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Rangbaaz (1996 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Rangbaaz' is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Kanti Shah, starring Mithun Chakraborty playing three roles in opposive, Shilpa Shirodkar, Deepak Shirke, Paresh Rawal, Rami Reddy, Mohan Joshi, Kader Khan and Kiran Kumar. The film is a low budget exact copy of the 1989 film Tridev. Sunny Deol is seen in an explosion scene, which is directly taken from the film Tridev. The film is directed by Kanti Shah, who also directed Gunda with Mithun. The dialogues are written by Bashir Bhai Babbar, who has produced the same cheesy and rhyming dialogues as he did in 'Gunda'.
Plot
The story concerns three look-alikes: the honest Inspector Kanhaya, the unlucky Kundan and Banarasi, who is a Robin Hood type. Jhangura, a terrorist want to destroy the state. He plants bombs in hospital, kills thousands of people but police could not capture him because his spy is in the police force. His goons falsely implicate Kanhaya, kill the judge or whoever attempts to counter him. Jhangura eventually kidnaps the commissioner of police in order to lure his pursuers into a trap, but the look-alikes discover his plot and work with the police to rescue the commissioner and their respective girl friends.
Cast
*Mithun Chakraborty as Kundan / Inspector Kanhaiya / Banarasi (triple role)
*Shilpa Shirodkar as Champa (Kanhaya's certain bridge)
*Kader Khan as Judge Kapoor/father Kanhaiya
*Deepak Shirke as Bhima
*Paresh Rawal as Jangura
*Kiran Kumar as Minister
*Jack Gaud as Doga
*Arjun (Firoz Khan) as Goga
*Mohan Joshi as Commissioner Mathur
*Rami Reddy as Nandu
*Johny Lever as Lala Singh/Hara Singh
*Harish Patel as new Minister
*Ishrat Ali as Police inspector Devraj
*Satyendra Kapoor as Ravi
Songs
Box office
This film was released on 25 October 1996 at 125 screens, this movie's Budget was (2 crore), first day it collected (25lakh) rupees, at first week it collected (68 lakh) worldwide gross collection was (3,62,43,750) and overseas gross collection was (US$15,000) and film was proved Average are Box Office India.
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