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Tahalka
Tahalka
Film score by Anu Malik
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	51:33
Label	T-Series

Tahalka
Tahalka
	Promotional poster
Directed by	Anil Sharma
Written by	Anil Sharma
Produced by	K. C. Sharma
Starring	Dharmendra; Naseeruddin Shah; Mukesh Khanna; Aditya Pancholi; Javed Jaffrey; Sonu Walia; Ekta Sohini; Shikha Swaroop; Pallavi Joshi; Shammi Kapoor; Amrish Puri
Music by	Anu Malik
Release date	7 August 1992;
Running time	167 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹16.25 crore in India

Tahalka (transl. Furore) is a 1992 Indian Hindi-language action adventure film directed by Anil Sharma, featuring an ensemble cast including Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Aditya Pancholi, Javed Jaffrey, Shammi Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Mukesh Khanna, Ekta Sohini, Pallavi Joshi, Sonu Walia, Shikha Swaroop, and Firdaus Dadi (in her acting debut).^[2] The film was the fifth highest grosser of 1992 and was declared a Hit by Box Office India.^[1] This film was loosely based on Hollywood action adventure films The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare.^[3]

Plot

General Dong is the evil dictator of the fictional country, Dongrila. He has kidnapped dozens of school girls and plans to use them as suicide bombers to bomb populated areas in India. He even puts some girls into his personal harem, pushing the remaining ones into prostitution and using them for illegal organ trade. He also carried out the assassination of the chief of the Indian Army, General Sinha. One day, while out for a seaside trip with his daughter, Major Krishna Rao, an officer in the Indian Army, happens to notice an island with his daughter and they find a schoolgirl escaping someone. They try to take her on the boat, but she dies. After leaving Dolly with his trusted servant, Major Rao creeps forward and sees Dong ordering his men to do away with those kids. He calls Dong a clown and other names, and overpowers him, though getting shot in his arm in the process. Making all the girls board the two boats, he takes Dong, tied up on board, but then Dong's men arrive there after abducting Dolly, they manage to free Dong from the chamber. Dong challenges major Rao to come to Dongrila and rescue his daughter within the next year, 12 months from that very day. He chants an eerie verse and cuts off one of Krishna Rao's legs.

After recuperating, Krishna Rao recruits the Indian army officers Captain Ranvir, Captain Rakesh, Captain Javed, Captain Anju and former disgraced Major Dharam Singh. Then he somehow makes Shammi Kapoor, the second senior general and Mr. Iyer, the committee chairman agree to his plan. They agree on the condition that Krishna' team's victory would be a national victory, but their defeat will be a personal issue. Then Krishna Rao's team starts their journey and they go on a perilous journey between the borders of China and India to rescue Dolly as well as dozens of school girls held in Dong's captivity and destroy Dong's kingdom of Dongrila.

While the force five leaves, Major Kapoor is seen betraying their locations to Capt. Synthia, who works for General Dong. Allah Rakha catches Kapoor red-handed and reprimands him severely. He expresses his regret that an Indian himself is selling the nation to the enemies. While Allah Rakha tries to finish Kapoor, the latter deceitfully shoots him with a pistol through his blazer pocket and kills him, thus wiping out the first crucial witness.

In their journey, they are helped by Jenny, wife of Dongrila's ex-army chief Mr D'Costa, Prince Couv and Julie. It so happens that in the big city hospital, Major Rao contracts gangrene in his left leg and needs to be operated on. But Dong's men surround the hospital and shooting begins. They even cut off the electrical supply so the team decides to obtain a generator from the base room. Rakesh says that they will have to capture the whole area after killing all these soldiers. Just then Krishna comes there and says that they've already endangered the mission. He asks them to escape by going down a valley that Anju discovered on the other side of the hospital. Dharam Singh says that he will complete the mission here itself and asks major Rao to behave like a commander. But Major Rao chooses him as the next commander and makes him promise to lead the team for making the mission a success. All of them start climbing down the valley as Major Rao gathers all the guns and starts fighting alone. As the team reaches the foot of the valley, Dong's men blast the hospital acting by his orders and by sheer misfortune, Major Rao loses his life in fighting the Dong's Army. Another blow strikes when Julie's brother captain Jello kills the little son of Mrs. D'costa as he catches the child spying on them. It is revealed that the little boy was helping Prince Couv. It is found out that Julie is an informer of Dong's Captain Cynthia. Her identity is disclosed and she is killed by Captain Ranvir. Then, in retaliation, Dong gives execution orders for Cynthia. But, Cynthia is saved by Javed and Rakesh, who is then offered to switch sides. Then, they all attack Dong and kill him. But, lastly, in flight Brigadier Kapoor attacks the team and reveals himself as an informer of Dong. But, he is cleverly killed by Major Dharam Singh, saying the famous dialogue of the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, "If you want to shoot, shoot, don't talk."

Cast

Dharmendra as Major Dharam Singh
Naseeruddin Shah as Captain Ranveer
Mukesh Khanna as Major Krishna Rao
Aditya Pancholi as Captain Rakesh
Javed Jaffrey as Captain Javed
Sonu Walia as Jenny D'Costa
Ekta Sohini as Captain Anju Sinha
Pallavi Joshi as Julie
Shikha Swaroop as Intelligence Chief Cynthia
Prem Chopra as Prince Kow
Gulshan Grover as Allah Rakha
Shammi Kapoor as Brigadier Kapoor
Amrish Puri as General Dong
Sudhir as Dong's Right Hand
Tom Alter as Dong's Army Captain
Bob Christo as Dong's Army Captain Richard
Dan Dhanoa as Jelu
Jack Gaud as Dong's Henchman
Anirudh Agarwal as Dong's Henchman
Guddi Maruti as Salma
Rajendra Nath as Lifeguard at swimming pool
Dilip Dhawan as Captain Wilson D'Costa
Parikshat Sahni as General Sinha
Firdaus Dadi as Dolly Rolly Grow up Twins Sister
Ram Sethi as Laural
Sudha Chandran as Seema in a special appearance
R. S. Mallik (Gorilla) as Dong's Henchman

Soundtrack

The music is composed by Anu Malik.^[2]

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Duration
1	"Dil Diwane Ka Dola Dildaar Ke Liye"	Anuradha Paudwal, Anwar, Kumar Sanu Babla Mehta	Santosh Anand	9:28
2	"Meri Chaththri Ke Neeche Aaja"	Mohammed Aziz, Sudesh Bhonsle, Anu Malik	Hasrat Jaipuri	10:45
3	"Dil Diwani Ka Dola Dildaar Ke Liye"	Anuradha Paudwal	Santosh Anand	1:40
4	"Shom Shom Shom"	Amrish Puri	Anu Malik	3:10
5	"Eya Eya O"	Anuradha Paudwal, Anu Malik*Sonu Walia in movie	Santosh Anand	8:35
6	"Aap Ka Chehra, Aap Ka Jalwa"	Anuradha Paudwal, Mohammed Aziz	Hasrat Jaipuri	8:00
7	"Garam Dharam Aji Kaisi Sharam"	Anu Malik, Abhijeet Bhattacharya	Hasrat Jaipuri	8:58

References

^ ^a ^b "Box Office 1992". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Tahalka Bollywood Vinyl Lp Record". ebay. 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
^ "Where Eagles Dare: In the WWII tradition". navhindtimes.in. 28 January 2017. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2017.