Miss 420Directed by: Akashdeep
Starring: Sheeba, Baba Sehgal, Tinnu Anand, Shakti Kapoor.
Special guest appearance -- Mohan Joshi, Asif Sheikh, Jeet Upendra, Mahesh Anand, Ameeta Nangia and Johny Lever.
Showing at: Maratha Mandir
After Chachi 420 it's now time for Miss 420. This film was actually made half a decade ago, when Baba Sehgal was still riding high on the success of Thanda Thanda Pani and Sheeba was still being offered films.
Anyway, this much-delayed `musical thriller' is about Miss 420 (Sheeba), a young recruit in the Intelligence department, in Goa, who is assigned the all-important task of trapping spies leaking defence secrets.
Her bosses are Khan (Tinnu Anand) and Col Kapoor (Shakti Kapoor) in that order. Miss 420's first assignment is to escort a van carrying mysterious but top-level secrets. Naturally, they are waylaid by the villainous, D K (Mohan Joshi) and his gang (Mahesh Anand, Anant Mahadevan and
Ameeta Nangia). In the ensuing scuffle Miss 420 is presumed dead.
A similar-looking girl is spotted on the shores of Mumbai by Vicky and Varun (Baba Sehgal and Jeet Upendra) who are two young, fun-loving, balding college students. Vicky falls in love with her. After much cooing and crooning, she accepts his advances. Miss 420 number two is called Anamika (Sheeba). Her brother, Arvind (Asif Sheikh), is a crime reporter working for the Goa Gomantak Times. He catches DK doing dastardly acts and is killed in a bad guys versus good guy chase.
When Anamika arrives in Goa and finds her brother missing, she and Vicky comb the beaches. No luck! Meanwhile, Jony and Waqar (Mushtaq Khan and Aroon Bakshi), two detectives, report that Miss 420 is alive. Her ex-bosses are in a tizzy.
Now begins the actual story. The villains need Arvind's roll of film. Arvind is not actually dead, he had just lost his memory. The Intelligence is looking for their Mae West. And no one knows who the real Miss 420
is. In the end, apparently, this film falls into place -- after three hours.
Badmaash
Director: Gautam Pawar
Starring: Jackie Shroff, Pran, Shilpa Shirodkar, Paresh Rawal
Showing at: Novelty
This is the story of a person who is the victim of circumstance and ends up a criminal in the eyes of the law. A new idea, surely. Gautam (Jackie Shroff) is a happy-go-lucky man from a middle-class family, living comfortably with his father (Pran), mother (Bindu) and sister Suman (Shamim).
One day, Gautam goes to his sister's college and comes across Sameer (Sanjay), the spoilt brat of Lalaseth (Paresh Rawal). Sameer whiles away his hours by molesting young girls in the college. He misbehaves with Gita (Shilpa Shirodkar), who is Suman's close friend. Gautam can't digest this and thrashes Sameer to pulp.
Being the son of a powerful man, Sameer finds it difficult to swallow this insult. And even the Lala thirsts for Gautam's blood. And a bitter blood feud begins.In the battle,
Gautam loses his sister and parents. But he gains a lover in the fullsome form of Gita. After much dhishum dhishum and a few casualties, the world goes back to normal. Good triumphs over evil, wrongs are righted and `The End' comes across the silver screen. In Bollywood, dawn breaks over another cliched story.
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