China Gate is a 1998 Bollywood film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. The film is a "humble tribute to the late Akira Kurosawa", crediting Seven Samurai (1954) as its inspiration. It was also partly influenced by Ramesh Sippy's Sholay (1975)'.[1]
The film is famous for the song "Chamma Chamma", sung by Alka Yagnik, composed by Anu Malik and Vanraj Bhatia, and featuring Urmila Matondkar dancing to the song. The song was subsequently used in Baz Luhrmann's Hollywood musical film, Moulin Rouge! (2001).
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Plot
After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of dreaded dacoit Jageera, Sandhya goes to Colonel Krishnakant Puri and asks for his assistance in bringing an end to Jageera's rule in the Devdurg region. Krishnakant agrees to assist her, and summons about a dozen of his fellow officers and subordinates to assist him. They all assemble at Devdurg with all the necessary ammunitions and arms to combat Jageera, not realizing that Jageera has influence over the local police detachment, who will prevent Puri and his men to possess any guns and weapons. This does not deter Puri and his men, and they continue to stay on in Devdurg and gain the confidence of the villagers. What the villagers do not know that Krishnakant and his men had all been dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice and retreating when attacked by the enemy.
Cast
- Om Puri .... Col. Krishnakanth Puri
- Naseeruddin Shah .... Major Sarfaraz Khan
- Danny Denzongpa .... Major Ranjir Singh Gurung
- Mamta Kulkarni ....Sandhya Rajan
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda .... Major Kulbhushan Gupta
- Paresh Rawal .... Inspector Barot
- Tinu Anand .... Major B'John
- Jagdeep .... Subedar Ramaiyah
- Viju Khote .... Ghanshyam
- Amrish Puri .... Col. Keval Krishan Puri
- Anupam Kher .... Senior Army Official / Governor
- Samir Soni .... Uditanshu Tandon aka Udit
- Mukesh Tiwari .... Jagira
- Girish Karnad .... Rajan
- Urmila Matondkar .... Special Appearance in song Chamma Chamma
References
- ^ Grossman, Andrew (February 2001), "Film Reviews: China Gate", Scope: an online journal of film & tv studies, http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/filmreview.php?issue=feb2001&id=812§ion=film_rev&q=seventeen, retrieved 2009-05-31
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