7cb1d79195 Hyderabadi Hiralal, who is also referred to&#39;Hero&#39; due to his obsession with Bollywood movies, drives an auto-rickshaw and often gets into fisticuffs. Things change when he meets with actress, Roopa, shows her around, and falls head-over-heels in love with her - so much so - when the unit leaves, he drives all the way to Bombay to be close to her. It is here that he will come to know that she has no similar feelings for him - and he will be thrown into contact with beautiful and manipulative actress, Sitara Devi, who has new and different role for him - one that will change his life forever. Obsessed with Hindi films; Hyderabadi Hero Hiralal drives an auto-rickshaw. When he meets Roopa a film actress - he shows her around only to fall in love with her. When she leaves he follows her all the way to Bombay in order to confide to her that he is in love with her only to learn that she has no similar feelings for him. He then attempts suicide but is rescue by Sitara Devi; an actress which changes his life forever. Naseeruddin Shah started his career doing pathbreaking films which didn&#39;t get much success but got him a good positiona good actor in bollywood. This film released in 1988 and was a failure no doubt but still is a nice watchable film. The film has Naseer play a Bollywood buff autodriver from Hyderabad, he falls in love with Sanjana Kapoor(Daughter of Shashi Kapoor) The film may not be realistic but yet it&#39;s really great. The director doesn&#39;t resort to full blown commercial ingredients though some scenes are filmy yet overall the film is still different.<br/><br/>Direction by Ketan Mehta is good Music is decent<br/><br/>Dialogues became a rage, especially Phata Poster Nikla hero<br/><br/>Naseeruddin Shah is superbHero Hiralal, he can play any character with utmost ease Sanjana Kapoor looks like a doll and hardly is worthy of being an actress, her accent too looks fake but it&#39;s okay with the role though. Sadly she alongwith her brother couldn&#39;t make it in films. Rohini Hattangudy a regular in offbeat cinema those days is good, Kiran Kumar is good too, Satish Shah is too good, Deepa Sahi is okay, Saeed Jaffrey is likable Mohan Gokhale is good, Dilip Dhawan is too good, rest are all okay Amitabh Bachchan makes a cameo in the end, playing himself surprisingly he did the same in Jalwa(1987).Johnny Lever too has a short rolean inspector. Little flavor of 80s (long skirts and no obnoxious dresses), Good music, Naseeruddin Shah at his bestusual, and add a new face on top of that. That&#39;s Hero Hiralal for you. People said that it was an inconsequential movie. May be so. What could we expect at the time when Govinda, Anil Kapoor, and other actors were churning out non-sense in the late 80s. Hero Hiralal was a breath of freshness, which was obviously not meant for the masses, however, it may have seemed so. All shots that focused Naseer and Sanjana together were superb in terms of photography, facial focus and dialogues. True that Sanjana couldn&#39;t speak Hindi without an accent. What do you expect from an Anglo-Indian girl? But ironically, I still find hers better than the accent of some of today&#39;s actresses who speak Hindi like they were born and raised somewhere in Midwest USA.<br/><br/>I found Sanjana quite charming (much more beautiful than her nieces Karishma and Kareena). Sapno Ki Duniya (slow version) was a terrific song, obviously lost due to movie&#39;s commercial failure. Saeed Jafri, Satish Shah and Mr. Yogi fame actor were good in supporting roles. Deepa Mehta was OK and others merely filled in. This is a movie with no frills, no beach dances, no non-sense. A simple and pure means of entertainment meant for the whole family. <br/><br/>It&#39;s unfortunate that Sanjana&#39;s career didn&#39;t click in Bollywood. May be it was her accent or may be it was her timing. Or may be she was just meant for Prithvi Theater. A great movie. Watch it at least once and then decide. By the way, finally the DVD is out for this movie. At least someone recognized the movie!
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