Indian (2001 film)

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Indian
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Film poster
Directed by N. Maharajan
Screenplay byN. Maharajan
Story byN. Maharajan
Based on Vallarasu (2000)
Produced by Dharmendra
Starring Sunny Deol
Shilpa Shetty
Danny Denzongpa
Raj Babbar
Mukesh Rishi
Rahul Dev
CinematographyA. Ramesh Kumar
Edited byB. S. Vasu
Saleem
Music by Anand Raj Anand
Production
company
Distributed by Eros International
Release date
  • 26 October 2001 (2001-10-26)
Running time
178 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹15 crore [1]
Box office₹42.60 crore [1]

Indian is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by N. Maharajan and produced by Dharmendra. It stars Sunny Deol, and also features Shilpa Shetty, Danny Denzongpa, Raj Babbar, Mukesh Rishi and Rahul Dev. The film tells the story of a strong, brave policeman who is falsely blamed for the mysterious murder of his father-in-law.

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A remake of the director's own Tamil film Vallarasu , the film was released on 26 October 2001 with excellent box office reports, grossing a domestic nett of ₹18.0 million on its opening day. Made on a budget of ₹150 million, it was successful at the box office, earning over ₹540 million worldwide. [2] It was the fourth highest-grossing Hindi film of the year in India with a nett gross of ₹280 million. [3] [4]

Plot

Raj Shekhar Azad, an honest DCP whose sole intention is to wipe out corruption, emerged with unflinching patriotism from his name to aim. But for every such patriot, there is an equally motivated terrorist. Waseem Khan, a dreaded terrorist is aided by Raj's father-in-law and corrupt DGP Surya Pratap Singh, many police officers, and influential industrialist Shankar Singhania. Raj's path is laden with hurdles, but he leaves no stone unturned, within the realm of law, to wage a war against the evildoers.

Raj arrests Waseem and is entrusted with his interrogation. Waseem is placed in a special cell but still arranges riots in the city from within the confines of prison. Raj figures out that Surya is Waseem's accomplice. He kills Surya and performs his last rites then as his son-in-law. His wife, Anjali, is unaware of the incident and Surya's misdeeds.

Cast

Production

Deol, who usually did not star in remakes, saw Vallarasu and loved it. This was his second home production after Dillagi , and while admitting there were no drastic changes made to the script, he revealed the only thing changed was the nativity in order to suit the northern audience." [5]

Soundtrack

Indian
Soundtrack album by
Anand Raaj Anand
Released2001
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Universal Music India

All songs are written by Anand Bakshi.

TitleSinger(s)
"Waton Walo" Roop Kumar Rathod
"Deewane" Shaan, Alka Yagnik
"Yeh Pyar" Richa Sharma, Sunidhi Chauhan
"Rab Di Kasam" Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
"Jaana Maine" Abhijeet, Sadhana Sargam
"Thaath Nawabi" Anand Raj Anand, Alka Yagnik

Reception

The website Online Bangalore described the movie as "patriotic" and described the movie as having stunts that are "vibrant and will surely appeal to the Indian masses". However they also criticised it for being overly-long, unoriginal, excessively serious, and lacking in romance. [6] Khalid Mohammed of the Times of India described the film in an October 2001 as a "messy bang-a-bang movie". [4]

Sequel

The making of a sequel, to be called Indian 2, and to star Sunny Deol and to be directed by Maharajan was announced in 2018. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Indian – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 27 October 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Indian - Movie". Box Office India . Archived from the original on 27 October 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  3. ↑ Saini, Kainika (30 November 2020). "Muhurat Of Sunny Deol's Action Film Indian (2001)". Lehren. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  4. 1 2 Khalid, Mohammed (29 October 2001). "Indian". Times of India. Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "'I see no competition from Asoka'". Rediff.com . Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
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