Adventures of Tarzan (1985 Hindi film)
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Adventures of Tarzan is a 1985
Hindi-language Indian
feature film
directed
by Babbar Subhash
, starring Hemant Birje
, Dalip Tahil
, Kimi Katkar
and Om Shivpuri
, made in Hindi language. The film was much talked about in its time, mainly due to the hot scenes between lead pairs and super hit songs. Ruby Shetty and her her widowed dad, lives a wealthy lifestyle. Ruby's father often travels to deep jungles of India in search of a fabled tribe in the Shakabhoomi region. The people who have tried to trace the tribe have never returned. This time Ruby also decides to accompany her dad. She is introduced to a man named D.K. by her dad and he would like her to get married to D.K. Later days, Ruby does a number of misadventures and is rescued by an ape-like man called Tarzan and both falls in love. Tarzan does not have experience with outside world and cannot speak any language as well, but he is intrigued by Ruby annoying D.K.. Ruby's dad and D.K plans to capture Tarzan and take him to work for Apollo Circus owned by Krishnakant Verma. Tarzan is captured before Tarzan and Ruby's romance could take wing. Tarzan is chained and taken to the circus and made to spend the rest of his days performing various acts, thus leaving D.K. to marry Ruby. Would Tarzan escape from Circus ? Would Ruby agrees to marry D.K. ? All these questions are answered in Climax.
1985 in film
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Hindi-language Indian
Cinema of India
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feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
directed
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
by Babbar Subhash
Babbar Subhash
Babbar Subhash better known as B. Subhash, is a well known Indian film director and producer. Some of his most successful films are Disco Dancer, Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki, Dance Dance, Love Love Love, Adventures of Tarzan and Commando...
, starring Hemant Birje
Hemant Birje
Hemant Birje is a Bollywood film actor. In 1985, he debuted as Tarzan in Babbar Subhash' s Adventures of Tarzan, also starring Kimi Katkar. He has had mixed success in later films. He was a regular actor in Mithun Chakraborty films. In 2005, Birje appeared in Garv: Pride and Honour, starring...
, Dalip Tahil
Dalip Tahil
Dalip Tahil is an Indian film, television and theatre actor. He did his schooling from the elite Sherwood College in Nainital, India and later graduated from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.-Films:...
, Kimi Katkar
Kimi Katkar
Kimi Katkar was a successful model and popular actress of Bollywood from the 1980s to the early 1990s.-Career:Kimi Katkar made her acting debut in the 1985 film, Patthar Dil as a supporting actress. Later that year, she starred in Tarzan , where she played the lead opposite Hemant Birje...
and Om Shivpuri
Om Shivpuri
Om Shivpuri was an Indian theatre actor-director and character actor in Hindi films.A National School of Drama, New Delhi alumni, Om Shivpuri became the first chief of the National School of Drama Repertory Company and one of its actors; he later founded an important theatre group of its era, in...
Plot
Adventures of Tarzan is the popular story of TarzanTarzan
Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...
, made in Hindi language. The film was much talked about in its time, mainly due to the hot scenes between lead pairs and super hit songs. Ruby Shetty and her her widowed dad, lives a wealthy lifestyle. Ruby's father often travels to deep jungles of India in search of a fabled tribe in the Shakabhoomi region. The people who have tried to trace the tribe have never returned. This time Ruby also decides to accompany her dad. She is introduced to a man named D.K. by her dad and he would like her to get married to D.K. Later days, Ruby does a number of misadventures and is rescued by an ape-like man called Tarzan and both falls in love. Tarzan does not have experience with outside world and cannot speak any language as well, but he is intrigued by Ruby annoying D.K.. Ruby's dad and D.K plans to capture Tarzan and take him to work for Apollo Circus owned by Krishnakant Verma. Tarzan is captured before Tarzan and Ruby's romance could take wing. Tarzan is chained and taken to the circus and made to spend the rest of his days performing various acts, thus leaving D.K. to marry Ruby. Would Tarzan escape from Circus ? Would Ruby agrees to marry D.K. ? All these questions are answered in Climax.
Cast
- Hemant Birje ... Tarzan
- Kimi Katkar ... Ruby Shetty
- Dalip Tahil ... D.K.
- Narendra Nath ... Krishnakant Verma
- Om Shivpuri ... Shetty
- Sudhir ... Press Photographer
- Sunita
- Raja Duggal