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Karamdaata(1986)
Hindi134 mins
Karamdaata (1986) is a 134-minute Hindi film directed by Shashilal K. Nair. Starring Dinesh Hingoo, Ashok Gunjal and Dina Pathak. With an audience rating of 5.6/10, Karamdaata stands as one of the notable Hindi releases of 1986.
Director:Shashilal K. Nair
Mood:
darkemotionalsuspenseful
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Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 31 December 1986
- Director
- Shashilal K. Nair
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- GudVibe Rating
- 5.6/10
Storyline
A wealthy man's daughter runs off with a greedy taxi driver and later takes her own life, leaving her baby daughter behind. Years later, his granddaughter falls in love with a taxi driver, making her grandfather fear the same tragedy will repeat. The situation becomes more complicated when the girl's long-lost father reappears.
“A family's past threatens a new love.”
Film Details
5.6Rating
134Minutes
HindiLanguage
Release Date31 December 1986
Release Typetheatrical
Parental Guide
Violence
Low
Language
Low
Sex / Nudity
Mild
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
Low
Vibe & Tags
Mood
darkemotionalsuspenseful
Themes
revengelovefamilycorruption
Toneintense
Pacingslow-burn
Complexitymoderate
Audiencemass
Best Withwith-partner
Violence3
Emotion4
Humor1
Rewatchability2
Reviews & Ratings
Your Rating
5.6/10Rating
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Cast & Crew
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Trivia
- The film's title 'Karamdaata' translates to 'the giver of fate' in Hindi, reflecting its themes of destiny and generational cycles.
- This was one of the few films where actor Rajesh Khanna played a character with the name Govinda, which later became his co-star Govinda's screen name.
- Actress Padmini Kolhapure, who played Pinky, was a major star at the time but this film is rarely mentioned among her prominent works of the 1980s.
- The movie was released the same year as the massive hit 'Karma', which also featured dramatic storylines but overshadowed many smaller films.
- Director Shashilal K. Nair was better known as a cinematographer and this film was one of his early directorial efforts in Hindi cinema.
- The plot's theme of a granddaughter repeating her mother's romantic mistake mirrored a common melodramatic trope in 1980s Indian cinema.
- Despite starring Rajesh Khanna, the film did not perform well commercially and is not widely remembered in his filmography today.
Notable Collaborations
Frequent partnerships reunited in Karamdaata
Pinky's father-Actor39 films →
Pinky's father-Street dancer33 films →
Actor-Street dancer16 films →
Street dancer-Majnu16 films →
Pinky's father-Bhagwan Das13 films →
Actor-Majnu13 films →
Pinky's father-Majnu12 films →
Pinky's father-Actor10 films →
Street dancer-Bhagwan Das10 films →
Actor-Actor4 films →
Actor-Bhagwan Das4 films →
Pinky's father-Actor3 films →
Bhagwan Das-Majnu3 films →
Bhagwan Das-Govinda's mother3 films →
Pinky's father-Govinda's mother2 films →
Pinky's father-Khan2 films →
Actor-Actor2 films →
Actor-Actor2 films →
Actor-Govinda's mother2 films →
Street dancer-Actor2 films →