Baaghi (film series)
Baaghi is a series of Indian Hindi-language action thriller films. All films are produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under the banner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment while the first film is distributed by UTV Motion Pictures and the second and third are by Fox Star Studios. The first film Baaghi was released in 2016 is directed by Sabbir Khan and the second and third films Baaghi 2 (2018) and Baaghi 3 (2020) are directed by Ahmed Khan. Baaghi 2 till date is the most successful film in the franchise grossing over ₹254.33 crores [1] worldwide. The series stars Tiger Shroff as Ronnie. Each film starts with a fresh story unrelated to the preceding film's story.
| Baaghi (film series) | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sabbir Khan Baaghi Ahmed Khan Baaghi 2, Baaghi 3, Baaghi 4 |
| Produced by | Sajid Nadiadwala |
| Screenplay by | Sanjeev Datta Baaghi Ahmed Khan Abbas Hierapurwala Niraj Kumar Mishra Baaghi 2 Farhad Samji Sparsh Khetarpal Tasha Bhambra Madhur Sharma Baaghi 3 |
| Based on | Varsham Baaghi Kshanam Baaghi 2 Vettai Baaghi 3 |
| Starring | Tiger Shroff Shaurya Bharadwaj Shraddha Kapoor (Baaghi, Baaghi 3) Sunil Grover Sudheer Babu Sanjay Mishra (Baaghi) Disha Patani Manoj Bajpayee Randeep Hooda Prateik Babbar Deepak Dobriyal (Baaghi 2) Riteish Deshmukh Jameel Khoury Jaideep Ahlawat Vijay Varma Ankita Lokhande (Baaghi 3) |
| Music by | Songs: Pranaay Rijia (Baaghi-Baaghi 3) Meet Bros Amaal Mallik Ankit Tiwari Manj Musik (Baaghi) Mithoon Arko Sandeep Shirodkar Gourov Roshin (Baaghi 2) Vishal–Shekhar Tanishk Bagchi Sachet–Parampara Rochak Kohli (Baaghi 3) Score: Julius Packiam |
| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan (Baaghi) Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran (Baaghi 2, Baaghi 3) |
| Edited by | Manan Sagar (Baaghi) Rameshwar S. Bhagat (Baaghi 2, Baaghi 3) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures (Baaghi) Fox Star Studios (Baaghi 2, Baaghi 3) |
Release date | 1: 29 April 2016 2: 30 March 2018 3: 6 March 2020 |
Running time | 425 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹181 crore |
| Box office | ₹515.82 crore |
Films
Baaghi (2016)
The film starts with martial arts champion Raghav Shetty (Sudheer Babu) kidnapping Sia Khurana (Shraddha Kapoor) from her film's set in Hyderabad and taking her to Bangkok. Sia's father P.P. Khurana (Sunil Grover) goes to government offices and the police for help but no one is ready to assist them since Raghav is an influential man. Khurana then turns to Sia's ex-boyfriend, Ranveer ‘Ronnie’ Pratap Singh (Tiger Shroff).
In a flashback, Ronnie and Sia meet on a train. Raghav sees Sia at the train station and starts to like her. He tells his men to get information about her. Ronnie visits the martial arts school of a certain Guruswamy in Kerala. In a letter to Guruswamy, Ronnie's father explains that Ronnie is a Baaghi (rebel), and asks him to make Ronnie a good human being. Ronnie and Sia fall in love, and Sia gives him a ring she got from her father, asking him to always keep it. Raghav asks for Sia's hand from Khurana, and Khurana is so lost by greed when he sees how much money Raghav offers for Sia. He agrees to hand Sia over to Raghav but when he sees that Ronnie has Sia's ring, he realizes she is in love with Ronnie. He informs Raghav, who decides to kill Ronnie.
Ronnie beats up Raghav's men when they manhandle Subbu, a mute little boy Ronnie is close to, only for Raghav to get him arrested later on. Guruswamy tries to persuade Raghav, his son, to stop pursuing Sia, but Raghav poisons and kills him to get him out of the way. Ronnie is heartbroken to hear of Guruswamy's death since he had seen him as a father figure. Khurana then creates a misunderstanding between Sia and Ronnie to separate them, which works and the two-part ways.
In the present, Ronnie reaches Bangkok and visits Raghav's fight club, beating the strongest fighter there to get Raghav's attention. The next day, Ronnie breaks into the house of Raghav's right-hand man, Biju, and threatens Biju's wife at gunpoint, forcing him to reveal Sia's location. Finding out she was at the hospital, Ronnie saves Sia and escapes with her under both of them being disguised as a doctor and nurse. The two stop at an island on their way back to India, where Sia discovers her father's deceit when she sees that Ronnie is still wearing her ring. The couple reconciles but Raghav and his men attack them. Biju shoots Ronnie, who falls off a cliff.
Raghav takes Sia back to his place. It is then revealed that Ronnie is alive. It turns out that Biju had used blank bullets in his gun, sparing him as Ronnie had spared his wife's life earlier. Raghav kills Biju when Biju says that he believes Ronnie to be right.
