Barood

<p>Anup Saxena, a young eight-year-old boy lives in in a middle class society, with his father Durga Prasad Saxena, who is a in . He receives a medal for his dedication, honesty for his services, given to the force. Anup’s life is suddenly goes dark, when he witnesses four notorious smugglers, Prem, Jagdish, Ratan and Bakshi, assault and kill his father, in broad daylight on Juhu Beach He spends the rest of his childhood trying to make money and a sporting figure to avenge his father’s death. Twelve years later, the boy is now a champion motor cyclist. He, with the help of his pet Django, seeks revenge. In true style, he begins to track down and eliminate the gang of smugglers. His search leads him to various places like , , , , , , and the coastal areas of . Where he finds his life threatened by his father’s murderers. He kills them one by one in different countries like Prem in Geneva, Ratan in Las Vegas and Jagdish in New York. He leaves his dog at a kennel with Harry Ramani, a vet. He tries to woo Sapna, who is an assistant of Bakshi, in order to get his details and kill him. Bakshi is shot by him, but survives and Anup is already followed by a New York-based retired police detective Balraj Gupta, who is a friend of his late father and is determined to save him. He shadows his every move and will not hesitate to arrest him. Gupta and Bakshi, the Lord are hell bent to track him. Bakshi is into and is operating out of Madrid and has a beautiful daughter Seema. Anup starts falling for her and then kidnaps her and takes her to an island and tells Bakshi to follow his instructions. Bakshi’s cronies give anup a wild car chase and finally Bakshi tries to follow him and dies in a car crash. Gupta arrests Anup and takes him to the police but in the middle of the trip he uncuffs and releases him. Seema wants to go with him. But he leaves her stranded in the middle and hands himself over to the police. After his release from the jail, Gupta comes to receive him and finally they end up together. The music was composed by with lyrics written by . was a successful venture in India, but an in the , where it released in 1978 and topped the year’s . The film drew a box office audience of 60 million Soviet viewers, the second highest for an Indian film in the 1970s (after the earlier Rishi Kapoor starrer ) and the fifth highest for a foreign film that decade. At the Soviet box office, it was the 13th biggest hit of the 1970s, the fourth most successful Indian import of all time (after , and ), the ninth biggest foreign hit of all time, and one of the top 30 biggest hits of all time.</p>