Zalzala | |
Director: | Harish Shah |
Producer: | Vinod Shah |
Starring: | Dharmendra Shatrughan Sinha Rajiv Kapoor Anita Raj Kimi Katkar Vijayeta Pandit Danny Denzongpa Rati Agnihotri |
Music: | R. D. Burman |
Runtime: | 170 minutes |
Country: | India |
Language: | Hindi |
Budget: | 24 million[1] |
Gross: | 30 million[2] |
Zalzala is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language action adventure film directed by Harish Shah. It features an ensemble cast of Dharmendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Rajiv Kapoor, Anita Raj, Kimi Katkar, Vijayta Pandit, Danny Denzongpa and Rati Agnihotri.[3] It is a loose rehash of 1969 Western, Mackenna's Gold.[4] [5] Zalzala was released on 13 May 1988 and received mainly mixed reviews from critics.[6]
The narrator starts the movie with a myth that there is a hidden golden temple full of treasures. None can reach there without the map and one old priest only knows the way to the temple. In the other side of the story, Inspector Shiv Kumar arrested ruthless dacoit Sona Singh, who is madly in search of that hidden temple. Sona Sing broke into the jail and killed Shiv's wife Radha. Radha was an orphan and it is revealed later that she was the only sister of Shankar (Man with no name). In another occasion, inspector Shiv met with one vagabond Bholey and Radha's brother Shankar. To take revenge for Radha's death, Shiv Kumar resigned from the police service and chased Sona Singh's gang, but unfortunately was captured by them. Sona Singh told him to guide them to the golden temple, because only Shiv knows the map of that area. The old man informed Shiv about the path to the temple before his death. The full gang of dacoit and Shiv started a hard journey towards the temple. Shankar, Bholey and their respective fiancée also accompanied Shiv.