Baazigar
Baazigar poster
Directed by	Abbas Mustan
Produced by	Ganesh Jain
Written by	Robin Bhatt, Akash Khurana, Javed Siddiqui
Starring	Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Shilpa Shetty, Rakhee, Dalip Tahil, Anant Mahadevan, Siddharth, Johnny Lever
Music by	Anu Malik
Distributed by	Eros Labs
Release date(s)	November 12, 1993
Running time	181 min.
Language	Hindi, Urdu
IMDb profile

Baazigar (Devanagari: बाज़ीगर, Persian: بازیگر, English: Gambler) is a 1993 Indian Hindi film directed by Abbas-Mustan. It is a contemporary thriller about a young man who stops at nothing to get revenge. The film appears to have been inspired by the Hollywood thriller A Kiss Before Dying. The film shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula: The hero murders the innocent heroine. However, this film with an ambiguous hero did well at the box office. This was Shahrukh Khan's first movie as a villain and also Shilpa Shetty's debut film. Although Akshay Kumar was initially offered the lead role of Baazigar, he turned it down because of its negative shades. Image File history File links Baazigar1993. ... Abbas and Mustan are a Hindi Bollywood director duo. ... Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: شاہ رخ خان), born 2 November 1965, is a highly acclaimed Indian actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as film producer and television host. ... Kajol Devgan, née Mukherjee (Bengali: কাজল দেবগন Kajol Debgôn, Hindi: काजोल देवगन), born August 5, 1975 in Mumbai, India, popularly known as Kajol, is an award-winning popular Bollywood actress. ... Shilpa Shetty (Tulu: ಶಿಲ್ಪ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) (born 8 June 1975 in Tamil Nadu, India) is an award-winning Indian film actress and model. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Dalip Tahil (born 30 October 1952) is an Indian actor who has appeared in over 100 Bollywood films usually playing villain roles since 1979. ... Anant Mahadevan is an actor and director of Hindi films and television serials in India. ... Siddharth Siddharth also known as Siddharth Narayan (born 1 April 1969) is an Indian movie actor who has appeared in Tamil, Telugu and Bollywood films. ... Johnny Lever (Hindi: जॉनी लीवर, born 14th august,1956,is an actor in Bollywood known as a comedian of great regard who has appeared in several films since the 1980s playing comic supporting roles. ... Anu Malik (Hindi: ) is a music director in the Hindi (or Bollywood) film industry. ... Eros Laboratories, also known as Eros Entertainment, is a company that makes DVDs and VCDs of Bollywood movies. ... is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Hindi (DevanāgarÄ«: or , IAST: , IPA:  ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the 22 official languages of India and is used, along with English, for central government administrative purposes. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari (early 19th century) DevanāgarÄ« (देवनागरी — in English pronounced ) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is an abugida alphabet used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri and Nepali from Nepal. ... Farsi redirects here. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... Hindi (DevanāgarÄ«: or , IAST: , IPA:  ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the 22 official languages of India and is used, along with English, for central government administrative purposes. ... Abbas Burmawalla is a popular Bollywood film director. ... Mustan Burmawalla is a popular Bollywood film director. ... A Kiss Before Dying is a novel by Ira Levin. ... Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal term popularly used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. ... - Emo Philips A word, phrase, sentence, or other communication is called ambiguous if it can be reasonably interpreted in more than one way. ... The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ... Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: شاہ رخ خان), born 2 November 1965, is a highly acclaimed Indian actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as film producer and television host. ... Shilpa Shetty (Tulu: ಶಿಲ್ಪ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) (born 8 June 1975 in Tamil Nadu, India) is an award-winning Indian film actress and model. ... Akshay Kumar (Hindi: अक्षय कुमार, born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, on September 9, 1967) is an Indian film actor. ...

