Ghulam-E-Mustafa

<p>The film revolves around a gangster named Mustafa ( ), who is a , can go to any length to satisfy his superiors and is portrayed as a Muslim who offers 5 times (obeisance). He was adopted by a powerful don Shanta Prasad ( ) when he was a child. He calls Shanta his Abba (an term for father). Abba taught him the crime tactics and made Mustafa his weapon for his illicit goals. Mustafa’s only aide is Sudama, his childhood best friend. Abba shares enmity with the Verma brothers Mahesh and Rohan ( and ), who want to kill Abba. Meanwhile, a dancer Kavita ( ) works in Verma’s dance club. Mustafa falls for her, which heats up the enmity of the Vermas and Mustafa. Kavita meets Mustafa and he tells his life’s story, to which Kavita develops a soft core for Mustafa. He marries her and starts to live a peaceful life. But this happiness does not last long as Kavita gets killed in a car blast (a plan hatched by the Vermas to kill Abba instead). Her death made Mustafa realise his mistakes and he wants to give up crime. He kills Mahesh’s son by planting a bomb on his forehead. He goes to Dixit’s house, where he is disliked by them, but his heart warming nature wins the Dixit family’s heart. Abba is happy that Mustafa is recovering from his trauma and helps Vikram ( ) for his education and job, bails out Dayanand Dixit ( ) who was jailed in a fake bribery case by Bipin ( ) and helps Vidya to marry Arun ( ). Meanwhile, Bipin’s lustful eyes falls on Vidya and teams up with the Vermas to exact revenge on Mustafa. During elections, Mustafa gets involved in a brawl where he kills Mahesh and his brother in a bomb blast and helps the politician Imtiaz to win. Mustafa now wants to surrender himself to the police and refuses to work for Imtiaz and Abba anymore. Imtiaz orders Abba to kill Mustafa in fear that in future he will confess the crimes of Imtiaz and Abba. On the wedding night, Bipin enters the house and tries to Vidya, but Mustafa slits him with a mirror piece. Police arrive and Mustafa is about to surrender, but first, he wants the marriage ceremony to be completed. Abba arrives and offers Mustafa to continue his work again, but he refuses. Mustafa offers Namaz for thanking Allah. Helpless, Abba has no other option but to obey the orders of Imtiaz and finally orders his men to shoot Mustafa and kill him. A heartbroken and angered Sudama then kills Abba. In early 1996, P.G Srikanth and Dinesh decided to make the film, on the script which is given by Tamil writer Prasanna Kumar. Before that, was approached to direct the film, but later on, for unknown reasons, Partho signed for directing the film, under the banners of Dinesh Gandhi’s, S.G.S. Cinearts international studio and with the collaboration of marketing partner production house. The film was initially titled , but this was changed to to avoid potential objection from Muslim sects. As things were clear, both producers hunt for an actor for the character of Ghulam-e-Mustafa, many options were on the list, but both of them decided to take the role of Mustafa to Nana Patekar without any screening test, first was approached for the role of Kavita, but Juhi walked out due to her already lined up filming schedules, later on, Raveena gave the screen test for Kavita and got the role. for the film began in January 1997 with the film’s lead cast. The film was shot in , , at studios , , Najabhai Jewellers Mumbai, Polachi, Kerala, Vauhini Studios, Vijaya Studios. Although due to bombing and explosive shooting scenes the film was shot in an abandoned area, of Tamil Nadu. The film was only shot in South India due to the South Indian cast and crew of the film. It was also dubbed in Tamil and Telugu for South Indian audiences. composed the music for the film and the background score was given by , with lyrics by . The music of the movie was released under the label . was a commercial success and received mixed to positive reviews, rate the film with 6 points out 10, while on film aggregate is 55% and on film earns 6.7 ratings based on 201 critics.</p>