Soldier (1998 Indian film)
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| Directed by | Abbas-Mustan |
| Produced by | Kumar Taurani Ramesh Taurani |
| Screenplay by |
Sachin Bhowmick Shyam Goel |
| Story by | Shyam Goel |
| Starring |
Raakhee Bobby Deol Preity Zinta |
| Music by |
Songs: Anu Malik Background Score: Surinder Sodhi |
| Cinematography | Thomas Xavier |
| Edited by | Hussain Burmawala |
| Distributed by | Tips Music Films |
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Release date
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20 November 1998 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office |
₹255 million (US$3.8 million) original ₹606 million (US$9.0 million) adjusted |
Soldier is a 1998 Indian action thriller film directed by Abbas-Mustan starring Raakhee, Bobby Deol and Preity Zinta. The film was released in 1998 and was declared as a 'Super Hit' by Box Office India, becoming the 4th highest grossing film of the year. Although Soldier was Preity Zinta's first film, Mani Ratnam's Dil Se.. ended up being released before Soldier and was thus Zinta's film debut. It was remade in Tamil as Villu by Prabhu Deva starring Vijay and Nayantara in lead roles in 2009.
Major Vijay Malhotra (Pankaj Dheer) attempts to defend himself when corrupt army officials, Pratap Singh (Suresh Oberoi), Virender Sinha (Dalip Tahil), and Jaswant Dalal (Salim Ghouse), intercept a truck-load of arms and ammunition, with the help of Virender's brother, Baldev (Sharat Saxena) which they are about to sell illicitly to gangsters. Vijay Malhotra stops the trio of smugglers, but subsequently is shot to death by a mysterious man by the name of DK, who is the ringleader of the smugglers.
The movie shifts to 20 years later where the Mumbai Police gets a fax from the Australian Interpol branch of one Jaswant Dalal, a wanted smuggler entering India. An operation to nab him alive is handed over to ACP Dinesh Kapoor (Ashish Vidyarthi), an old friend of the slain Vijay Malhotra. Dinesh Kapoor sends a copy of the fax to a mysterious man named Vicky (Bobby Deol) and tells him to "prevent" Jaswant from being nabbed by the police. Vicky helps Jaswant escape from the police at the docks, but when Jaswant tries to kill him to erase any witnesses, Vicky shoots him instead. Vicky then escapes to Australia despite the police preventing it.
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