Ronnie storms Raghav's building and single-handedly fights off all of the killers and swordsmen in Raghav's employ. He reaches Raghav, who initially overpowers him, but when Raghav reveals that he was the one who murdered Guruswamy, Ronnie becomes enraged and uses Guruswamy's signature moves to kill Raghav. In the end, Ronnie, now happily together with Sia, becomes the new teacher in Guruswamy's school, where a statue of Guruswamy now stands.
Baaghi 2 (2018)
The film opens with a woman named Neha Rawat who has a sudden attack. On regaining consciousness, she looks for her missing daughter Rhea Salgaonkar. A helpless Neha calls Ronnie Pratap Singh, her former college boyfriend, who is now an Indian Army Para SF soldier. The film then shows the time of their introduction to each other.
Four years ago, Ronnie and Neha met in college. Though initially, Neha does not like him, they become friends and he falls in love with her. After proposing to Neha, Ronnie promises to her that he will always help and be with her if she is ever in trouble. On their wedding day, Neha's father, Mahendra, suffers a heart attack and then Neha goes to meet him at a hospital. Mahendra, who doesn't like Ronnie, asks Neha not to marry him as he fixed her marriage with his friend's son Shekhar Salgaonkar. On her father's last wish, Neha leaves Ronnie.
Back in the present, at the hotel Ronnie is asked to meet Neha, he finds her frightened, broken and lost. On asking her about her family, Neha reveals that her 3-year-old daughter, Rhea, has been missing since she dropped her at school on Rhea's first school day, where she was assaulted outside the gates and Rhea was taken by kidnappers.
When Ronnie asks Neha about Shekhar, she tells him that Shekhar has been depressed since the kidnap. Neha requests Ronnie to help her find Rhea. Ronnie remembers his promise and accepts the task to find Rhea.
Ronnie goes to rent a car, where he meets and befriends a lump man named Usman Langda. Ronnie and Neha visit the police station where FIR writer Inspector Sharad Kutey acts inappropriately towards Neha. Ronnie beats him up, an action that gets him arrested, but he is subsequently released after Kutey's boss, DIG Ajay Shergill, requests for it.
After his release, Ronnie questions Neha in her apartment but as suddenly Neha's alcoholic and drug-abusing brother-in-law Sunny, arrives, she tells him to leave. When Sunny goes out, Ronnie asks Neha for his address. He begins to look for clues but everybody he asks claims that Shekhar and Neha had no daughter.
Unable to find Rhea through any CCTV footage, Ronnie meets a police inspector who has photos of Rhea including certificates to prove that Neha is telling the truth. Ronnie then meets Shekhar who tells him that Neha had a miscarriage following an accident. She was diagnosed with PTSD and began thinking that she and Shekhar had a daughter who doesn't exist.
On hearing Shekhar's tellings, Ronnie asks Neha but she denies it, claiming everyone is against her and insisting she has a daughter. When Ronnie claims she doesn't have a daughter, she asks him to leave which is when he notices the marks of Rhea's height growth on the wall. He starts to doubt his beliefs but is too late as Neha commits suicide, feeling clueless because no one believed her.
The police reach the spot immediately with ACP Loha Singh Dhull. Loha suspects Shekhar. The police find Ronnie using Neha's contacts. After Usman confesses seeing Rhea with Sunny, Ronnie leaves the hotel and finds Sunny, but Sunny is taken into custody by the police. While being interrogated, he attacks Ajay but is shot in the subsequent fight and dies.
For his next attempt, Ronnie goes to Usman's office where Usman is attacked by the thugs that assaulted him. He beats up the thugs but Usman dies from his injuries. Ronnie takes the phone of one of the thugs, revealing texts about their targets, followed by a photo of himself which was taken in Ajay's home. He realizes that Ajay is the mastermind.
After killing an entire army of goons all alone in a secluded forest in Ajay's place in Goa, Ronnie confronts Ajay in his dungeon, who reveals being paid by Shekhar for planning Rhea's kidnapping, as Shekhar hated Rhea. Everyone involved with the family was either killed or bribed into playing along and Neha was being brain-washed so that she would appear insane, as the only person who knew about her daughter's existence.
Having heard this, Ronnie defeats Ajay in a fight. Loha arrives and shoots Ajay to death. Ronnie gets a glimpse of Rhea before fainting. After regaining consciousness, Loha tells that Rhea is Ronnie's illegitimate daughter. After learning this, Ronnie remembers that time when Neha met him to end their relationship and ended up consummating their relationship four years ago. He sees Neha's spirit telling him that Rhea is the most beautiful thing about their relationship.
Loha tells Ronnie that Shekhar confessed and revealed that he kidnapped Rhea since his doctor declared him sterile, revealing that Rhea wasn't his child. The film ends with Ronnie beginning to live with Rhea and seeing a reflection of the dead Neha sitting behind them.
Baaghi 3 (2020)
Unemployed goon Ranveer "Ronnie" Pratap Singh (Tiger Shroff) lives with his elder brother Vikram (Riteish Deshmukh). Ronnie rescues Vikram from any bad or dangerous situation. Vikram dislikes to involve himself in fights. Ronnie requests Vikram to take up a police job as their father Charan (Jackie Shroff) was in the police force years ago.
