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Name: Badal
Director: Raj Kanwar
Released: 2021-06-07T18:05:14Z
Duration: 2 h 53 min
Cast: Bobby Deol, Rani Mukerji, Amrish Puri

Badal
Badal
Soundtrack album by Anu Malik
Released	4 December 1999
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	48:08
Label	T-Series
Producer	Anu Malik

Badal
Badal
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Raj Kanwar
Produced by	Salim Akhtar; Shama Akhtar
Screenplay by	Sutanu Gupta; Robin Bhatt ; Santosh Saroj (dialogues)
Story by	Raj Kanwar
Starring	Bobby Deol; Rani Mukerji; Amrish Puri
Music by	Songs:; Anu Malik; Background Score:; Aadesh Shrivastava
Cinematography	Harmeet Singh
Edited by	Waman Bhonsle
Production; company	Aftab Pictures
Release date	11 February 2000;
Running time	173 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹10 crore
Box office	₹26.91 crore

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Badal (transl. Cloud) is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film^[2] directed by Raj Kanwar. The film stars Bobby Deol and Rani Mukerji in lead roles with Amrish Puri. It was a commercial success.^[3]

Plot[edit | edit source]

Badal is a young man with a tragic childhood. As a child, he had witnessed his entire family, his loving father, mother, and baby sister, murdered in a village massacre by ruthless and corrupt police officer Jaisingh Rana, who kills people for sadistic fun. He is then brought up by his late father's friend Jeetram, who himself is on the run from Rana. Years later, Badal has become a dreaded terrorist working for Jeetram under the name Rajveer, whose main target in life is exacting revenge on Jaisingh Rana for his family's horrible death. In this endeavor, Badal travels to a small town, where he meets a good-natured police officer, ACP Ranjeet Singh, who takes Badal under his wing, and Rani, a bubbly, free-spirited girl who falls madly in love with him. Ranjeet Singh and his wife Simran start considering Badal as their son, and his daughters start to look up to Badal as an elder brother. Through both Singh's family and Rani, Badal is given a new lease of life and comes to understand the values of sentiments, love, and relationships, all of which he has missed out on in his life.

Meanwhile, Rana has now been promoted to DIG but still hasn't changed his old evil ways. He has Jeetram captured and tortured to know the location of his accomplices. Badal frees Jeetram and is pursued by the police force led by Ranjeet Singh. However, Jeetram commits suicide to protect Badal's identity from getting revealed, much to the latter's shock and grief.

Cast[edit | edit source]

Bobby Deol as Rajveer / Badal
Rani Mukerji as Rani
Mayuri Kango as Soni
Ashutosh Rana as DIG Jai Singh Rana
Amrish Puri as ACP Ranjeet Singh
Ashish Vidyarthi as Jeet Ram
Johnny Lever as Guler Mehndi
Upasna Singh as Guler Mehndi's wife
Neena Kulkarni as Simran Singh
Sana Saeed as Preeti
Alok Nath as Badal's father
Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Rani's Grandfather
Akash Khurana as Minister Satyaprakash Shinde
Harish Patel as Daya Shankar
Mushtaq Khan as Police Constable Mangeram
Vishwajeet Pradhan as Sahab Singh
Shahbaz Khan (actor) as Aaatankwadi Asgar
Jeetu Verma as Rafiq, and Asgar's younger brother
Dina Pathak The old woman who slapped Minister Satyaprakash
Salim Ghouse
Suman Ranganathan as item number Allah Allah (special appearance)
Mink Brar as item number Laal Garara (special appearance)
Pappu Polyester
Dinesh Anand
Mandira Bedi

Soundtrack[edit | edit source]

The music for Badal was composed and produced by Anu Malik while the lyrics where penned by Sameer. The film has six original songs, a medley, and one instrumental song, featuring some popular songs like "Yaar Mere Yaaram" and others.