Plot

Ajay Sharma, (Shahrukh Khan), is a man who seeks revenge. His father, Vishwanath Sharma (Anant Mahadevan), once owner of a great business empire, was defrauded by Madan Chopra (Dalip Tahil), who was a trusted employee in Vishwanath's company. After being ousted from their own Company and losing everything they owned, the Sharma family has to suffer a lot. Soon afterwards, Ajay's father and his young baby sister die. His mother (Rakhee) is now suffering from a mental illness and memory loss. All this drives Ajay to revenge. He wants to kill the man who did this injustice to him and bring the same fate upon his family. And to do this, he will go to any length. Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: شاہ رخ خان), born 2 November 1965, is a highly acclaimed Indian actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as film producer and television host. ... Anant Mahadevan is an actor and director of Hindi films and television serials in India. ... Dalip Tahil (born 30 October 1952) is an Indian actor who has appeared in over 100 Bollywood films usually playing villain roles since 1979. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Ajay begins dating Seema Chopra (Shilpa Shetty), the daughter of the owner of Chopra business empire. They meet secretly as her father would not approve of a poor son-in-law. Meanwhile, the younger daughter Priya Chopra (Kajol) travels with her father Madan Chopra to Madras (now Chennai), for Madan's final kart race before he retires permanently. Madan has never lost before, but comes across Vicky Malhotra (Ajay Sharma in a disguise of brown contact lenses). Vicky allows Madan to win by slowing at the last corner and tells him that he couldn't beat his "guru". Vicky then charms Priya by saying that he lost the race as he couldn't break the heart of a beautiful girl. Thus his ploy of winning inspite of losing (meaning Baazigar) succeeds as he wins Priya's heart. This way, he manages to date both Seema and Priya simultaneously using different identities. Shilpa Shetty (Tulu: ಶಿಲ್ಪ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) (born 8 June 1975 in Tamil Nadu, India) is an award-winning Indian film actress and model. ... Kajol Devgan, née Mukherjee (Bengali: কাজল দেবগন Kajol Debgôn, Hindi: काजोल देवगन), born August 5, 1975 in Mumbai, India, popularly known as Kajol, is an award-winning popular Bollywood actress. ... Madras redirects here. ... For other uses, see Guru (disambiguation). ...

Ajay is (incidentally) photographed lurking outside the birthday party of Anjali by one of Seema's friends. Later Madan Chopra arranges for Seema to be married off to another business family. Seema is heartbroken, and Ajay decides that they will write identical suicide notes and commit suicide. After they each write their suicide notes, he tells her that the suicide note was just a test. He says that only cowards commit suicide and destroys his note, while keeping Seema's. They decide to marry secretly the next day. When they arrive, the registrar is closed, so they go up to the roof of the building for sightseeing. He makes her sit on the parapet and tells her the truth about himself, after which he throws her to her death from the rooftop of the building. He then posts the suicide note and leaves, but arrives later (as Vicky) with Priya. He helps the Chopra family with the funeral. The letter written by Seema implies that she has committed suicide, and the murder investigation is closed. Priya cannot believe that, and asks her father to re-open the case. However, he disagrees, saying he doesn't want to lose his reputation due to Seema's affair. Priya then asks Karan (Siddharth), who is her former classmate and a current police inspector, for help. Siddharth Siddharth also known as Siddharth Narayan (born 1 April 1969) is an Indian movie actor who has appeared in Tamil, Telugu and Bollywood films. ...

Priya tries to investigate Seema's death, however her attempts prove unsuccessful. Ravi, Seema's college friend, offers to help her, but is brutally killed by Vicky. As Vicky forces him to sign a suicide note before hanging him, Karan thinks that Ravi must have been in love with Seema and hence her murderer. Later, Priya and Vicky meet Seema's college friend, Anjali, who becomes suspicious of him. When she finds out that he was Seema's boyfriend back in college, she calls the Sharma household during Vicky's and Priya's engagement party. Vicky intercepts the phone and impersonates Chopra, and then arrives at her place. He strangles her, then fits her body in a suitcase and throws it in the river.

