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	After overhearing this, Preeti reveals it to Shanti. Shanti acknowledges that Vicky is not her son and that she had masterminded the plan to kill her husband and his business partners, whose weapons had accidentally killed her own son, unbeknownst to Virender. She reveals that Vicky is actually Raju, the son of Vijay. After Vijay's death, he had been framed for the gang's crimes and labeled a traitor. He was stripped of all medals, and their community ostracized his wife, Geeta, and son Raju. The villagers prevented Vijay's body from being cremated and threw it in the desert, where it became lost in a [[sandstorm]]. Raju separated from his mother, who stayed at a temple while he was raised with Shanti. Raju had been seeking revenge and justice for his father, and upon learning everything, Preeti agrees to assist him.		After overhearing this, Preeti reveals it to Shanti. Shanti acknowledges that Vicky is not her son and that she had masterminded the plan to kill her husband and his business partners, whose weapons had accidentally killed her own son, unbeknownst to Virender. She reveals that Vicky is actually Raju, the son of Vijay. After Vijay's death, he had been framed for the gang's crimes and labeled a traitor. He was stripped of all medals, and their community ostracized his wife, Geeta, and son Raju. The villagers prevented Vijay's body from being cremated and threw it in the desert, where it became lost in a [[sandstorm]]. Raju separated from his mother, who stayed at a temple while he was raised with Shanti. Raju had been seeking revenge and justice for his father, and upon learning everything, Preeti agrees to assist him.

	Dinesh releases Jaswant, who is revealed to be alive and had been helping Raju to finish off Virender's ~~gang~~. Raju arrives in [[Barmer, Rajasthan\|Barmer]] with Pratap and takes him to his mother's temple. He reveals to a shocked Pratap that he is Vijay Malhotra's son. DK is revealed to be none other than Jaswant in disguise. Jaswant's henchmen overpower Raju and Dinesh. A [[sandstorm]] ensues and gives Raju an advantage to kill the henchmen. Pratap and Jaswant confess their crimes to the villagers brought by Preeti. The two are then left to be eaten alive by vultures. With his name cleared, Major Vijay Malhotra is declared a martyr and given an honorable memorial ceremony.		Dinesh releases Jaswant, who is revealed to be alive and had been helping Raju to finish off Virender's the gangster. Enraged, Raju arrives in [[Barmer, Rajasthan\|Barmer]] with Pratap and takes him to his mother's temple. He reveals to a shocked Pratap that he is Vijay Malhotra's son. DK is revealed to be none other than Jaswant in disguise. Jaswant's henchmen overpower Raju and Dinesh. A [[sandstorm]] ensues and gives Raju an advantage to kill the henchmen. Pratap and Jaswant confess their crimes to the villagers brought by Preeti. The two are then left to be eaten alive by vultures. With his name cleared, Major Vijay Malhotra is declared a martyr and given an honorable memorial ceremony.

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{{For|other films|Soldier (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Soldier
| image = Soldier screenshot.jpg
| director = [[Abbas–Mustan]]
| producer = [[Kumar S. Taurani]] [[Ramesh Taurani]]
| story = Shyam Goel
| screenplay = [[Sachin Bhowmick]] [[Shyam Goel]]
| starring =
[[Raakhee Gulzar]] [[Bobby Deol]] 
[[Preity Zinta]] [[Suresh Oberoi]] [[Farida Jalal]]
| music = '''Songs:''' [[Anu Malik]] '''Background Score:''' [[Surinder Sodhi]]
| cinematography = Thomas Xavier
| editing = Hussain Burmawala
| studio = [[Tips Industries]]
| distributor = [[Tips Industries]] [[Eros Entertainment]]
| released = {{Film date|1998|11|20|df=y}}
| runtime = 155 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR}}120 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/films/story/19980921-despite-dismal-year-at-the-box-office-expectations-of-winter-bonanza-soar-high-in-bollywood-827100-1998-09-21 |title=Reach for the stars |date=21 September 1998 |work=[[India Today]] |last=Chopra |first=Anupama |access-date=16 February 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| gross = {{INR}}450 million
}}

