Hero

<p>The film starts with Pasha ( ) being taken to prison. To get out of the situation, he writes to his best man, Jackie ( ). Jackie goes to Police Commissioner Shrikanth Mathur ( ) and warns him. He then kidnaps Shrikanth’s daughter Radha ( ). He tells her that he is a police officer and they fall in love; however, she finds out that he is a gangster but does not leave him and urges him to surrender. Transformed by her love, Jackie surrenders to the police and is imprisoned for two years. Back home, Radha tells her brother Daamodar ( ) the truth. To prevent Radha from marrying somebody else, he calls his friend Jimmy ( ) to put on a show that Radha and Jimmy love each other. Jimmy misunderstands the situation and falls in love with Radha. When Jackie comes back, he starts working in a garage and tries to reform himself. Despite everything, Shrikanth kicks him out of his life. After many days and events that follow, Daamodar finds out that Jimmy is a drug smuggler. After his release from prison, Pasha desires revenge against both Shrikanth and Jackie, so he kidnaps Radha, Shrikanth and Daamodar. Jackie comes at the last moment and frees all of them. In the end, Shrikanth lets Radha marry Jackie. Subhash Ghai had initially wanted to play the film’s lead role, when the project was titled as , but his unavailability led to the producers casting debutant Jackie Shroff. Jackie Shroff revealed in a 2017 interview that he is a huge fan of veteran actor , and during the filming of often said his dialogues in Dev Anand’s style. Ghai wanted him to deliver his dialogues like instead. Composed by the musical duo with lyrics written by .<br /> The music of Hero is one of the complete albums containing songs of each genre. It had typical Bollywood song with modern beats ( Tu Mera Janu Hai, Ding Dong O Baby sing song), a Qawwali ( Mohabbat ye mohabbat), a folk song ( Lambi Judai) and Hindustani Classical based song (Nindiyase Jagi Bahar).<br /> The music of Hero was well appreciated by critics and the masses alike. The film was declared a “blockbuster” at the Indian box office, with Shroff and Sheshadri becoming stars after its release. ran for 750 days in many cities in India. Both actors were in demand after its release and began a long association with Ghai. Younger audiences enjoyed the performances, and critics applauded Ghai for using fresh faces at a time when Amitabh Bachchan was the dominant star in Bollywood. The Yamaha bike was heavily promoted in this movie. This article about a Hindi film of the 1980s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>