King Uncle


King Uncle is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film stars Jackie Shroff, Shah Rukh Khan, and Anu Agarwal in the lead roles. Nagma, Paresh Rawal, Sushmita Mukherjee, Pooja Ruparel, Deven Verma in supporting roles. The film was inspired from the 1982 English film Annie that starred Aileen Quinn and Albert Finney, which in turn is based upon the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The film was box office success and has since gained cult status, being well-received by families and children. Both Shroff and Ruparel's performances received critical acclaim.

Synopsis

Ashok Bansal is a strict industrialist, inspired by the British 'stiff upper lip'. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to become rich because his mother abandoned him with his two other siblings and left for a richer man in the past. In the process of acquiring wealth, he becomes an unbearable disciplinarian and neglects his family consisting of his younger brother Anil and sister Suneeta. He gets his sister Suneeta married to a man who turns out to be a golddigger although she is in love with Ashok's manager. Anil goes against his brother’s highhanded ways and marries Kavita a poor girl, opting to leave the house.
Munna, an orphan arrives at Ashok Bansal's house & tries to thaw the icy strict Ashok. She creates havoc in Ashok's home and eventually manages to become an apple of his eyes, while he tries to get her taken back from the orphanage run by a scheming drunkard warden who had to bear losses due to Munna spilling the beans about her drunken behavior. Thanks to Munna's suggestions, he frees his sister from her abusive husband and brings her home.
When the orphanage warden plans to kidnap Munna to kill and dump her and usurp ransom from Ashok Bansal, not realizing their evil plan he lets Munna go. Realizing that he misses Munna, he decides to adopt Munna saving her from the clutches of the warden and her criminal boyfriend . Ashok Bansal eventually with the help of Munna mends fences with his own family and becomes a kind man with a one big happy family.

Cast

The music is composed by Rajesh Roshan, while the songs are written by Indeevar and Javed Akhtar.

Production