''Major Saab'' is a 1998 Indian

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-language

action film Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life ...

starring

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, Naveen Nischol,

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and

Ashish Vidhyarthi Ashish Vidyarthi (born 19 June 1962) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Odia, Marathi and Bengali films. He is noted for his antagonist and character roles. In 1995, he received the ...

Plot

The plot concerns playboy Virendra Pratap Singh aka Vir. A clause in the will of his wealthy father forces him to enter a military academy in order to inherit. Vir's repeated attempts to get himself discharged are foiled by Major Jasbir Singh Rana. Then Virendra falls in love with Nisha, the sister of a gangster named Shankar. Shankar wants Nisha to marry the son of his friend Parshuram Bihari and hatches a plot to separate the couple, by pretending to accept Vir, however soon beats him up badly and attempts to break both his arms and legs. Aferthat, Major Jasbir then begins training Vir to regain his strength and to fight those who wronged him and win Nisha back in the end. Finally, both are accepted by the Major.

Cast

as Virendra Pratap Singh aka 'Veer' *

as Maj. Jasbir Singh Rana *

as Nisha *

as Dr. Priya Rana *

as Shankar *

Mohan Joshi Mohan Joshi is an Indian film, television and theater actor. He has worked in Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri films. Early life Joshi was born in Bangalore, Karnataka. He made his acting debut in Pune, Maharashtra. For better career prospects, ...

as Parshuram Bihari *

Shahbaaz Khan Shahbaz Khan (real name Haider Khan) is an Indian actor from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He is famous for playing lead roles in television serials such as '' Chandrakanta'', '' The Great Maratha'', '' The Sword of Tipu Sultan'', '' Betaal Pachisi' ...

as Vicky * Naveen Nischol as Brig. Satish Khurana *

Mushtaq Khan Mushtaq Khan is an Indian film and television actor and comedian who has worked in several Hindi films in a career spanning three decades. He is best known for his roles in films like ''Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke'' (1993), '' Jodi No.1'' (2001) an ...

as Hanuman Prasad *

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as Commissioner of Police *

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Special Appearance as Jai Singhaniya (Virendra's solicitor) *

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as Raja Thakur (guest appearance) * Siddharth Ray * Jasbir Thandi as Cadet Amrik singh * Pradeep Rawat as Subeidar Singh

Box office

The film was a moderate success at the box office, it earned 18 crore. It was also the 9th highest-grossing film of the year ( Bollywood films of 1998).

Soundtrack

The music is composed by

Anand Raj Anand Anand Raaj Anand is an Indian composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry. He was nominated for the Best Music Director Filmfare Award for ''Kaante'' (2003). Early life Anand Raj was born on 8 November 1961 in Delhi in ...

and

Aadesh Shrivastava Aadesh Shrivastava (4 September 1964 – 5 September 2015) was a music composer and singer of Indian music. Initially, he had worked as a drummer to music composers including R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan before working independently as a music d ...

. Lyrics are penned by Anand Raj Anand and

Dev Kohli Dev Kohli (2 November 1942) is an Indian Hindustani poet and lyricist. He penned hundreds of songs in Bollywood films and churned out numerous hit songs such as ''Maaye Ni Maaye'', ''Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen'', ''Geet Gaata Hoon'',''O Saki Saki' ...

. Initially Anand Raj Anand wanted to sing the song 'Akeli Na Bazaar Jaya Karo' and 'Pyar Kiya toh Nibhana' by himself, but could not due to circumstances, about which he spoke in an interview. However, the whole album gained hugh popularity and tracks like 'Akeli Na Bazaar jaya karo', 'Sona Sona' and 'Pyaar Kiya toh Nibhana' became hit. In 2017, the song 'Pyar kiya toh Nibhana' was recreated with

Armaan 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 ...

and Shruti Pathak as singers. Then in 2021 it was recreated by Jonita Gandhi, Millind Gaba and Abhijeet Vaghani on T-Series Mixtape.

Track listing

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, id=0172761
The Hindu article
1998 films 1990s Hindi-language films Films scored by Aadesh Shrivastava Films scored by Anand Raj Anand Indian action films 1998 action films