Gabbar Is Back

Gabbar Is Back
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Krish
Screenplay by	Rajat Arora
Produced by	Sanjay Leela Bhansali Viacom 18 Motion Pictures Shabinaa Khan
Starring	Akshay Kumar Shruti Haasan Suman Talwar Sunil Grover Jaideep Ahlawat Kareena Kapoor (Cameo)
Cinematography	Nirav Shah
Edited by	Rajesh G. Pandey
Music by	Songs: Chirantan Bhatt Yo Yo Honey Singh Manj Musik Background Score: Amar Mohile
Production company	Bhansali Productions
Distributed by	Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date	1 May 2015 (2015-05-01)
Running time	2hr 01minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹72 crore
Box office	₹105.48 crore

Gabbar Is Back, also known as Gabbar is a 2015 Indian vigilante action film directed by Krish and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Viacom 18 Motion Pictures. Featuring Akshay Kumar and Shruti Haasan in the lead roles, the film is a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Ramanaa, directed by A. R. Murugadoss, which was later remade in Telugu as Tagore in 2003 and in Kannada as Vishnu Sena in 2005. Suman Talwar, Sunil Grover and Jaideep Ahlawat appear in supporting roles with Kareena Kapoor in a cameo. The movie has garnered a good box office success and Akshay Kumar's acting was critically praised.

Plot

The police get information that 10 tehsildars across Maharashtra have been mysteriously kidnapped. But they are mysteriously returned – except the most corrupt officer, who is hanged. The police get a CD from mystery man 'Gabbar', who says his mission is to target corrupt officers. Police driver Sadhuram (Sunil Grover) is convinced he can crack the mystery of who is Gabbar, but his superior officers humiliate and insult him in front of the other officers.

On his way home, Professor Aditya Singh Rajput (Akshay Kumar) is stopped by lawyer Shruti (Shruti Haasan), who makes him drive her and a pregnant woman to the hospital, but the woman delivers in the car with Shruti's help. When Shruti wants to thank Aditya for helping her, he has already left. Sadhuram finds from the tehsil to the district offices that there is one honest officer in each department. He is convinced that all these honest officers have a link to Gabbar. Shruti and Aditya become close and one day, she gets hit by a scooter and Aditya takes her to Patil Hospital. Although not badly injured, doctors insist on taking expensive tests, and Aditya realizes how helpless patients and their families are fleeced and often, inhumanly treated. A poor woman mourns her deceased husband in the civil hospital nearby. Aditya tells her he will get her medical insurance. He deliberately checks in her dead husband as a patient to Patil Hospital. The hospital tries to swindle money out of Aditya by pretending to treat the already dead man, making Aditya pay heavily for tests and medicines. Aditya shows them the death certificate, which proves that they knowingly admitted a dead man. The young owner of the hospital, Vikas Patil (Vikas Shrivastav), is furious when Aditya releases the video of the hospital's corruption to the media. However, Vikas is murdered. His father, a powerful builder Digvijay Patil (Suman Talwar), sees Aditya in the hospital CCTV footage and is stunned to realize this is the same man he had supposedly killed 5 years ago.

Aditya and Shruti attend a wedding where Aditya remembers his late wife Sunaina (Kareena Kapoor Khan) and how they moved into a new apartment when they were expecting a baby. While Aditya was outside playing Holi, the buildings in the colony collapsed and killed hundreds of people, including his wife and unborn child. Aditya collected proof of the faulty buildings against builder Digivijay, but Digivijay bribed everyone and no one was willing to hear Aditya. Digvijay tried to bribe Aditya by offering Rs. 1 crore to spare the matter, but Aditya spurned the offer and beat Digvijay, but the latter attacked him and thought he killed him. However, a bus full of medical students found the unconscious Aditya on a highway and saved his life. He then decides to use the power of idealistic, young, honest youths and trains students at National College to join his cause. Meanwhile, Sadhuram finds that all the honest officers attended National College for graduation. Shruti finds out Aditya as Gabbar and is shocked but when he tells her the truth, she supports his cause.

CBI officer Kuldeep Pahwa (Jaideep Ahlawat) takes charge of the case and is mystified by the facts. He listens to Sadhuram's findings, and they arrest National College students. Upon being beaten, the students do not divulge anything about Gabbar. Shruti tells Kuldeep that because the law doesn't work, a vigilante like Gabbar is a hero for ordinary citizens. Sadhuram changes his view of Gabbar. Digvijay kills an honest officer to terrorize others into passing his faulty building plans. Gabbar targets Digvijay for his act. Digvijay throws a birthday party for himself, and as he cuts the cake, he spots Aditya. Aditya and his gang kidnap him. As police search the city for Digvijay in vain, Aditya takes him to his mansion and tells him to call anyone to save himself, but the Home Minister tells him to not involve him, so Gabbar doesn't come after him next. Aditya kills Digvijay.

Aditya goes to the police to hand himself over for the murders. He is given the death penalty, but there are huge public protests, and enraged students block his jail van. Pahwa requests him to speak to the students and he does, telling them to channel their anger against corruption and be the change society needs. As Aditya is taken to be hanged, Shruti breaks down, but he leaves, smiling, asking the hangman, Tera kya hoga, Kaalia- quoting the famous dialogue of the character Gabbar from the film Sholay.

Cast

Shruti Haasan and Akshay Kumar during the film's trailer launch.

