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{{Infobox film
| name = Hero Hiralal
| image = Hero Hiralal.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Ketan Mehta]]
| writer =
| screenplay = Gul Anand [[Ketan Mehta]]
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = [[Naseeruddin Shah]] [[Sanjana Kapoor]] [[Deepa Sahi]] [[Kiran Kumar]] [[Amitabh Bachchan]]
| producer = Gul Anand
| narrator =
| music = [[Babla & Kanchan|Babla Shah]]
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio =
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| released = {{Film date|df=y|1988}}
| country =
| language = Hindi
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}}

'''''Hero Hiralal''''' is a [[1988 in film|1988]] Indian film directed by [[Ketan Mehta]], starring [[Naseeruddin Shah]] and [[Sanjana Kapoor]] in leading roles. It is a movie about an [[auto rickshaw]] driver who falls in love with a film actress. The movie showcased worst performances by the lead actors and by [[Saeed Jaffrey]] and [[Satish Shah]] in their supporting roles. This marked Sanjana Kapoor's first leading role in a Bollywood film.

== Synopsis ==
Naseeruddin Shah is Hero Hiralal, a Hyderabadi auto-rickshaw driver who meets an upcoming Bollywood starlet, Roopa (Sanjana Kapoor) and becomes her tour guide. Soon, the two fall in love.

Work takes Roopa back to Bombay. Hero, pining for his lover, follows her and has an encounter with her family members, who clearly disapprove of him. Rupa's family tells her to reject Hero's love and move on with her career. Buckling under family pressure, Roopa is compelled to abandon her love, which causes Hero to fall into depression and attempt suicide. He is saved in time by Rani Sitara Devi, a show lady (Deepa Sahi), who arranges for him to die like a great lover in supposedly the greatest show on earth as directed by her. Hero is saved once again in the nick of time when Roopa arrives in a rush at the last minute to confess her love for him.

== Cast ==
*[[Naseeruddin Shah]] – Hero Hiralal
*[[Sanjana Kapoor]] – Rupa
*[[Deepa Sahi]] - Rani Sitara Devi
*[[Kiran Kumar]] – Prem Kumar
*[[Rohini Hattangadi]] – Roopa's step-mom
*[[Saeed Jaffrey]] – Aziz Bhai
*[[Satish Shah]] – Bhagwan
*[[Mohan Gokhale]] – Rangeela Paintal
*[[Johnny Lever]] – Police constable
*[[Dilip Dhawan]]
*Deepak Qazir – Dukhilal
*Ahmad Khan
*Rahul Chowdhary
*Hosi Vasunia
*[[Benjamin Gilani]]
*[[Amitabh Bachchan]] (Spl. Appearance)

== Music ==
The film's music is by [[Hridaynath Mangeshkar]], with lyrics by [[Gulzar]], and singing by [[Lata Mangeshkar]], [[Amit Kumar (singer)|Amit Kumar]] and [[Kumar Sanu]], as his first major Bollywood song. This movie Kumar Sanu song " Jashna Hai Mohabbat Ka" include in 6 January 1989.

#"Sapano Ki Duniya Hai" (sad) – [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
#"Main Hoon Hero Hero Hiraalaal" – [[Amit Kumar (singer)|Amit Kumar]]
#"Jashna Hai Mohabbat Ka" – [[Kumar Sanu]]

== Box office reception ==
''Hero Hiralal'' Was A Box Office All Time BlockBuster

== Crew ==
*Direction – [[Ketan Mehta]]
*Producer – Gul Anand
*Cinematography – Faroukh Mistry, Jehangir Chowdhury
*Choreography – [[Chinni Prakash]], Jay Borade
*Action – Ravi Dewan
*Editor – Sutanu Gupta, Adesh Verma
*Screenplay – [[Ketan Mehta]], Gul Anand
*Dialogue – Hridaylani
*Sound – Jitendra Chaudhary
*Costume – [[Bhanu Athaiya]]
*Music = [[Hridaynath Mangeshkar]]
*Lyrics = [[Gulzar]]
*Singers = [[Lata Mangeshkar]], [[Amit Kumar (singer)|Amit Kumar]] & [[Kumar Sanu]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0093182|name=Hero Hiralal}}

[[Category:1989 films]]
[[Category:1980s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Ketan Mehta]]
[[Category:Films set in Hyderabad, India]]

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