Shaan (film)

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Shaan
Shaan DVD cover
Directed by	Ramesh Sippy
Produced by	G.P. Sippy
Written by	Javed Akhtar Salim Khan
Starring	Sunil Dutt Shashi Kapoor Amitabh Bachchan Shatrughan Sinha Raakhee Gulzar Parveen Babi Bindiya Goswami Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Music by	Rahul Dev Burman
Cinematography	S.M. Anwar
Editing by	M.S. Shinde
Release date(s)	12 December 1980
Running time	181 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi
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Shaan (Hindi: शान, Urdu: شان) is a 1980 Indian Hindi film. It is director Ramesh Sippy's 2nd film with Amitabh Bachchan after Sholay. The story was written by Salim-Javed.

Expectations were high as this was the film that was to have expected to match the success of Ramesh Sippy's previous blockbuster film Sholay. It didn't match the success of Sholay but still managed to have average success at the box office [1]. Director Ramesh Sippy tried to round up the same people from Sholay, and he succeeded only partly by getting superstar Amitabh Bachchan and music composer R.D. Burman who composed the unforgettable songs for the film and earned the film's only Filmfare nomination for Best Music. The film took 3 years to make, because of the juggling around of stars busy schedules. While Sholay drew its inspiration from the American Western and spaghetti western films, Shaan took its lead from the James Bond films with fancy sets and beautiful costumes. The villain Shakaal (played by Kulbhushan Kharbanda) was based on the James Bond villain Blofeld.

[edit] Synopsis

The film opens with an honest cop, DSP Shiv Kumar (Sunil Dutt), arriving at a building. The violent criminal, Durjan Singh, has taken a few workmen hostage. In a daring rescue, the cop scales the far side of a building and subdues the criminal. He returns home to his wife Sheetal (Raakhee Gulzar) and their young daughter and announces that he has been transferred to Bombay.

Shiv Kumar has two brothers, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), who live in Bombay. They are intelligent and capable guys, but spend their time loafing about the city and swindling unsuspecting people. (Vijay poses as a diamond smuggler and secures a room at a small city hotel to lay low. The unwitting manager, played by Yunus Parvez, overhears his fictitious conversation and confronts him, eventually giving him some petty cash in exchange for the gems. Ravi, posing as a cop, enters during the barter, sternly reprimands the manager and arrests Vijay. The booty is labeled "evidence" and the two chaps make off with the cash.) Vijay and Ravi then happen upon Chacha (old time actor Johnny Walker) and Renu (Bindiya Goswami) who are a similar swindler pair. The four of them get together and stage a few more petty frauds; during one such event, Vijay meets Sunita (Parveen Babi) who is yet another fraudster. One of their tricks eventually backfires and lands Vijay and Ravi in jail. Shiv Kumar bails them out and reads them the riot act at home. Sheetal, however, has a motherly soft-corner for the wayward boys and she gently admonishes them to mend their ways.

Posing as a musical troupe, Vijay and Ravi (along with Renu, Chacha and Sunita), enter the island and perform (the smash hit, "Yamma Yamma") for Shakaal. But Shakaal has been tipped off already. Their cover is blown and they are secured. The rest of the film is an elaborate chase-action sequence as the three brave men escape, avoid the various booby traps and henchmen, capture Shakaal and ultimately end him.

The film ends with the island being blown up and the heroes (along with their girls) escape via helicopter.