Daag: The Fire (transl. Stain) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written, produced and directed by Raj Kanwar, starring Sanjay Dutt, Chandrachur Singh and Mahima Chaudhry in the lead roles. The film received mixed reviews but was successful at the box office .[2][3] The plot was inspired from the 1991 American film Regarding Henry.[4]
| Daag: The Fire | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Raj Kanwar |
| Written by | Raj Kanwar Jainendra Jain (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Robin Bhatt Akash Khurana |
| Produced by | Raj Kanwar |
| Starring | Sanjay Dutt Chandrachur Singh Mahima Chaudhry Shakti Kapoor |
| Cinematography | Harmeet Singh |
| Edited by | A. Muthu |
| Music by | Rajesh Roshan |
| Distributed by | Inderjit Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 165 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹67.5 million[1] |
| Box office | ₹202.8 million[1] |
Plot
editFormer Indian soldier Karan Singh (Sanjay Dutt) wants to seek revenge for his upright father Satya Prakash Singh (Shivaji Satam) who was wrongfully jailed. His sentence resulted from a false charge and prosecution by a shrewd lawyer, Ravi Verma (Chandrachur Singh), backed by his father-in-law Singhal (Raj Babbar).
Singhal's daughter Kajal, is the wife of corrupt lawyer Ravi, who can win almost any case. During a court case, he falsely accuses and gets a righteous man convicted of corruption, and he commits suicide out of disgrace. His son Major Karan swears revenge and one day after a party that Kajal and Ravi attend, he fires a pistol directly at Ravi, but his wife Kajal (Mahima Chaudhry) comes in to save her husband using her body as a shield. Karan fires a second time, and Ravi is shot in the spinal cord and loses part of his memory, and the doctors diagnose him with 'retrograde amnesia".
In the hospital, Kajal succumbs to her wound and dies. As an attempt to restore Ravi's memory, Singhal requests the help of a street woman Kajri, who looks exactly like Kajal (Mahima Chaudhry, in a dual role), to pretend to be Ravi's wife temporarily.
However, obstinate Karan is still seeking his revenge by stalking Ravi in the hospital and hatches a plan to kill Ravi. Karan and Kajri collect all the evidence that proves Karan's father's innocence. Ravi regains his memory and starts to sympathize with Karan. With the help of Kajri, he promises Karan that once he gains full recovery, he will prove to the court that Karan's father was genuinely innocent, but wrongly persecuted, presenting all the proof. Learning of this turn of events, Singhal turns the tables on Ravi.
A significant family feud ensues between Singhal and Ravi. Ravi, with the help from Karan, wins over the final court case, and finally, the real perpetrators are placed behind bars (including Singhal, who had instigated this). Ravi and Kajri unite happily at last, and Karan gives himself up to the police voluntarily and asks Ravi to defend his case.
Cast
edit- Sanjay Dutt as Captain Karan Singh
- Chandrachur Singh as Ravi Verma
- Mahima Chaudhry - as Kajal Verma (Nee Singhal) / Kajri (Double Role)
- Sushma Seth as Tai
- Shakti Kapoor - as Dr. Anand
- Sachin Khedekar - as Inspector Vinay Kumar
- Raj Babbar - as Mr. Singhal
- Kunika - as Nurse Lily
- Johnny Lever- as Compounder Sunder
- Shivaji Satam - as Satya Prakash Singh, Karan's father
- Mohan Joshi as Purushottam Jalan
- Harish Patel as Bihari
- Neha Pendse as child
Soundtrack
edit| Daag: The Fire | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | 30 December 1998 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Label | T-Series |
All music by Rajesh Roshan and lyrics by Sameer. "Pardesiya Itna Bata Sajna, "Dil Deewana Na Jaane ( Anuradha Paudwal solo)" was very famous at the time of the movie release. The song "Dil Deewana" borrows its charanam from "Pehli Pehli Baar Mohabbat Ki Hai" from Sirf Tum (1999).[5]
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dil Deewana" | Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal |
| 2 | "Piya Lagi Lagan" | Anuradha Paudwal, Jaspinder Narula |
| 3 | "Dil Deewana Naa Jaane Kab (Female)" | Anuradha Paudwal |
| 4 | "Pardesiya Itna Bata Sajna" | Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal |
| 5 | "Pyar Hamein Pyar Tum" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik |
| 6 | "Lucky Kabootar" | Sukhwinder Singh |
| 7 | "Chehra Tera Chehra" | Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal |
| 8 | "Dil Dhak Dhak Dhadke" | Jaspinder Narula |
| 9 | "Pyar Hamein Pyar Tum (Instrumental)" |
Reception
editA critic from Deccan Herald opined that "Sanjay Dutt runs along the fringes of the storyline, making occasional incursions of zero impact. Chandrachur. with his flair and self-assured air puts Sanjay’s laboured outbursts to shame. A few spirited songs by Rajesh Roshan add some spice".[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Daag: The Fire – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ Suparn Verma (13 February 1999). "Revenge and amnesia". Rediff. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ "review (Planet Bollywood)". Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ^ Chopra, Anupama (22 February 1999). "Film review: 'Daag - the Fire', starring Sanjay Dutt, Chandrachur Singh". India Today. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ Patrick, Sylvian [@Sylvianism] (15 October 2023). "Engal Veetil (2000) is a photocopy of Dil Deewana (Daag, 1999). But Dil Deewana shares the charanam with Pehli Pehli (Siri Tum, 1999)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Cinema Reviews -- Entertainment - Deccan Herald". www.cscsarchive.org. Archived from the original on 14 February 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2022.