Barood (1976 film)

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{{Infobox film
| name = Barood
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| director = [[Pramod Chakravorty]]
| producer = J.C. Bhagat H.S. Bhattacharya Jitu Thakar
| writer = Ahsan Rizvi
| screenplay = [[Sachin Bhowmick]]
| story = Sachin Bhowmick
| based_on ={{based on|''[[The Summertime Killer]]''|[[Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi]]}}
| narrator =
| starring = [[Rishi Kapoor]] [[Reena Roy]] [[Shoma Anand]] [[Ashok Kumar]]
| music = [[Sachin Dev Burman]]
| cinematography = V.K. Murthy
| editing = Narendra Arora
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| released = {{Film date|1976|04|02|df=y}}
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| country = India
| language = [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Raj|first1=Ashok|title=Hero Vol.1|date=2009|publisher=[[Hay House]]|isbn=9789381398029|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tgo9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30|language=en}}</ref>
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| gross = [[#Box office|{{estimation}} {{INR|19.32 crore}} ({{US$|23.52 million|long=no}})]]
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'''''Barood''''' is a [[Bollywood films of 1976|1976]] [[India]]n [[Bollywood]] [[action film|action]] [[crime film]], directed by [[Pramod Chakravorty]], with screenplay by [[Sachin Bhowmick]] and dialogues by Ahsan Rizvi.<ref>{{cite AV media | title = Barood | location = 0:16}}</ref> It stars [[Rishi Kapoor]] and [[Reena Roy]]. The film was a commercial flop in [[India]],<ref name="boi76"/> but went on to become an [[List of highest-grossing Indian films in overseas markets|overseas blockbuster]] in [[List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales|the Soviet Union]].<ref name="taste"/>

It is an uncredited remake of the 1972 Spanish/English film [[The Summertime Killer]] starring [[Christopher Mitchum]] and [[Olivia Hussey]].

==Cast==
* [[Rishi Kapoor]] as Anup D. "Pappu" Saxena<ref>{{Cite web|title = Rishi Kapoor|url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438501/|website = IMDb|accessdate = 2015-11-09}}</ref>
*[[Dharmendra]] as Anup's Land lord (Special Appearance)
*[[Hema Malini]] as Anup's Land lady (Special Appearance)
* [[Reena Roy]] as Sapna, Bakshi's assistant
* [[Ashok Kumar]] as Balraj Gupta, Criminologist
* [[Shoma Anand]] as Seema Bakshi
* Ajit as Bakshi
* [[Prem Chopra]] as Prem, Bakshi's Madrid associate
* [[Madan Puri]] as B. Puri - Bakshi's New York associate
* [[Sujit Kumar]] as Ratan - Bakshi's Las Vegas Associate
* [[Asrani]] as Hari Ramchandani / Harry Ramani - Veterinary surgeon

==Music==
#"Dil Kaanto Mein Uljahaya Hai, Ek DushmanPe Pyar Aaya" - Lata Mangeshkar
#"Samundar Samundar Yaha Se Waha Tak Ye Maujo Ki" - [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
#"I Love You" - [[Asha Bhosle]]
#"Bada Hi Khubsurat Is Jagah Ka Har Nazara Hai" - [[Kishore Kumar]]
#"Tu Shaitano Ka Sardar Hai Sach Hai" - Shivangi Kolhapure, [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]]

