Mohra
Mohra is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Rajiv Rai. It features Naseeruddin Shah, Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Raveena Tandon and Poonam Jhawer in the lead roles, with Paresh Rawal, Gulshan Grover, Raza Murad and Sadashiv Amrapurkar in supporting roles. The film went on to become the second highest-grossing Indian film of that year and was declared a Blockbuster.
The film received nine Filmfare nominations in 1995. It was also the first collaboration between the trio of Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Suniel Shetty who went on to collaborate several times later on. Originally, Divya Bharti was cast as the female lead but she only managed five days working on the film before her death. Raveena Tandon was cast as her replacement. The film was reported to be inspired by the 1987 film .
The film is also remembered for its songs which became chartbusters in that year. The popularity of the song "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast", which was picturised on Raveena Tandon, led to her being nicknamed The mast mast girl. The song was an adaptation of the popular Qawwali song "Dam Mast Qalandar Mast Mast" by Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The film's soundtrack album sold more than 8million units, making it the second highest-selling Bollywood soundtrack album of 1994, behind only Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
Plot
Vishal Agnihotri, a convict, is imprisoned for the murder of a group of four criminals who had brutally raped and killed his sister-in-law. Vishal tries to get justice in court but is unsuccessful and the men are released from prison with the help of a corrupt lawyer. The four criminals then visit Vishal's home because he tried to file a case against them. Driven by vengeance, they try to rape Vishal's wife Priya, but she kills herself with a knife. Angered at all this, Vishal decides to take the matter into his own hands and murders the four criminals himself. He is sentenced to life in prison for the crimes.When journalist Roma Singh visits the jail for a report that she's writing, a few of the convicts try to rape her. The attempted rape reminds Vishal of his misfortune and he intervenes and saves Roma. Roma hears Vishal's story and decides to help free him. She is heard by a blind businessman - Mr. Jindal who tries to recruit Vishal as a hit-man. He wants Vishal to kill some anti-social elements in the city, mainly the two powerful drug lords Jibran and Tyson and all the people who work for them. Mr. Jindal tells Vishal that these drug lords are responsible for creating people like the group of four men he killed in the first place, by bringing drugs to the streets and corrupting the locals with them. Vishal refuses at first as he has just got out of prison and now wants to live a normal life. However, the memories of his murdered family come back to haunt him as he spends a day alone in his home, and he agrees to work for Jindal.
Inspector Sahoo is very greedy and becomes an informer for Jibran, one of the targeted drug lords. He discloses all internal matters of the police department to Jibran in return for money.
Police Inspector Amar Saxena is trying to catch the drug-trading suspects. He is unhappy about the release of Vishal, who he believes deserves to be in prison because of the murders he committed. Things become even more complicated when Amar finds Vishal at most of the murder scenes of criminals involved in drug-trading. Vishal goes on a murder spree until he realizes that even the Commissioner thinks that the unknown murderer is doing more to help society than the police could ever do. Vishal refuses to kill the Commissioner, thus angering his boss, Jindal. Vishal attacks Jindal with a paper-weight, but Jindal dodges it. Vishal then realizes that Jindal is not blind and is the real antagonist, as he was pulling the strings all this time.
Jindal tells Vishal that Jibran and Tyson were his rivals. He also confesses that he murdered his wife Pooja and Inspector Karan Saxena, to cover up the truth, and faked his blindness to throw the police off his trail. Jindal, who has now partnered with one of his former enemies, Jibran, leaves Vishal to die. Vishal escapes, only to be confronted by Amar. Inspector Sahoo, who is brought to Jindal by Jibran to give him important information about Vishal, tells him that Vishal is alive and will tell the entire truth to Amar and the Commissioner by the next morning. Then Jindal kidnaps the journalist, Roma, and kills the sub-editor Siddiqui, who tries to save her. Amar, Vishal and the Commissioner go to Jindal's home to arrest him, but they find the sub-editor, Siddiqui, murdered at his home. They discover that Jindal has kidnapped Roma in order to forcefully marry her. Amar and Vishal find Jindal's den with the help of Inspector Sahoo and corner him.
After a melee, Jibran is killed. Jindal tries to kill Amar, but Vishal takes the bullet and is mortally wounded. Amar kills Jindal and avenges the death of his father before Vishal dies in Amar's lap.
Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah as Mr. Jindal
- Akshay Kumar as Inspector Amar Saxena
- Suniel Shetty as Vishal Agnihotri
- Raveena Tandon as Roma Singh, Amar's lover
- Poonam Jhawer as Priya Agnihotri,
- Paresh Rawal as Sub-inspector, Kashinath Sahoo
- Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Kamdev Kulkarni, Commissioner of Police
- Gulshan Grover as Tyson, the drug lord
- Raza Murad as Jibran, another drug lord, rival of Tyson
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Jailer, Roma's Dad
- Avtar Gill as Karan Saxena, Amar's dad
- Priya Tendulkar as Pooja
- Razak Khan as Rizwaan
- Kunika as Flora
- Tej Sapru as Irfan
- Vishwajeet Pradhan as Jackson
- Yunus Parvez as Siddiqui
- Vinay Sapru as Tony
- Harish Patel as Kranti Kumar
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack album sold more than 8million units, making it the second highest-selling Bollywood soundtrack album of 1994, behind only Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! The song "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast" was remade as "Cheez Badi" for the 2017 film Machine.
; Track list
| # | Title | Singer | Lyrics |
| 1 | "Tip Tip Barsa Pani" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Anand Bakshi |
| 2 | "Ae Kaash Kahin Aisa Hota" | Kumar Sanu | Anand Bakshi |
| 3 | "Main Cheez Badi Hoon Mast Mast" | Kavita Krishnamurthy | Anand Bakshi |
| 4 | "Na Kajre Ki Dhaar" | Pankaj Udhas, Sadhana Sargam | Indeevar |
| 5 | "Na Kajre Ki Dhaar" | Pankaj Udhas | Indeevar |
| 6 | "Na Kajre Ki Dhaar" | Sadhana Sargam | Indeevar |
| 7 | "Subah Se Lekar" | Sadhana Sargam, Udit Narayan | Anand Bakshi |
| 8 | "Dil Har Koi" | Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik | Indeevar |
| 9 | "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast" | Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan | Anand Bakshi |