Barood (1976 film)

Barood (transl. Gunpowder) is a 1976 Indian Hindi language action crime film directed by Pramod Chakravorty, with screenplay by Sachin Bhowmick and dialogues by Ahsan Rizvi.[2] It stars Rishi Kapoor, Reena Roy and Shoma Anand in leading roles, with Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Ashok Kumar in supporting roles. The film was a commercial flop in India,[3] but went on to become an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union.[4]

Barood
Poster
Directed byPramod Chakravorty
Screenplay bySachin Bhowmick
Based onThe Summertime Killer
by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
Produced byJ.C. Bhagat
H.S. Bhattacharya
Jitu Thakar
StarringRishi Kapoor
Reena Roy
Shoma Anand
Dharmendra
Hema Malini
Ashok Kumar
CinematographyV.K. Murthy
Edited byNarendra Arora
Music bySachin Dev Burman
Release date
  • 2 April 1976 (1976-04-02)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi[1]
Box officeest. ₹19.32 crore ($23.52 million)

Plot

Cast

Music
  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

Production

It is claimed to be an uncredited remake of the 1972 Italian/Spanish/English film The Summertime Killer starring Christopher Mitchum and Olivia Hussey.

Box office
Worldwide gross revenue (est.)
Territory Gross revenue Adjusted gross (2016) Footfalls
Domestic
(India)		 ₹2 crore[3]
(US$2.27 million)[n 1]		 US$12 million
(₹67 crore)[7]		 6.3 million[8]
Overseas
(Soviet Union)		 15 million Rbls[n 2]
(US$21.25 million)[n 3]
(₹17.32 crore)[n 4]		 US$95 million
(₹524 crore)[7]		 60 million[9]
Worldwide ₹19.32 crore
(US$23.52 million)		 ₹591 crore
(US$88 million)		 66.3 million

At the domestic Indian box office in 1976, Barood grossed ₹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.[3]

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.[4] It 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 Bobby) and the fifth highest for a foreign film that decade.[9] At the Soviet box office, it was the 13th biggest hit of the 1970s,[9][12] the fourth most successful Indian import of all time (after Awaara, Bobby and Disco Dancer), the ninth biggest foreign hit of all time,[12] and one of the top 30 biggest hits of all time.[9][12] It was among the highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union.[13]

See also

Notes
  1. 8.804 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1976[6]
  2. 60 million tickets sold,[9] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]
  3. 0.706 Rbl per US dollar in 1978[11]
  4. 8.15 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1978[6]

References
  1. Raj, Ashok (2009). Hero Vol.1. Hay House. p. 30. ISBN 9789381398029.
  2. Barood. Event occurs at 0:16.
  3. "Box Office 1976". www.boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. A Taste for Indian Films: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in Post-Stalinist Soviet Society, page 170, Indiana University, 2005
  5. "Rishi Kapoor". IMDb. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  6. "Reserve Bank of India – Publications".
  7. "67.175856 INR per USD in 2016". Archived from the original on 13 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  8. Mittal, Ashok (1995). Cinema Industry in India: Pricing and Taxation. Indus Publishing. p. 71. ISBN 9788173870231.
  9. Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Зарубежные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".
  10. Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  11. Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  12. Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".
  13. With love from India to Russia, Russia Beyond the Headlines, 22 October 2009
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