Hu Tu Tu

Infobox Film
name = Hu Tu Tu


caption = Hu Tu Tu film poster
director = Gulzar
writer = Gulzar
starring = Tabu
Nana Patekar
Sunil Shetty
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distributor =
released = Jan 22 , 1999
runtime =
music =
language = Hindi
country = flagicon|India India
budget =
imdb_id = 0246687

"Hu Tu Tu" is a 1999 Hindi drama directed by Sampooran Singh Gulzar. Tabu received a 2000 Filmfare Award nomination for Best Actress for this movie.

ynopsis

The story opens with the kidnapping of Panna Barve (Tabu), the daughter of Chief Minister Malti Barve (Suhasini Muley). The responsible gang's demand is that one of their members be released from police custody. While in captivity, Panna reminisces about her childhood, where she had to struggle to grow up with a power hungry and inconsiderate mother and a simple, quiet, and spineless father (Shivaji Satam). Panna's mother had also been carrying on a rather open affair with party co-member Sawantrao Gadre (Dr. Mohan Agashe). Flashback over and Panna soon meets the man behind her kidnapping - Aditya Patel (Sunil Shetty) - who Panna knows from before.

Via flashback #2, we learn that Panna and "Adi" were lovers once upon a time. Their closeness stemmed from the fact that he also was struggling with a corrupt parent in the form of businessman father, P.N. Patel (Kulbhushan Kharbanda). Panna and Adi both find solace in a poor basti with the company of Adi's old teacher Joshi Master and in the philosophy of poet Bhau (Nana Patekar), much to the dismay of the couple's respective parents. Bhau even goes to the extent of becoming Malti's most vociferous opponent. Due to a sudden car accident, however, Adi is presumed dead and Panna loses Adi's out- of-wedlock baby before it can be born. Thus ends flashback #2.

Getting back to the kidnapping, Adi and Panna reunite after quite some time. They talk to each other and piece together the events that have occurred since their separation. Just then, the missing gang member is sent back to Adi. It is none other than Bhau, who is returned to the gang with his brain destroyed by electric shock. News also comes that Joshi master is killed in jail and it is portrayed as a suicide. Panna and Adi then decide what the best form of poetic justice will be for their parents.

The very last scene of the movie is one of the most uplifting and intelligent endings ever. Gulzar suggests that although we have already ruined the world for Generation X, we should focus our efforts into the protection and education of our school children. If we shield them from this corruption, they will become the leaders of tomorrow, and they will run the country the way it should be. If "crossing the line is corruption", why not stop our children before they get a chance to even see that line?

Cast

* Nana Patekar
* Sunil Shetty
* Tabu
* Suhasini Mulay
* Shivaji Satham
* Mohan Agashe
* Kulbhushan Kharbanda

External links

*imdb title|id=0246687