Vidhaata

1982
2h 48m

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When Kunal decides to avenge Abu Baba's death, he discovers his grandfather's true identity and the reason behind his father's death.When Kunal decides to avenge Abu Baba's death, he discovers his grandfather's true identity and the reason behind his father's death.When Kunal decides to avenge Abu Baba's death, he discovers his grandfather's true identity and the reason behind his father's death.

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- Subhash Ghai
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6.8/10

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Director
- Subhash Ghai
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- 1 win total

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During early 1980's Dilip Kumar was a big major actor playing central and important roles. Subhash Ghai went on to sign Jackie Shroff to play Madan Puri's son Ponchi (the role done by Gautam Sarin) for Vidhaata after seeing Jackie Shroff's work in Swami Dada, but when Subhash Ghai met Jackie, he requested him not to do Vidhaata, instead he told Jackie not to do more films as supporting actor and told Jackie to wait for him. Jackie obliged and thus blockbuster Hero 1983 was the result. Dilip Kumar & Shammi Kapoor first time came together, after being in the same industry for many years. Suresh Oberoi was a new actor at that time, he got small roles in big films. For the first time Kader Khan wrote dialogues for Dilip Kumar. Then later Subhash Ghai repeated Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar & Amrish Puri in his next film Hero. Madan Puri was common actor for Subhash Ghai (except Krodhi) from Kalicharan to Hero, while Amrish Puri became common actor for Subhash Ghai from this film.

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6/10

Veterans stole the show in this Subhash Ghai film.

Vidhaata review :

A Subhash Ghai directorial for noted producer Gulshan Rai; Vidhaata was a revenge drama where veterans Dilip Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar and Shammi Kapoor stole the show. Sanjay Dutt, the actual hero of the film, was going through his drug phase and sleepwalked through the film. Director Subhash Ghai openly regreted casting him though they worked together later in the highly successful Khalnayak (1993).

Amrish Puri was the main villain playing ally to his real life brother Madan Puri. Kalyanji Anandji's music became popular and the 'Saat Saheliyan' number got in to a controversy just like Khalnayak's 'Choli Ke Peeche'.

Both, Padmini Kolhapure as a Marathi bellè and the ever beautiful Sarika, were pure eye candies; nothing more. Sanju Baba's chemistry with them was zilch but fortunately, it didnt matter at all as Vidhaata had a strong script and stellar direction by Ghai.

The confrontation scenes between Dilip Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar were the films highlight and the audience just lapped it up. Sanju's non performance included!!!

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.