King Uncle

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King Uncle
Directed by	Rakesh Roshan
Produced by	Rakesh Roshan
Starring	Jackie Shroff Shah Rukh Khan Anu Aggarwal Nagma Paresh Rawal Sushmita Mukherjee Deven Verma Pooja Ruparel
Music by	Rajesh Roshan
Distributed by	Venus Records & Tapes (audio) Baba Eros International (video)
Release date	5 February 1993 (1993-02-05)
Running time	171 min.
Country	India
Language	Hindi

King Uncle is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film stars Jackie Shroff, Shah Rukh Khan, Anu Aggarwal, Nagma, Paresh Rawal, Sushmita Mukherjee, Pooja Ruparel and Deven Verma. The film was inspired from the 1982 English film Annie that starred Aileen Quinn and Albert Finney, which in turn is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The film was a moderate box office success and has since gained cult status, well-received by families and children. Both Shroff and Ruparel's performances received critical acclaim.^[1]

Ashok Bansal (Jackie Shroff) is a wealthy industrialist, inspired by the British 'stiff upper lip' syndrome. Ashok hates poor people and works hard to become rich because his mother abandoned him and his two siblings for a rich man when they were young. In the process of acquiring wealth, Ashok has become an unbearable disciplinarian and neglects his family consisting of his younger brother Anil (Shahrukh Khan) and sister Suneeta (Nivedita Saraf). Ashok gets Suneeta married to Pradeep (Dalip Tahil) although she is in love with someone else (Vivek Vaswani). Pradeep has an affair with another woman and abuses Suneeta frequently. Anil goes against his brother's highhanded ways, marries a poor girl Kavita (Nagma) and leaves the house.

Munna (Pooja Ruparel), a runaway orphan arrives at Ashok Bansal's house, initially creates havoc and eventually becomes the apple of his eye. When he takes her back to the orphanage she spills the beans about the warden's drunken behavior. Based on Munna's suggestions he frees his sister from her abusive husband and brings her home. He decides to adopt Munna and save her from the clutches of the warden and her criminal boyfriend (Paresh Rawal). Ashok mends fences with his brother and becomes a kind man with happy family.

• Jackie Shroff as Ashok Bansal a.k.a. King Uncle
• Shahrukh Khan as Anil Bansal
• Nagma as Kavita
• Anu Aggarwal as Fenni
• Pooja Ruparel as Munna, Orphan girl
• Vivek Vaswani as Kamal
• Nivedita Joshi as Suneeta Bansal
• Paresh Rawal as Pratap
• Sushmita Mukherjee as Shanti, Orphanage Principal
• Deven Verma as Karim
• Dalip Tahil as Pradeep
• Bharat Kapoor as Mr. Mallik
• Madhu Malhotra as Mrs Mallik
• Viju Khote marriage counselor
• Dinesh Hingoo
• Raj Kishore
• Deb Mukherjee as Ashok's father (Cameo)
• Kunika as Ashok's mother (Cameo)
• Joginder (Cameo)
• Rajesh Puri (Cameo)
• Guddi Maruti (Cameo)

The music is composed by Rajesh Roshan, while the songs are written by Indeevar and Javed Akhtar. The film's song "Taare Aasman Ke Dharti Pe" as well as some continued melodies through the movie are sampled from the whistling tune used by Roxette in their song "Joyride". A similar song "Tera Shukriya", from the soundtrack of Shah Rukh Khan's earlier film Chamatkar, not featured in the movie itself, also uses the melody. The original song from where the melody was borrowed was a Kenyan Song named Jambo Bwana by Kenyan band Them Mushrooms.

The title role was originally offered to Amitabh Bachchan but he declined.

• King Uncle at IMDb