Brothers Kishan and Karan grow up in Bombay. Karan soon leaves to study in America while Kishan enters into a life of crime, falling under the sway of Anna Seth, a drug lord. When Karan returns to Bombay, Kishan intends to keep him as far away from his criminal life as possible, but things don't go as planned.
Acting
Nana Patekar's Anna is genuinely terrifying—improvised half his menace.
Direction
Chopra's controlled chaos, that temple climax still destroys.
Cinematography
Santosh Sivan turns Bombay into a character drowning in shadows.
Director
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Jackie Shroff
Kishan Choudhary
Anil Kapoor
Karan Choudhary
Nana Patekar
Anna Seth
Madhuri Dixit
Paromita "Paro" Nair
Anupam Kher
Inspector Prakash Nair
Suresh Oberoi
Abdul
Tom Alter
Musa
Kamal Chopra
Rama Reddy
Shivkumar Subramaniam
Francis
Sameer Kakkar
Iqbal
Anang Desai
Inspector Mirani
Dilip Kulkarni
Inspector Chauhan
Achyut Potdar
Priest
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Corpse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The famous bird-training sequence took 3 months to film—those pigeons were NOT cooperating. Nana Patekar supposedly stayed in character so intensely that crew avoided him for weeks.
Parinda revolutionized Bombay gangster cinema before Satya existed. Chopra made it after his own brother's murder, which explains why the fraternal tragedy feels uncomfortably lived-in.
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