Coolie (1983 Hindi film)
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| Directed by |
Manmohan Desai Prayag Raj |
| Produced by | Ketan Desai |
| Written by | Smt. Jeevanprabha M. Desai Kader Khan Prayag Raj K.K. Shukla |
| Starring |
Amitabh Bachchan Rishi Kapoor Rati Agnihotri Kader Khan Waheeda Rehman Puneet Issar Satyendra Kapoor |
| Music by | Laxmikant-Pyarelal |
| Cinematography | Peter Pereira |
| Edited by | Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
| Distributed by | Aasia Films Pvt. Ltd. M.K.D. Films Combine |
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Release date
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December 2, 1983 |
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Running time
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167 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Coolie (Hindi: कुली, 'Porter') is a 1983 Indian Bollywood action comedy film, directed by Manmohan Desai and written by Kader Khan. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan as Iqbal, a railway coolie, with supporting roles played by Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Kader Khan, Waheeda Rehman, Suresh Oberoi and Puneet Issar.
The film made over Rs. 10 million per territory, a rare achievement for the time.
The film is notorious for a fight scene with co-star Puneet Issar, during which Amitabh Bachchan was near-fatally injured due to a mistimed jump.
Before the film started Bachchan asked Kannada legendary actor Rajkumar to make his cameo in the film. There was a mutual respect between Amitabh and Rajkumar and they were both admirers of each other.
A wealthy, but evil man named Zafar Khan (Kader Khan), has fallen in love with a girl named Salma (Waheeda Rahman) and wants to marry her, but she and her father do not let him. Zafar is arrested for various crimes and is imprisoned for 10 years, but when he is released, he sees that Salma is married to a good man named Aslam Khan (Satyendra Kapoor). Zafar Khan, wants to convince Salma to marry him but Salma refuses. Zafar murders Salma's father and plots his revenge by flooding the region in which Salma lives, nearly killing Aslam and injuring Salma, causing her to lose her memory. During this catastrophe, Salma is also separated from her young son, Iqbal (Amitabh Bachchan). On a railway platform, Iqbal attempts to go after her on foot while Salma is in a train, but he slips and the train leaves the platform. Zafar abducts Salma and tells the world she is his wife. He also adopts an infant from an orphanage in Kanpur, a boy named Sunny (Rishi Kapoor), for Salma to raise on the advice of a psychiatrist. Meanwhile, Iqbal is reunited with his uncle, who has lost his wife and son in the flood. In the process of a heated fight, Iqbal's uncle has lost his right arm, to which Iqbal tells him he will serve as his uncle's right arm from the present onward. The uncle will raise Iqbal as his own, as they have no more family. In the events of the flood, Iqbal's uncle's wife and son were killed.
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