Tezaab

Tezaab is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action romance film starring Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles. The film gave Dixit her first big break, making her an overnight star in addition to reaffirming Kapoor's star status, after a successful Mr. India (1987). The film was directed, produced and co-written by N. Chandra. The music was composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal.

Tezaab released on 11 November 1988, and was a major commercial success at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing Indian film of the year. It ran in theatres for more than 50 weeks, becoming a golden jubilee success. With Tezaab, N. Chandra scored a box office hat-trick with his previous hits Ankush (1986) and Pratighaat (1987). The film is also popular for the song "Ek Do Teen", which was a chartbusting success. It received positive reviews from critics upon release, with praise for its story, screenplay, dialogues, soundtrack, and performances of the cast.

At the 34th Filmfare Awards, Tezaab received a leading 12 nominations, Best Film, Best Director (Chandra), Best Actress (Dixit) and Best Supporting Actor (Pandey), and won 4 awards, including Best Actor (Kapoor), Best Female Playback Singer (Alka Yagnik) and Best Choreography (Saroj Khan), the latter two for the song "Ek, Do, Teen". At the ceremony, Kapoor scored his first Best Actor win, while Dixit garnered her first-ever Best Actress nomination.

The film was remade in Telugu as Two Town Rowdy, with Daggubati Venkatesh and in Tamil Rojavai Killathe, with Arjun. Prabhas starter telugu movie Varsham_(2004_film) is inspired by Thi story. The core storyline is loosely based on the 1984 film Streets of Fire.

Plot
When Inspector Singh (Suresh Oberoi) learns that Munna (Anil Kapoor) is about to reach his region of jurisdiction, he checks Munna's record. Munna is identified by Inspector Singh as Cadet Mahesh Deshmukh, a talented Cadet he first met at the scene of a Nasik bank robbery a few years prior, where Mahesh's parents and numerous other bank employees had been brutally murdered by a gang of thieves.

Following the bank incident, Inspector Singh finds Munna, rekindles their connection, and inquires as to his whereabouts. Munna/Mahesh responds by saying:

With his sister Jyoti, he had relocated to Bombay, where they had met Mohini, a poor and miserable woman who was compelled to dance in order to support her father Shyamlal (Anupam Kher). Because she earned money for him by dancing in adjacent nightclubs, he is a drunk who does not want to marry Mohini off. He acted similarly against his wife (Suhas Joshi), and when she disobeyed him, he attacked her with acid. After that, Mohini's mother killed herself.

In his youth, Shyamlal had taken a huge loan from Lotiya Pathan (a dreaded gangster) and the only way to repay it was to make Mohini dance. Shyamlal also has to deal with Chote Khan, the younger brother of Lotiya, who was involved in the Bank robbery and had killed Mahesh/Munna's parents, and also Chote Khan was arrested due to Mahesh/Munna.

After release/bailout, immediately Chote Khan had attempted to rape Jyoti, but Mahesh killed Chote Khan in self-defense. For this, Mahesh/Munna was arrested and sentenced to one year in jail, after which he changed his name to Munna.

On learning the whole story from Mahesh/Munna, Inspector Singh allows him to complete his task and stipulates some conditions, including the time and date of return/surrender.

When Lotiya hears that Mahesh/Munna is back in town, he kidnaps Mohini. Shyamlal now approaches/begs Munna to get Mohini rescued ASAP and requires that she be returned to him only. Mahesh rescues Mohini, and they rejoice to see each other again after a long time, but Mahesh asks Mohini to return to her father; Mohini becomes sad again as she had expected to follow with her lover.

As he had promised Inspector Singh, Munna surrenders whereupon he is tried and tested in Court and then sent to prison for some time.

After a retrial, Munna is acquitted of his charges and plans to start afresh in another city – Goa. However, his sister Jyoti convinces Mahesh/ Munna not to forget his lover Mohini – so Mahesh/Munna sends his friends- Guldasta and Baban – to explain to Mohini where her lover is now.

The evil father, Shyamlal, overhears Mohini's plans to escape and is enraged, and he tries to stop Mohini from leaving. Guldasta and Shyamlal have a fight in which both die, but Mohini manages to escape safely, and Mohini meets Munna again.

