Kaala Patthar (DvD/Hindi Movie/Bollywood Movie/Indian Cinema/Amitabh Bachchan) [DVD]

Being branded a coward for abandoning his ship full of
over 300 passengers. Captain Vijay Pal Singh, is discharged from duty,
humiliated by society and disowned by his parents. Feeling guilty over his
cowardice and with low self-esteem, he starts working as a coal miner to
forget his past. But it still continues to hunt him, he welcome pain as a
punishment. The owner of the mine is Dhanraj Puri, a carefree and
irresponsible man whose mine is poorly equipped, with less than sufficient
medical supplies, and no facilities for the miners and their families. Vijay
trys to save every workers life in order to overcome his haunted past but to
no avil. But one day water forced itself in one of the mining tunnels,
endangering the lives of over 400 workers. Vijay along with some of his other
colleagues put up a big fight to save each and every workers life. Which at
last was successful and Vijay was able to overcome his troubled past. Review
Kala patthar is a true story in 1975 the chasanala charcoal mine got flooded
with water in which 572 workers were caught. The films stars- amitabh
bachchan, shatrughan sinha, shashi kapoor, prem chopra, neetu singh, parveen
babi and raakhe. The technical side of the movie was good and the sets and the
makeups made the movie look for real to life. Yash chopra made kala patthar a
memorable movie though glamouros love story and an action film. The music by
rajesh roshan is also pretty good sungh by kishore kumar, lata mangeshkar,
mohd raffi and mohinder kapoor. Janeman tum kamal karti ho is sung great by
kishore kumar, ek raasta hai zindagi both by lata and kishore is also a good
song and i also like the song bahun mein teri by mohammad raffi.
Performancewise- amitabh bachnan carries of his young angry man image in this
film as well and does a fine job, anger in his eyes and confidence in his
actions delivers minimum words and still makes an impact. Shashi kapoor as
usual as the side hero does a great job he was never a bad actor and there has
to be some good song in his film, Neetu singh does a good job, raakhe doesn t
have that much role but goes along with role given. PArveen also doesn t have
a lenghty role. Prem chopra as the villain is great as usual, without villains
in the 70 s movies were a weakfare but with prem chopra as the villain you had
t o watch it. --mouthshut.com