Track list[edit | edit source]

Song	Singer(s)	Length
"Jugni Jugni"	Sukhwinder Singh, Jaspinder Narula, Anuradha Paudwal	7:40
"Na Milo Kahin Pyar"	Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishnamurthy	6:47
"Yaar Yara Mere Yaaram"	Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal	5:40
"Medley Song"	-	5:21
"Allah Allah"	Mukesh Kumar Munna, Dominique, Kavita Krishnamurthy	5:30
"Lal Garara"	Anu Malik, Jaspinder Narula, Sapna Awasthi	6:50
"Tujhe Dekh Ke Dil"	Udit Narayan, Jaspinder Narula	5:33
"Na Milo Kahin Pyar (Instrumental)"	Instrumental	6:47

Reception[edit | edit source]

Sharmila Taliculam of Rediff.com wrote, "A word of warning before you watch this film -- for the sake of your sanity, leave your brains behind. There are so many things here that don't make sense."^[4]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Badal – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
↑ "Badal". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
↑ "Badal - Movie - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
↑ Taliculam, Sharmila (12 February 2000). "What a waste!". Rediff.com. Retrieved 16 January 2025.

External links[edit | edit source]

Badal on IMDb

[auto-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Badal – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.

[2] "Badal". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.

[3] "Badal - Movie - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.

[4] Taliculam, Sharmila (12 February 2000). "What a waste!". Rediff.com. Retrieved 16 January 2025.

