Kaalia

Kaalia
Promotional poster
Directed byTinnu Anand
Written byInder Raj Anand
Tinnu Anand
Santosh Sah
Shahjahan
Taher
Produced byIqbal Singh
StarringAmitabh Bachchan
Parveen Babi
Asha Parekh
Kader Khan
Amjad Khan
Pran
CinematographyPravin Bhatt
Edited byA. Habib
Music byRahul Dev Burman
Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Distributed byBobby Enterprises
Polydor
Release date
  • 25 December 1981 (1981-12-25)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Kaalia is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film, written and directed by Tinnu Anand, and produced by Iqbal Singh. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan (in the title role), Parveen Babi, Asha Parekh, Kader Khan, Pran, Amjad Khan, K.N. Singh and Jagdeep. The music is by R.D. Burman, while the lyrics are by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

The film was the 8th highest grossing Indian film of 1981.[citation needed]

It was later remade in Kannada in 1984 as Huliyaada Kaala starring Tiger Prabhakar and in Tamil in 1987 as Cooliekkaran starring Vijayakanth.

The film was another classic from Bachchan's "angry young man" era and helped cement his status as a superstar. The film is also remembered for having the classic upbeat song "Jahan Teri Yeh Nazar Hai" (sung by Kishore Kumar). It continues to be played at parties and nightclubs, along with being considered one of the most iconic songs of the 1980s.[1] This was the only film that featured Amitabh Bachchan and Asha Parekh together, although they were never paired opposite each other.

  1. ^ "Jahan teri yeh nazar hai". Indian Song.org. Retrieved 21 February 2018.