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Tiger Shroff Jai Hemant "Tiger" Shroff (born 2 March 1990) is an Indian actor and martial artist known for his work in the Indian cinema. He is best known for his Baaghi action franchise, ''Heropanti'' (2014) and ''War'' (''2019''). He has featured in For ...

Shraddha Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor (born 3 March 1987 or 1989Sudheer Babu in his Hindi debut, with

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in a supporting role. ''Baaghi'' was released worldwide on 29 April 2016. Made on a budget of , the film earned over worldwide. Later on, it spawned two spiritual sequels, ''

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'' (2018) and ''

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'' (2020), thus becoming the first installment in the ''Baaghi'' film series. The film received mixed reviews from critics with praise towards the production values, action sequences and cast performances.

Plot

Raghav Shetty is a

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champion, Martial Art World Champion and a dreaded gangster, who abducts Sia Khurana from her film's set in

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and takes her to

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. Sia's father, P.P. Khurana, along with the producer Dasanna seeks the government officers and cops for help, but no one is ready to assist them as Raghav is an influential man and there is unavailability of extradition treaty between

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and

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in existence. Khurana then suggests to Dasanna that Sia's ex-boyfriend, Ranveer "Ronny" Singh is the only person left for the job as he can rescue Sia from the gritty underbelly of Thailand where Raghav rules. Ronny is the only strong and the rebellious martial artist who can destroy Raghav and can rescue Sia. Initially hesitant, Ronny agrees to do so, since he needs money to treat Subbu, a mute young boy who is being treated for his

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. An ensuing flashback of events reflects Ronny and Sia's relationship. Ronny meets Siya on a train where he falls in love with Sia at first sight and also sees that Sia also carries a rebellious personality. They both later hit it off dancing at a station where Raghav sees her and is besotted with her. At the behest of his late father

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Samarjit Singh, Ronny unwillingly becomes the student in the ''Kerala Academy Of Kalaripayattu'', headed by Samarjit's former army colleague and Raghav's father Kailash Shetty a.k.a. Guruswamy; in due course of time, Guruswamy disciplines Ronny into a ''rebel with a cause''; thus making Ronny a Strong and a Rebellious Martial Artist as well as making him successful master the martial art of Kalaripayattu. As time goes on, Ronny and Sia fall in love with each other. Ronny and Khurana befriend each other as well. A money-minded Khurana agrees to marry Sia off to Raghav, who lures him with bundles of money. On learning that Sia is in love with Ronny, Khurana acts derisively towards Ronny and rats him out to Raghav, who swears to kill Ronny; Guruswamy overhears the plan, though, and objects to it strongly. Feeling humiliated and enraged, Raghav kills Guruswamy by poisoning him to death. Raghav then tells his henchmen to get Ronny in front of him. The henchmen tries to harm Ronnie and the mute child Subbu but Ronny beats up Raghav’s henchmen brutally. Following a confrontation with Raghav and then later’s Guruswamy's funeral, Khurana creates an atmosphere of misunderstanding in league with Raghav, which works, causing Ronny and Sia to part ways. Back in the present, Ronny reaches Bangkok and visits Raghav's

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, beating the most potent fighter there to get Raghav's attention. Raghav sends his henchmen to kill Ronnie but Ronnie successfully kills them and beats them up brutally. The next day, Ronny breaks into the house of Raghav's right-hand man, Biju, and holds Biju's wife at gunpoint, forcing him to reveal Sia's location. Learning that she is at the local hospital, Ronny saves Sia and escapes with her under both of them being disguised. Raghav does manage to spot them but couldn’t do anything. The two stop at an island on their way back to India, where Sia discovers her father's deceit and the couple reunite. Raghav and his men suddenly attack the couple off-guard; Biju shoots Ronny, who falls off a cliff. Raghav takes Sia back to his place, but Sia realizes that Ronny is alive, with Raghav being alerted to his invasive underbelly moments later. Realizing Biju's treachery, he questions him; Biju affirms that he spared Ronny as he had spared his wife earlier. Unconvinced, Raghav slits Biju's throat. Ronny storms Raghav's building and single-handedly fights off all of the killers and swordsmen in Raghav's employ. He reaches Raghav, who initially overpowers him, but when Raghav reveals that he was the one who murdered Guruswamy, Ronny becomes enraged and uses Guruswamy's signature moves to kill Raghav. Now happily together with Sia, Ronny becomes the new teacher in Guruswamy's school, where a statue of Guruswamy now stands.

