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Yalgaar (1992)

Yalgaar poster
Directed by
Feroz Khan
Genre
drama film, action film
Country
India
Runtime
3h 05m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two childhood friends become enemies. Their children fall in love, which forces the old rivalry to a head.

tensedramaticaction-packedemotionalmelodramaticintensenostalgicconflict-driven

What happens

Yalgaar is a 1992 Indian Hindi-language crime action-thriller film directed by Feroz Khan. The film stars Khan himself, Sanjay Dutt, Kabir Bedi, Nagma, Manisha Koirala, Vicky Arora, Mukesh Khanna, Deepti Naval and Neena Gupta. The film revolves around an enmity between two childhood friends who take different paths in life, and how they react when their children fall in love with each other. Yalgaar released worldwide on 23 October 1992, coinciding with the Diwali festival, clashing with Jigar starring Ajay Devgn. Upon release the film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances of Dutt, Bedi and Nagma, the music and the action sequences, while criticising the length and Khanna playing Khan's father, despite a large age difference. Commercially, the film was the 9th highest-grossing film of 1992. The film did average business in India and was a moderate success in overseas. it remade as Dil Mein Chupa Kay Rakhna (1999) in Pakistan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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