Coolie No. 1 (1995 film)

For other uses, see Coolie No. 1 (disambiguation).

Coolie No. 1
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Dhawan
Written byRumi Jaffery
Kader Khan
(dialogues)
Story byAmma creations
P. Kalaimani (uncredited)
Based onChinna Mapillai by P. Kalaimani
Produced byVashu Bhagnani
StarringGovinda
Karisma Kapoor
Harish Kumar
Kanchan
Kader Khan
Mahesh Anand
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Shakti Kapoor
CinematographyRajan Kinagi
Edited byA. Muthu
Music bySongs:
Anand–Milind
Score:
Shyam-Surinder
Production
company
Distributed byTips Industries Limited
Tips Music Films
S.K. Enterprises Ltd.
Release date
  • 30 June 1995 (1995-06-30) (India)
Running time
161 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹3.50 crore[1]
Box office₹21.22 crore (equivalent to ₹297 crore or US$36 million in 2024)[1]

Coolie No. 1 is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language masala film, directed by David Dhawan, and written by Rumi Jaffery and Kader Khan. The film stars Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Harish Kumar, Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Mahesh Anand, with music by Anand–Milind.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The film is a remake of the Tamil film Chinna Mapillai (1993).[9]

This movie was one of the first successful movies of Kapoor.[10] Govinda received the Star Screen Award Special Jury Award for his role in this movie as 'performer of the decade'.[11][12] Over the years, the movie has become a classic in Hindi film history and is now considered a cult film and one of the greatest Hindi film ever made .[13] In 2020, Dhawan remade the film with the same name with his son Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan and Paresh Rawal.

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  10. ^ "The blue-eyed baby". The Indian Express. India. 6 February 1998. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  11. ^ "8th Annual Asian Paints STAR SCREEN Weekly Awards". Screen. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
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  13. ^ Gulazāra; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. p. 572. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5.