Bade Miyan Chote Miyan

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
Poster of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
Directed by	David Dhawan
Written by	Rumi Jaffery
Produced by	Vashu Bhagnani
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Govinda Ramya Krishnan Raveena Tandon Paresh Rawal Anupam Kher Satish Kaushik
Cinematography	K. S. Prakash Rao
Edited by	A. Muthu
Music by	Viju Shah
Distributed by	Tips Music Films Pvt. Ltd.
Release date	16 October 1998 (1998-10-16)
Running time	142 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹8.9 crore (equivalent to ₹32 crore or US$4.5 million in 2019)[1]
Box office	₹35.21 crore (equivalent to ₹128 crore or US$18 million in 2019) Verdict: Super Hit[2]

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (transl. Big Mister and Little Mister) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by David Dhawan and starring Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda in dual roles.^[1] The film also features Raveena Tandon, Ramya Krishnan, Anupam Kher, Paresh Rawal and Satish Kaushik in supporting roles with Madhuri Dixit in special appearance.

Budgeted at ₹89 million, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan was theatrically released worldwide on 16 October 1998 and emerged as a major commercial success with a total gross collection of ₹352.1 million, despite clashing with Karan Johar's all-time blockbuster Kuch Kuch Hota Hai which interestingly also saw Anupam Kher in an important role.^[3] Also, it was one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of 1998.

Plot[]

Police inspectors Arjun Singh and Pyare Mohan Bhargava share a friendly bond. Arjun is unmarried and some petty comments are made about his age. His sister Seema is dating Pyare. Zorawar Siddiqui, a business smuggler of diamonds and arms, works under the cover of being a statue maker. In a hotel, he discovers he is being spied upon; he gets rid of Madhu, an eyewitness. Her friend, Neha sees her murder. She calls police, and Arjun comes there. He takes her to Pyare's house.

Two petty thieves Bade Miyan and Chote Miyan who are look-alikes of Arjun and Pyare, arrive in town. Confusion ensues when every crime the crooks commit are blamed on Arjun and Pyare. Things goes further downhill when Shyamlal, the police commissioner is also thrashed by the doubles. Even Seema and Neha mistake Bade and Chote for Arjun and Pyare. Arjun and Pyare land in trouble when Zorawar kidnaps Seema. They are arrested but get saved by the arrival of Bade and Chote.

Bade and Chote confuse their acts of theft and conning and promise to get Seema back. They arrive at Zorawar's hideout and stall them while Arjun and Pyare come with the police force and everyone at the hideout is arrested. The crooks leave after apologising to Seema for the confusion. However some of Zorawar's men hijack the police van which is taking him and his associates to jail. They are stopped by Bade and Chote, asking for a lift. Chote realises the truth and gets Zorawar and his men arrested.

Arjun and Pyare are criticised for their mistake regarding the hijacking of the van and the two crooks are given a job in the police force by Shyamlal. Arjun and Pyare end up being demoted to the post of traffic police officers; Bade and Chote take their place as police inspectors.^[4]

Cast[]

• Amitabh Bachchan as
  • Inspector Arjun Singh
  • Krishna Purohit / Bade Miyan
• Govinda as
  • Inspector Pyare Mohan Bhargava
  • Lalit Singh Baweja / Chote Miyan
• Raveena Tandon as Seema Singh
• Ramya Krishnan as Neha Ahuja
• Anupam Kher as Police Commissioner Shyamlal Tripathi
• Paresh Rawal as Zorawar Siddiqui
• Sharat Saxena as Mukesh Malik
• Mahavir Shah as Rajdhar Chawla
• Kader Khan as Waiter Tajendra Chaturvedi / Kadar
• Satish Kaushik as Sharafat Ali
• Sushma Seth as Vaijanti Singh
• Divya Dutta as Madhu Sabharwal
• Rakesh Bedi as Watchman Makkhan Choksey
• Asrani as Museum Security Officer Dayal Jaykar
• Avtar Gill as Sundar Kala
• Razzak Khan as Prisoner Khalim Dhile
• Tiku Talsania as Jeweller
• Shehzad Khan as Inspector Balwant Mehra, who recorded Zorawar's meeting

Special appearance[]

• David Dhawan as Lakshya Singhal
• Viju Khote as Arun Nath Mathur, a man in a purple turban of the train
• Manmauji as Qaran Abdullah, a bald guy in a train
• Madhuri Dixit as Mihika in the video "Mere Pyaar Kaa Ras Zara Chakhna O Makhna"

Music[]

The songs of the film, composed by Viju Shah with lyrics by Sameer, worked well.^[5] Similar to Shah's prior compositions for films like Mohra and Gupt that became quite popular, the album noticeably showed his offbeat mode of music yielding the tuneful numbers like the hit title track "Bade Miyan Chote Miyan", the hit zippy bhangra number "Makhna" and the groovy "Kisi Disco Mein Jaayein". Singers Udit Narayan, Sudesh Bhosle, Amit Kumar, Alka Yagnik, Jaspinder Narula, Anuradha Paudwal and Kavita Krishnamurthy allied and rendered their voices for the songs listed below:

All lyrics are written by Sameer; all music is composed by Viju Shah.

Interesting facts[]

1-In one of the scenes the lead characters need to release Satish Kaushik’s character (Sharafat Ali) from the police station. Hence both Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda impersonate as police officers and visit the police station. This entire scene is inspired by a scene from a Pakistani play titled Humsa Ho To Samne Aye, which is penned by renowned Pakistani writer, and actor-Umer Sharif.^[6]

2-Juhi Chawla was the original choice for the role of Neha but was replaced by south actor Ramya Krishnan.^[6]

3-Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is the first and to date only film where music director Viju Shah and director David Dhawan worked together.^[6]

4-Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is the first film where Amitabh Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit were seen on the big screen together.^[6]

5- Bade Miyan Chote Miyan had a box office clash with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.

6- The director of the film David Dhawan has a cameo scene in the film which only lasted for around 10 seconds.^[6]

7- Bade Miyan Chote Miyan saved Amitabh Bachchan from making a hat-trick of flop films, as two of his previous films Mrityudata and Major Saab did not perform as expected at the box office.^[6]

8- Many elements from this movie were copied from the American film Bad Boys starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. In this film, a major part of Bad Boys was copied including action sequences.

9- The muhurat shot was done by Amitabh Bachchan's daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda on 22 December 1996.

References[]

External links[]

• Bade Miyan Chote Miyan at IMDb