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| Betaab | |
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| Directed by | Rahul Rawail |
| Written by | Javed Akhtar |
| Produced by | Bikram Singh Dehal. |
| Starring | Shammi Kapoor Sunny Deol Amrita Singh Nirupa Roy Prem Chopra Rehana |
| Cinematography | Manmohan Singh |
| Music by | Rahul Dev Burman |
Release date |
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Running time | 163 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi[1][2] |
| Box office | est. ₹13.5 crore (equivalent to ₹229 crore or US$27 million in 2023)[3] |
Betaab (transl. Restless) is a 1983 Indian romance film written by Javed Akhtar, directed by Rahul Rawail and produced by Bikram Singh Dehal. The plot of the film was loosely based on William Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew.[4] The film stars Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh in their debut roles along with Shammi Kapoor. The music was composed by Rahul Dev Burman. The opening of Betaab started in 1981 with the presence of Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Raj Kapoor, and Dharmendra. Before the release of Betaab, Sunny Deol also had a small role in the film Main Inteqam Loonga 1982 which his father Dharmendra was the hero of the film. Betaab was a commercial success and went on to be one of the biggest hits of the year, emerging as the 2nd highest grossing Indian film of 1983. The film was remade in Telugu as Samrat in 1987 with Ramesh Babu and in Kannada as Karthik in 2011 with Karthik Shetty.
- ^ Lal, Vinay; Nandy, Ashis (2006). Fingerprinting Popular Culture: The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 77. ISBN 0-19-567918-0.
- ^ Akhtar, Javed; Kabir, Nasreen Munni (2002). Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar. Oxford University Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-19-566462-1.
JA: I write dialogue in Urdu, but the action and descriptions are in English. Then an assistant transcribes the Urdu dialogue into Devnagari because most people read Hindi. But I write in Urdu.
- ^ "Box Office 1983". Box Office India. 15 January 2013. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013.
- ^ "38 Years of Betaab: 5 Unknown facts about the film : Bollywood News". Bollywood Hungama. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2024.