Baazi (1995)

A tough and honest police officer wages a one-man war against terrorists and a corrupt politician who have planned to assassinate the chief minister of the state.

Director:

Ashutosh Gowariker

Writers:

Santosh Saroj (dialogue), Neeraj Vora (story)

Stars:

Aamir Khan, Mamta Kulkarni, Paresh Rawal

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Aamir Khan	...	Inspector Amar Damjee
Mamta Kulkarni	...	Journalist Sanjana Roy
Paresh Rawal	...	Deputy Chief Minister Chaturvedi / Chaubey
Avtar Gill	...	Deputy Inspector Deshpandey
Mushtaq Khan	...	Deputy Inspector Jamdaadey
Aparajita	...	Shanti Damjee
Kulbhushan Kharbanda	...	Commissioner Mazumdar
Raza Murad	...	Chief Minister Vishwasrao Chowdhury
Asrani	...	Hiranandani
Kunickaa Sadanand	...	Rani (as Kunika)
Mukesh Rishi	...	Raghu
Satish Shah	...	Editor Roy
Ashish Vidyarthi	...	Shiva
Puneet Issar	...	Bus passenger
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Abhimanyyu Abhimanyu	...	Inspector Abhimanyyu (as Abhimanyyu)

Storyline

Inspector Amar Damjee intervenes by chance during a terrorist attempt on the Chief Minister's life after several bodyguards were killed; several terrorists were killed, one arrested, but two escaped. The Chief Minister entrusts Amar with the task of finding and arresting the rest of the gang that had done already other successful attempts against government officials. Amidst an international scandal of millions of rupees, Amar gets framed for the rape and murder of Anjali, the only daughter of Police Commissioner Mazumdar... This time, the court case is swiftly judged, Amar condemned and imprisoned. Amar knows he is innocent, and wants to clear his name, for which he must escape from prison. Even so, the high powers that have sent him to jail are now after his life. [with thanks to gavin, bbakhtiari and rajoo]

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Plot Keywords:

attempted assassination | man wears an undershirt | woman murders a woman | terrorist | court | 

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Genres:

Action | Thriller | Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

5 April 1995 (India)

Also Known As:

Gamble

Filming Locations:

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

786 Aftab Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

183 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sajid Khan told on Koffee with Karan that he had given Ashutosh Gowareikar the VHS of Diehard which was remade into this film.

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Connections

References Patriot Games (1992)

User Reviews

Decent action/thriller. The Dangal guy was terrific in cross dressing.

The story opens with a group of people travelling in a bus. The bus is stopped on its way and a bunch of hooligans board the bus and create a nuisance when a man tricks them into getting off the bus. Later the bus stops for a tea break and the hooligans arrive at the same time when suddenly a passing convoy is attacked and the assassins try to kill the man inside one of the cars. The man using his swiftness foils the attack and manages to nab and arrest one of the attackers while killing another. The rest manage to escape the scene.

This man is Inspector Amar Damjee (Aamir Khan) and the person in the car turns out to be Chief Minister Vishwasrao Chowdhury (Raza Murad) who was impressed with Amar and delegates to him the task of locating the people behind a multi-crore rupee international scandal to Amar. Amar promises to fulfill the job to the best of his ability.

It is shown that Chaubey (an assistant to the CM) was the one who committed the fraud and is trying to ensure that he is not caught and hence he had asked the assassins to attack the CM. Amar tries to break the back of crime and this starts irritating Chaubey who senses how close Amar is getting. Chaubey then frames Amar for the murder of the daughter of the Police Commissioner Mazumdar(Kulbhushan Kharbanda).