Yaar Gaddar

About the film

Yaar Gaddar (transl. Treacherous friend) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Umesh Mehra, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Saif Ali Khan, Somy Ali and Prem Chopra.

Plot

Shankar [Mithun] is an honest police officer of the department and he is in love with Shashi [Somy Ali]. Even though he is a strict person to the outside world, he is lenient with his younger brother Jai [Saif Ali Khan] at home. Jai is a "happy go lucky" guy who falls in love with Neeru [Shweta]. Meantime, a group of five criminals (played by Prem Chopra, Gulshan Grover, Puneet Issar, Amrit Pal and Sheila) plots a bank robbery and Jai is implicated in the robbery, putting him on the run from the police. Officially, Shankar is assigned the task of arresting Jai at any cost and he makes all efforts to nab Jai, but fails. Another important character is the governor, the husband of Sheila. The situation becomes even worse when the members of the group are killed one by one. Shankar is now determined to catch Jai dead or alive. Meanwhile, Shankar also reveals that his girlfriend Shashi is a bar dancer who works in the bar owned by the same criminals. On the other hand, Jai also tries to collect evidence to prove his innocence to his brother, but gets into a bigger problem as Shashi sees him coming out of the house of the criminal who was killed.

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by Anu Malik and the lyrics were penned by Qateel Shifai, Pooja Ahuja and Dev Kohli . The soundtrack was released in 1994 on Audio Cassette in Weston Components Music, which consists of 6 songs. The full album is recorded by Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan.

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