Kabzaa

Kabzaa (The Capture)
Directed by	Mahesh Bhatt
Produced by	Nanabhai Bhatt
Written by	Salim Khan
Starring	Raj Babbar; Sanjay Dutt; Amrita Singh; Paresh Rawal; Alok Nath
Music by	Rajesh Roshan
Release date	20 May 1988

Kabzaa is a 1988 Bollywood action-drama film starring Raj Babbar, Sanjay Dutt and Paresh Rawal. This movie is hugely inspired by the 1954 American Classic On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando. Scripted by legendary scriptwriter Salim Khan and directed by prominent Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt the film was well liked by critics but only fairing average at the box office. Over the years it has garnered a cult following. Bhatts again used the same theme in their 1998 film Ghulam starring Aamir Khan and directed by Vikram Bhatt.

Plot

In the opening scene, Ravi Verma (Sanjay Dutt) is shown badly wounded with bullets. He crawls to a phone booth and calls up for an ambulance to save his life.

Ravi Verma is a careless boy who lives with his elder brother Ranjit Verma (Raj Babbar). Ranjit is a lawyer and works for Veljibhai Soda (Paresh Rawal), who is a criminal. Veljibhai has an order to forcefully acquire a land which belongs to a freedom fighter Ustad Ali Mohammed (Alok Nath). Ali Mohammed wants to build up a children's park at that site. Ravi somehow gets into the picture and Veljibhai asks him to go there and warn Ali Mohammed to leave the land immediately. Ravi is suffering from brain tumor and while throwing things out of Ali Mohammed's house, he falls on

Release Date :

12:00am on Friday 1st January 1988