However, Lotiya, learning of Munna's acquittal, conspires to kill him as revenge for his brother's death – so they all meet up at a dockyard. Baban (Chunky Pandey) gets a tip of Lotiya's conspiracy and challenges Lotiya. Lotiya gets enraged, and a fight between him and Baban ends in Lotiya getting defeated. Baban wants to kill Lotiya in the fit of rage, but Munna intercepts him and stops him from committing murder.

Meanwhile, Lotiya regains his strength and goes to attack Munna with a club. Baban dies, deflecting the attack. Munna fights back at Lotiya and is about to kill him, but Inspector Singh interrupts just in time to stop him from taking the law into his hands. Inspector Singh recognizes he's breaking the law but allows Munna to fight Lotiya as he sees this as a way of Munna letting go of his anger and hatred he holds within himself. As Munna defeats Lotiya, Lotiya quickly gets up and tries to attack and kill Munna, but Inspector Singh kills him with his service pistol, and justice is served finally.

Baban does not die here; excluding this fact, the rest of the ending is exactly like the original.
 * Alternate ending

Cast

 * Anil Kapoor as Mahesh "Munna" Deshmukh
 * Madhuri Dixit as Mohini Dhanyekar
 * Anupam Kher as Shyamlal Dhanyekar, Mohini's father
 * Chunky Pandey as Sushim "Baban" Choudhry, Munna's friend
 * Suparna Anand as Jyoti Deshmukh, Munna's younger sister
 * Kiran Kumar as Lotiya Pathan
 * Annu Kapoor as Abbas Ali / Guldasta
 * Suresh Oberoi as Inspector Gagan Singh
 * Tej Sapru as Rantej Saxena
 * Johnny Lever as Kainchee Singh, Munna's friend
 * Mahavir Shah as Inspector Tarachand Gupta
 * Salman Khan as Rookki
 * Jack Gaud as Mukut Bihari
 * Dinesh Hingoo as Marwadi Seth
 * Achyut Potdar as Namrish Deshmukh, Munna's father
 * Vijay Patkar as Chiraunji Surwadhre, Munna's friend
 * Jaywant Wadkar as Aman Pratap Ahuja, Munna's friend
 * Mandakini as Nikita Sharma (Special appearance)
 * Suhas Joshi as Sumira Dhanyekar, Mohini's mother (Cameo appearance)
 * Ravi Patwardhan as Lawyer, Public Prosecutor

Soundtrack
The song Ek Do Teen was inspired by the opening bars of an old popular song "Chanda Mama Door Ke" composed by the famous yesteryears music composer Ravi for the film Vachan (1955). The film's soundtrack album sold more than 8million units, becoming the second best-selling Bollywood music album of 1988, behind only Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak.

Ek Do Teen was subsequently recreated for another movie Baaghi 2 (2018), sung this time by Shreya Ghoshal and another version sung by Palak Muchhal.

So Gaya Yeh Jahan also remade for another film. In 2013, this song was remade for Nautanki Saala! sung by Nitin Mukesh with composer Laxmikant–Pyarelal. On 2019, this song remade again for movie Bypass Road, sung by Nitin Mukesh featuring Jubin Nautiyal and Saloni Thakkar with composer Raaj Aashoo.

Awards

 * 34th Filmfare Awards :
 * Won
 * Best Actor – Anil Kapoor
 * Best Female Playback Singer – Alka Yagnik for "Ek Do Teen"
 * Best Choreography – Saroj Khan for "Ek Do Teen"
 * Best Dialogue – Kamlesh Pandey


 * Nominated
 * Best Film – N. Chandra
 * Best Director – N. Chandra
 * Best Actress – Madhuri Dixit
 * Best Supporting Actor – Chunkey Pandey
 * Best Music Director – Laxmikant–Pyarelal
 * Best Lyricist – Javed Akhtar for "Ek Do Teen"
 * Best Male Playback Singer – Amit Kumar for "Ek Do Teen"
 * Best Female Playback Singer – Anuradha Paudwal for "Keh Do Ke Tum"