Badal

Badal
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Raj Kanwar
Screenplay by	Sutanu Gupta Robin Bhatt
Story by	Raj Kanwar
Produced by	Salim Akhtar Shama Akhtar
Starring	Bobby Deol Rani Mukerji
Cinematography	Harmeet Singh
Edited by	Waman Bhonsle
Music by	Anu Malik
Production company	Aftab Pictures
Release date	11 February 2000 (2000-02-11)
Running time	173 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹ 10 crore[1]
Box office	₹26.9 crore

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. The movie is inspired by The Devil's Own, starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. It was a commercial success.^[2]

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. Years later, Badal has become a dreaded terrorist 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, Ranjeet Singh, who takes Badal under his wing, and Rani, a bubbly free spirit who falls madly in love with him. Ranjeet Singh's family eventually takes Badal in as a son. 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.

However, after Ranjeet Singh finds out who Badal is, and Badal comes face-to-face with Jaisingh Rana, who is now a big-name but still evil police inspector, he must figure out how to clear the misunderstanding between him and Ranjeet Singh, withhold Rani's love, and finally get the revenge he has thirsted for against Jaisingh Rana. ^[3]

Cast[]

• Bobby Deol as Raja / Badal
• Rani Mukherji 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 Father
• Akash Khurana as minister Satyaprakash Shinde
• Harish Patel as Daya Shankar
• Mushtaq Khan as Police Constable Mangiram
• Vishwajeet Pradhan as Sahab Singh
• Shahbaz Khan (actor) as Asgar, the lead terrorist's Ka Farz
• Jeetu Verma as Rafiq, a terrorists Ka Farz and Asgar's younger brother
• Dina Pathak
• Salim Ghouse
• Suman Ranganathan as item number
• Mink Brar as item number

• Pappu Polyester
• Dinesh Anand
• Mandira Bedi

Soundtrack[]

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. 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." ^[4]

Track list[]

References[]

External links[]

• Badal at IMDb