Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998 film)

This article is about the 1998 film. For the 2024 film, see Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (2024 film).

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
Poster
Directed byDavid Dhawan
Written byRumi Jaffery
Produced byVashu Bhagnani
StarringAmitabh Bachchan
Govinda
Ramya Krishnan
Raveena Tandon
Paresh Rawal
Anupam Kher
Satish Kaushik
Sharat Saxena
CinematographyK. S. Prakash Rao
Edited byA. Muthu
Music byViju Shah
Production
company
Release date
  • 16 October 1998 (1998-10-16)
Running time
142 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹12 crore[1]
Box office₹35.21 crore (equivalent to ₹159 crore or US$19 million in 2023)[1]

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (transl. Big Mister and Little Mister) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by David Dhawan. Produced by Vashu Bhagnani's Pooja Entertainment, the film stars an ensemble cast with Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda playing dual roles as a police officer and thief each while also featuring actors like Raveena Tandon, Ramya Krishnan, Anupam Kher, Paresh Rawal, Sharat Saxena and Satish Kaushik with Madhuri Dixit in a special appearance. It is inspired from William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the 1995 American film Bad Boys by Michael Bay.[2]

Budgeted at ₹12 crore, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan was theatrically released worldwide on 16 October 1998 and Biggest commercial success with a total gross collection of ₹35.21 crore, despite clashing with Karan Johar's Kuch Kuch Hota Hai which also saw Kher in an important role.[3] Also, it was one of the highest grossing Hindi films of 1998. It was the first Hindi film to be shot in the Ramoji Film City.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Bade Miyan Chote Miyan – Movie – Box Office India". Boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. ^ C. Dionne; P. Kapadia (17 December 2015). Bollywood Shakespeares. Springer. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-1-137-37556-8.
  3. ^ "Top Lifetime Grossers 1990–1999 (Figures in Ind Rs)". Boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  4. ^ Wilkins, Karin; Straubhaar, Joe; Kumar, Shanti (11 September 2013). Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication. Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-135-01097-3.