Sir (1993 film)

Sir is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Mahesh Bhatt starring debutant Atul Agnihotri and Pooja Bhatt in the lead roles, with Naseeruddin Shah playing the title role. Paresh Rawal and Gulshan Grover play the villains.^[1] The core plot is based on the 1967 British film To Sir, with Love, about a teacher attempting to help and reform troubled students, with Bhatt turning it into an action-drama with the additional element of the Mumbai underworld.^[2] The film was remade in Telugu as Gangmaster, with Rajasekhar.

Sir
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mahesh Bhatt
Written by	Jay Dixit
Produced by	Mukesh Bhatt
Starring	Atul Agnihotri Pooja Bhatt Naseeruddin Shah Paresh Rawal
Cinematography	Pravin Bhatt
Music by	Anu Malik
Production company	Vishesh Films
Distributed by	Vishesh Films
Release date	9 July 1993 (1993-07-09)
Running time	151 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Plot

Mumbai-based college lecturer Amar Verma lives with his wife, Shobha, and 6-year-old son, Kunal. When a war breaks out between gang lords Veljibhai and Chhapan Tikli alias Jimmy, a number of innocent bystanders fall victim, one of whom is Kunal. This devastates the Verma family. Shobha walks out on Amar, who then devotes his life to his students. Many years later, when he finds out that a student, Pooja, is afflicted by stammering, he decides to help her. He finds out that she is the only child of gangster Veljibhai.

Amar meets with Veljibhai, discusses the gang-war scenario, then meets with Chhapan Tikli and does the same. Amar gets the gangsters to agree on a truce so that he can take Pooja and the rest of the students on a field trip to Bangalore. Amar will soon find out that neither Veljibhai nor Chhapan Tikli has any intention of keeping any truce. As the two dons engage in a fight to the finish, it seems that Amar may well have jeopardized his own life as well as the lives of Pooja and the other students. An additional complication arises with Pooja falling in love with her classmate Karan and wishing to marry him against the wishes of her father.

Cast

• Naseeruddin Shah as Professor Amar Verma
• Atul Agnihotri as Karan Luchad^[3]
• Pooja Bhatt as Pooja Patekar, Veljibhai's daughter.
• Paresh Rawal as Veljibhai Patekar
• Avtar Gill as Arjun Daas
• Soni Razdan as Shobha Verma, Amar's wife.
• Sushmita Mukherjee as Sweety Tikli, Jimmy's sister.
• Gulshan Grover as Chhappan Tikli / a.k.a. Jimmy
• Abha Ranjan as Mrs. Patekar, Velji's wife.
• Mushtaq Khan as Kaluba
• Mahesh Anand as Rajan, Jimmy's henchman.
• Makrand Deshpande as Mack
• Anang Desai as Doctor
• Master Kunal Kemmu as Kunal Verma, Amar and Shobha's son.
• Brownie Parasher as the Last man killed by Kaluba.
• Suhas Bhalekar
• Anant Jog
• Viplove Rai
• Vikas Anand
• G. P. Singh
• Gopal Poojari
• Kamal Malik
• Deepak Sinha
• Anjana
• Banjara

Awards and nominations

Award	Category	Recipients and Nominees	Results
39th Filmfare Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Naseeruddin Shah	Nominated
	Best Villain	Gulshan Grover
		Paresh Rawal	Won
	Best Dialogue	Professor Jay Dixit
41st National Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Paresh Rawal[4]

Music

Sir
Soundtrack album by Anu Malik
Released	July 1992
Recorded	1992
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	56:00
Label	Lara Music
Anu Malik chronology
Izzat (1991) Sir (1992) Chamatkar (1992)

All music is composed by Anu Malik.

No.	Title	Singer (s)	Length
1.	"Hum Se Badal Gaya Woh Nigahen"	Kumar Sanu	6:42
2.	"Aaj Hum Ne Dil Ka Har Kisa"	Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy	7:09
3.	"Jis Din Suraj Ki Pehli Kiran"	Kumar Sanu	8:38
4.	"Yeh Ujli Chandni"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik	7:16
5.	"Band Hothon Se" (Female)	Kavita Krishnamurthy	6:27
6.	"Sun Sun Barsat Ki Dhun"	Kumar Sanu	7:20
7.	"Odhe Ke Andhera"	Kavita Krishnamurthy	6:50
8.	"Band Hothon Se" (Male)	Kumar Sanu	6:14
Total length:			56:00