Platform (1993 film)

Platform
Vinyl Record Cover
Directed by Deepak Pawar
Produced by Mukesh Duggal
Written by Javed Siddiqui,
Robin Bhatt,
Sujit Sen,
Sanjeev Duggal,
Mukesh Duggal
Starring Ajay Devgn
Tisca Chopra (Credited as Priya Arora)
Music by Anand-Milind
Cinematography Rajan Kinagi
Edited by Suresh Chaturvedi
Production
company
Mata Sherwali,
Prince & Prince International
Release date
 23 April 1993 (1993-04-23)
Country India
Language Hindi

Platform is a 1993 Bollywood action film directed by Deepak Pawar and starring Ajay Devgn in the lead, with Tisca Chopra (Credited as Priya Arora, her screen name before marriage), Prithvi, and Paresh Rawal.[1][2]

Background

The film has been long noted for being the big screen debut of actress Tisca Chopra,[3][4][5][6] and for its representing some of Ajay Devgn's best stunt work when in his early career he was typecast as an action hero.[7]

Plot

Platform follows the story of two brothers, Raju (Ajay Devgn) and his elder brother Vikram, who at a young age lose their mother, after which Raju is brought up by Vikram, by working at a hotel run by a kind hearted Bhaiya saab. Hariya (Mohnish Bahl) is a drug addict on bad terms with Bhaiya saab, and one night, being high, guns down Bhaiya saab when the latter would be taking a walk with Vikram. On the scene bursts inspector Joshi (Kiran Kumar), who tries to arrest Vikram thinking him to be the man behind the murder. But Vikram breaks away, and plans to run away from the city with Raju. At the railway station, while waiting for the train, he leaves Raju for a moment, only to be caught by Inspector Joshi.

Raju in the meantime, thinks his brother has abandoned him at the platform and run off in a train. He is then approached by Hariya, who convinces him that Vikram will never return, and then takes care of Raju as his own, in order to make him part of his gang for his benefit. Vikram, in the meantime is sentenced to imprisonment on charges of murder, and years later Raju grows up to be an efficient henchman of Hariya.

So the story moves, with Raju eliminating all Hariya's enemies and foiling their plans, with the exception of his arch rival Shetty (Paresh Rawal). After nearly completing his sentence, Vikram breaks out of jail when he hears that Raju is still alive, and is being brought up by Hariya, in order to meet his brother and expose Hariya. But Raju still thinks his brother abandoned him on the platform, and refuses to accept Vikram when he comes to him, and even does not let the latter harm Hariya.

Shetty is keen on wiping out both Hariya and Raju, not listening to his astrologer twin brother Shani avatar (Paresh Rawal in a double-role), who keeps telling him his crooked ways will land him in trouble. At one point of time, Raju treacherously makes away with cash from Shetty, but not before being shot in the leg by Joshi, who arrives at the scene and is already upset over Vikram breaking out of jail, and also keeping close watch on Hariya and Raju.

Shetty, enraged over Raju's act, arranges for Raju to be killed, but Raju escapes. Finally, Vikram goes to Shetty for help in eliminating Hariya and saving Raju, to which Shetty agrees on his conditions. Raju and Hariya get to know of this, and Hariya tells Raju it's finally time to eliminate Shetty and Vikram. Vikram also goes to Joshi and tells him the whole story, and the latter agrees to help, but Vikram is then kidnapped by Shetty's men. Shetty then threatens Raju with dire consequences for his brother and their lady loves if he does not return the money he stole.

Raju is now in a fix; if he does not return the money, his brother will be killed, and if he does, Hariya won't spare him. Finally, he decides to save his brother, come what may. But Hariya gets the wind of it, and he joins hands with Shetty to eliminate both Raju and Vikram.

The climax finally reaches the platform, where Raju finds Vikram hung by his arms just above a railway track, with Hariya and Shetty at the scene. Raju then plays a trick; he throws down the money from the suitcase, pours alcohol over it, and threatens to burn it with a lighter if any one tries anything funny, and if Hariya does not confess to his role in the killings and separation of two brothers. Shetty, worried that the money might burn, threatens Hariya at gunpoint to do so, which he does. Out comes Inspector Joshi, saying he has heard everything, and then all hell breaks loose, with Raju gunning down the gangsters, freeing his brother just in time as a speeding train engine comes up the tracks and runs over Vikram as he falls on the tracks, without harming him.

Shetty is arrested. But Hariya manages to give them the slip. Raju manages to catch up with Hariya, clinging onto his speeding car and fighting him till it overturns and a fuel leak starts to occur. Raju's old rival turns up and he along with Hariya start to attack Raju brutally. But Raju, strengthened by his mother's parting gift, a chain, mounts strength and beats them off, just as an explosion produced by the leaking fuel sets the car in flames, killing Hariya and Raju's adversary.

Just as Vikram and the others watch the explosion, thinking Raju is gone, out of the debris comes Raju and falls into the arms of Vikram where he pledges vikram to never leave him after a finale moment eot his brother Raju then dies ending the movie

Cast

Soundtrack

#TitleSinger(s)
1 "Khamoshi Thi Mach Gaya Shor" Alka Yagnik
2 "Main Shama Too Parwana" Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
3 "Na Pyar Kiye Na Ikraar Kiye" Udit Narayan, Sadhana Sargam
4 "Is Baat Ka Bahana Acha Hai" Kavita Krishnamurthy
5 "Ek Din Jhagda Ek Din Pyar" Kumar Sanu, Sadhana Sargam
6 "Duniya Di Tha Tha Tha" Arun Bakshi

References

  1. ↑ Alter, Stephen (2007). Fantasies of a Bollywood love thief: inside the world of Indian moviemaking (illustrated ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 34. ISBN 0-15-603084-5.
  2. ↑ Cine blitz. 19. Blitz Publications. 1993. p. 33.
  3. ↑ Tuteja, Joginder (15 November 2007). "Down the memory lane with Aamir's leading lady". Oneindia. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  4. ↑ Kumar, Anuj (2 February 2008). "Slow and steady". The Hindu. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  5. ↑ "'Taare Zameen Par' promises to entertain and enlighten". Now Running. 18 December 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  6. ↑ Unnikrishnan, Chaya (2 December 2005). "Inspired anchoring". Screen Weekly. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  7. ↑ Vaidyanathan, Dr. P.V. (12 September 2003). "Star To Hona Hi Tha". Screen. Retrieved 12 September 2010.

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