'''''Soldier''''' is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language [[thriller film]] directed by [[Abbas–Mustan]] starring [[Bobby Deol]], [[Preity Zinta]] and [[Rakhee Gulzar]]. The film was released in 1998 and was declared as a 'BlockBuster' by Box Office India, becoming the 3rd highest grossing film of the year in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=204&catName=MTk5OA==|title=Box Office 1998|date=n.d.|publisher=Box Office India|access-date=23 December 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023165558/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=204&catName=MTk5OA%3D%3D|archive-date=23 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Although ''Soldier'' was Preity Zinta's first film, [[Mani Ratnam]]'s ''[[Dil Se..]]'' ended up being released before ''Soldier'' and was thus Zinta's film debut. The soldier was the first movie in Abbas-Mustan Carrier, which was not a Hollywood remake or adaptation. According to film writer Shyam Goel, it was inspired by a real incident that happened in Punjab where a woman's forehead was branded with the message that her husband was a traitor. Her husband, a soldier, was accused of treachery, and she was thrown out of her village. The story was already made as a movie in Tamil in 1989 titled Thaai Naadu, starring [[Sathyaraj]] in dual roles. Then this film was remade in [[Dhallywood]] as ''Jamin Nai'' by ''Syed Harun'' starring [[Shabnur]], [[Shakti Kapoor]] & [[Mizu Ahmed]] in lead roles in 2000 and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] as '' [[Villu (film)|Villu]] '' By '' [[Prabhu Deva]] '' starring [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] & [[Nayanthara]] in lead roles in 2009.

== Plot ==
In [[Barmer, Rajasthan|Barmer]], 1978, corrupt Indian army officials Pratap Singh, Virender Sinha, and Jaswant Dalal have been stealing arms and ammunition with the help of a mysterious fourth partner known only as DK. Major Vijay Malhotra, a competent and high-ranking soldier, catches them in the act but is murdered by them.

20 years later, the [[Mumbai Police]] get a fax from the Australian [[Interpol]] branch regarding Jaswant, now a wanted illegal arms supplier. An operation to capture him is handed over to [[Deputy superintendent#India|ACP]] Inspector Dinesh Kapoor, an old friend of the late Major Vijay Malhotra, who informs a mysterious man known as Vicky. He wants Vicky to intercept Jaswant and not let the police capture him. Vicky succeeds but when Jaswant tries to kill him, Vicky shoots him.

Vicky travels to [[Sydney]] using information from Dinesh and woos Pratap Singh's daughter, Preeti. After all these years, Pratap, Virender, and Baldev have become high-profile arms dealers and live in Australia. After hearing of Jaswant's death and DK's involvement, they worry about betrayal from one another as each of them have secret files that incriminates the entire group.

Vicky meets with Pratap, who identifies him as Jaswant's killer and proposes a way to help make him more powerful. Baldev and his son Jojo realize that Vicky's mother is none other than Virender's wife, Shanti. Vicky is welcomed into Virender's gang. Virender is ecstatic to reunite with his son and happier to learn that he is in love with Pratap's daughter. He wants to use this to his advantage and have Vicky retrieve Pratap's secret file. Vicky instead shoots his father dead and retrieves his secret file, with which he discovers who DK actually is. Vicky convinces Baldev that Pratap betrayed them and killed Virender. Baldev rallies all his henchmen to launch an attack on Pratap but they are killed by Pratap's men. It is revealed that Vicky was working with Pratap to eliminate Virender's gang.

Vicky then reveals to Pratap that he is not actually Virender's son. He used Shanti to get closer to Virender and did the same for Pratap by using Preeti. The reason for all this is because DK gave him a contract to kill not just Jaswant but all the other partners so that he can own 100% of their crime organization. Vicky says that because of Preeti, he will instead kill DK and make Pratap the king. Pratap agrees to go to India with Vicky to kill DK.

After overhearing this, Preeti reveals it to Shanti. Shanti acknowledges that Vicky is not her son and that she had masterminded the plan to kill her husband and his business partners, whose weapons had accidentally killed her own son, unbeknownst to Virender. She reveals that Vicky is actually Raju, the son of Vijay. After Vijay's death, he had been framed for the gang's crimes and labeled a traitor. He was stripped of all medals, and their community ostracized his wife, Geeta, and son Raju. The villagers prevented Vijay's body from being cremated and threw it in the desert, where it became lost in a [[sandstorm]]. Raju separated from his mother, who stayed at a temple while he was raised with Shanti. Raju had been seeking revenge and justice for his father, and upon learning everything, Preeti agrees to assist him.

