Khal Nayak

Khal Nayak (transl. Villain) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language action crime film written, directed and produced by Subhash Ghai under Mukta Arts Ltd. The film stars Sanjay Dutt (as the villain), Madhuri Dixit and Jackie Shroff. The plot focuses on the escape and attempted capture of criminal Ballu (Dutt) by Inspector Ram (Shroff) and his cop girlfriend Ganga (Dixit).

Khalnayak
Poster
Directed bySubhash Ghai
Written bySubhash Ghai
Ram Kelkar
Kamlesh Pandey
Produced bySubhash Ghai
StarringSanjay Dutt
Madhuri Dixit
Jackie Shroff
CinematographyAshok Mehta
Edited byWaman Bhonsle
Gurudutt Shirali
Music byLaxmikant–Pyarelal
Production
company
Distributed byEros International
Release date
  • 15 June 1993 (1993-06-15)
Running time
191 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office24.01 crores [1]

Khal Nayak is known for its music, especially the song "Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai", sung by Alka Yagnik and Ila Arun. The Khal Nayak soundtrack album sold 10 million copies, making it one of the year's best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums, along with Baazigar.[2] Khal Nayak released on 15 June 1993, and became the second highest grossing Hindi film of 1993, surpassed only by Aankhen.[3] It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its screenplay, soundtrack and performances of the cast.

At the 39th Filmfare Awards, Khal Nayak received a leading 11 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Ghai), Best Actor (Dutt), Best Actress (Dixit) and Best Supporting Actor (Shroff), and won 2 awards – Best Female Playback Singer (Alka Yagnik and Ila Arun) and Best Choreography (Saroj Khan), both for the song "Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai".

Plot

Balram "Ballu" Prasad, a gangster gets arrested by Inspector Ram, who shows compassion to Ballu while trying to receive information that would lead to the capture of Ballu's mentor Roshida. However, Ballu doesn't speak and later promises to escape from prison. While visiting his officer girlfriend Ganga, Ram learns that Ballu has escaped from prison and his reputation is in tatters as the media portrays him as an duty-neglected officer. In an attempt to restore Ram's reputation, Ganga goes undercover as a street-girl, and realizes that Ballu is a kind-hearted person, who turned to crime business due to poverty and circumstances, and tries to rehabilitate him while on the run.

Meanwhile, Ballu begins to fall in love with Ganga, but becomes enraged when he finds out she doesn't love him and is a cop. Ganga continues to help Ballu as she has seen good in him. Meanwhile, Ram approaches Ballu's mother for help and realises that Ballu is actually his childhood friend. Ballu's mother and Ballu reveals that Roshan Da used their poverty to corrupt Ballu and had killed Ballu's sister where he placed the blame on the cops. Enraged, Ballu kills the officer thus gets spiraled into a life of crime. Afraid that the police will kill Ballu, Ganga stops the police from shooting him, allowing him to escape, where she is arrested for aiding a criminal and is accused of being in a relationship with Ballu, which destroys her professional and personal reputation.

Ballu's mother finds him, while she is followed by Ram. In the following confrontation, Ballu's mother takes Ram's side trying to convince Ballu to surrender. Seeing Ganga's picture in Ram's wallet, Ballu realizes that Ram is the one who she loves and manages to escape to Roshan Da's base where Roshan Da promises to help him escape, but betrays him and attempts to kill him and his mother. Under the leadership of Ram, the cops attack Roshan Da's lair. In the ensuing conflict, Ballu finds out that Roshan Da killed his sister, where Ram kills Roshan Da and Ballu escapes. Following Roshan Da's death, Ballu claims himself as the new boss, but his girlfriend informs him that Ganga is about to go on trial for aiding him. Having a change of heart, Ballu surrenders himself and swears that Ganga is innocent, thereby restoring her reputation and reconciling her and Ram and Ballu goes to prison.

Cast

Awards

39th Filmfare Awards:

Won

Nominated

Music

The music was composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal, with the lyrics being penned by Anand Bakshi.

The best known song from the soundtrack were "Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai", "Palki Mein Hoke Sawar" and "Nayak Nahi Khal Nayak". The Khal Nayak soundtrack album sold 10 million copies, making it one of the year's best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums, along with Baazigar.[2]

Title Singer(s)
"Aaja Sajan Aaja" Alka Yagnik
"Paalkhi Mein Hoke Sawar Chali Re" Alka Yagnik
"Aise Teri Yaad Aati Hai" Alka Yagnik & Mohammed Aziz
"Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai (Female)" Alka Yagnik & Ila Arun
"Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai (Male)" Vinod Rathod
"Der Se Aana Jaldi Jaana" Alka Yagnik & Manhar Udhas
"Pyar ki Ganga Bahe" Kavita Krishnamurthy, Jolly Mukherjee, Mohammed Aziz, Manhar Udhas, Udit Narayan
"Nayak Nahi Khal Nayak Hai Tu" Vinod Rathod & Kavita Krishnamurthy
"O Maa Tujhe Salaam" Jagjit Singh

Box office

Khal Nayak was the second highest grossing Hindi film of 1993, surpassed only by Aankhen.

Remakes

The film was remade in Telugu as Khaidi No. 1,[4] and in Tamil as Hero (1994).[5]

References
  1. "Khalnayak". bestoftheyear.in. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. "Bollywood hinges on Hindi film music industry, fans soak up wacky new sounds". India Today. 15 November 1994. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  3. "Box Office 1993". Boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  4. Lohana, Avinash (9 July 2016). "Sanjay, Ghai return with Khal Nayak". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  5. "Copy cat". The Indian Express. 23 September 1994. p. 6. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
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