''Badal'' () is a 2000 Indian

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directed by Raj Kanwar. The film stars

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and Rani Mukerji in lead roles with

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. The movie is inspired by '' The Devil's Own'' (1997), starring

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and

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. It was a commercial success.

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, 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

as Raja / Badal * Rani Mukherji as Rani *

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as Soni *

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as DIG Jai Singh Rana *

as ACP Ranjeet Singh *

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as Jeet Ram *

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as Guler Mehndi * Upasna Singh as Guler Mehndi's wife *

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as Simran Singh * Sana Saeed as Preeti *

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as Badal's father *

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as Rani's Grandfather *

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as minister Satyaprakash Shinde *

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as Daya Shankar *

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as Police Constable Mangiram * Vishwajeet Pradhan as Sahab Singh *

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as terrorist Asgar *

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as terrorist Rafiq, and Asgar's younger brother *

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* Suman Ranganathan as

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* Mink Brar as item number *

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* Dinesh Anand * Mandira Bedi

Soundtrack

The music for ''Badal'' was composed and produced by

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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 ''

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'', '' Kareeb'', '' Baazigar'' and '' Main Khiladi Tu Anari''." http://planetbollywood.com/Music/badal.html/ Planet Bollywood: Reviewed by: Mohammad Ali Ikram

Track list

References

External links

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''Rediff'' review''Planet Bollywood'' review
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