Dinesh releases Jaswant, who is revealed to be alive and had been helping Raju to finish off Virender's gang. Raju arrives in [[Barmer, Rajasthan|Barmer]] with Pratap and takes him to his mother's temple. He reveals to a shocked Pratap that he is Vijay Malhotra's son. DK is revealed to be none other than Jaswant in disguise. Jaswant's henchmen overpower Raju and Dinesh. A [[sandstorm]] ensues and gives Raju an advantage to kill the henchmen. Pratap and Jaswant confess their crimes to the villagers brought by Preeti. The two are then left to be eaten alive by vultures. With his name cleared, Major Vijay Malhotra is declared a martyr and given an honorable memorial ceremony.

== Cast ==

* [[Raakhee Gulzar]] as Geeta Malhotra
* [[Bobby Deol]] as Vicky Sinha / Raju Malhotra
* [[Preity Zinta]] as Preeti Singh
* [[Farida Jalal]] as Shanti Sinha
* [[Johnny Lever]] as Mohan Singh / Sohan Singh
* [[Suresh Oberoi]] as Pratap Singh
* [[Dalip Tahil]] as Virendra Sinha
* [[Sharat Saxena]] as Baldev Sinha
* [[Ashish Vidyarthi]] as ACP Dinesh Kapoor
* [[Salim Ghouse]] as Jaswant Dalal / DK
* Sheetal Suvarna as Sheetal
* [[Jeetu Verma]] as Jojo Sinha
* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]] as Police Commissioner
* [[Pankaj Dheer]] as Vijay Malhotra
* [[Amrit Patel]] as Hotel owner
* Pranav Bajpai as Baaldaar
* [[Narendra Bedi]] as taxi driver
* [[Vivek Vaswani]] as a College Principal

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack was composed by [[Anu Malik]] and was very hit amongst the audience. It was a key point in the success of the film. The songs "Tera Rang Bale Bale", "Soldier Soldier", "Hum to Dil Chahen", "Mere Dil Jigar Sei" and " Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aye" were chartbuster and the album was the third best selling album of 1998 after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Dil Se. Lyrics were penned by [[Sameer (lyricist)|Sameer]].
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! # !! Title !! Singer(s)!! Length
|-
| 1
| "Soldier Soldier"
| [[Kumar Sanu]] & [[Alka Yagnik]]
| 06:13
|-
| 2
| "Tera Rang Balle Balle"
| [[Sonu Nigam]] & [[Jaspinder Narula]]
| 04:50
|-
| 3
| "Mehfil Mein Baar Baar"
| Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik
| 05:40
|-
| 4
| "Mere Dil Jigar Se"
| Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik
| 05:32
|-
| 5
| "Mere Khwabon Mein Tum"
| Alka Yagnik
| 04:23
|-
| 6
| "Meri Saanson Mein Samaye"
| Sonu Nigam
| 04:23
|-
| 7
| "Hum To Dil Chahe Tumhara"
| Kumar Sanu & [[Hema Sardesai]]
| 05:18
|-
| 8
| "Theme of Soldier (Instrumental)"
|
| 04:47
|}

== Reception and Awards ==
[[Khalid Mohamed]] gave ''Soldier'' 2 out of 5 stars, writing that it "leaves you feeling ever so much older and colder."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mohamed |first1=Khalid|title=FROM HAIR TO ETERNITY|url=http://www.filmfare.com/site/btalkies/bomb41.htm |work=Filmfare |publisher=Times Group |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19991002143242/http://www.filmfare.com/site/btalkies/bomb41.htm|archivedate=2 October 1999}}</ref> Madhur Mittal of ''[[The Tribune]]'' noted that it "boasts of terrific production and technical values", calling it a "a taut thriller".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mittal |first1=Madhur |title=A salute to ''Soldier'' |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98nov15/sunday/bolywood.htm |accessdate=16 May 2020 |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |date=15 November 1998}}</ref>

''Soldier'' won the following awards.
* [[Filmfare Best Female Debut Award]] – Preity Zinta
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Action]] – Late Akbar Bakshi

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0211634|title=Soldier}}

{{Abbas-Mustan}}

[[Category:1998 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1990s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Abbas–Mustan]]
[[Category:Films shot in Sydney]]
[[Category:Films scored by Anu Malik]]
[[Category:Indian Army in films]]
[[Category:Films set in Sydney]]
[[Category:Films about military personnel]]
[[Category:Indian action thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian films about revenge]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Sachin Bhowmick]]
[[Category:Films scored by Surinder Sodhi]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:1998 action thriller films]]

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