| Badal | |
| Director: | Raj Kanwar |
| Producer: | Salim Akhtar Shama Akhtar |
| Story: | Raj Kanwar |
| Screenplay: | Sutanu Gupta Robin Bhatt |
| Starring: | Bobby Deol Rani Mukerji Amrish Puri |
| Music: | Songs: Anu Malik Background Score: Aadesh Shrivastava |
| Editing: | Waman Bhonsle |
| Cinematography: | Harmeet Singh |
| Studio: | Aftab Pictures |
| Runtime: | 173 minutes |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Country: | India |
| Budget: | 10 crore[1] |
Badal is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film[2] directed by Raj Kanwar. The film stars Bobby Deol and Rani Mukerji in lead roles with Amrish Puri. It was a commercial success.[3]
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 sadistic 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 working 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 tortured 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.
| Badal | |
| Type: | Soundtrack album |
| Artist: | Anu Malik |
| Released: | 4 December 1999 |
| Genre: | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length: | 48:08 |
| Label: | T-Series |
| Producer: | Anu Malik |
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, 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 Border, Kareeb, Baazigar and Main Khiladi Tu Anari."[4]
| Song | Singer(s) | Length | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Jugni Jugni" | 7:40 | - | "Na Milo Kahin Pyar" | 6:47 | ||
| "Yaar Yara Mere Yaaram" | 5:40 | |||||
| "Medley Song" | - | 5:21 | ||||
| "Allah Allah" | 5:30 | |||||
| "Lal Garara" | 6:50 | |||||
| "Tujhe Dekh Ke Dil" | 5:33 | |||||
| "Na Milo Kahin Pyar (Instrumental)" | 6:47 |