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Directed by | Tinnu Anand |
Written by | Inder Raj Anand Tinnu Anand Santosh Sah Shahjahan Taher |
Produced by | Iqbal Singh |
Starring | Amitabh Bachchan Parveen Babi Asha Parekh Kader Khan Amjad Khan Pran |
Cinematography | Pravin Bhatt |
Edited by | A. Habib |
Music by | Rahul Dev Burman Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri |
Distributed by | Bobby Enterprises Polydor |
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Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
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.