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Bada Din

Bada Din
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Directed byAnjan Dutt
Starring
CinematographySudeep Chatterjee
Edited bySanjib Dutta
Music byJatin–Lalit
Distributed byGramco Films
Release date
  • 23 January 1998 (1998-01-23)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Bada Din (transl. Big Day, also a synonym for Christmas Day in India) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Anjan Dutt. It stars Marc Robinson, Tara Deshpande, Shabana Azmi and Irrfan Khan.[1] It is about a couple who face tribulations while helping a mute boy on Christmas Day (known as bada din in Hindi). This was Irrfan Khan's first role in a commercial Bollywood film, who had worked in parallel Indian cinema prior to this.


Synopsis : This movie is based in Kolkata .Movie starts with Shankar babu (Aloknath) an underworld don of Kolkata ,threatening his one of the goon's family as he had betrayed him. He ordered his men to kill him. In next scene that man was sitting in saloon for hair cut. And mute errand boy Raka (Sanjay Pathak) came to supply tea. In the saloon Sunny a hunchman of Shankar babu came and killed the man. Raka was only witness of this murder. In next scene we see David Dawson (Marc Robinson) a talented but whimsical musician sitting in the bar and his manager fired him on the Christmas day. David came back to his house and we are introduced to Lilian (Shabana Azmi) who is landlady of that house. She is angry with David as he had not given rent for one year. But she is affectionate towards David. David then remembered his ex girlfriend Nandini ( Tara Deshpande) whom he met in Darjeeling and they broke up on a Christmas day. Then Afraid Raka came to David for protection. But David did not want to help him. Later when he saw goon's after Raka and he was called coward by Lilian David decided to go to Police station . David reports an FRI. The news went to Shankar babu and he sent Sunny to kill David. David was injured by Sunny. Lilian took care of him and they shared some beautiful moments. When David saw Sunny and other goons are after him he went to Nandini because her present husband( Irrfan Khan) is a Police Officer . But Nandini refused to help him. Heartbroken David came back home and saw neighbours are accusing Lilian for keeping Raka with them. Lilian broke down in tears. David decided to leave the house with Raka as he is the root of all mishaps. But Lilian stopped them. David offered Lilian to celebrate Christmas as they have none in this world to celebrate. So they started celebrating Badadin a.k.a Christmas. David and Lilian fell in love during the celebration. Sunny again came to threat David but this time David fought with courage. And he made Sunny realised that he has no fear of death and he can kill him. But as a Christian fellow they should stand each other because their community is very small and they should not fight each other. Sunny realized his mistake. Police came into scene and arrested Sunny. At last David went back home with happy Lilian in his arms and Raka started to dance with joy.

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by Jatin–Lalit with lyrics by Javed Akhtar.[2]

# Title Singer(s)
1 "Kehta Hai Yeh Safar" Kumar Sanu
2 "Meri Aankhon Mein" Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
3 "Suno Zara" Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
4 "Oonche Neeche Parbaton Ke" (Not in the film) Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
5 "Betaab Hum Awaara Hum" Abhijeet
6 "Behoshi Tan Man Mein" Kavita Krishnamurthy, Hema Sardesai
7 "Na Koi Tera (I)" (Not used in the film) Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan
8 "Na Koi Tera (II)" Kavita Krishnamurthy, Abhijeet

See also

References

  1. ^ "Badadin Movie Review". Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  2. ^ Bada Din. Spotify.