Barsaat (1995 film)

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Barsaat
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Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Written byShyam Gupta
Rajkumar Santoshi
Produced by Dharmendra
Starring Bobby Deol
Twinkle Khanna
Raj Babbar
Mukesh Khanna
Danny Denzongpa
Cinematography Santosh Sivan
Edited byV. N. Mayekar
Music bySongs:
Nadeem-Shravan
Score:
Louis Banks
Production
company
Distributed byVijayta Films
Release date
  • 29 September 1995 (1995-09-29)
Running time
170 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹ 8.25 crore [1]
Box office₹ 34 crore [1]

Barsaat (transl.Rain) is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film, starring Bobby Deol and Twinkle Khanna, in their debuts. The film was directed by Rajkumar Santoshi.

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Both Deol and Khanna won the Filmfare Awards in the Best Debut categories. Notably, Deol would also act in a film of the same name 10 years later in 2005.

Plot

Badal (Bobby Deol) is a naive but intelligent young man who comes from a small village to the big city to attend college. He is introduced to city life by his former villager Damru (Harish Patel), who calls himself Danny. In college, he meets pretty and precocious Tina Oberoi (Twinkle Khanna) and, after a few misunderstandings and misadventures, they fall in love.

This relationship is not approved of by Tina's wealthy widower step-father Dinesh Oberoi (Raj Babbar), who hopes to take all her wealth. He is waiting for Tina To turn eighteen. His friend (Bharat Kapoor) wants his son to marry Tina and divide the whole wealth. Once his son finds out about love of Tina and Badal, he complains to the college principal (Vijay Kashyap), that Badal has been responsible for sexually harassing a girl at the college one night, but Tina testifies in favour of Badal and insists he's innocent. Dinesh then asks a corrupt cop, Negi (Danny Denzongpa), the city's assistant commissioner of police, for assistance.

Negi arrests Badal on trumped-up charges and imprisons him. Badal's widowed dad Bhairon (Mukesh Khanna) comes to the big city to try to make sense of why Badal is in prison. Dinesh gives a contract to Negi to have Badal killed. Negi agrees and hires a gang of ruthless outlaws to hunt and kill Badal. The lovebirds run away to Badal's village. However, Negi reaches there and threatens the villagers. To save the villagers, Badal gives Tina sleeping pills by lying to her that both of them are committing suicide. He then surrenders himself to Negi.

When Tina wakes up, she finds herself in the custody of her step-father who tries to kill her by giving her poison, but her friend tells her the true intention of Dinesh who never wanted Tina to marry his son. She is shocked to learn the truth and runs in a car.

By this time, Badal and Negi had a face off where Negi is killed (as shown) by Badal and now he comes to save Tina from Dinesh who is behind her to kill him. Both of them are fighting on the hill where Tina pleads Badal not to kill Dinesh as she considers him her father.

However, Negi (who is revealed to still be alive) again comes to kill Badal but Dinesh protects Badal this time and Negi is finally killed, but by Bhairon and two others. At last, Tina and Badal unite with the dying Dinesh, who finally approves their match and apologises for his deeds.

Cast

Production

Initially, Shekar Kapur was set to direct this film and had shot a scene with Deol. [2] However, he left the film for Bandit Queen and Rajkumar Santoshi took over as director. He had both the lead actors attend workshops. While shooting a scene in London, Deol suffered a leg injury and had to use crutches for over a year. He continued shooting for the film Gupt: The Hidden Truth with his injured leg. [3] A few scenes were shot at Rohtang Pass near Manali, Himachal Pradesh. Khanna fainted once while filming there. Reportedly both the lead actors did not go along well during the shooting. Deol irritated Khanna on many occasions and the latter found it "obnoxious". [4]

Box office

Its total net gross collection was 29 crores and it was declared a "Super Hit" grosser by Box Office India. It was also the 5th highest-grossing movie of the year. [5]

Soundtrack

Barsaat
Studio album by
Nadeem Shravan
Released1995
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length58:55
Label Tips Industries
Producer Nadeem Shravan
Nadeem Shravan chronology
Saajan Ki Baahon Mein
(1995)		Barsaat
(1995)		Anokha Andaaz
(1995)

The film score of Barsaat was composed by Louis Banks while the songs were composed by Nadeem Shravan with lyrics penned by Sameer.According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 3,000,000 units sold the soundtrack became the fourth highest-grossing album of the year.

Track #TitleSinger(s)Length
1"Humko Sirf Tumse Pyar Hai" Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik 06:49
2"Love Tujhe Love Main"Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik05:46
3"Dil Pagal Deewana Hai"Kumar Sanu05:49
4"Nahin Yeh Ho Nahin Sakta"Kumar Sanu, Sadhana Sargam 06:04
5"Humko Padhaai Se"Kumar Sanu06:41
6"Ek Haseena Ladki Se" Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik08:34
7"Ishq Mein Ek Pal"Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishnamurthy 08:16
8"Dil Pagal Deewana Hai"Sonu Nigam05:49
9"Humko Sirf Tumse Pyar Hai" (Instrumental)05:44
10"Love Tujhe Love Main" (Instrumental)05:12

The songs of the film are popular even in 2020, especially "Humko Sirf Tumse Pyaar Hai" and "Nahin Yeh Ho Nahin Sakta". [6] [7] Hindustan Times called the latter song "the definition of the lovelorn '90s" and "[s]till the most played song on every desi diljala aashiq’s list". [8]

Reception

Barsaat was a "hugely-anticipated film". [7] Writing for Rediff.com, Sukanya Verma called it "not a great movie" but was appreciative of Santosh Sivan's cinematography, especially during the song "Nahi Yeh Ho Nahi Sakta", noting that the "freshness enveloping Sivan’s visuals in the song ... choreographed by Farah Khan, continues to satisfy" and "I love the luminously lit frames, the use of fresh paint and mirrors and a gorgeous play of pristine white and bright yellow." [9] A review in India Today noted that the film lacked a script and is "yet another collection of cliches". It found the songs "mediocre" and concluded with "[t]he best part is that two stars are born". [10]

Filmfare Awards

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