Inspector Ram succeeds in nabbing notorious criminal Ballu. When Ballu's escape taints Ram's name, his fiancee, Ganga, decides to trap Ballu. But, things get complicated however, when Ballu falls for her and she finds that she isn't entirely immune to his charms.
Acting
Dutt's Ballu: vulnerability in a villain's swagger.
Direction
Ghai's maximalist vision, unapologetically 90s.
Costume
Ballu's tank tops: criminal couture.
Director
Subhash Ghai
Sanjay Dutt
Balaram "Ballu" Prasad
Madhuri Dixit
Ganga
Jackie Shroff
Inspector Ram Kumar Sinha
Anupam Kher
Ishwar Girdhar Pandey
Ramya Krishnan
Sophia Sulochana
Sushmita Mukherjee
Mrs. Pandey
Neena Gupta
Champa Didi
Rakhee Gulzar
Aarti Prasad
A.K. Hangal
Shaukat Bhai
Sudhir Dalvi
Teacher
Ali Asgar
Munna
Arun Bali
Commissioner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sanjay Dutt was actually incarcerated during post-production; his real-life imprisonment shadowed the film's release.
'Choli Ke Peeche' sparked nationwide censorship debates while becoming one of Bollywood's most iconic songs—controversy as marketing.
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