Auzaar
- Director
- Sohail Khan
- Release Date
- 28 February 1997
- Language
- Hindi
- Budget
- ₹5.25 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹10.37 Cr
Review
Arjun Nair here. *Auzaar* is a film that mistakes melodrama for emotional depth and confuses plot convolutions with storytelling sophistication. The premise—two friends torn between loyalty and duty—has genuine potential, but director Sourabh Shrivastava squanders it by piling on twists that feel arbitrary rather than earned. The Thakur "faking disability" revelation arrives like a bad joke, attempting shock value when the script should've built character complexity from scene one. The performances, particularly from the leads, are sincere but hamstrung by dialogue that oscillates between cringe-worthy sentimentality and exposition dumps. Even when Yash and Suraj finally reconcile for the climax, you're too exhausted by contrivance to care.
What genuinely frustrates me is that fragments of a decent film flicker beneath the wreckage—the central friendship dynamic could've anchored something meaningful, and there are moments where the moral conflict feels tangible. But Shrivastava keeps cutting away from introspection to manufacture action beats and rescue sequences that feel obligatory rather than organic. Prarthana's kidnapping happens *twice* because the plot needs filler. The cinematography is competent, the music unmemorable, and the pacing drags despite the runtime. This is a film that needed an editor with a knife and a writer willing to trust subtlety.
Rating: 4/10
Storyline
Suraj and Yash share an unbreakable college bond, but everything shatters when Yash impulsively murders Bhaiji to avenge his father Thakur—a ruthless gangster—forcing the friends into opposing worlds. Years later, Yash has morphed into a crime boss himself (though with a conscience), married to Prarthana, while Suraj has become a straight-arrow cop investigating illegal operations. When Suraj discovers his old best friend's criminal empire, he's caught between loyalty and duty, desperately trying to convince Yash to go legit before his superiors crucify him for the connection.
The tension explodes when Yash and Suraj finally reconnect and rekindle their friendship, but Baba—the psychotic son of the man Yash killed—is plotting revenge with a corrupt inspector in his pocket. Prarthana gets snatched by Baba's goons, Suraj saves her, and his cover gets blown when his police identity card drops; worse, a costly watch exposes him as an undercover cop to Thakur himself. Yash feels betrayed on all sides and cuts ties with both Suraj and Prarthana, spiraling into despair until a shocking reveal: Thakur was never actually disabled and faked his whole condition just to turn Yash into a gangster like himself!
Reeling from his father's manipulation and having lost everything that mattered, Yash finally surrenders to the police—but then gets the call that Prarthana's been kidnapped again. Suraj and Yash burst back together as unstoppable partners, demolishing Baba's crew, dismantling Thakur's empire, and rescuing Prarthana in one explosive final act that restores their friendship and proves that loyalty and redemption can triumph over crime and corruption.