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 | producer       = Salim Akhtar<br />Shama Akhtar
 | story          = Raj Kanwar
-| screenplay     = Sutanu Gupta<br />Robin Bhatt
+| screenplay     = Sutanu Gupta<br />Robin Bhatt <br> Santosh Saroj (dialogues)
 | starring       = [[Bobby Deol]]<br />[[Rani Mukerji]]<br />[[Amrish Puri]]
-| music          = [[Anu Malik]]
+| music          = '''Songs:'''<br />[[Anu Malik]]<br />'''Background Score:'''<br />[[Aadesh Shrivastava]]
 | editing        = Waman Bhonsle
 | cinematography = Harmeet Singh
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 | language       = Hindi
 | country        = India
-| budget         = {{INR}}10 crore<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=717|title=Badal – Movie|publisher=Box Office India}}</ref>
+| budget         = {{INR}}10 [[crore]]<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=717|title=Badal – Movie|publisher=Box Office India|access-date=6 November 2020|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111012032/https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=717|url-status=live}}</ref>
-| gross          = {{INRConvert|269.1|m|year=2000}}<ref name="auto"/>
+| gross          = {{INR|26.91 crore}}<ref name="auto"/>
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-'''''Badal''''' ({{trans|Cloud}}) is a 2000 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action drama  film]] directed by [[Raj Kanwar]]. The film stars [[Bobby Deol]] and [[Rani Mukerji]] in lead roles with [[Amrish Puri]]. The movie is inspired by ''[[The Devil's Own]]'' (1997), starring [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Brad Pitt]]. It was a commercial success.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Badal - Movie - Box Office India|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=717|access-date=2020-11-06|website=boxofficeindia.com}}</ref>
+'''''Badal''''' ({{Translation|Cloud}}) is a 2000 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller film]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/badal-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmtiymdq|title=Badal|website=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031070210/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/badal-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmtiymdq|url-status=live}}</ref> directed by [[Raj Kanwar]]. The film stars [[Bobby Deol]] and [[Rani Mukerji]] in lead roles with [[Amrish Puri]]. It was a commercial success.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Badal - Movie - Box Office India|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=717|access-date=2020-11-06|website=boxofficeindia.com|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111012032/https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=717|url-status=live}}</ref>
 ==Plot==
-Badal is a young man with a tragic childhood. As a child, he had witnessed his entire family, his loving father, mother, and baby sister, murdered in a village massacre by ruthless and corrupt police officer Jaisingh Rana, who kills people for fun. He is then brought up by his late father's friend Jeetram, who himself is on the run from Rana. Years later, Badal has become a dreaded terrorist work for Jeetram under the name Rajveer whose main target in life is exacting revenge on Jaisingh Rana for his family's horrible death. In this endeavor, Badal travels to a small town, where he meets a good-natured police officer, [[Assistant Commissioner of Police|ACP]] Ranjeet Singh, who takes Badal under his wing, and Rani, a bubbly free spirited girl who falls madly in love with him. Ranjeet Singh and his wife Simran start considering Badal as their son and his daughters start to look up to Badal as an elder brother. Through both Singh's family and Rani, Badal is given a new lease of life and comes to understand the values of sentiments, love, and relationships, all of which he has missed out on in his life.
+Badal is a young man with a tragic childhood. As a child, he had witnessed his entire family, his loving father, mother, and baby sister, murdered in a village massacre by ruthless and corrupt police officer Jaisingh Rana, who kills people for sadistic fun. He is then brought up by his late father's friend Jeetram, who himself is on the run from Rana. Years later, Badal has become a dreaded terrorist working for Jeetram under the name Rajveer, whose main target in life is exacting revenge on Jaisingh Rana for his family's horrible death. In this endeavor, Badal travels to a small town, where he meets a good-natured police officer, [[Assistant Commissioner of Police|ACP]] Ranjeet Singh, who takes Badal under his wing, and Rani, a bubbly, free-spirited girl who falls madly in love with him. Ranjeet Singh and his wife Simran start considering Badal as their son, and his daughters start to look up to Badal as an elder brother. Through both Singh's family and Rani, Badal is given a new lease of life and comes to understand the values of sentiments, love, and relationships, all of which he has missed out on in his life.
-Meanwhile, Rana has now been promoted to DIG but still hasn't changed his old evil ways. He has Jeetram captured and tortures him to know the location of his accomplices. Badal frees Jeetram and is pursued by the police force led by Ranjeet Singh. However, Jeetram commits suicide to protect Badal's identity from getting revealed much to the latter's shock and grief.
+Meanwhile, Rana has now been promoted to DIG but still hasn't changed his old evil ways. He has Jeetram captured and tortured to know the location of his accomplices. Badal frees Jeetram and is pursued by the police force led by Ranjeet Singh. However, Jeetram commits suicide to protect Badal's identity from getting revealed, much to the latter's shock and grief.
 ==Cast==
-{{colbegin}}
+*[[Bobby Deol]] as Rajveer / Badal
