Champion (2000 film)

Champion
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Directed by	Padam Kumar
Produced by	Sujit Kumar
Written by	N. Maharajan Vijay Shetty Venkatesh Padam Kumar (Story-Screenplay) Sanjay Masoom (dialogues)
Starring	Sunny Deol Manisha Koirala Abhishek Sharma Rahul Dev
Music by	Anu Malik Anand Raj Anand Vishal-Shekhar(songs) Aadesh Shrivastava(BGM)
Cinematography	Tirru
Edited by	Shirish Kunder
Production company	Shree Shiv Bhakti Films
Distributed by	Shemaroo Entertainment
Release date	22 December 2000 (2000-12-22)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Champion is a 2000 Indian Hindi action film directed by Padam Kumar, starring Sunny Deol, Manisha Koirala and Rahul Dev. The rights to this film are owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment. The movie became a flop at the box office.

Plot

The film Champion is a tale about a man who has a quest, a dream to be the best of the best. The film centres on four main characters, namely Rajveer Singh (Sunny Deol), a simpleton from a village in Punjab, whose sole dream in life is to become a super-cop and wipe off all crime. After, training, he gets his first posting at Mumbai for a special assignment. Bubbling with enthusiasm, an arrival, he is shocked to find that his job is to protect a nine-year-old boy, Abbas Khan (Abhishek Sharma). A bodyguard, after all the rigorous training to eliminate hardcore criminals! Abbas is the sole heir to millions of riches left to him by his parents, who have expired in a drastic plane crash. The only threat to Abbas's life is Nazir (Rahul Dev), who has a personal vendetta because of which he venomously stalks the innocent child. Abbas's only guardian is Sapna (Manisha Koirala), who is close to Abbas and his family. Sapna, a vivacious lady and a successful model, is the only source of love, affection and fun in Abbas's life. Rajveer and Abbas hate each other from the world go. Rajveer dislikes this naughty spoilt rich brat for being the cause of his shattered dream of becoming a super-cop whereas Abbas hates Rajveer for curtailing his freedom to do things as he pleases. Abbas then calls upon his messiah, Sapna, to take care of this dictator in his life and together they play pranks on Rajveer to get rid of him. From here starts a very interesting love-hate relationship filled with fun and laughter, only to culminate into Rajveer and Sapna falling in love and Abbas and Rajveer developing a relationship of understanding by the end of the day where Rajveer is ready to risk everything to protect Abbas from Nazir, the only danger in Abbas's life. But this time Nazir has made several chilling attempts to eliminate Abbas. Now the only way to get Abbas out of danger is for Rajveer to nab Nazir and he does not just that, with a powerful climax to this saga. Rajveer kills Nazir in a thrilling climax, rescuing Abbas.

Inspired from movie Mercury Rising.

Cast

• Sunny Deol as Inspector Rajveer Singh
• Manisha Koirala as Sapna Khanna
• Rahul Dev as Naseer Ahmed
• Master Abhishek Sharma as Abbas Khan
• Master Kaivalya Chheda as Abbas's Friend
• Master Jasmeet Jaggi as Abbas's Friend
• Deepak Parashar as Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan
• Padmini Kapila as Mrs. Mansoor Ali Khan
• Rakesh Pandey as Mukhtar Ahmed,Naseer Ahmed Father
• Vikram Gokhale as Police Commissioner
• Dina Pathak
• Rana Jung Bahadur as Pandey
• Tom Alter as Doctor
• Kashmera Shah in an item number

Awards

• Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role - Rahul Dev
• Nominated: Screen Award for Best Actor In A Negative Role - Rahul Dev
• Nominated: Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Male - Rahul Dev

Music

Given by Anu Malik and Anand Raj Anand.

• "Aisa Champion Kahan": Sunidhi Chauhan, Jaspinder Narula
• "Ek Ladki Jiski Aankhein": Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
• "Jatt Lutya Gaya": Hema Sardesai
• "Koi Deewane Ko": Roop Kumar Rathod, Alka Yagnik
• "Lelo Lelo": Poornima, Udit Narayan
• "Na Baba Na Baba": Kavita Krishnamurthy
• "Tu Kya Cheez Hai": Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Kavita Krishnamurthy

External links

• Champion at IMDb