Majhdhaar

Majhdhaar
Majhdhaar
Directed by	Esmayeel Shroff
Written by	Salim Khan
Produced by	Pravin Thakkar
Starring	Rahul Roy; Manisha Koirala; Salman Khan
Cinematography	Pramod Mithal
Edited by	A. R. Rajendran
Music by	Nadeem-Shravan
Release date	29 March 1996;
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹1.50 crore
Box office	₹49.68 lakh

Majhdhaar is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Esmayeel Shroff.^[2] The film stars Salman Khan, Manisha Koirala and Rahul Roy.^[3] The film was a box office failure.^[4]

Plot

The movie starts with Krishna talking to Shanti while he receives a letter and then realizes he is late and must be leaving to meet someone, he then reaches a house and sees Gopal on his deathbed, and Gopal goes into a flashback. This story is about three childhood best friends: Krishna, Radha and Gopal (an orphan). Krishna and Radha are in love, Gopal loves Radha. Gopal goes to earn and become financially strong so that on his return, he can marry Radha, meanwhile when Gopal is gone, Krishna and Radha get involved in an intimate relationship, which results in Radha getting pregnant. Then Gopal returns to Radha's life. Radha, who is still in love with Krishna, is unable to express her feelings about Krishna to Gopal. Circumstances become favorable for Gopal and he succeeds in marrying Radha, and subsequently, Radha gives birth to a baby girl, Shanti (Krishna's child). Radha, feeling guilty, leaves Shanti with Gopal (who thinks Shanti is his daughter) and returns to her father's house. Later Radha attempts suicide by jumping into a river but fails; caught by the police, they keep her under their supervision. Gopal gets to know where she is and comes to meet Radha, Radha tells Gopal that she loved Krishna and Shanti is Krishna's daughter. Gopal breaks down and says that everything will be alright. He makes his Will and hands over Shanti to Krishna, her biological father with a letter saying that he is going away. Gopal also decides to give all his wealth to Shanti along with the divorce papers thus setting Radha free from this relationship so that she can live her life the way she wants. Gopal then goes away onto a ship. Back to the future, elderly Gopal lying on the bed meets Krishna and says he just wanted to meet Krishna once as his death was near. Gopal then dies. Krishna then discloses to his daughter that years ago the night when Gopal left, Radha went to an Ashram leaving everyone, to spend the rest of her life there and the letter that Krishna received the other day said that Radha had died.

Cast

Salman Khan as Gopal
Rahul Roy as Krishna
Manisha Koirala as Radha
Rajeev Verma as Rai Sahib
Raj Babbar as Mohan
Malvika Tiwari as Shanti
Mukesh Rawal
Sunil Shinde

Soundtrack

The music for this film was composed by the duo Nadeem–Shravan. The song "Ae Mere Dost Dosti Ki Kasam" was originally composed for the 1993 film Do Kadam which starred Salman Khan, Divya Bharti, Karisma Kapoor but the film was later shelved.

Song	Singer
"Gayega Munna"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
"Ae Mere Dost" (Short)	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
"Ae Mere Dost, Dosti Ki Kasam" (Short)	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Kumar Sanu
"Ae Mere Dost, Dosti Ki Kasam" (Main)	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Kumar Sanu
"Saagar Se Gehra Hai Pyar Hamara"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Alka Yagnik
"Kya Zamana"	Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan
"Main Is Se Mohabbat Karta Hoon"	Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Mohammed Aziz
"Humne Khamoshi Se"	Alka Yagnik
"Humne Khamoshi Se"	Pankaj Udhas
"Bachke Meri Jaan"	Vinod Rathod

References

^ ^a ^b "Majhdhaar – Movie". Box Office India.
^ "MX Player". www.mxplayer.in. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
^ "Yeh Majhdhaar - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
^ The Caravan write up. Delhi Press. 11 November 2017. Salman, meanwhile, seemed to be winging it, saying yes to a slew of films such as Suryavanshi (1992) and Majhdhaar (1996), which were critical and commercial disasters.