Cast

*

Tiger Shroff Jai Hemant "Tiger" Shroff (born 2 March 1990) is an Indian actor and martial artist known for his work in the Indian cinema. He is best known for his Baaghi action franchise, ''Heropanti'' (2014) and ''War'' (''2019''). He has featured in For ...

as Ranveer "Ronny" Singh, Sia's love interest *

Shraddha Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor (born 3 March 1987 or 1989Sudheer Babu as Raghav Shetty, a gangster and Kalaripayattu champion; voice-over by Viraj Adhav *Sourav Chakraborty as Biju, Raghav's henchman *Shifuji Shourya Bhardwaj as Kailash Shetty a.k.a. Guruswamy, Raghav's father and master of Kalaripayattu *

Sunil Grover Sunil Grover (born 3 August 1977) is an Indian actor and comedian from Mumbai. He came into limelight for his portrayal as Gutthi on television show '' Comedy Nights with Kapil'' but gained popularity for playing the role of Dr Mashoor Gulati ...

as Paresh Prakash Khurana "P. P.", Sia's father *

Kota Srinivasa Rao Kota Srinivasa Rao (born 10 July 1942) is an Indian character actor known for his work primarily in Telugu cinema and Telugu theatre. He has also starred in a few films in Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam. As a former politician, Rao has s ...

as film producer Dasanna *Buddya Sunari Magar as Referee * Sanjay Mishra as Harry * Sumit Gulati as Sukhi *

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as Hari, Ronny's friend *

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as Gopi *

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as Subbu, a mute little boy who is close to Ronny *

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in a voiceover appearance as Col. Samarjit Singh, Guruswamy's friend and Ronny's father * K M Rasheduzzaman Rafi

Production

Shroff trained and took up stunt classes for the film.

Sajid Nadiadwala Sajid Nadiadwala (born 18 February 1966) is an Indian film producer, writer, and director who works in Hindi cinema. He is the owner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. Grandson of filmmaker A.K. Nadiadwala, Sajid has written and produced fi ...

hired a special team of 50 people to keep Shroff's look under wraps. The makers did not want his look to be revealed because of his role in the film being distinct from his role in ''

Heropanti ''Heropanti'' () is an 2014 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film directed by Sabbir Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon in their Hindi film debuts alongside Prakash Raj in a supporting role. ...

''. Telugu actor Sudheer Babu was signed to play a negative role, making his Bollywood debut. Shooting for ''Baaghi'' started on 27 May 2015. The shooting of the film completed on 21 February 2016. The film was extensively shot in India and Thailand. Soma Kerala Palace, Kochi was shown in the movie as the KARMA Institute (school of Guruswamy). Song Sab Tera was shot in the exotic Poda Island.

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by

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,

Amaal Mallik Amaal Mallik (born 16 June 1990) is an Indian music director, composer, singer, music producer, arranger, background scorer, performer and lyricist. He is the elder son of Daboo Malik and Jyothi Malik, and grandson of Sardar Malik. He debute ...

,

Ankit Tiwari Ankit Tiwari is an Indian playback singer, live perfomer ,music director, composer. His career began upon meeting Pradeep Sarkar where he got a chance to work on jingles and started composing background music for television programmes. Subsequ ...

