Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate (1998)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Writers:

Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay)
Z.D. Lari (dialogue)
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Release Date:

23 November 1998 (India)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Family | Romance

Plot:

Abhyankar (Amrish Puri) is an orthodox head of his family, a retired police officer, he has values which he wants his family to also uphold...

Cast

Anil Kapoor	...	Shanker Sharma / Ramanuj
Juhi Chawla	...	Urmila Abhyankar / Urmi
Anupam Kher	...	Rashid Khan
Anang Desai
Reema Lagoo	...	Savitri Abhyankar (as Reema)
Harpal Singh		(as Harpal)
Harish Patel	...	Narmada Prasad
Sunil Advani
Renuka Israni	...	Shanker's Bhabi
Nilofar		(as Nilofer)
Amrish Puri	...	Mr. Abhyankar
Sajid Khan	...	Chunky / Chanakya

Directed by
Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sachin Bhowmick		screenplay
Z.D. Lari		dialogue
Hrishikesh Mukherjee		screenplay

Produced by
Hrishikesh Mukherjee	....	producer

Original Music by
Anand Chitragupth		(as Anand)
Milind Chitragupth		(as Milind)

Cinematography by
Jal Mistry

Film Editing by
Subhash Gupta

Art Direction by
Shanti Dass		(as Shanti Das)

Sound Department
B.K. Chaturvedi	....	sound re-recordist: B.R. Sound-N-Music
Anoop Mishra	....	audiographer (as Anup Mishra)
P.S. Mishra	....	audiographer

Special Effects by
S. Galib	....	titles design (as S. Ghalib)

Visual Effects by
Madhava Reddy	....	visual effects

Editorial Department
M. Bashir	....	color consultant

Music Department
Abhijeet	....	playback singer
Shiamak Davar	....	playback singer
Udit Narayan	....	playback singer
Parvez	....	playback singer
Vinod Rathod	....	playback singer
Alka Yagnik	....	playback singer

Other crew
Pravin Bali	....	production executive
Anil Ghosh	....	associate director
Farah Khan	....	choreographer
Saroj Khan	....	choreographer
Himanshu Nanda	....	publicity designer
Rahul Nanda	....	publicity designer
Chinni Prakash	....	choreographer

Thanks
Shashikant Kabre	....	dedicatee (as late Shri Shashi Bhai)
Satish Kaushik	....	grateful acknowledgment
Sachin	....	grateful acknowledgment

Special Effects

• Rajtaru Video Sonic (as Raj Taru)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Movie Connections:

References Mr India (1987)

Soundtrack:

Badi Mushkil Hai

Reminds of Old days

This film reminds us of KHOOBSURAT, PADOSAN, CHUPKE CHUPKE which Hrishida did and weaved magic, This film was a comeback for him and was his last film which however came too late in the day yet it's fun

The film reminds us of his old films and have a 70's kinda feel throughout but still is a nice film to watch on TV

There are many nonsense scenes which look out of place in 90's(when the film released) but that is forgiven

The entire Rahmanoj track is well handled and so is the Amrish- Anil scenes The flashback portion too is well handled and the plan of Margaret and the best part is Amrish Puri is shown so smart that he recognises Anil in the photo

The climax though clichéd suits the theme

The problem with the film as i mentioned is the old day feel and also the constant fade offs and fade ins but that is forgiven Even some songs could be done away with and the film gets lengthy and certain portions are too slapstick

Direction was good though not at his best Music was nice, the video at the start is the best Camera-work gives a dated feel

Anil Kapoor excels in his role(s) which has shades of Amol in GOLMAAL He is hilarious whenever he comes on screen in a subtle manner Juhi Chawla too does a good job and their pairing is good Sajid Khan is awful in his debut, Amrish Puri steals the show and shows what a powerful talent he is, He is one of the best deadpan comic actors we have and has an infinite range Anupam Kher however gets sidelined Reema Lagoo is good in her part Anang Desai, Harish Patel are decent