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SSP Amar Nath Singh is an honest and diligent police officer. His investigations have proved that Brijbhan is involved in criminal activities, as well as terrorism, and has the full co-operation of some employees in the police department, as well as the Indian army. He has also to bring two gang-leaders, Karim Lala, and Hariharan, to stop their gang rivalry. To this extent he is successful in convincing both to stop criminal activities, and join forces with him to bring Brijbhan to justice. Hariharan and Karim Lala openly agree to do this, while they prepare a hidden agenda which will only benefit them.

Amitabh Bachchan was initially signed for a guest appearance in the movie, but whilst in production he was given a full fledged role, leaving him to be the leading hero of the film

As part of the marketing campaign, the makers decided to give away the jacket, which Amitabh Bachchan wore in the film. All the individuals who had the correct answer were put in a draw and a winner was chosen. This strategy for promotion worked really well for the film.

The song " Saare Ladke Kare Kare Shaadi" was sampled from the Pakistani song "Sare Ladkon Kare " from the Pakistani movie Beqarar released in 1986. Deewana Mujh Sa Nahin also copied this song.

This was the only time Amitabh Bachchan worked with Sunny Deol and Chunky Pandey.

The film was launched in 1989 and set for release in 1991 but had production problems and it finally released in 1994.

Vinod Mehra and Nutan had completed their scenes for the film before their deaths in 1990 and 1991 respectively.

Voice artist Chetan Sashita dubbed Sunny Deol's dialogs due to his injury from falling of a horse, Chetan was not credited for his contribution.

The last film of Amitabh before his temporary retirement since 1992, the film was delayed since 1991 and released in 1994 and was a failure.

Anil Kapoor was initially signed to play Sunny Deol's role. He left the film due to date problems.

Sonam' s role was scrapped from the film after she shot for 1 song. This was due to the film being endlessly delayed. Sonam quit the film industry and was not able to shoot for any more scenes.The song was retained for the film.

The film marked Aftab Shivdasani's last film as a child artist.

Bharat Shah was thanked in the opening credits for his support for releasing this long in the making movie.

The song "Lal Kaghri Nee Teri Lal Kaghri" from the album Ek Dhun Pyar Ki was a rage in 1992. When Insaniyat became very stale, the producer Tito Juneja decided to add the song "Lal Kaghri Nee Teri Lal Kaghri". This was done to make the film fresh and cash in on the popularity of the song. The hopes was to boost interest in the film.

When this film was launched Raj Babbar was in this film playing negative role, but backed out as it is said that he dint want in the end, to be bashed by Amitabh. Later Raj Babbar was replaced by Anupam Kher.

In the film, many changes in star cast were done . Sanjay Dutt was signed but later replaced by Chunky Pandey. Anil Kapoor and Kimi Katkar were replaced by Sunny Deol and Sheeba . Sheeba was later dropped from the film and Raveena Tandon was signed in 1993. This was done to make the film look more fresh.

Laxmikant-Pyarelal were the origional music composers of this film then they were replaced by Rajesh Roshan.

The mahurat shot had featured. Amitabh Bachchan and Raj Babbar.

The movie was the highest first week (bollywood) grosser of 1994, though, a flop.

Nutan played Amitabh Bachchan's mother, 21 years before Insaniyat released they played spouses in Saudagar. Despite the characters they played in Insaniyat, Nutan was only 6 years older than Amitabh Bachchan.

Last film of veteran actress Nutan who passed away three years before its release.

When the film released in 1994 Amitabh Bachchan had retired temporarily from films since 1992.

Final film of director Tony Juneja.

