Major Saab

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Major Saab
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Poster
Directed by Tinnu Anand
Written byRobin Bhatt
Santhosh Saroj
Produced by Amitabh Bachchan
Starring Amitabh Bachchan
Ajay Devgn
Sonali Bendre
Nafisa Ali
Cinematography Ravi K. Chandran
Edited byPrashant Khedekar
Vinod Nayak
Music bySongs:
Anand Raaj Anand
Aadesh Shrivastava (Sona Sona)
Score:
Aadesh Shrivastava
Production
company
Release date
  • 26 June 1998 (1998-06-26)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹18 crore [1]

Major Saab (transl.: Respected Major) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Tinnu Anand, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Sonali Bendre, Ashish Vidhyarthi, and Nafisa Ali. [2] [3]

Contents

Plot

The plot concerns playboy Virendra "Vir" Pratap Singh. A clause in the will of his wealthy father forces him to enter a military academy in order to inherit. Vir's repeated attempts to get himself discharged are foiled by Major Jasbir Singh Rana. Then Virendra falls in love with Nisha, the sister of a gangster named Shankar. Shankar wants Nisha to marry the son of his friend Parshuram Bihari and hatches a plot to separate the couple, by pretending to accept Vir, however soon beats him up badly and attempts to break both his arms and legs. After that, the Major then begins training Vir to regain his strength and fight those who wronged him to win Nisha back. Finally, both are accepted by Shankar. However, Bihari kills Shankar and tries to force Nisha to marry his son, but is foiled by the Major and Vir.

In the end, the Major is court-martialed for leading soldiers to interfere in a civilian affair.

Cast

Production

Many scenes of the film was filmed in Pune at National Defence Academy (NDA) including the song "Sona Sona". [4]

Box office

The film was a moderate success at the box office, it earned 18 crore. [1] It was also the 9th highest-grossing film of the year (Bollywood films of 1998).

Soundtrack

Major Saab
Soundtrack album by
Released20 May 1998
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label T-Series

The music is composed by Anand Raaj Anand and Aadesh Shrivastava. Lyrics are penned by Anand Raj Anand and Dev Kohli. Initially Anand Raj Anand wanted to sing the song 'Akeli Na Bazaar Jaya Karo' and 'Pyar Kiya toh Nibhana' by himself, but could not due to circumstances, about which he spoke in an interview. [5] However, the whole album gained hugh popularity and tracks like 'Akeli Na Bazaar jaya karo', 'Sona Sona' and 'Pyaar Kiya toh Nibhana' became hit. In 2017, the song 'Pyar kiya toh Nibhana' was recreated with Armaan Malik and Shruti Pathak as singers. Then in 2021 it was recreated by Jonita Gandhi, Millind Gaba and Abhijeet Vaghani on T-Series Mixtape. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Akeli Na Bazaar Jaya Karo" Anand Raaj Anand Udit Narayan 05:49
2."Deewana Ban"Anand Raj Anand Sudesh Bhosle 03:18
3."Pyaar Tumse Karna Hai"Anand Raaj Anand Alka Yagnik, Anand Raaj Anand04:50
4."Pyaar Kiya Toh Nibhana (I)"Anand Raaj AnandUdit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal 03:04
5."Pyaar Kiya Toh Nibhana (II)"Anand Raaj AnandAnuradha Paudwal, Udit Narayan03:04
6."Sona Sona" Aadesh Shrivastav Sudesh Bhosle, Sonu Nigam, Jaspinder Narula 06:48
7."Tere Pyar Mein"Anand Raaj Anand Kumar Sanu 04:38

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