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Director
  
Ketan Desai

Country
  
India

6.2/10
IMDb

Music director
  
Language
  
Hindi

Biswajeet Chatterjee, Jackie Shroff, and Dimple Kapadia in the movie poster of the 1986 Bollywood Masala film, Allah Rakha

Release date
  
1986

Writer
  
Sohel Don (additional dialogue), Prayag Raj (story), K.K. Shukla (screenplay), Javed Siddiqui (dialogue)

Songs
  
Parvar Digare Aalam 1

Cast
  

Similar
  
Narsimha (1991 film), Gardish, Batwara

Parvar Digare Alam [Full Song] | Allah-Rakha | Shammi Kapoor


Allah Rakha is a 1986 Bollywood Masala film directed by Ketan Desai and starring Jackie Shroff, Shammi Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman. The film is notable as the protagonist, played by Shroff, is a Muslim, unusual in Hindi cinema.

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Meenakshi Sheshadri smiling while Jackie Shroff and Dimple Kapadia hugging each other in the movie poster of the 1986 film, Allah Rakha

Story

Karim Khan accepts the blame for a murder that his boss, Don had committed and is consequently sent to prison. When Khan's wife Razia visits Don to collect her husband's salary, he tries to rape her but she escapes. Don is then arrested by Inspector Anwar.

Waheeda Rehman talking to Jackie Shroff while Waheeda Rehman looking at them in a scene from the 1986 Bollywood Masala film, Allah Rakha

Soon Inspector Anwar and his wife Salma's only son Iqbal develops a heart condition which can only be cured with a pacemaker. Since the only chemist selling the pacemaker belongs to Don, Inspector Anwar is blackmailed by Don's goos to release Don in exchange for the pacemaker. Anwar reluctantly agrees and gets the pacemaker for his son which happens to have the number 786 written on it.

Later on Don's henchmen kidnap Iqbal, but before they can kill him, he is rescued by Razia, who swaps him with her own dead infant. Sadly Razia is killed by Don's goons after they hit her with their car. Thinking that her son is dead, Salma runs out into the middle of the road in shock, is hit by a passing truck and loses her eyesight.

When Karim Khan is released from prison, he is handed Iqbal, whom everyone thinks is his son. He then kills Don to avenge his wife's death. Before being arrested by the police, Khan hands over the infant to Salma, asking her to raise him until his sentence is completed. He names the child "Allah-Rakha".

Allah-Rakha grows up to be an honest and brave young man but is unable to gain admission into the University due to corrupt Mr Khera (Anupham kher). He resorts to running a roadside "Panch Tara" (as in five star) hotel.

Khera then frames Allah-Rakha as being the mastermind behind a series of fatal TV bomb attacks that were talking place all over town. Allah-Rakha is arrested and in prison is reunited with his father Karim Khan.

When Karim Khan is released from Jail he's confronted by Don's son, Don Jr. who has come to avenge his father. He shoots Karim Khan but the latter survives. When Don Jr. tries to kill Allah-Rakha, he is killed instead. Allah-Rakha then switches places with him and assumes the guise of Don Jr. while the world thinks that Allah -Rakha is dead.

When Karim Khan regains consciousness in the hospital, he immediately seeks out Don Jr. and wounds him seriously, not knowing that he is in fact Allah-Rakha in disguise. In the hospital while operating on Allah-Rakha, the doctor discovers his 786 pacemaker and thus reveals that he is in fact Inspector Anwar and Salma's son Iqbal.

Allah-Rakha aka Iqbal, with the help of Khera's daughter Julie, telecast the video in which Khera admits to being the man responsible for the TV bombs as well as a host of other crimes. Khera and his men are arrested while Iqbal is reunited with his family.

Cast

  • Jackie Shroff as Allah Rakha
  • Shammi Kapoor as Karim Khan
  • Waheeda Rehman as Advocate Salma Anwar
  • Biswajeet as Police Inspector Anwar
  • Dimple Kapadia as Julie Khera
  • Meenakshi Sheshadri as Rani
  • Bindu as Banoo
  • Anupam Kher as R.S. Khera
  • Goga Kapoor as Goga
  • Bob Christo as Don
  • Gulshan Grover as Jaffar Anwar
  • Ramesh Deo as Police Inspector
  • Mushtaq Merchant as Gullu Ustad
  • Mac Mohan as Goon
  • Sudhir as Goon
  • Narendrasinh Dilipsinh as Rana
  • Production

    "Allah-Rakha" was Ketan Desai's directorial debut. Desai had assisted his father, notable filmmaker Manmohan Desai, on many of his films. Just like his father, Ketan also planned on casting superstar Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role. The film was written specifically with Bachchan in mind but because Bachchan had joined politics and was not working in movies during that time, Desai had to cast Jackie Shroff. In an interview, Shroff said that all the hero's costumes for the movie had been tailor made to Bachchan's specifications and thus he literally was stepping into Bachchan's shoes.

    The film does have quit a few connections to Manmohan Desai's earlier movie "Coolie":

  • In both the movies, the protagonists name is "Iqbal" and his mother's name is "Salma", a role played by Waheeda Rehman in both movies.
  • Both movies were set in a Muslim background.
  • The scene showing people boarding the ship to go for pilgrimage is the same one used in both movies.
  • "Allah-Rakha" is the name that Jackie's character is given in this movie by Karim Khan while in "Coolie" it is the name of Amitabh's falcon.
  • In this movie Iqbal's pacemaker has the number 786 written on it while in "Coolie" it was Amitabh's arm badge number.
  • Much of the background music used in both movies is the same.
  • Music

    The music was composed by Annu Malik with lyrics by Rajendra Krishan and Prayag Raj.

    The song "Na Amar, Na Akbar, Na Main Anthony" references four of Manmohan Desai's films: Amar Akbar Anthony, Naseeb, Coolie and Mard. All of these films had Amitabh Bachchan in the starring role.

    References

    Allah Rakha (film) Wikipedia
    Allah Rakha (film) IMDb Allah Rakha (film) themoviedb.org