User reviews


  • comment
    • Author: Pipet
    This movie should've been shelved for good. After having two of the actors (who supposedly had prominent roles in the movie) dead before the release, it's not a good thing to release it, with their parts not being trimmed, but with a huge alteration in the story. The movie doesn't make any sense. The first scene shows that Goga was behind the separation between Amitabh and his parents, and it also says luckily he was found by Shafi Inamdar, a friend of his father. And, the man never tried to search for his lost parents? He knew how Amitabh got separated from his family, right? Okay, let this plot hole not be a plot hole. Amitabh clearly knows his mother's name. He meets Nutan as Vinod Mehra's mother, and the later scenes show that he knows that Nutan's name in the movie is Shanti Devi. And, he doesn't even think for a second that she can be his mother? Had this all been done, the movie would've made at least some sense. Clearly, this shows the horrible and terrible rewriting of the script. The scenes with Nutan and the rewritten parts are quite contradictory. Not only these, an entire scene with Sunny Deol reading Namaz whilst trying to save Jaya Prada from the goons is just plain stupid! Even a five year old can say that doesn't make any sense. That part is probably the most terribly written and directed among all, along with how songs featuring Chunky and Sunny pop out. Raveena-Sunny love story plotline starts abruptly and leads to nothing. Similarly with Chunky's love story. Those are the most awkward and WTF moments of the movie. A part of the remaining part of the movie is the prominent use of plot devices whenever needed - literally. Almost one third of the movie is introduction of a ridiculous and clichéd plot device, right at the moment when it is needed, without any build-up. The dialogues are completely atrocious, and hilarious. Amitabh-Jaya plotline is a childish writing. Seriously, forcefully separated because her love will prevent him from becoming the greatest soldier of the country? And was he? Sunny-Chunky plotline is just a repetition of itself until Amitabh's death sentence brings them together. The villainous stuffs are equally awkward, over the top and childish, to say the least. And, I don't know this movie is trying to be. It feels like a crime drama, gangster movie, mob movie, lost and found romantic movie, lost and found family movie, patriotic movie (with all those "desh" related dialogues) but not really any of them. Specially, whenever it tries to get patriotic, it sucks terribly. Also, Amitabh's performance. In the original scenes, he is fantastic and intense. But in the rewritten parts he is (unbelievably) awkward, hammed up, desperate, passionately uncool and cringe-worthy. You can look at his eyes, and clearly say he was desperately waiting for the reshoots to end. And finally, you MUST HAVE shelved this movie, if you're going to use the rehearsal shots of Nutan. She forgets her lines in the street murder scene. Songs like "Saathi Tera Pyaar" and "Main Naseeb Hoon" were a bit redeeming. That's only a little good it has. With such a gigantic cast, this movie was not supposed to fail this way, the original scenes suggest the movie to be promising. But unfortunately, it is dreadful and unwatchable. I would've easily given this movie an "F" and a special "0/10", but since there's a benefit of doubt on how this should've been originally, which makes me give the following rating.

    Score : 2.3/10

    Grade : E

    Label : So bad that it is good
  • comment
    • Author: Inth
    I am definitely one of the world's biggest Amitabh Bachchan fans ... which is probably why I hate this movie and haven't even been able to finish watching it. Bachchan's early work is brilliant, in my opinion, and there have also been some stunning performances in his recent movies ... but 'Insaniyat' falls in a huge crack in the middle. The Big B looks awkward, tired, out of date and (unbelievably for Bachchan) severely and desperately uncool in this movie. He does try hard, but he doesn't pull it off (not by a long shot), and the worst part is that you can tell he knows he isn't succeeding. I'm so glad he didn't retire from the big screen after this movie, and that he's still putting out fabulous work. Sunny Deol does his pouting best in this movie (although he can never, in my opinion, match up to his legendary dad - sorry, Sunny), but it's not a remarkable performance. This movie does try hard, with a star-studded cast, a big budget and fair performances by most cast members, but it just doesn't fulfil its promise.
  • comment
    • Author: Arryar
    What was to become Amitabh Bachchan's final movie of his career before retirement, he ended with an action movie. I thought it was one of the best movies of him where he played an honest police officer who had two tasks - one to end the rivalry of Chunkey Pandey and Sunny Deol and two to destroy the villain Anupam Kher. There were some great songs in this movie sung by all the stars. There was also a young Raveena Tandon, who was only a newcomer. Sonam looking stunning with Chunkey Pandey. Amitabh singing in prison with Jaya Pradha, "Saathi Tera Pyar", another wonderful song. The best one out of all must be "Mere Dil Mein Tu" sung by Chunkey, Sunny and Amitabh. After almost 20 years Nutan was back with Amitabh and she played his wife in Saudagar in 1973. Only this time she was playing mother to him, while 70s and 80s low-key actor Vinod Mehra played his younger brother. After this movie, Nutan and Vinod Mehra died. Perhaps the movie delayed until 1994. Although the movie was a box-office flop, I thought Amitabh performed great. Amitabh came back with the box-office disaster Mrityudaata in 1997.
  • comment
    • Author: Kearanny
    Ever since Bachchan returned from politics, his successful streak ended and he chose some of the worst films ever. If Toofan and Jaadugar(from 1989) weren't horrible enough, then check out films like Ajooba(1991), Indrajeet(1991), and Insaniyat(1991). All these films flopped terribly and even if Akayla(1991) was a flop, it was somewhat decent. Hum(1991) was a hit and a damn good film. Aaj Ka Arjun(1990) was a hit but it wasn't anything great, Agneepath(1990) flopped but it was brilliant and Bachchan got a national award for his performance. This was a decline period for him and sadly, he had more losses than wins in the last of the 80s and most of the 90s.

