1995; COL; Hindustani; 35mm; 4536.94 Mtrs; 14886 Fts; 165 Mins; 16 Reels; CC.No.B-1561 Dated:19/07/95 Catg: UA

BANNER
Ketan Mehta Films P. Ltd
Maya The Magic Shop, NFDC,
Discovery of India Building,
Worli, Mumbai - 400 018

CREDIT TITLES
Direction & Story: Ketan Mehta
Screenplay: Deepa Sahi, Parvati Balagopalan
Audiography: Ashwin Balsavar
Editing: Jetu Mandal
Cinematography: WB Rao
Art Direction: Nitin Desai
Lyrics: Ketan Mehta
Music: Ranjit Barot
Action: Ravi Dewan
Choreography: Saroj Khan, Raju Khan, Farha Khan, Naved Jaffrey
Make-up: Ravi Indulkar
Stills: Glamour Color
Costumes: Gauri Khan, Bhanu Athaiya, Monica Dutta, Troy D'costa, Bhavna Mukadiwala
Re-recording: Hitendra Ghosh
Processed at: Film Centre
Records: Venus Records & Tapes Pvt. Ltd

PLAYBACK SINGERS
Shankar Mahadevan, Javed Jaffery, Alisha Chinai, Hema Sardesai, Raghubir Yadav, Ranjeet Barot, Ranu Mukherjee, Shweta Shetty

CAST
Shah Rukh Khan
Deepa Sahi
Javed Jaffrey
Anupam Kher
Amrish Puri
Tinnu Anand
Tiku Talsania
B.M. Vyas
Geeta Kapoor

SYNOPSIS
Two strangers - a boy and a girl - meet accidentally on the streets of Bombay. The boy dreams of becoming an actor, the girl is a prostitute who decides to take the night off. She wants fun. He wants food. They strike a deal and a night of entertainment begins for a bite of food. They move through the empty streets, singing, dancing, laughing and enjoying themselves.

But as they are painting the town red, violence breaks out all over the country. Emergency is declared and President's Rule is imposed. Unaware of the crisis gripping the country, they continue their search for fun. The people of the streets, the homeless and the sleepless, join them in their joyful madness and it soon becomes a spontaneous carnival on the streets of the city.

In the meantime, the don of the underworld has other sinister plans. He has, with the help of a plastic surgeon, created a duplicate of the President. He plans to kidnap the President and replace him with his puppet duplicate. The Don's son, Prince (Javed Jaffery) is in love with the prostitute who rebuffs his advances. The Don lets loose a series of violent events in the city and even succeeds in his sinister plan. But the hero and his gang of street people find out about the conspiracy and manage to save the country from being sold for one rupee!

The entire story takes place in one surreal night. The following morning the protagonist emerges from the manhole into the busy Churchgate railway station wondering if it was all a dream. But suddenly five rupees and seventy-five paise fall out of his pocket, the money the prostitute had promised him if she enjoyed his act.