Vicky vows to destroy Madan Chopra, confiscate his assets and throw him out of his office and onto the street, just like Chopra did many years ago to Ajay's father. Chopra needs to go on a business trip, and knowing that Vicky's his soon to be son-in-law, gives Vicky the Power of Attorney. Vicky does a carbon copy of the previous montage of Chopra, and within days seizes everything. One day in a club Vicky takes Priya to calm her mind, where they meet Ajay's childhood friend, who greets him as Ajay. While Vicky tries to ignore him, Priya tells the man that he is mistaken, and that Ajay is Vicky Malhotra. Ajay's friend repeatedly tries to remind Vicky (who is actually Ajay) about their friendship. Vicky feels trapped and tries to get out of the mess by abusing him and gets in a scuffle with him. Priya visits Ajay's friend and the whole truth is revealed to her. A power of attorney or letter of attorney in common law systems or mandate in civil law systems is an authorization to act on someone elses behalf in a legal or business matter. ...

When Chopra returns, Vicky reveals himself as Vishwanath Sharma's son Ajay and gives him the exact sendoff that Chopra did 15-20 years ago. Priya finds Ajay's home address, and finds out his real identity. Ajay comes in and they argue about Seema's murder. Ajay wins her over by telling her the past history of their two families. Madan charges in with a group of thugs and shoots Ajay in the shoulder before he is severely beaten and wounded. Ajay's Mother is then knocked unconscious trying to defend Ajay. This prompts him to recover and fight Madan and his gang all alone. Chopra eventually picks up a stake and mortally stabs Ajay. However, Ajay manages to impale him and they jump off a small cliff. Chopra dies, and Ajay manages to stagger back to his mother telling her that he has reclaimed what is rightfully hers. Mrs. Sharma gets cured of her illness and is beset by sorrow as in a tearful ending Ajay dies in her arms.

Cast

• Shahrukh Khan as Ajay Sharma/Vicky Malhotra
• Kajol as Priya M. Chopra
• Shilpa Shetty as Seema Chopra
• Siddharth as Inspector Karan
• Dalip Tahil as Madan Chopra
• Johnny Lever as BubuLal-Head Servant
• Rakhee as Shobha Sharma
• Anant Mahadevan as Vishvanat Sharma
• Dinesh Hingoo as Seth Bajodia
• Adi Irani as Vicky Malhotra
• Resham Tipnis as Anjali Sinha
• Harpal Singh as Harpal-Motu

Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: شاہ رخ خان), born 2 November 1965, is a highly acclaimed Indian actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as film producer and television host. ... Kajol Devgan, née Mukherjee (Bengali: কাজল দেবগন Kajol Debgôn, Hindi: काजोल देवगन), born August 5, 1975 in Mumbai, India, popularly known as Kajol, is an award-winning popular Bollywood actress. ... Shilpa Shetty (Tulu: ಶಿಲ್ಪ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) (born 8 June 1975 in Tamil Nadu, India) is an award-winning Indian film actress and model. ... Siddharth Siddharth also known as Siddharth Narayan (born 1 April 1969) is an Indian movie actor who has appeared in Tamil, Telugu and Bollywood films. ... Dalip Tahil (born 30 October 1952) is an Indian actor who has appeared in over 100 Bollywood films usually playing villain roles since 1979. ... Johnny Lever (Hindi: जॉनी लीवर, born 14th august,1956,is an actor in Bollywood known as a comedian of great regard who has appeared in several films since the 1980s playing comic supporting roles. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Anant Mahadevan is an actor and director of Hindi films and television serials in India. ...

Sound Track

The film soundtrack emerged out as one of the most successful that year. The music was composed by Anu Malik. Songs are listed below. Anu Malik (Hindi: ) is a music director in the Hindi (or Bollywood) film industry. ...

Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya (Bengali:কেদারনাথ ভট্টাচার্য) born on September 23, 1957 Kolkata) is a leading playback singer of Bollywood. ... Asha Bhosle[1] (Marathi: ) (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. ... Vinod Rathod, the son of singer Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod, is a Bollywood playback singer. ... Alka Yagnik (born March 20, 1966[1] in Calcutta, West Bengal, India) is an Indian singer. ...

Awards

• Filmfare Award - Best Actor (Shahrukh Khan)
• Filmfare Award - Best Male Playback Singer (Kumar Sanu)
• Filmfare Award - Best Music Direction (Anu Malik)
• Filmfare Award - Best Screenplay Award

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External links

• Baazigar at the Internet Movie Database

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