Bambai Ka Babu | |
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Directed by | Vikram Bhatt |
Produced by | Gul Advani (co-producer) Ravi Vachani (producer) |
Written by | Iqbal Raj |
Starring |
Saif Ali Khan, Kajol Atul Agnihotri Dalip Tahil, Vaishnavi Mahant Vishwajeet Pradhan |
Music by | Anand-Milind |
Cinematography | Bhushan Patel |
Edited by | Waman B. Bhosle |
Release date
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22 March 1996 |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Bambai Ka Babu (English: Hero of Bombay) is a 1996 Bollywood action film directed by Vikram Bhatt. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Atul Agnihotri and Kajol. The film's music by Anand-Milind was a major highlight.
Born and brought up in a small village by foster parents, Vikram alias Vicky (Saif Ali Khan) comes to Bombay - the big city - to find his fortune. He wants to get rich soon, and he does get lucky when fate, and his confidence, courage and good looks land him a job with a politician cum criminal named Masterji (Dalip Tahil). He also meets a bar dancer named Anita Vaishnavi Mahant and love blossoms. Masterji starts him off with petty crimes, just to ensure his capabilities. Through his hard work and dedication, Vicky soon wins the respect of Masterji and his colleagues, especially one trusted man of Masterji named Vinayak More (Viju Khote). He soon becomes "Bambai ka babu" Then Vicky is entrusted with a task of subduing Masterji's rival, Jaya Shetty (Vishwajeet Pradhan), which he does easily. Then instead of being disposed off, Jaya is asked to make friends with Masterji, so as to benefit the latter. But soon Vicky comes to know of Masterji's plan with Jaya to incite communal violence as a means of indirectly winning the elections, he decides to sabotage their plans. Angered at this, Masterji orders the death of Vicky at any cost. Vicky has nowhere to turn to, except to live in fear for the rest of his life, as sooner or later Jaya and Masterji's men will track him down.
Amit (Atul Agnihotri), Vicky's step brother in his village, in the meantime, hears of all that is taking place in Bombay, and decides to come to find Vicky and take him back home. He meets Neha Kajol, a freelancing press photographer, with whom love blossoms and he teams up to find Vicky. They soon learn that everyone believes that Vicky is dead,killed in communal violence, with his charred body and belongings in the mortuary . But Amit does not agree, as he does not find a chain there that he had given Vicky before the latter had left for Bombay. They find Vinayak More and Anita, from whom they learn that Vicky is actually alive and in hiding.