• Akshay Kumar as Professor Aditya Singh Rajput a.k.a. Gabbar
• Shruti Haasan as Shruti
• Kareena Kapoor as Sunaina, Aditya's late wife (cameo appearance)
• Suman Talwar as Digvijay Patil (Mayur Vyas as the Hindi dubbing voice)
• Sunil Grover as Police driver Sadhuram
• Jaideep Ahlawat as C.B.I Officer Kuldeep Pahwa
• Ishita Vyas as Veena
• Sonu Sood as Balbir Singh
• Raj Singh Arora as Govind Gawde
• Shruti Bapna as Lakshmi
• Ravi Prakash as Ravi
• Manoj Chandila as Vikas Patil, Digvijay's son
• Ninad Kamat as Police Inspector
• Saanvi Talwar as Reporter
• Fareed Ahmed as Parvesh
• Vikas Shrivastav as Inspector Vikas
• Anuradha Chandan as Govind's mother
• Jehangir R Karkaria as Comic Doctor of Patil Hospital
• Narendra Jetly as Senior Doctor
• Afreen as Isha Dutta
• Sai Ballal as Chandrakant Gawde
• Jagdish Rajpurohit as Sub Inspector Yadav
• Shivraj Wahekar as Police Commissioner Pant
• Rajeev Kacho as Vishwas Sawant
• Anandeshwar Dwivedi as Newsreader
• Uttam Haldar as Ward boy
• Krishna Raaz as Shanti Nagpal
• Prateek Srivastava as Hari
• Chandraprakash Thakur as Thakur
• Ravi as Ravi
• Pradeep Shukla as Home Minister
• Kumud Shaw as Dr Kumud
• Jitendra Trehan as Dr Manoj Verma
• Sai Bilal as Chandrakant Gakwe
• Deepak Dhadwal as Principal, National College
• Ruby as Varsha
• Chitrangada Singh Special appearance in an item song "Aao Raja"

Soundtrack

Gabbar Is Back
Soundtrack album by Chirantan Bhatt Yo Yo Honey Singh
Released	20 April 2015 (2015-04-20)
Genre	Feature Film Soundtrack
Length	16:02
Label	Zee Music Company

The songs of Gabbar Is Back are composed by Chirantan Bhatt, Yo Yo Honey Singh and Manj Musik, while the lyrics are written by Manoj Yadav, Kumaar, Sahil Kaushal, Manj Musik, Raftaar and Big Dhillon.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singers	Length
1.	"Teri Meri Kahaani"	Manoj Yadav	Chirantan Bhatt	Arijit Singh, Palak Muchhal	5:31
2.	"Coffee Peetey Peetey"	Kumaar	Chirantan Bhatt	Dev Negi, Paroma Das Gupta	3:38
3.	"Aao Raja"	Sahil Kaushal	Yo Yo Honey Singh	Neha Kakkar, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Teflon	4:01
4.	"Warna Gabbar Aa Jayega"	Manj Musik, Raftaar, Big Dhillon	Manj Musik	Manj Musik, Raftaar	2:52
Total length:					16:02

Critical response

Bollywood Hungama rated the film 3 stars out of 5, writing that "On the whole, Gabbar Is Back is an average entertainer which will draw huge footfalls over the weekend due to catchy massy title, action drama and the fact that it is releasing on a holiday." Similarly, Koimoi rated it 3 stars out of 5, along with writing "If you enjoy films which have the good vs evil story with full on action and 'Dhamakedaar' dialogues, this is your film." Hindustan Times rated it 3 stars out of 5, stating that "Gabbar Is Back is a full on ‘masala’ film with a lot of applause worthy scenes. The buck stops at Akshay Kumar." The Times of India rated the film 3.5 stars out of 5, writing that "Now, Gabbar Is Back – and you'll feel his return rocks." Zee News also rated it 3.5 stars out of 5, writing that "After watching this we surely need a real 'Gabbar' to blow some courage in all of us—and wipe out corruption from the root. 'Pachaas Pachaas Kos Dur Jabh Koi Rishwat Leta Hai, Toh Sabh Kehte Hain Mat Le Varna, Gabbar Aa Jaaega." Subhash K. Jha of Bollywood Hungama wrote that "Akshay Gives The Super-Hero A New Definition." Hindustan Times audio news praised the screen presence of Akshay Kumar. Deccan Chronicle described the movie as "cliched but enjoyable in bits". Business Standard posted the ratings of IANS which gave 4 stars to the movie.

Character map of remakes

The film is a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Ramanaa, directed by A. R. Murugadoss, which was later remade in many other languages.

Ramanaa 2002 (Tamil)	Tagore 2003 (Telugu)	Vishnu Sena 2005 (Kannada)	Tiger 2007 ( Bengali)	Gabbar Is Back 2015 (Hindi)
Vijayakanth	Chiranjeevi	Vishnuvardhan	Mithun Chakraborty	Akshay Kumar
Ashima Bhalla	Shriya Saran	Gurleen Chopra	Debashree Roy	Shruti Haasan
Simran	Jyothika	Lakshmi Gopalaswamy	Rajatava Dutta	Kareena Kapoor Khan
Vijayan	Sayaji Shinde	Ashutosh Rana	Dulal Lahiri	Suman Talwar
Mukesh Rishi	Puneet Issar	Pankaj Dheer	George Baker	Jaideep Ahlawat
Yugi Sethu	Prakash Raj	Ramesh Arvind	Sudip Mukherjee	Sunil Grover

External links

• Gabbar Is Back on Facebook
• Gabbar Is Back at IMDb