Rangeela
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Directed by	Ram Gopal Varma
Produced by	Ram Gopal Varma
Story by	Ram Gopal Varma
Starring	Aamir Khan Jackie Shroff Urmila Matondkar
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	W.B. Rao
Editing by	Srinivas
Release date(s)	September 8, 1995
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	21 crore (US$4.19 million)[1]

Rangeela (Hindi: रंगीला) is a 1995 Hindi film directed by Ram Gopal Varma, and starring Aamir Khan, Jackie Shroff and Urmila Matondkar.

Rangeela was music director A. R. Rahman's debut Hindi film with an original score, as the previous ones were dubbed from his Tamil scores. The soundtrack features playback singer Asha Bhosle, Hariharan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Suresh Wadkar, Udit Narayan, Chitra, Swarnalatha, Shweta Shetty, and A. R. Rahman himself.

The film was a semi-hit of 1995.^[1] It won two Filmfare Awards that year; Best Supporting Actor for Jackie Shroff and Best Music Director for A. R. Rahman.^[2]. The film is often noted for its songs, amazing dance numbers, Aamir's fantastic portrayal of a Tapori and a great makeover to Actress Urmila Matondkar.

Plot[link]

A street-toughened orphan by the name of Munna (Aamir Khan) is befriended by some kind folks, whose effervescent daughter Mili (Urmila Matondkar) soon grows to be his best buddy. Both gravitate toward the Mumbai movie industry. While Mili finds occupation as a movie extra, Munna earns his livelihood selling movie tickets in the black market.

Mili has ambitions of becoming an actress. Fortune glances her way, when she dances her way into a movie star's attentions. This actor, Raj Kamal (Jackie Shroff), arranges for her to be auditioned for the heroine's role in his upcoming movie called Rangeela. Mili's shortcomings amount to distractions, but thanks in no small way to Munna and Raj, she lands the role.

Then the story goes on with Raj falling for Mili, Munna falling for Mili, and Mili too busy in the making of the movie to notice any of this. She starts spending a lot of time with Raj during the filming. Munna tries many times to tell Mili that he loves her, but he is unable to, or Raj gets in the way. Eventually, feeling inferior, Munna decides to leave Mili to Raj, who can give her a better life than he can. The matter isn't resolved yet though, as Mili hears of this on the film's opening night. She asks Raj to help her find Munna, which he does after realizing that Mili seems to love Munna and not him.

The lovers finally get re-united at the sunset on a roadhill.

Cast[link]

• Aamir Khan as Munna
• Urmila Matondkar as Mili Joshi
• Jackie Shroff as Raj Kamal
• Gulshan Grover as Steven Kapoor
• Avtar Gill as P.C.
• Reema Lagoo as Mrs. Joshi (Mili's mother)
• Rajesh Joshi as Pakya
• Achyut Potdar as Mr. Joshi (Mili's father)
• Neeraj Vora as Drunk Party Guest (Bluffer)
• Ram Mohan as Make-Up Dada
• Shammi as Gulbadan's mom
• Shefali Chhaya as Gulbadan (Special Appearance)
• Suman as Motilal
• Rajeev Mehta as Steward in Restaurant
• Himanshu
• Nitin Chandrakant Desai
• Tarun as Tough Guy at Shooting
• Aditya Narayan as Himself (singing in the song Yaei Re)
• Saroj Khan as Herself (choreographer)
• Remo D'Souza as a Background dancer in Title song
• Madhur Bhandarkar in a Special Appearance

Reception[link]

Rangeela opened with a great response and was declared a semi-hit in the box office.^[1] The film grossed more than 21 crores.^[1] Although many cites state that the film was a Blockbuster^[3]Rangeela was also praised by the critics for its noble theme and entertaining story.

The film won total of 7 filmfare awards that year, second only to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. They were: Best actor in supporting role - Jackie Shroff, Best choreography - Ahmed Khan, Best Costume Designing - Manish Malhotra, Best Story - Ram Gopal Varma, Best Music - A R Rahman, the RD Burman Award - Mehboob, and a Special Jury Award - Asha Bhosle for "Tanha Tanha".

Soundtrack[link]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Planet Bollywood	[4]

Rangeela marked the debut of acclaimed music director A. R. Rahman in Hindi. The soundtrack featured 7 songs composed by A. R. Rahman with lyrics penned by Mehboob and an instrumental theme song. The audio was released in September 1995 by Rahman's mother Kareema and the soundtrack proved immensely popular upon release. It is listed in almost all lists of best Bollywood soundtracks.^[5]

The soundtrack fetched Rahman two filmfare awards, Filmfare Best Music Director Award and Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. Mehboob got two nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist, for the tracks "Kya Kare" and "Tanha Tanha". Shweta Shetty and Kavita Krishnamurthy were nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for their respective tracks.

Rangeela marked the return of the then 62-year old veteran playback singer Asha Bhosle, who sang two super hit songs for the movie. Asha, like her sister Lata Mangeshkar, had long retired from accepting playback singer awards, but she received the Filmfare Special Award that year for her rendition of the song "Tanha Tanha".

The song "Yaaro Sun Lo Zara" was originally composed for a Telugu film Super Police as "Baabu Love Cheyyara". The soundtrack was also released in Tamil, with title Rangeela itself and lyrics penned by Vairamuthu. However, the reused track "Yaaro Sun Lo Zara" was not included in the Tamil version.

Original Hindi version[link]

Tamil version[link]

Telugu version[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Rangeela at the Internet Movie Database