''Bal Bramhachari'' ( hi, बाल ब्रह्मचारी , en, Forever Ascetic) is a 1996

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Romantic

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film. The Producer and

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of film is

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and Karisma Kapoor is in lead role. With this film

(Son of

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) make debut in Bollywood started his acting career. The Film was a flop at the box office.

Plot

Thakur Raghuveer Singh and his wife have no children, and there is no hope of getting a child. Thakur Raghuveer Singh donates a huge plot of land to his friend Professor Vijay Thripati to fulfil his friend's dream to build a college. As Raghuveer Singh yearns to have a child and the professor and his wife ask him to adopt their son. Bhujbal Choudary is not happy because Thakur Raghuveer Singh donated his land to his friend Professor Vijay Thripati enraged as he wants to build a factory instead of a college. To churn out the students from the college, he arranges fake diplomas that have no meaning as an anti-social activity. Then he plans to kill the professor and his wife on the day the foundation stone is being laid for the college. The professor is killed; however his wife manages to escape and take shelter in a

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Mandir there, she gives birth to a son in

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. On the request of the dying mother, the priest hands over the baby boy to Thakur Raghuveer Singh. Thakur has already decided to adopt Balak Ram's son named Balbir, so later, he adopts both the children. Balak Ram, who has an evil eye on the Raghuveer Singh property and wants to acquire it as well as wants to kill Professor Vijay Thripati's son named Mahavir Singh, also adopted by Thakur. Mahavir is specially blessed by

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Bajrangbali and possesses special powers, and he devotes god

. Thakur's adopted son studies in the same college run by Bhujbal Chowdary. While in college, Balbir meets with Seema and falls in love with her. Seema's friend, Asha Rana, is attracted to Mahavir, but Mahavir has taken a vow of celibacy 'brahmachari', and does not like any woman to come near to him. But Asha tries all of her seductive powers to make Mahavir change his mind. Eventually, Mahavir falls in love with Asha and decides to tie the knot. He also learns of his birth father and his dream. And then takes revenge against their attacker, in a shadowy form that he has magically seen in his dreams.

Cast

as Mahavir Singh/Pawan *

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as Asha Rana *

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as Thakur Raghuvir Singh * Anang Desai as Professor Vijay Tripathy *

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as Anju Tripathy *

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as Balbir *

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as Balak Ram *

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as Bhujbal Choudhury *

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as Chhote Choudhury *

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as Seema Choudhury *

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as Principal Rana *

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as Pyare Mohan * Bindu as Professor Monica *

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as Shanti

Box office

''Bal Bramhachari'' was released on 6 September 1996 and grossed

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collection was estimate 4.57 crore against the budget of 2 crore.

Music

There are 06 songs in the Movie and all the music are composed by Bappi Lahiri and the lyrics are written by

References

External links

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