Qila (film)

Qila
Directed byUmesh Mehra
Written byHumayun Mirza
Umesh Mehra
Produced byParvesh Mehra
StarringDilip Kumar
Rekha
CinematographyS. Pappu
Edited byKamal Sehgal
Music byAnand Raaj Anand (songs)
Raju Singh (score)
Production
company
Eagle Films
Distributed byEagle Films
Release date
  • 10 April 1998 (1998-04-10)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Qila (translation: Fort) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language mystery drama thriller directed by Umesh Mehra and starring Dilip Kumar (in a dual role), Rekha, Mukul Dev, Mamta Kulkarni, Smita Jaykar and Gulshan Grover.[1]

After a film career that began in 1944 and spanned over five decades, this marked the final film appearance of veteran actor Dilip Kumar before his death on 7 July 2021.[2]

The film is a mystery thriller in which Kumar plays dual roles as an evil landowner who is murdered and as his twin brother who is a court judge tasked with investigating who killed him.[3]

  1. ^ Kumar, Tanmeet (10 April 1998). "Planet Bollywood Film Review: Qila". Planet Bollywood. Archived from the original on 24 June 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  2. ^ Panchal, Komal RJ (7 July 2021). "Dilip Kumar's Qila director remembers how actor would refuse to share favourite fruit: 'A child-like quality about him'". The Indian Express. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Movie reviews of 'Hercules'; 'Qila'". India Today.