Baabul (2006 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Baabul


caption = Movie poster for "Baabul"
director = Ravi Chopra
producer = B.R. Chopra
writer =
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starring = Amitabh Bachchan
Salman Khan
Hema Malini
Rani Mukherjee
John Abraham
music = Aadesh Shrivastav
cinematography = Barun Mukherjee
editing =
distributor = B.R. Films
released = 8 December 2006
runtime = 172 mins
country = India
language = Hindi
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 0419468

"Baabul" (Hindi: बाबुल, Urdu: بابُل) is a 2006 Bollywood film, directed by Ravi Chopra. The movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Rani Mukerji, John Abraham and Om Puri. The movie was dubbed in Telugu as "Premabhishekam". The movie celebrates B. R. Chopra's 50 years in cinema.

Synopsis

Balraj Kapoor (Amitabh Bachchan) is a rich businessman, happy and content with his world. He and his wife Shobhna (Hema Malini) have a son Avinash (Salman Khan). After many years of studying abroad, Avinash announces that he is returning home. Soon, Malvika "Milli" Talwar (Rani Mukerji) enters his life. Love blossoms between them and they get married and are soon blessed with a son, Ansh. However tragedy strikes the family when Avinash is killed in an accident. The loss is too much for Milli and she slowly falls into depression.

Balraj seeks to bring happiness back into Milli's life and he gets into contact with Rajat (John Abraham). Rajat was Milli's friend and he secretly loved her but never told her. Balraj asks Rajat to marry Milli but he faces opposition from his traditional elder brother Balwant (Om Puri). Balwant is totally opposed to the marriage but after some talking from Balraj he agrees. Rajat and Milli get married.

Cast

* Amitabh Bachchan ... Balraj Kapoor
* Hema Malini ... Shobhna Kapoor
* Salman Khan ... Avinash Kapoor
* Rani Mukerji ... Malvika Talwar-Kapoor (Milli)
* John Abraham ... Rajat Verma
* Om Puri ... Balwant Kapoor
* Sarika .... Pushpa (Widowed sister-in-law of Balwant and Balraj)
* Aman Verma ... Shobhna's brother
* Parmeet Sethi .... Balwant's son
* Sharat Saxena .... Malvika's father
* Smita Jaykar .... Malvika's mother
* Rajpal Yadav .... Servant

Music

The film has eleven songs composed by Aadesh Shrivastava:

Crew

* Director: Ravi Chopra
* Screenplay: Suresh Nair
* Story: Dr. Achala Nagar
* Dialogue: Ravi Chopra
* Producer: B. R. Chopra
* Music: Aadesh Shrivastava
* Cinematography: Barun Mukherjee
* Editor: Godfrey Gonsalves
* Art Direction: Keshto Mandal
* Choreography: Farah Khan, Remo D’Souza , Vaibhavi Merchant & Rajeev Surti
* Lyrics: Sameer
* Action: Mahendra Verma
* Costume Designs:
** Sabyasachi Mukherjee- Rani Mukerji
** Neeta Lulla- Hema Malini
** Alvira Khan- Salman Khan
** Narendra Kumar Ahmed- John Abraham
** Gabbana Akhbar- Amitabh Bachchan

Response

Box office

"Baabul" opened really well in Mumbai with a decent response of 75%. However the rest of the country saw an average opening. The small centres opened to poor response and overall the film did not do quite well in India but was an above average grosser. [http://www.boxofficeindia.com/2006.htm] However it did great business overseas, entering at the 8th position on the UK charts in its first week. [http://www.indiafm.com/trade/overseas_boxoffice/135.html] It was a big hit in the overseas market. [http://www.boxofficeindia.com/overseas.htm]

Reviews

Reviews have been generally mixed. The first reviews of the film were positive [http://www.moviewalah.com/2006/12/09/movie-review-baabul] , [http://www.indiafm.com/movies/review/12370/index.html] , but it has generally gathered some sharp criticism along the way. Film critic Samrat Sharma calls the first half "irrelevant in most parts", and also "hollow and undeveloped" [http://www.fullhyderabad.com/scripts/profiles.php3?section=Movies&name=Baabul&ID=4186] . Reviewer Baradwaj Rangan was even more scathing when he said that, "the casting of the leads and the high-gloss setting of their lives just do not make the subsequent events convincing." [http://brangan.easyjournal.com/entry.aspx?eid=3191874]

Awards

Nominated

* 2007: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award - John Abraham
* 2007: Bollywood Movie Award - Best Supporting Actor - John Abraham

Also see

*Babul

External links

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