Gang

<p>Four friends, Gangu, Abdul, Nihal and Gary – which forms the word G.A.N.G, get together to start their , but their roots are built on friendship and trust. They succeed in their criminal goals, but later they are attacked by a local gangster Tagdu. As a result, G.A.N.G. retaliates with Tagdu and joins with Lala, a criminal leader with a conscience. But this does not please Abdul as they work for free with Lala and decide to join forces with Girja Singh, another gang leader, for money, to which Gangu disagrees. Gary’s sister is later killed by Tagdu and his men as a form of early humiliation, which shatters them deeply. Later G.A.N.G. and Tagdu’s men are embroiled in a gang war, in which Gangu is arrested and sentenced to jail for five years. When Gangu is released, he witnesses that Abdul is now driving a taxi, his mother is well looked after and that Nihal and Gary have also started doing business. It is when Gangu meets his sweetheart, Sanam, and proposes marriage, and subsequently learns that his friends are working with Girja Singh. Nihal and Divya marriage begins to fall apart as their child is born handicapped due to the former’s and later Divya commits with her child. This incident shatters Nihal and he goes on a , for which he is arrested. Girja orders Abdul to kill Nihal, before he gives the statement against him to the court. However Abdul, indebted towards their friendship, kills Girja’s henchman instead of Nihal. Finally, Abdul and Gary decides to surrender to the police for the sake of Gangu and seeks the help of the chief minister. But this displeases the latter as if they are arrested, and they will even testify against him, so he plans to murder the G.A.N.G. with the help of Girja and Tagdu. Tagdu kills Gangu’s mother in order to weaken the team, but G.A.N.G. finishes the minister’s men, including Tagdu and Girja. In the process, Gangu is severely injured and is on his deathbed and asks them for a promise to leave the crime world forever, to which all agree and Gangu dies after. The G.A.N.G. is about to surrender to the police, till the point where the minister orders the police for ” ” and kills them. 6 years later, Lala kills the minister who had ordered the police force to kill G.A.N.G. Lala admits to Sanam that he had killed the minister to end the story so that Gangu’s son won’t go on the same path as 4 men did. He later surrenders himself to Shamsher Singh and Sanam shows the photo of the G.A.N.G. to her son, remembering them in peace. Director Mazhar Khan had started the project in 1989 which faced years of delays due to his ill-health, scheduling issues and casting changes. was cast as the main villain but replaced by his brother after his death in 1992. Khan died on 16 September 1998 due to , thus keeping the production work on hold. However, in 1999, , the assistant worked on the film’s remaining direction, technical aspects and leftover production. The music of this movie was mainly composed by . composed only one track, , sung by , for the film. But since the movie faced late release and his death, Mazhar Khan signed in Anu Malik for the composition. It can be noted that Anu Malik used some bits of the background score composed by Burman, of the movie, for the song in the late composer’s remembrance. All of the songs are written by .</p>