Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Om Puri, and Namrata Shirodkar in Pukar (2000)

Pukar

Movie20002h 56m
ActionDramaRomanceThriller
6.7 / 10(2,820)

A notorious terrorist manipulates an Indian army major's jilted lover into helping him obtain a classified military code.

Runtime
2h 56m
Released
2000
Country
India

Details

Release year: 2000

Storyline

A notorious terrorist manipulates an Indian army major's jilted lover into helping him obtain a classified military code.

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Did you know

Earlier Rajkumar Santoshi was to make the film with Sunny Deol,Meenakshi Seshadri and Raveena Tandon as " Ajay" in 1991. Music by Bappi Lahiri, Produced by Dharmendra. When Meenakshi and Santoshi had a fallout, the film was shelved. The script was put on hold because Santoshi decided to make Ghatak instead. In 1998 Boney Kapoor offered a good financial deal to Santoshi and he opted to make the film "Ajay" with Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit and Namrata Shirodkar. The title Pukar was chosen for the project . This angered Sunny Deol as the idea behind the script had come from him. He felt betrayed by Santoshi. Sunny decided to make another film titled "Ajay" with Suneel Darshan instead.

Madhuri and Prabhu Deva danced together for the first time in the song Que sera sera.

Lata Mangeshkar after being in film industry for more than 50 years she first time appeared in the film in the climax and singing her own song, she always sing for others, this time she sang for herself.

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Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $314,701

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $198,287 (2000-02-06)

User reviews

8/10

Pukar: A call from the nation and love

👍 9 · 4/22/2006
6/10

A solid action-packed drama with strong performances

👍 5 · 9/18/2021
8/10

Not perfect but it isn't to be missed

👍 11 · 12/1/2007
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Technical specs

Sound mix
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
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