    Insaniyat(1994) was actually started in 1991 but got delayed and finally released in 1994 because Nutan and Vinod Mehra passed away, the film also had some production problems. The film was supposed to be the right action comeback Bachchan needed from a streak a flops from 1991-1994. Yes Khuda Gawah(1992) despite being a nice film flopped and Sadhu Sant never released. Insaniyat was planned with Bachchan in a guest role and the heroes were Sunny Deol and Chunky Pandey but all that changed and Bachchan became the main hero. The film was pinned with expectations and people though it would become one of Bachchan's biggest hits because not only were the songs decent, the combination of Amitabh, Sunny, and Chunky was considered strong. Sadly, this film become one of the worst ever.

    There is no actual story of the film, the start is clichéd yet promising with Amitabh's childhood and him beating a villain. The film is actually about Bachchan a police officer who is after the villain and his brother(the main villain after the initial villain dies) and he plans to do this by making enemies Sunny and Chunky friends. That doesn't happen smoothly, Bachchan finds out his mom is alive and his little brother is the eye witness of some murder. His mom doesn't recognize him but hates him for not being able to save his brother from dying. Bachchan kills the hired assassins only to be arrested and sentenced to be hanged for murdering 3 innocent people(who are actually corrupt). Sunny and Chunky plan to kill the villain Anupam Kher and Amitabh escapes from jail to join the duo. Watch how Bachchan and the duo kill the villains in a prolonged climax only if your choice of action movies is this poor.

    Direction by Tony is extremely poor, not only does the script let him down but he doesn't put in much effort to make the film rise above the shabby script. This kind of story has been used millions of times in the past and it's the handling that decides whether a typical film like this will work. This factor goes completely against the movie as well. Not only are most scenes stupid but how certain people survive from explosions aren't explained. After Bachchan goes to prison, the film becomes even worse with some stupid planning to harm the villain and the film just goes on and on till it reaches the climax where Amitabh kills the villain. There are only a few well handled scenes like the scenes between Amitabh, Sunny, and Chunky, the murder Amitabh commits to avenge his deceased brother, and some dialogs Amitabh gets to speak. Apart from that, this is one of the worst action movies from the 90s.

    Amitabh Bachchan is not at his best here, he hams terribly in some scenes but his dialog delivery is powerful in some scenes making the film watchable in those small portions. His expressions are timed well but his overacting in parts ruins his performance. Sunny Deol's performance fails to deliver completely here. His voice is dubbed by some guy who fails to sound like Deol and some of the scenes involving his own story is poorly handled and explained. Chunky Pandey was never a good actor though he provides decent support to Sunny and Amitabh. However, his act is nothing great. The heroines don't have much to do but they look good and they are well used in the songs. Goga Kapoor is hardly present in the film and his character gets killed by Bachchan in the beginning, he just hams it up as the villain. Anupam Kher also hams it up badly as the chief villain, he cuts his own leg off to survive a train accident and why he doesn't feel any pain makes no sense at all. Prem Chopra is wasted in a role that requires him to act as the stupid and timid inspector afraid of crocodiles. The rest provide poor support that the film needed.

