Mashaal(1984)
Mashaal (1984) is a 162-minute Hindi film directed by Yash Chopra. Starring Gulshan Grover, Iftekhar and Saeed Jaffrey. With a well-received audience rating of 7.4/10 from 1984.
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
- Theatrical Release
- 12 January 1984
- Director
- Yash Chopra
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 2h 42m
- Rating
- 7.4/10
Storyline
An honest journalist uses his newspaper to expose a corrupt politician and gangster. After a series of events, his life is turned upside down, and he himself becomes a gangster.
“An honest man's fight turns him into what he hates.”
Film Details
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Cast & Crew
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Frequent partnerships reunited for Mashaal
Cast reunions in this film: Gulshan Grover & Amrish Puri (16 films together), Amrish Puri & Anil Kapoor (16 films together), Gulshan Grover & Anil Kapoor (10 films together), Amrish Puri & Saeed Jaffrey (8 films together), Anil Kapoor & Saeed Jaffrey (8 films together), and Rati Agnihotri & Amrish Puri (6 films together).
Trivia
- The film was inspired by the 1961 Marathi movie 'Oon Paoos' and the 1973 Hindi film 'Koshish', both dealing with social issues.
- Dilip Kumar, who played the lead, was 62 years old during filming but portrayed a much younger character initially.
- This was the only film where Yash Chopra directed Dilip Kumar, despite both being legends in the industry.
- The song 'Tumse Milkar Na Jaane Kyon' was filmed at night in Mumbai's real, busy streets, not a set.
- Anil Kapoor, who played a supporting role, had his salary reportedly donated to charity by the film's producers.
- The movie underperformed at the box office, which was a rare commercial setback for Yash Chopra in the 1980s.
- It features one of the earliest uses of a newspaper montage sequence to show the passage of time in Hindi cinema.