Releasing
in February, along with the big budget Pukar
and Kamal Haasan's magnum opus Hey!
Ram, will be the late Gulshan Kumar's
production Papa The Great. The producer's
younger brother Kishen Kumar, whose eminently
forgettable Bollywood career included the hit musical Bewafa
Sanam, makes a comeback to acting after six years. Keeping him
company is another comeback artiste Naghma, who had
moved on from a chequered career in Bollywood to success in the Telugu film
industry.The director of the movie is K Bhagyaraj, whose last Hindi movie was the super-duper Bachchan starrer Aakhri Raasta, way back in the mid 80s.
Nikhil-Vinay,
the duo who also gave the hit music of Chor Aur Chand,
and Dulaara (remember Govinda's
Mera pant bhi sexy?), are repeated in the T-Series production after their
superhit tunes in Bewafa Sanam (all of which, incidentally, were straight
lifts from the tunes of Pakistani singer Ataullah Khan!)The plot of the movie is a simple one: a once-revered father's attempts to win back the affections of a son whom he has alieneted by his cowardice.
Actor-turned-politician cum TV compere Shatrughan Sinha features in an appearance which is apparently so special that his mug needs to be flashed in the promos more than the lead pair!