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Khuda Gawah (Hindi: ख़ुदा गवाह, Pashto: خدا ګواه, Urdu: خدا گواہ, translation: God is witness) is a 1992 Bollywood film directed by Mukul S. Anand and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi (in a dual role), Akkineni Nagarjuna, Shilpa Shirodkar and Danny Denzongpa. Amitabh plays the role of an Afghan (Pathan), who travels between Afghanistan and India. Khuda Gawah had lavish production values and was extensively shot in India, Afghanistan, Nepal and Bhutan. The film was a success in both India and Afghanistan winning much acclaim for all its actors and especially the lead pair Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi. Both the stars won Filmfare nominations for their histrionics in the film. The film won 4 Filmfare awards including Best Director and Best Action. It is also entered in India's Limca Book of Records as the first Bollywood film to use surround sound technique.
[edit] PlotDuring a Buzkashi competition with a neighboring tribe in Afghanistan, Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bachchan) falls in love with Benazir (Sridevi) and wants to marry her. Benazir agrees to marry him on the condition that he must bring her the head of Habibulla who killed her father. Badshah Khan goes to India to search for Habibullah. He finds Habibullah in a prison and breaks him out to take him back. He has the jailer Ranveer Sethi (Vikram Gokhale) on his trail. In the end he chops of the head of Habibulla in front of his brother Pasha (Kiran Kumar) and leaves for Afganistan, promising Ranveer that he would be back in a certain time (1 month) to receive punishment (from the Law) for taking Habibulla. Badshah goes back to Afganistan and marries Benazir but after the time limit come back to India and surrenders himself to Ranveer and is jailed for five years. While he is away he leaves his childhood friend Khuda Baksh (Danny Denzongpa) to take care of his wife. In order to avenge Habibulla's death, his brother Pasha (Kiran Kumar) kidnaps the daughter of jailer Ranveer in return for Badshah. Badshah finds out about this, and escapes from jail, confronts Pasha, only to have Inspector Aziz Mirza (Bharat Kapoor) kill Ranveer, and with Ranveer's daughter as a pawn in Pasha's hands, Badshah admits to killing Ranveer and is sentenced to 15 years in jail. In the prison now Inspector Aziz Mirza is the new jailor, and he makes Badshah's life miserable. When Aziz's wife, who thinks of Badshah as her brother visits him, she ends up killing her husband to protect Badshah, but Badshah takes the blame for that murder as well since he believes that her son Raja needs her. At that time, Benazir sends Khuda Baksh to check on Badshah but due to his now very long stay in prison Badshah makes Khuda Baksh promise to take care of his daughter Mehndi and tell his wife Benazir that he is now dead, so that she can move on in life rather than wait for him. Benazir goes mad when she hears the news that her husband is dead. On coming out of prison, Badshah meets with his now grown daughter, Mehndi (also Sridevi), who has found out the truth finally and has come to India to look for her father; the daughter of Ranveer, Henna Sethi (Shilpa Shirodkar) who is also in the police force and knows all about Badshah's past and loves him as her uncle; and the son of Inspector Aziz Mirza, Raja (Nagarjuna), who has found out that it was Badshah who had killed his father, and is out for vengeance. IN a twist of fate, Raja is also in love with Mehndi, even though he wants to kill her father. In this are added old enemies and rivalries when Pasha, now a major drug lord, becomes involved. Benazir and Khuda Baksh are kidnapped by him. The truth is revealed to Raja about his father, and all of them join together to beat their mutual enemy. [edit] Cast[edit] Awards
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