,

Manj Musik Manjeet Singh Ral ( Punjabi: ਮਨਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਲ, born 24 January 1975), better known by his stage-name Manj Musik, is a British Indian composer, singer and Filmi scorer. He was one of the music composer for the bhangra mu ...

and Pranaay Rijia, while the score was composed by

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. The song lyrics were written by

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, Abhendra Kumar Upadhyay, Sanjeev Chaturvedi,

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,

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and Rahul B. Seth. The first song of the film, "Sab Tera" was released on 18 March 2016, which was sung by

Shraddha Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor (born 3 March 1987 or 1989Armaan Malik Armaan Malik (born 22 July 1995) is an Indian singer, songwriter, record producer, voice-over, performer, dancer and actor. He is known for his singing in multiple languages, including Hindi, Telugu, English, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, G ...

. The second song of the film titled as "Let's Talk About Love", which was sung by

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and

Neha Kakkar Neha Kakkar Singh (; née Kakkar; born 6 June 1988), is an Indian playback singer. She is the younger sister of playback singer Sonu Kakkar. She began performing at a very early age at religious events. In 2005, she participated in the second s ...

was released on 25 March 2016. The album was released on 29 March 2016, which includes 6 songs.

Box office

Released on a Friday, the film netted 119.4 million, 11.13 crore, and 155.1 million respectively on its first three days, bringing in a total of 38.58 crore net on its opening weekend and meeting its 37 crore production cost. By its seventh day, the film had netted 59.72 crore. ''Baaghi''s daily collection peaked at 15.51 crore net on day three and began to decline thereafter, losing 79% of business by the end of the second week. The movie ultimately grossed 106.03 crore from India and 21.02 crore overseas, for a total worldwide gross estimate of 127.05 crores, one of the highest-grossing films of Shroff's career.https://www.bollywoodhunga.com/movie/baaghi-3/box-office/

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. The

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gave the film 2.5 out of 5 writing "Baaghi blooms only during the fights but by the time the clock ticks towards the climax, you are exhausted. How much can you hoot for broken necks and crushed bones? You could try finding thrill in Tiger’s kicks but the film has nothing more to offer." India Glitz also gave the film 2.5 out of 5 and wrote "Baaghi' has rebellious action with bland reasons attached to it due to which it will cater only to those who love good action films and the single screen audience. The multiplex and family audience might not like the gore action with mindless drama attached to it."

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gave the film 2 out of 5 while writing "Baaghi will best serve people who are interested in moves rather than movies."

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gave the film 2 out of 5 and wrote "In short, The Karate Kid enters Bloodsport and appears in a hurry to become Ong-Bak without losing the essential Bollywood qualities. Baaghi shines only in patches."

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gave the film 2 out of 5 writing "Shraddha Kapoor is slender and pretty and executes both the ‘chham chham’ in the rain as well as some roundhouse kicks and punches well enough, but is fashioned like a Bollywood heroine belonging to the potboilers of the 70s and 80s. She isn’t dragged by the hair like the leading lady of ‘Heropanti’, Tiger’s debut (also directed by Sabbir Khan) but does everything else – simper, smile, and squeal in the villain’s den."

Sequel

On 1 May 2017, Shroff posted the first look poster of the sequel and the second installment of the Baaghi series''

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'' on his Twitter account. Nadiadwala collaborated with

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following the dissolution of

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and the film was released under Fox Star Studios and

Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt Ltd (NGE) is an Indian film production company based in Mumbai. The Nadiadwala family have been in film production since 1955, continuing this legacy Sajid Nadiadwala established the company in 2005. It i ...

. Directed by Ahmed Khan, the film was released worldwide on 30 March 2018. A third installment was also announced under the title of ''

Baaghi 3 ''Baaghi 3'' () is a 2020 Indian action thriller film directed by Ahmed Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film is the third installment in ''Baaghi'' series and stars Tiger Shroff, Riteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor. It also featu ...

'', with Nadiadwala the producer, Khan the director, and Shroff in the lead role.

References

External links

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