Barood
Poster
Directed byPramod Chakravorty
Screenplay bySachin Bhowmick
Based onThe Summertime Killer
by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
Produced byJ.C. Bhagat
H.S. Bhattacharya
Jitu Thakar
StarringRishi Kapoor
Reena Roy
Shoma Anand
Dharmendra
Hema Malini
Ashok Kumar
CinematographyV.K. Murthy
Edited byNarendra Arora
Music bySachin Dev Burman
Release date
  • 2 April 1976 (1976-04-02)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi[1]
Box officeest. ₹19.32 crore ($23.52 million)

Barood (transl. Gunpowder) is a 1976 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Pramod Chakravorty, with screenplay by Sachin Bhowmick and dialogues by Ahsan Rizvi.[2] It stars Rishi Kapoor, Reena Roy and Shoma Anand in leading roles, with Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Ashok Kumar in supporting roles. The film was a commercial flop in India,[3] but went on to become an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union.[4]


Anup Saxena, a young eight-year-old boy lives in Bombay in a middle class society, with his fathe Durga Prasad Saxena, who is a Police Inspector in Bombay Police. He receives a medal for his dedication, honesty for his services, given to the force. Anup's life is suddenly goes dark, when he witnesses four notorious smugglers, Prem, Jagdish, Ratan and Bakshi, assault and kill his father, in broad daylight on Juhu Beach

He spends the rest of his childhood trying to make money and a sporting figure to avenge his father's death. Twelve years later, the boy is now a champion motor cyclist. He, with the help of his pet Labrador Django, seeks revenge. In true Hollywood style, he beings to track down and eliminate the gang of smugglers.

His search leads him to various places like Las Vegas, New York, Geneva, Madrid, Paris, Barcelona, and the coastal areas of Spain. Where he finds his life threatened by his father's murderers. He kills them one by one in different countries like Prem in Geneva, Ratan in Las Vegas & Jagdish in New York. He leaves his dog at a kennel with Harry Ramani, a vet. He tries to woo Sapna, who is an assistant of Bakshi, in order to get his details and kill him. Bakshi is shot by him, but survives  and Anup is already followed by a New York-based retired police detective Balraj Gupta, who is a friend of his late father and is determined to save him. He shadows his every move and will not hesitate to arrest him. Gupta and Bakshi, the Mafia Lord are hell bent to track him. Bakshi is into wine manufacturing and is operating out of Madrid and has a beautiful daughter Seema. Anup starts falling for her and then kidnaps her and takes her to an island and tells Bakshi to follow his instructions.

The climax is Bakshi's cronies give anup a wild car chase & finally Bakshi tries to follow him & dies in a car crash. Gupta arrests anup & takes him to the police but in the middle of the trip he uncuffs & releases him. Seema wants to go with him. But he leaves her stranded in the middle & hands himself over to the police. After his release from the jail, Gupta comes to receive him & finally they end up together.

Cast

Production

It is claimed to be an uncredited remake of the 1972 Italian/Spanish/English film The Summertime Killer starring Christopher Mitchum and Olivia Hussey.

Soundtrack

Barood
Soundtrack album by
S. D. Burman
ReleasedApril 2, 1976 (1976-04-02)[6]
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length33:11
LanguageHindi
LabelUniversal Music India
ProducerS. D. Burman
S. D. Burman chronology
Mili
(1975)		 Barood
(1976)		 Arjun Pandit
(1976)

All lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi

Songs
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Matlab Jo Samjhe"Kishore Kumar4:25
2."Dil Kanton Mein (Ek Dushman Pe Pyar Aaya Hai)"Lata Mangeshkar4:32
3."Tu Shaitano Ka Sardar Hai"Mukesh & Shivangi Kolhapure3:55
4."Samandar Samandar - Instrumental"S. D. Burman4:51
5."Samandar Samandar"Lata Mangeshkar4:26
6."I Love You"Asha Bhosle4:42
7."Tu Shaitano Ka Sardar Hai - Instrumental"S. D. Burman5:03
Total length:33:11

Box office

Worldwide gross revenue (est.)
Territory Gross revenue Adjusted gross (2016) Footfalls
Domestic
(India)		 ₹2 crore[3]
(US$2.27 million)[n 1]		 US$12 million
(₹67 crore)[8]		 6.3 million[9]
Overseas
(Soviet Union)		 15 million Rbls[n 2]
(US$21.25 million)[n 3]
(₹17.32 crore)[n 4]		 US$95 million
(₹524 crore)[8]		 60 million[10]
Worldwide ₹19.32 crore
(US$23.52 million)		 ₹591 crore
(US$88 million)		 66.3 million

At the domestic Indian box office in 1976, Barood grossed ₹2 crore, with a net income of ₹1 crore. While it was the 17th highest-grossing film in India that year, it was declared a commercial flop in the domestic Indian market.[3]

Despite its domestic failure an India, the film went on to become an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union, where it released in 1978 and topped the year's Soviet box office chart.[4] It drew a box office audience of 60 million Soviet viewers, the second highest for an Indian film in the 1970s (after the earlier Rishi Kapoor starrer Bobby) and the fifth highest for a foreign film that decade.[10] At the Soviet box office, it was the 13th biggest hit of the 1970s,[10][13] the fourth most successful Indian import of all time (after Awaara, Bobby and Disco Dancer), the ninth biggest foreign hit of all time,[13] and one of the top 30 biggest hits of all time.[10][13] It was among the highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union.[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 8.804 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1976[7]
  2. ↑ 60 million tickets sold,[10] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[11]
  3. ↑ 0.706 Rbl per US dollar in 1978[12]
  4. ↑ 8.15 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1978[7]

References

  1. ↑ Raj, Ashok (2009). Hero Vol.1. Hay House. p. 30. ISBN 9789381398029.
  2. ↑ Barood. Event occurs at 0:16.
  3. 1 2 3 "Box Office 1976". www.boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. 1 2 A Taste for Indian Films: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in Post-Stalinist Soviet Society, page 170, Indiana University, 2005
  5. ↑ "Rishi Kapoor". IMDb. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Barood". Apple Music. 10 November 2023.
  7. 1 2 "Reserve Bank of India – Publications".
  8. 1 2 "67.175856 INR per USD in 2016". Archived from the original on 13 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  9. ↑ Mittal, Ashok (1995). Cinema Industry in India: Pricing and Taxation. Indus Publishing. p. 71. ISBN 9788173870231.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Зарубежные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".
  11. ↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  12. ↑ Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  13. 1 2 3 Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".
  14. ↑ With love from India to Russia, Russia Beyond the Headlines, 22 October 2009
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