison.