Baba and Avinash are brothers who lives in a shanty house with their widowed mother, who makes a living as a housemaid. When a stalker attempts to rape their mother, Baba knives him to death, and the three, along with an orphan named Nawab, take shelter with a underworld don named Uncle. Baba would like Avinash to study and make something of his life, in order to help his brother study he decides to make crime his career. When Avinash completes his studies he becomes a police officer on his first assignment he learns his brother Baba and friend Nawab are on the most wanted criminal list.
Acting
Sanjay Dutt's wounded intensity, the original sad gangster template
Cinematography
Gloriously overlit 90s aesthetic, every frame is a poster
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI explosions that actually destroyed real furniture
Director
Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Dutt
Baba
Aditya Pancholi
Nawab
Karisma Kapoor
Pooja
Raveena Tandon
Nisha
Gulshan Grover
Kaniya
Shakti Kapoor
Sunny
Atul Agnihotri
Inspector Avinash "Avi"
Tanuja Samarth
Baba's Mother
Ajit Khan
Uncle (Underworld Don)
Kader Khan
Kadar
Vishwajeet Pradhan
Ghulam
Ram Mohan
Police Commissioner
Dinesh Hingoo
Aar Paar
Tiku Talsania
Jarnail Singh
Mushtaq Khan
Bhiku
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aatish essentially remakes Deewar's brother-rivalry template for the MTV generation, complete with leather and guitars.
The 'Ya Dil Ki Tu' sequence reportedly took 7 days to film because Sanjay Dutt kept insisting on retakes to perfect his brooding.
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