Rangbaaz (1996 film)

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Rangbaaz
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Directed by Kanti Shah
Written by Kanti Shah
Produced by Kanti Shah
P L Ahuja
Starring Raasi
Mithun Chakraborty
Shilpa Shirodkar
Deepak Shirke
Paresh Rawal
Kader Khan
Kiran Kumar
CinematographyAhram Khan
S Pappu
Music by Bappi Lahiri
Production
company
Hero Films
Release date
  • 25 October 1996 (1996-10-25)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget Rs 2 Crores

Rangbaaz is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Kanti Shah, starring Mithun Chakraborty playing three roles in opposive, Shilpa Shirodkar, Deepak Shirke, Paresh Rawal, Rami Reddy, Mohan Joshi, Kader Khan and Kiran Kumar. [1] The film is a low budget exact copy of the 1989 film Tridev. Sunny Deol is seen in an explosion scene, which is directly taken from the film Tridev. [2] The film is directed by Kanti Shah, who also directed Gunda with Mithun. The dialogues are written by Bashir Bhai Babbar, who has produced the same cheesy and rhyming dialogues as he did in Gunda.

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Plot

The story concerns three look-alikes: the honest Inspector Kanhaya, the unlucky Kundan and Banarasi, who is a Robin Hood type. Jhangura, a terrorist want to destroy the state. He plants bombs in hospital, kills thousands of people but police could not capture him because his spy is in the police force. His goons falsely implicate Kanhaya, kill the judge or whoever attempts to counter him. Jhangura eventually kidnaps the commissioner of police in order to lure his pursuers into a trap, but the look-alikes discover his plot and work with the police to rescue the commissioner and their respective girl friends.

Cast

Songs

#TitleSinger(s)
1"Bedardi Bedardi Yun Na Tu Dil" - Bappi Lahiri
2"Aankhon Hi Aankhon Mein" Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Sadhna Sargam
3"Solah Kiye The Pure Mahine" Poornima, Bappi Lahiri
4"Aanewala Hai Aanewala Hai" Kavita Krishnamurthy
5"Main Suit Pehno Ya Chaddi" Vinod Rathod
6"Saawan Kee Raat Suhani" Kumar Sanu, Poornima

Box office

This film was released on 25 October 1996 at 125 screens, this movie's Budget was (₹2 crore), first day it collected (₹25lakh) rupees, at first week it collected (₹68 lakh) worldwide gross collection was (₹3,62,43,750) and overseas gross collection was (US$15,000) and film was proved Average are Box Office India.

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References

  1. "Rangbaaz (1996) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  2. Tridev (1989) - IMDb , retrieved 3 January 2021