Ziddi (1997 film)

Ziddi
Directed by	Guddu Dhanoa
Written by	Robin Henry
Produced by	N.R. Pachisia
Starring	Sunny Deol Raveena Tandon Raj Babbar Ashish Vidyarthi
Cinematography	Sripad Natu
Edited by	A. Muthu
Music by	Songs: Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen Background Score: Surinder Sodhi
Distributed by	Ratan International
Release date	11 April 1997 (1997-04-11)
Running time	171 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹32.43 crore (equivalent to ₹371 crore or US$45 million in 2023)[1]

Ziddi (transl. Stubborn) is a 1997 Indian action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa, starring Sunny Deol, Raveena Tandon, Raj Babbar and Ashish Vidyarthi. It follows a short-tempered and stubborn Deva, who is feared because of his ruthless ways and severe punishment to the local hoodlums and later vows to avenge the death of his siblings.

It went on to become one of the biggest Bollywood hits of 1997, grossing Rs 324.3 million (US$5.7 million) at the box office. The film was remade in Tamil as Dharma, starring Vijayakanth and Bangladeshi Bengali as Shanto Keno Mastan in 1998. The 1998 Kannada movie One Man Army was an unofficial adaptation of this movie.