''Bade Miyan Chote Miyan'' () is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by David Dhawan. Produced by Vashu Bhagnani's Pooja Entertainment, the film stars an

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with Govinda and

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playing dual roles as a police officer and thief each while also featuring actors like Raveena Tandon,

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, Anupam Kher,

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, Sharat Saxena and Satish Kaushik with Madhuri Dixit in a special appearance. It was inspired from Hollywood movie Bad Boys (1995) starring Will Smith. Budgeted at 89 million, ''Bade Miyan Chote Miyan'' was theatrically released worldwide on 16 October 1998 and emerged as a major commercial success with a total gross collection of 352.1 million, despite clashing with

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'' which also saw Kher in an important role. Also, it was one of the highest grossing Hindi films of 1998. In February 2022, Bhagnani announced his new production, an action comedy film also titled ''Bade Miyan Chote Miyan'' starring Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and set to release on Christmas 2023.

Plot

Police inspectors Arjun Singh and Pyare Mohan Bhargava share a friendly bond. Arjun is unmarried and some petty comments are made about his age. His sister Seema is dating Pyare. Zorawar Siddiqui, a business smuggler of diamonds and arms, works under the cover of being a statue maker. In a hotel, he discovers he is being spied upon; he gets rid of Madhu, an eyewitness. Her friend, Neha sees her murder. She calls the police, and Arjun comes there. He takes her to Pyare's house. Two petty thieves Bade Miyan and Chote Miyan who are look-alikes of Arjun and Pyare, arrive in town. Confusion ensues when every crime the crooks commit are blamed on Arjun and Pyare. Things go further downhill when Shyamlal, the police commissioner is also thrashed by the doubles. Even Seema and Neha mistake Bade and Chote for Arjun and Pyare. Arjun and Pyare land in trouble when Zorawar kidnaps Seema. They are arrested but get saved by the arrival of Bade and Chote. Bade and Chote confess their acts of theft and conning and promise to get Seema back. They arrive at Zorawar's hideout and stall them while Arjun and Pyare come with the police force and everyone at the hideout is arrested. The crooks leave after apologising to Seema for the confusion. However some of Zorawar's men hijack the police van which is taking him and his associates to jail. They are stopped by Bade and Chote, asking for a lift. Chote realises the truth and gets Zorawar and his men arrested. Arjun and Pyare are criticised for their mistake regarding the

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of the van and the two crooks are given a job in the police force by Shyamlal. Arjun and Pyare end up being demoted to the post of traffic police officers; Bade and Chote take their place as police inspectors.

Cast

as Vijay Nigam (Bade Miyan) / Inspector Arjun Singh * Govinda as Sunil Nigam (Chote Miyan) / Inspector Pyare Mohan Bhargava * Raveena Tandon as Seema Singh *

as Neha Ahuja * Anupam Kher as Police Commissioner Shyamlal Tripathi *

as Zorawar Raaz Ali * Sharat Saxena as Suryadhar Malik *

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as Amrish Chawla * Kader Khan as Waiter Tajendra Chaturvedi/Kadar * Satish Kaushik as Sharafat Ali * Sushma Seth as Vaijanti Singh * Divya Dutta as Madhu Sabharwal * Rakesh Bedi as Watchman * Asrani as Museum Security Officer * Avtar Gill as Sundar Kala * Razzak Khan as Prisoner Khaleem * Tiku Talsania as Jeweller * Shehzad Khan as Inspector, who recorded Zorawar's meeting * David Dhawan as Himself * Viju Khote as Passenger *Manmauji as Passenger * Madhuri Dixit as Herself

Music

The music album of the film, composed by Viju Shah with lyrics by Sameer, released on 25th August 1998. Similar to Shah's prior compositions for films like ''

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'' and '' Gupt'' that became quite popular, the album noticeably showed his offbeat mode of music yielding the tuneful numbers like the Hit title track "Bade Miyan Chote Miyan", the Hit zippy bhangra number "Makhna" and the groovy "Kisi Disco Mein Jaaye". Singers Udit Narayan, Sudesh Bhosle, Amit Kumar,

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, Jaspinder Narula, Anuradha Paudwal and

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allied and rendered their voices for the songs listed below:

Awards

Zee Cine Awards 1999 Winner *

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– Govinda ;

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: Nominated *

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– Govinda * Best Music Director – Viju Shah

References

External links

* {{The Comedy of Errors 1990s Hindi-language films 1998 films Films directed by David Dhawan Films scored by Viju Shah Indian action comedy films Buddy cop films Indian buddy films