Baazigar (1993)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Directors:

Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla
Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

Writers:

Robin Bhatt (written by)
Akash Khurana (written by)

Release Date:

12 November 1993 (India)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Widowed Madan Chopra lives a very wealthy lifestyle with two daughters, Seema and Priya. His passion is racing...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Coin Flipping In The Air | Traitor | Airport | Engagement

Awards:

4 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Kajol	...	Priya M. Chopra
Sushant Ray	...	Inspector Karan (as Siddharth)
Shilpa Shetty	...	Seema M. Chopra
Dalip Tahil	...	Madan Chopra
Johnny Lever	...	Babulal - Head Servant
Rakhee Gulzar	...	Shobha V. Sharma
Anant Mahadevan	...	Vishwanath Sharma (Ajay's father)
Krish Mallik	...	Ravi Shukla (as Krish Malik)
Dinesh Hingoo	...	Seth Bajodia
Adi Irani	...	Vicky Malhotra
Resham Tipnis	...	Anjali Sinha
Amrit Patel	...	Chopra's Chauffeur (as Amrut Patel)
Sumeet Pathak	...	Young Ajay (as Master Sumeet)
Shahrukh Khan	...	Ajay Sharma / Vicky Malhotra
Manmauji	...	Taalia

Runtime:

175 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 | USA:R (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Essel Studios, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

United Seven Combines

Trivia:

The film shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollwyood formula: The 'hero' murders the innocent 'heroine' out of the blue which stirred up quite a controversy, but caused also big revenues at the box office.

Quotes:

Ajay Sharma: Sometimes, to win something, one has to lose something too, and they call such a person a "Baazigar".

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Luck by Chance (2009)

Soundtrack:

Ae Mere Humsafar

To Watch At Least Once!!

This is the kind of movie that I advice to watch at least one time so you can see Shahrukh Khan in a different way of playing. For the 1st time he wasn't a cool, nice and romantic lover as we got used to see him in different movies during the majority of his "movies list".

I found him convincing in his act. Yet I believe we could have a different scenario. Maybe we didn't need to have such kind of violences and violent scenes in it to understand and appreciate the movie. Maybe the movie could have been done in a different way to communicated to the public its message.

This is why I give 7/10 because it was still a nice one even if I didn't like the songs that much. I also didn't understand how the songs got rewarded while they aren't that much pretty to hear. Maybe it's a question of "taste" as we say in french.