Barood (1976 film)


Barood is a 1976 Indian Bollywood film, directed by Pramod Chakravorty, with screenplay by Sachin Bhowmick and dialogues by Ahsan Rizvi. It stars Rishi Kapoor and Reena Roy. The film was a commercial flop in India, but went on to become an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union.
It is a copy of the 1972 Spanish/English movie "Summertime Killer," starring Robert Michum and Olivia Hussey, played by Rishi Kapoor and Shoma Anand in the Hindi version "Barood."

Cast

  1. "Dil Kaanto Mein Uljahaya Hai, Ek DushmanPe Pyar Aaya" - Lata Mangeshkar
  2. "Samundar Samundar Yaha Se Waha Tak Ye Maujo Ki" - Lata Mangeshkar
  3. "I Love You" - Asha Bhosle
  4. "Bada Hi Khubsurat Is Jagah Ka Har Nazara Hai" - Kishore Kumar
  5. "Tu Shaitano Ka Sardar Hai Sach Hai" - Shivangi Kolhapure, Mukesh

    Box office

At the domestic Indian box office in 1976, Barood grossed Indian rupee|2 crore, with a net income of 1 crore. While it was the 17th highest-grossing film in India that year, it was declared a commercial flop in the domestic Indian market.
Despite its domestic failure an India, the film went on to become an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union, where it released in 1978 and topped the year's Soviet box office chart. It drew a box office audience of 60 million Soviet viewers, the second highest for an Indian film in the 1970s 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, the ninth biggest foreign hit of all time, and one of the top 30 biggest hits of all time. It was among the highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union.