    On the whole, Insaniyat is one of those crap Hindi action films that should've never been made. Not only did this film successfully cripple Amitabh's career but also gave Sunny Deol a flop who was going good in 1993 with many hits.
  • comment
    • Author: Gogal
    Amitabh Bachchan retired after Khuda Gawah in 1992 for some time, Insaniyat which was supposed to release in 1991 got delayed and released in 1994. The film was supposed to have Sunny,Chunky in leads while AB was supposed to be a guest appearance but his role was extended and made him the lead. Nutan, Vinod Mehra passed away before the film released and Sonam too left the industry and hence barring 1 song her role was chopped. The film has a typical plot but it's difficult to keep focus as it shifts from one track to another. The film has AB play a cop who tries to bring settlement between 2 goons Sunny and Chunky and help to combat with the villain. The film has melodrama, some nonsense action scenes, some nonsense unintentionally hilarious scenes like Anupam Kher wearing Shafi Inamdar's mask and other scenes

    Direction by Tony Juneja is nothing great Music is quite good, Saathi Tera Pyaaar is hummable rest are not too great

    Amitabh Bachchan looks wrinkled, out of shape but does quite well, Sunny Deol with a dubbed voice is as usual, Chunky Pandey doesn't impress much, Jaya Pradha has a brief role and is as usual, Late Nutan is as usual,though she being younger to Bachchan and co-starred with him in Saudagar(1973) she plays his mom, Raveena Tandon perhaps signed this film when she entered bollywood in 1991 and has hardly anything much to do, Vinod Mehra has 2-3 scenes and is okay, Sonam has 1 song, Shafi Inamdar is okay, Anupam Kher doesn't impress much, others are as usual,Aftab Shivadasani did his last role as a child artist.
  • comment
    • Author: Mayno
    Insaniyat is the story of inspector Amar Saxena whose childhood was been destroy by a man called Goga. He, however looked for Goga son for many years but did not find him. Later on, a man called Bijian who was known to create riot in the country was suspected by Amar that he was Goga's lost son. Amar was in disguised because Bijian tried to harm his family a lot of times. But there were two gang leaders, Karim Lala and Haricharan who would normally have gang rivalry but both was being convinced by Amar to stop there gang rivalry and they even join hands with Amar to bring Bijian to justice. Insaniyat is one of the best films of 1994 and it was said to be released on February 28th 1994. However, Raveena Tandom and Sonam also played a very interesting role in this film. Sunny Deol and Chunkey Pandey looked very good in there teaming up at the ending part of this film. Prem Chopra also played a very interesting role in this film too like he does in other films.
  • Credited cast:
    Tom Alter Tom Alter - British Intelligence
    Sadashiv Amrapurkar Sadashiv Amrapurkar - Deshpandey
    Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan - SSP Amar Nath Singh
    Rakesh Bedi Rakesh Bedi - Dead Body (Driver)
    Prem Chopra Prem Chopra - Police Inspector Lotaram
    Sunny Deol Sunny Deol - Karim Lala
    Gorilla Gorilla
    Shafi Inamdar Shafi Inamdar - Police Commisioner Shafi
    Aruna Irani Aruna Irani - Courtsean who abducted Shalu
    Pallavi Joshi Pallavi Joshi - Munni
    Goga Kapoor Goga Kapoor - Goga
    Satyendra Kapoor Satyendra Kapoor - Editor Tripati
    Mukesh Khanna Mukesh Khanna - Narrator (voice)
    Anupam Kher Anupam Kher - Brijbhan
    Vinod Mehra Vinod Mehra - Nandu - The Peon
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