-* [[Bobby Deol]] as Raja / Badal
+*[[Rani Mukerji]] as Rani
-* [[Rani Mukherji]] as Rani
+*[[Mayuri Kango]] as Soni
-* [[Mayuri Kango]] as Soni
+*[[Ashutosh Rana]] as DIG Jai Singh Rana
-* [[Ashutosh Rana]] as DIG Jai Singh Rana
+*[[Amrish Puri]] as ACP Ranjeet Singh
-* [[Amrish Puri]] as ACP Ranjeet Singh
+*[[Ashish Vidyarthi]] as Jeet Ram
-* [[Ashish Vidyarthi]] as Jeet Ram
+*[[Johnny Lever]] as Guler Mehndi
-* [[Johnny Lever]] as Guler Mehndi
+*[[Upasana Singh|Upasna Singh]] as Guler Mehndi's wife
-* [[Upasana Singh|Upasna Singh]] as Guler Mehndi's wife
+*[[Neena Kulkarni]] as Simran Singh
-* [[Neena Kulkarni]] as Simran Singh
+*[[Sana Saeed]] as Preeti
-* [[Sana Saeed]] as Preeti
+*[[Alok Nath]] as Badal's father
-* [[Alok Nath]] as Badal's father
+*[[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]] as Rani's Grandfather
-* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]] as Rani's Grandfather
+*[[Akash Khurana]] as Minister Satyaprakash Shinde
-* [[Akash Khurana]] as minister Satyaprakash Shinde
+*[[Harish Patel]] as Daya Shankar
-* [[Harish Patel]] as Daya Shankar
+*[[Mushtaq Khan]] as Police Constable Mangeram
-* [[Mushtaq Khan]] as Police Constable Mangiram
+*[[Vishwajeet Pradhan]] as Sahab Singh
-* [[Vishwajeet Pradhan]] as Sahab Singh
+*[[Shahbaz Khan (actor)]] as Aaatankwadi Asgar
-* [[Shahbaz Khan (actor)]] as terrorist Asgar
+*[[Jeetu Verma]] as Rafiq, and Asgar's younger brother
-* [[Jeetu Verma]] as terrorist Rafiq, and Asgar's younger brother
+*[[Dina Pathak]] The old woman who slapped Minister Satyaprakash
-* [[Dina Pathak]]
+*[[Salim Ghouse]]
-* [[Salim Ghouse]]
+*[[Suman Ranganathan]] as item number Allah Allah (special appearance)
-* [[Suman Ranganathan]] as [[item number]]
+*[[Mink Brar]] as item number Laal Garara (special appearance)
-* [[Mink Brar]] as item number
+*[[Pappu Polyester]]
-* [[Pappu Polyester]]
+*Dinesh Anand
-* Dinesh Anand
+*[[Mandira Bedi]]
-* [[Mandira Bedi]]
-{{colend}}
 == Soundtrack ==
 {{Infobox album
 | name         = Badal
-| type         = soundtrack
+| type         = [[Soundtrack album]]
-| artist       =
+| artist       = [[Anu Malik]]
 | cover        =
 | released     = 4 December 1999
@@ Line 75: / Line 73: @@
 | producer     = [[Anu Malik]]
 }}
-The music for ''Badal'' was composed and produced by [[Anu Malik]] while the lyrics where penned by [[Sameer (lyricist)|Sameer]]. The film has six original songs, a medley, and one instrumental song, featuring some popular songs like "Yaar Mere Yaaram" and others. The soundtrack for the film has received a rating of 5/10 from Mohammad Ali Ikram of ''Planet Bollywood'', with the author saying, "The tunes of ''Badal'' might not be that bad, but one expects far better from the man who gave us timeless tunes in ''[[Border (1997 film)|Border]]'', ''[[Kareeb]]'', ''[[Baazigar]]'' and ''[[Main Khiladi Tu Anari]]''."
+The music for ''Badal'' was composed and produced by [[Anu Malik]] while the lyrics where penned by [[Sameer (lyricist)|Sameer]]. The film has six original songs, a medley, and one instrumental song, featuring some popular songs like "Yaar Mere Yaaram" and others.
-<ref>http://planetbollywood.com/Music/badal.html/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107042535/http://www.planetbollywood.com/Music/badal.html |date=7 November 2011 }} Planet Bollywood: Reviewed by: Mohammad Ali Ikram</ref>
 ===Track list===
 {| class="wikitable sortable"
 |-
 ! Song !! Singer(s) !! Length
 |-
 | "Jugni Jugni" || [[Sukhwinder Singh]], [[Jaspinder Narula]], [[Anuradha Paudwal]] ||  7:40
   |-
 | "Na Milo Kahin Pyar" || [[Sonu Nigam]], [[Kavita Krishnamurthy]] ||  6:47
 |-
 | "Yaar Yara Mere Yaaram" || [[Udit Narayan]], [[Anuradha Paudwal]] ||  5:40
 |-
 | "Medley Song" || - || 5:21
 |-
 | "Allah Allah" || [[Mukesh Kumar Munna]], [[Dominique]], [[Kavita Krishnamurthy]]  || 5:30
 |-
 | "Lal Garara" || [[Anu Malik]], [[Jaspinder Narula]], [[Sapna Awasthi]]  || 6:50
 |-
 | "Tujhe Dekh Ke Dil" || [[Udit Narayan]], [[Jaspinder Narula]] ||  5:33
 |-
 | "Na Milo Kahin Pyar (Instrumental)" || [[Instrumental]] || 6:47
 |}
+==Reception==
+Sharmila Taliculam of [[Rediff.com]] wrote, "A word of warning before you watch this film -- for the sake of your sanity, leave your brains behind. There are so many things here that don't make sense."<ref>{{cite web |last=Taliculam |first=Sharmila |date=12 February 2000 |title=What a waste! |url=https://rediff.com/movies/2000/feb/12badal.htm |website=[[Rediff.com]] |access-date=16 January 2025}}</ref>
 == References ==
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 == External links ==
 *{{IMDb title|id=0247944|title=Badal}}
-*[https://www.rediff.com/movies/2000/feb/12badal.htm ''Rediff'' review]
+{{Portal|India|Film|Bollywood}}
-*[https://planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=032906015941 ''Planet Bollywood'' review]
 [[Category:2000 films]]
-[[Category:2000s Hindi-language films]]
+[[Category:2000 Hindi-language films]]
 [[Category:Films set in 1984]]
 [[Category:Films scored by Anu Malik]]
-[[Category:Insurgency in Punjab in fiction]]
+[[Category:Fiction about the insurgency in Punjab]]
 [[Category:Fictional portrayals of police departments in India]]
+[[Category:2000 action thriller films]]
 [[Category:2000 action drama films]]
 [[Category:Films about terrorism in India]]
 [[Category:Films directed by Raj Kanwar]]
+[[Category:Indian action thriller films]]
 [[Category:Indian crime drama films]]
 [[Category:Indian action drama films]]
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+[[Category:Hindi-language action drama films]]
+[[Category:Hindi-language crime drama films]]
+[[Category:Films set in Shimla]]
+[[Category:Films shot in Himachal Pradesh]]
+[[Category:Films set in Himachal Pradesh]]

Badal
Soundtrack album by Anu Malik
Released	4 December 1999
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	48:08
Label	T-Series
Producer	Anu Malik