Badal

Badal () is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action 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.

Plot

Badal (Bobby Deol) 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 (Amrish Puri), who takes Badal under his wing, and Rani (Rani Mukerji), 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 really 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.

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
 Johny Lever as Guler Mehndi
 Upasna Singh as Guler Mehndi's wife
 Neena Kulkarni as Simran Singh Soni's mother
 Dina Pathak
 Alok Nath as Badal's father
 Harish Patel
Mushtaq Khan
 Vishwajeet Pradhan as Sahab Singh
 Kulbhushan Kharbanda
 Salim Ghouse
 Pappu Polyester
 Dinesh Anand
 Mandira Bedi
 Akash Khurana as minister Satyaprakash Shinde
 Sana Saeed as Preeti
 Suman Ranganathan as item number
Mink Brar as item number

Soundtrack 

The music for Badal was composed and produced by Anu Malik while the lyrics where penned by Sameer. The film has 5 original songs, a medley and 1 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."

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Category:2000 films
Category:Indian films
Category:2000s Hindi-language films
Category:Films set in 1984
Category:Films scored by Anu Malik
Category:Films featuring an item number
Category:Punjab insurgency in fiction
Category:Fictional portrayals of police departments in India
Category:Indian action films
Category:Films about terrorism in India