Pukar

2000
2h 56m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

2.7K

YOUR RATING

Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Om Puri, and Namrata Shirodkar in Pukar (2000)

Action Drama Romance Thriller

A notorious terrorist manipulates an Indian army major's jilted lover into helping him obtain a classified military code.A notorious terrorist manipulates an Indian army major's jilted lover into helping him obtain a classified military code.A notorious terrorist manipulates an Indian army major's jilted lover into helping him obtain a classified military code.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

2.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 15 nominations total

Trivia
Earlier Rajkumar Santoshi was to make the film with Sunny Deol and Meenakshi Seshadri as " Ajay" in 1991. When Meenakshi and Santoshi had a fallout, the film was shelved. The script was put on hold because Santoshi decided to make Ghatak instead. In 1998 Boney Kapoor offered a good financial deal to Santoshi and he opted to make the film "Ajay" with Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit. The title Pukar was chosen for the project . This angered Sunny Deol as the idea behind the script had come from him. He felt betrayed by Santoshi. Sunny decided to make another film titled "Ajay" with Suneel Darshan instead.

Alternate versions
The UK release was cut, one cut required to neck break in accordance with Board policy, in order to obtain a 15 classification. An uncut classification was not available.

Soundtracks
Kay Sera... Sera
Music by A.R. Rahman
Lyrics by Javed Akhtar
Performed by Shankar Mahadevan, Kavita Krishnamurthy & Chorus

User reviews12

Review

Featured review

7/10

A Soldier falls in the trap of Love & War...

Pukar is a well acted film in terms of storyline, plot and performances.

Director Rajkumar Santoshi direction is good yes there are some let downs in the storyline but still film can easily manage the loophole and can give you definitely a one time watch.

First 20 mins of the film is superb starts of with a journey of a major who works in a government military and suddenly got a vacation to meet his family & friends till here the story is superb but after that a love story revenge begins and the military angle totally got lost in somewhere and turn into a love revenge film.

Performances of the lead cast is the highlight for me specially ANIL KAPOOR stellar performance from start to end is remarkable.

MADHURI DIXIT screen presence outstanding with her dance performance is just a worth watch.

Supporting cast did also a great job and well suited throughout the film.

Music, Cinematography, screenplay are top notch no complaints over there.

All n all definitely a one time watch for screenplay, acting performances & music..