'Krodh' symbolises the progress of Hindi cinema. In earlier films like 'Boot Polish' and 'Raksha Bandhan', the pyaare bhaiya hero had just one sister to take care of. But, in 'Krodh', the poor hero is saddled with five sisters! How does he do it? By bashing up every male who dares to look at his sisters. This, of course, promptly gets him dubbed 'Hitler'. What Hitler was to the German Jews, the pyaare bhaiya is to the male population of the town.
Yet 'Krodh', so long as it kept to this track, was fairly entertaining. You felt the film's Hitler was justified in what he did. One of the suitors for his sister, for example, is the obnoxious Prem, played with disgusting crudeness by Johny Lever. From close to interval, though, 'Krodh' goes haywire. One of the sisters gets raped by her professor and Hitler forces her to marry him.
For producer-director-editor Ashok Honda introduces, through a series of flashbacks, sequences and characters who simply mess up the story line. Enter gangsters Kabra, his brother and Balwant, a rival thug who is revealed as the hero's father. Kabra and brother are helped by a crooked lawyer who had framed Balwant for a murder he had not committed and sent him to jail. Their present target is our hero. In the second half, the pyaare bhaiya has his hands full, what with keeping control over his sisters, bashing up villains and avenging the 'murder' of his father. You see krodh everywhere.
The screenplay is full of gaping holes. We see the hero, as a young boy, slogging to take care of his sisters, sending them to school and so on. Suddenly the entire family shifts to a bungalow, their lifestyle undergoing a dramatic change. Did the poor brother win a lottery? The editing is often
jerky and, worse, the characters totally lack consistency. No wonder, our hero Karan (Sunil Shetty) wears a permanently perplexed look.
Shetty dominates the film, but then he hardly has any competition. The brood of females who play the sisters scream, screech and sob in turn. The villains are meant to terrify us, but evoke laughter! Anand-Milind's music is passable. Most of the songs, though badly positioned, are hummable. 'Taanshun dene ka hain, lene ka nahin,' is a piece of advice often muttered by the villain, Kabra. This gem of advice had been faithfully followed by everyone associated with this film.