==Box office==
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; text-align:center;"
|+ Worldwide gross revenue ({{estimation}})
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! Territory
! Gross revenue
! Adjusted gross
! Footfalls
|-
| Domestic ([[India]])
| [[Indian rupee|{{INR}}]]2{{nbsp}}[[crore]]<ref name="boi76"/> ([[US$]]2.27{{nbsp}}million){{#tag:ref|8.804 [[Indian rupee]]s per [[US dollar]] in 1976<ref name="rbi">https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/PublicationsView.aspx?id=15268</ref>|group=n}}
| US${{Inflation|US|2.27|1976}}{{nbsp}}million ({{INR}}67{{nbsp}}crore)<ref name="exchange16">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/ |title=67.175856 INR per USD in 2016 |access-date=2 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713183556/https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/ |archive-date=13 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| {{#expr:20/3.16 round 1}}{{nbsp}}million<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mittal |first1=Ashok |title=Cinema Industry in India: Pricing and Taxation |date=1995 |publisher=Indus Publishing |isbn=9788173870231 |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJVodLc6NgoC&pg=PA71}}</ref>
|-
| [[List of highest-grossing Indian films in overseas markets|Overseas]] [[List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales|(Soviet Union)]]
| 15{{nbsp}}million [[Soviet ruble|SUR]]{{#tag:ref|60 million tickets sold,<ref name="soviet-foreign"/> average ticket price of 25 [[Soviet ruble|kopecks]]<ref>[https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/podzim2015/FAV291/um/Roth-Ey-Moscow_Prime_Time.pdf#page=7 ''Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War'', page 48], [[Cornell University Press]], 2011</ref>|group=n}} (US$21.25{{nbsp}}million){{#tag:ref|0.706 [[Soviet ruble]]s per US dollar in 1978<ref>Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls</ref>|group=n|name=RubleUSD}} ({{INR}}17.32{{nbsp}}crore){{#tag:ref|8.15 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1978<ref name="rbi"/>|group=n}}
| US${{Inflation|US|21.25|1978}}{{nbsp}}million ({{INR}}524{{nbsp}}crore)<ref name="exchange16"/>
| 60{{nbsp}}million<ref name="soviet-foreign"/>
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! [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|Worldwide]]
! {{INR}}{{#expr:2+17.32}}{{nbsp}}crore (US${{#expr:2.27+21.25}}{{nbsp}}million)
! [[100 Crore Club|{{INR}}{{#expr:67+524}}{{nbsp}}crore]] (US${{#expr:10+78}}{{nbsp}}million)
! {{#expr:6.3+60}}{{nbsp}}million
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At the domestic Indian box office in 1976, ''Barood'' [[Gross revenue|grossed]] [[Indian rupee|{{INR}}]]2 [[crore]], with a [[net income]] of {{INR}}1 crore. While it was the 17th [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|highest-grossing film in India]] that year, it was declared a commercial flop in the domestic Indian market.<ref name="boi76">https://web.archive.org/web/20131020100250/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=182&catName=MTk3Ng%3D%3D</ref>

Despite its domestic failure an India, the film went on to become an [[List of highest-grossing Indian films in overseas markets|overseas blockbuster]] in the [[Soviet Union]], where it released in 1978 and topped the year's [[List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales|Soviet box office chart]].<ref name="taste">[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-FceAQAAMAAJ A Taste for Indian Films: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in Post-Stalinist Soviet Society], page 170, [[Indiana University]], 2005</ref> It drew a box office audience of 60 million Soviet viewers, the second highest for an Indian film in the 1970s (after the earlier Rishi Kapoor starrer ''[[Bobby (1973 film)|Bobby]]'') and the fifth highest for a foreign film that decade.<ref name="soviet-foreign">{{cite web|url=http://kinanet.livejournal.com/13882.html|title=Зарубежные фильмы в советском кинопрокате|author=Sergey Kudryavtsev|author-link=Sergey Kudryavtsev (film critic)}}</ref> At the Soviet box office, it was the 13th biggest hit of the 1970s,<ref name="soviet-foreign"/><ref name="soviet-domestic">{{cite web|url=http://kinanet.livejournal.com/14172.html|title=Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате|author=Sergey Kudryavtsev|author-link=Sergey Kudryavtsev (film critic)}}</ref> the fourth most successful Indian import of all time (after ''[[Awaara]]'', ''Bobby'' and ''[[Disco Dancer]]''), the ninth biggest foreign hit of all time,<ref name="soviet-domestic"/> and one of the top 30 biggest hits of all time.<ref name="soviet-foreign"/><ref name="soviet-domestic"/> It was among the highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union.<ref>[https://www.rbth.com/amp/495699 With love from India to Russia]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[Russia Beyond the Headlines]]'', 22 October 2009</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of highest-grossing Indian films]]
*[[List of highest-grossing Indian films in overseas markets]]
*[[List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0157358}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-aVZB6Lvo Barood 1976 [[YouTube]]]

[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1976 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Urdu-language films]]
[[Category:Films shot in New York City]]
[[Category:Films shot in Paris]]
[[Category:Films shot in Delhi]]
[[Category:Foreign films shot in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Films directed by Pramod Chakravorty]]

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