Badal

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Badal
File:Badal 2000 film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRaj Kanwar
Produced bySalim Akhtar
Shama Akhtar
Screenplay bySutanu Gupta
Robin Bhatt
Story byRaj Kanwar
StarringBobby Deol
Rani Mukerji
Amrish Puri
Music byAnu Malik
CinematographyHarmeet Singh
Edited byWaman Bhonsle
Production
company
Aftab Pictures
Release date
  • 11 February 2000 (2000-02-11)
Running time
173 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹10 crore[1]
Box office₹269.1 million (equivalent to ₹890 million or US$13 million in 2019)[1]

Badal (transl. 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.[2]

Plot[edit]

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, 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.

Cast[edit]

Soundtrack[edit]

Badal
Soundtrack album
Released4 December 1999
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length48:08
LabelT-Series
ProducerAnu Malik

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. 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, Kareeb, Baazigar and Main Khiladi Tu Anari." [3]

Track list[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Badal – Movie". Box Office India.
  2. ↑ "Badal - Movie - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  3. ↑ http://planetbollywood.com/Music/badal.html/ Archived 7 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine Planet Bollywood: Reviewed by: Mohammad Ali Ikram

External links[edit]

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