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Directed by | Rakesh Roshan |
Produced by | Rakesh Roshan |
Starring |
Jackie Shroff Anu Agarwal Shah Rukh Khan Nagma Paresh Rawal Sushmita Mukherjee Deven Verma Pooja Ruparel |
Music by | Rajesh Roshan |
Distributed by |
Venus Records & Tapes (audio) Baba Eros International (video) |
Release date |
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Running time | 171 min. |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
King Uncle is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film stars Jackie Shroff and Anu Agarwal in the lead roles. Shah Rukh Khan, Nagma, Paresh Rawal, Sushmita Mukherjee, Pooja Ruparel, Deven Verma and Saleem Yousuf Hakroo from Kashmir star in supporting roles. The film was inspired from the 1982 English film Annie that starred Aileen Marie Quinn and Albert Finney, which in turn is based upon the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray.
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Synopsis
Ashok Bansal (Jackie Shroff) is a strict industrialist, inspired by the British 'stiff upper lip'. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to become rich. In the process of acquiring wealth, he neglects his family consisting of his younger brother Anil (Shahrukh Khan) and sister Suneeta (Nivedita Saraf). He gets Suneeta married to a man who turns out to be a golddigger although she is in love with Ashok's manager (Vivek Vaswani). Anil goes against his brother’s highhanded ways and marries Kavita (Nagma), opting to leave the house. Munna (Pooja Ruparel), an orphan arrives at the house & tries to thaw the icy strict Ashok. She creates havoc in Ashok’s home while he tries to get her taken back by the orphanage. When orphanage warden calls to take her back, he lets her go. Realizing that he misses her, he decides to adopt her and mend fences with his own family. He frees his sister from her abusive husband and brings her home.