''Bichhoo'' () is a 2000 Indian

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-language

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film directed by

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, starring

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and

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. It is a remake of the 1994 French English-language film '' Léon: The Professional'' by

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with the age of the lead actress changed from 12 to 22 years.

Synopsis

Jeeva comes from a struggling family. He falls in love with Kiran but her father, who is rich but scheming, in retaliation to Jeeva and Kiran's relationship, bribes the police into falsely arresting Jeeva's mother and two sisters for prostitution, leading the three to kill themselves. Kiran also commits suicide, ashamed of how her father ruined Jeeva's life. Jeeva murders Kiran's father for revenge. He later becomes a professional killer, residing in Mumbai who kills anybody for a price, other than women and children. He lives in an apartment next to the Bali family. Their youngest daughter, also named Kiran strongly dislikes them and tries many a time to befriend Jeeva, who is too engrossed in his killings to have any time for her. Kiran Bali's father has been supplying drugs for a corrupt police officer named Devraj Khatri. Khatri learns that Bali has been hiding drugs from him and so, in retaliation he leads his men to kill the entire family. Kiran is the only one to survive as she was delivering milk to Jeeva in his apartment. Jeeva empathises with Kiran, mostly due to his own tragic past which involved losing loved ones. Kiran soon enough learns that Jeeva is a professional killer and despite the latter's initial objections, learns how to handle weapons to avenge the death of her family. Meanwhile, Khatri and his men learn that there is a sole survivor of their brutal murder of the Bali family, and so decide to hunt down and kill Kiran. So, Jeeva must stop at nothing to protect Kiran from Khatri.

Cast

as Jeeva Khandelwal * Rani Mukherji as Kiran Bali * Malaika Arora as Kiran Sabarwal *

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as Neha Khandelwal, Jeeva's mother * Ashish Vidyarthi as Corrupt Assistant Commissioner of Police Devraj Khatri (in Narcotics Department) * Sachin Khedekar as Kiran Bedi, Kiran Bali's brother * Suresh Chatwal as Shopkeeper * Veerendra Saxena as Madan Bhai, Jeeva's friend * Pramod Moutho as Pankaj Kharbanda * Mohan Joshi as Kiran 's father * Avtar Gill as S.K. Puri,

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* Mahavir Shah as Inspector Khan * Bhakti Barve as TV interviewer, who takes an interview of the Police Commissioner * Ishrat Ali as Vikas Bali, Kiran Bali's father * Dolly Bindra as Mrs Bali, Kiran Bali's stepmother * Shweta Shetty in a guest role (in the song "Dil Tote Tote Ho Gaya") *

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as himself * Janardhan Parab as Security Guard of society * Santosh Gupta as Mumbai Local Train passenger

Soundtrack

All songs written composed by Anand Raaj Anand and lyrics written by Sameer. The album consists of 8 songs, including two instrumental tracks. Harry Anand, one of the first musicians to start the trend of bringing out remix music videos in India, singing two songs from the tracks. According to the Indian trade website

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, with around 16,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's eleventh highest-selling.

Track listing

Sequel

Director Guddu Dhanoa has announced that he would make a sequel, ''Bichhoo 2'', with

in the central role. The production of the film is in its preliminary phase; selection of the lead actress is to be done, among other pivotal tasks. In retrospect of the success of ''Bichhoo'', Dhanoa has said that the new venture is special for him. Though he was tentative about a cut and dry date of release, he said the film will be hitting the screens in the near future.

References

External links

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