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Ghulami
Promotional poster
Directed byJ. P. Dutta
Written byJ. P. Dutta
O. P. Dutta
Produced byA. G. Nadiadwala
StarringDharmendra
Mithun Chakraborty
Naseeruddin Shah
Reena Roy
Smita Patil
Anita Raj
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Raza Murad
Narrated byAmitabh Bachchan
CinematographyIshwar R. Bidri
Edited byDeepak Y. Wirkud
M. D. Worlikar
Music byLaxmikant–Pyarelal
Production
company
Base Industries Group
Distributed byNadiadwala Sons
Bombino Video Pvt. Ltd.
Release date
  • 28 June 1985(1985-06-28)
Running time
171 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Ghulami(transl. Slavery) is a 1985 IndianHindi-languageaction drama filmdirected byJ. P. Dutta(in his directorial debut). The film features an ensemble cast ofDharmendra,Mithun Chakraborty,Mazhar Khan,Kulbhushan Kharbanda,Raza Murad,Reena Roy,Smita Patil,Anita Raj,Naseeruddin ShahandOm Shivpuri.Lyrics were byGulzarand music byLaxmikant–Pyarelal,the latter of whom would go on to collaborate with Dutta in all his films untilKshatriya(1993). It was shot atFatehpur, Rajasthan.Amitabh Bachchannarrated the film.

Plot

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The film focuses on the caste and feudal system in Rajasthan. Ranjit Singh Chaudhary (Dharmendra) is the son of a peasant, living in a village which is dominated by a rich landlord Thakur family. As a teenager studying in the village school, Ranjit is rebellious and defiant against deep rooted caste prejudices and discriminatory practices. He is bullied by the two sons of the landlord, who are of his own age. Two girls who also study in the same school are sympathetic to Ranjit. These are the daughter of the school-master and the daughter of the rich landlord (sister of the bullies). Sick of the exploitation he sees around him, Ranjit runs away to the city.

Several years later, Ranjit's father dies and a telegram summons Ranjit back to the village to perform the last rites. Ranjit returns, to find that nothing has changed in the village. He is also told that his father had taken loans from the landlord to pay for his medicines and healthcare, and that Ranjit now is required to repay those loans, or forfeit his lands and house, which was the collateral for the loan. Ranjit feels that this is a great injustice. His logic of reasoning is that the peasants have been tilling the land and working hard for many generations, that the landlord only owns the land and does no work, and therefore if the landlord has lent money to a peasant, the loan does not need to be paid back. A long and emotional monologue delineates this logic for the benefit of the viewers.

The circumstances clearly call for class war and revolution, which Ranjit duly proceeds to ignite. He begins by storming into the landlord's living room, accusing him and his ancestors of being blood-suckers, and challenging him to take possession of the mortgaged land if he dares. The landlord's daughter (Smita Patil), who listens from behind a door, is deeply impressed by the scene created by her old schoolmate. Ranjit then retires to his house to perform his father's funeral, and bonds with his other friend, Moran (Reena Roy). The stage is set for a love triangle and for a revolutionary vendetta.

The love-triangle is however resolved very quickly. The landlord's sons (Bharat KapoorandMazhar Khan) make an attempt to rape Moran (Reena Roy). She is rescued by Ranjit, who then marries her because she clearly needs a protector. The disappointed Sumitra (Smita Patil) then agrees to marry the police officer chosen by her father, the landlord. She however carried her unrequited love in her heart, and her husband soon discovers that she had been in love with this other man. He is incensed and joins hands with his two evil brothers-in-law in their bid to finish Ranjit. By this time, after a random gunfight or two, once over the fact that the landlord's men were collecting their share of the harvest from the village peasants, Ranjit had become a fugitive from the law. Therefore, it is possible for the police office to go after him, beat him up in jail, and so on.

The rest of the movie comprises general bloodletting. Ranjit is supported in his vendetta by Javar (Mithun Chakraborty), a villager who has returned home after serving in the army, and by Gopi Dada (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), the village police havaldar, whose son had been murdered by the landlord's henchmen for daring to ride a horse on his wedding-day despite being from a lower caste. The film ends with the slaughter of most of the protagonists on both sides. The violent climax underscores the harsh reality that the rebels always die, the cruel and unjust system does not.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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The music was composed byLaxmikant–Pyarelal.

Ghulami
Film scoreby
Laxmikant–Pyarelal
GenreFeature film soundtrack

All lyrics are written byGulzar;all music is composed byLaxmikant–Pyarelal

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Zeehale Muskin Makun ba-Ranjish"Lata Mangeshkar,Shabbir Kumar
2."Mere Peeko (Waqt Bee Jatha) Part I"Lata Mangeshkar
3."Mere Peeko (Zehar Hai Raat) Part II"Lata Mangeshkar
4."Peele Peele"Manhar Udhas,Shabbir Kumar,Suresh Wadkar
5."Mere Peeko (Mujhse Roothi) Part III"Lata Mangeshkar

Information added by Inderjit singh sivia Vpo Sivian BATHINDA ( punjab )

_This famous song "Zihal-e-Miskin Mukon Ba-Ranjish" is from the movie Ghulamii, Laxmikant Pyarelal has composed the music and Gulzar has written the lyrics. These are the lines of Persian poet Ghalib or Faiz. And the rest of the lyrics of the song have been added by Gulzar._ *Zihal-e-miskeen mukoon ba-ranjish,* *Behal-e-hijra bechara dil hai.* 

*Meaning*

Zihal = Notice 

Miskeen = Poor
mukoon = Don't do
Ba-ranjish = With malice,

Behal = Bad condition Hijra = Isolation

  • explanation*

Mere Garib Dil ke Hal se Ranjeesh Why? Yeh toh hee judai ke mare bechara hai... whose heartbeat is being heard it can be yours too..

Awards

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33rd Filmfare Awards:

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References

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