Thanedaar

Plot

Police Inspector Jagdish Chandar (Dalip Tahil) has been investigating gangster Thakur Azghar Singh (Kiran Kumar). Eventually the Inspector is murdered by Lawrence (Goga Kapoor) and Peter (Tej Sapru), foreigners hired by Azghar to kill the Inspector. Jagdish has two young sons, Brijesh and Avinash, now left alone to fend for themselves. Brijesh kills the assailant and is taken away by Peter and Lawrence, whereas the other son Avinash is adopted by the Police Commissioner grows up (Jeetendra) and becomes a police Inspector like his father. Brijesh (Sanjay Dutt) has just been released from the jail, and he attempts to rob a jewellery store after which he elopes with his girlfriend, Chanda (Madhuri Dixit) to the same village where his father lived. While on his way to the village a fight takes place between the two brothers, not knowing about the relation with each other. One day in the village he gets to identify about Avinash and starts dominating over the villagers and takes bribe from Azghar Singh. Matter gets complicated when Avinash's wife, Sudha (Jayapradha) comes out in search of her husband only to see that Chanda is being molested by Azghar and his men, forcing Brijesh to take a stand. Will Azghar be successful in throwing Brijesh out of the village?

Cast

Reception

Thanedaar was well received by a number of critics. The film scored well at the box office grossing 10.25 crore nett and was declared a superhit. It was also the fourth highest-grossing film of the year 1990.

Tamma Tamma Loge

The song became an instant chartbuster due to its quirky dance moves and lyrics. The dance steps are similar to the famous Michael Jacksons's Song Bad. It is well known that Dutt had great difficulty performing the dance moves especially the famous scene with the chairs, and though he spent almost a month training, still could not complete it then it is completed by Javed Jaffery. In an interview, choreographer Saroj Khan talked about the shooting the song, which took 48 takes to get okayed.

The tune was copied from Mory Kanté's song Tama. There were also plans to remix the song by director duo Abbas Mustan for their film Players but later these plans were scrapped due to there not being enough time before the release of the film. The song was reprised for the 2017 film Badrinath Ki Dulhania by Tanishk Bagchi.

Sequel

The sequel to Thanedaar will be the Hindi remake of Tamil film Saamy (2003). It is currently in production, shooting will begin at the end of August and is likely to be released in mid 2013. At one point the film was planned for a Diwali 2012 release but plans for the sequel have almost been scrapped due to their being some legal issues, to the which extent forced Dutt to pay back his signing amount.

The sequel titled Policegiri, was directed by KS Ravikumar and stars Dutt along with new additions to the cast including Prachi Desai who plays his love interest, Om Puri and Prakash Raj as the villain.