Gambler (1995)

Gambler: Directed by Dayal Nihalani. With Govinda, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Aditya Pancholi, Gulshan Grover. Police Inspector Dayashanker Pandey is a slacker who wants a risk-free life; he’s quite comfortable sharing tall tales and a desk job. But fate has other plans: whenever he goes outside, he somehow apprehends criminals or smuggled goods or drugs. He thus becomes the pride of his division, much to his discomfort: he knows that if he’s publicly lauded, he’ll be put into the black books of many underworld gangsters, which will rip apart his comfortable, easygoing life.

“Govinda has done several serious roles even when he did comedy post AANKHEN this is one of those films where he gets to prove himself as an actor u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ehe film is a remake of SHORT TIME the initial scenes are ordinary but the scenes when Govinda coems to know about his sickness to the entire track of he trying to die on duty till Aditya revealing the truth are brilliantly handledu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe problem with the film is that the film rests on clichés and crude scenes like the Govinda- Shilpa scenes initially and the dances which were added for Govindau0026#39;s mass appealu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso the villainy track especially Gulshan Grover track is badly handled The film ends too as a typical potboileru003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirection by Dayal Nihalini is good in parts but bad in parts Music is good, especially the title song u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAmongst actors Govinda is as usual in comic scenes but excels in serious scenes, especially when he comes to know he has tumour and the entire scenes later and also his outburst with Aditya proves he can deliver much more Aditya too is very good in his part Shilpa Shetty is typical and irritates at times Raj Babbar is nothing great Gulshan Grover overacts, Mohan Joshi is unbearably loud the rest are adequate”