Ronnie secretly punishes goons as Vikram was timid and does not like violence. For this, Vikram rises to fame for his activities and is well received. Vikram had to fly to Syria for routine paperwork and bids goodbye to his brother. In a video chat, Ronnie witnesses Vikram beaten up by two people and as they kidnap him, Ronnie warns that he will destroy them and the country.
Ronnie arrives in Syria along with his girlfriend Siya (Shraddha Kapoor), who is also Vikram's wife Ruchi's (Ankita Lokhande) sister. They find out that Vikram was kidnapped by the ISIS whose leader is Abu Jalal Gaza. Ronnie fights his way through helicopters, tanks and many soldiers. Meanwhile, in the base of Abu, Vikram explains to him that whenever he was in trouble he used to scream out Ronnie's name.
As Vikram screamed Ronnie's name, Ronnie invades the base to save Vikram and meets up him. Abu Jalal imprisons Vikram and Siya. As Ronnie is beaten up, Vikram goes astray and starts fighting the soldiers to Ronnie's surprise. Ronnie executes Abu.
Baaghi 4 (2022)
On 9 March 2020, Ahmed Khan said, "The owner of the film is Sajid Nadiadwala. If he decides that we should go ahead with Baaghi 4, we will do it. But we will keep the franchise alive definitely."[2]
On 11 April 2020, while interacting with Bollywood Hungama, Tiger Shroff said, “You know I have gotten so many messages and so many calls from people who’ve said they have unfortunately missed Baaghi 3, because of the situation in the world. They were really etching to see but could not, because of all that was happening. So, the only thing on my mind right now is Baaghi 3, and as you said, I hope they re-release the film. If not, then Baaghi 4 is definitely on the cards.”[3]
Cast and characters
| Actor | Film | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Baaghi (2016) |
Baaghi 2 (2018) |
Baaghi 3 (2020) | |
| Tiger Shroff | Ranveer "Ronnie" Pratap Singh | Ranveer "Ronnie" Chaturvedi | |
| Shraddha Kapoor | Sia Khurana | Siya Nandan | |
| Shaurya Bhardwaj | Guruswami | Colonel Ranjit Singh Walia | Chacha Ji |
| Sudheer Babu | Raghav Shetty | ||
| Sunil Grover | Paresh Prakash "PP" Khurana | ||
| Sanjay Mishra | Harry | ||
| Disha Patani | Neha Rawat | Special appearance in the song "Do you Love Me" | |
| Manoj Bajpayee | DIG Ajay Shergill | ||
| Randeep Hooda | ACP Loha Singh Dhull "LSD" | ||
| Deepak Dobriyal | Usman Langda | ||
| Prateik Babbar | Sunny Salgaonkar | ||
| Sunit Morarjee | Inspector Sharad Kute | ||
| Arravya Sharma | Rhea Pratap Singh | ||
| Riteish Deshmukh | Vikram Charan Chaturvedi | ||
| Jameel Khoury | Abu Jalal Gaza | ||
| Jaideep Ahlawat | IPL | ||
| Vijay Varma | Akhtar Lahori | ||
| Ankita Lokhande | Ruchi Nandan | ||
| Jackie Shroff | Inspector Charan Chaturvedi | ||
| Satish Kaushik | Police Commissioner BMC | ||
Crew
| Occupation | Film | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Baaghi (2016) |
Baaghi 2 (2018) |
Baaghi 3 (2020) | |
| Director | Sabbir Khan | Ahmed Khan | |
| Producer(s) | Sajid Nadiadwala | ||
| Screenplay | Sanjeev Datta | Ahmed Khan Abbas Hierapurwala Niraj Kumar Mishra |
Farhad Samji Sparsh Khetarpal Tasha Bhambra Madhur Sharma |
| Story | Sanjeev Dutta | Sajid Nadiadwala | |
| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan | Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran | |
| Editor | Manan Sagar | Rameshwar S. Bhagat | |
| Composer(s) | Meet Bros Amaal Mallik Ankit Tiwari Manj Musik Pranaay Rijia |
Mithoon Arko Sandeep Shirodkar Gourov-Roshin Pranaay Rijia |
Vishal–Shekhar Tanishk Bagchi Sachet–Parampara Rochak Kohli Pranaay Rijia |
| Background Score | Julius Packiam | ||
Release and revenue
| Film | Release date | Budget | Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baaghi | 29 April 2016 | ₹37 crore (US$5.2 million) | ₹125.92 crore (US$18 million)[4] |
| Baaghi 2 | 30 March 2018 | ₹59 crore (US$8.3 million) | ₹254.33 crore (US$36 million) |
| Baaghi 3 | 6 March 2020 | ₹85 crore (US$12 million) | ₹137.57 crore (US$19 million)[5] |
| Total | ₹181 crore (US$25 million) | ₹515.82 crore (US$72 million) |
Baaghi 4 will be made over a budget of ₹100 crore (US$14 million).
References
- "Baaghi 2 Box Office Collection till Now - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama.
- "Director Ahmed Khan hints at 'Baaghi 4', says 'will keep the franchise alive'". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- "Tiger Shroff hints about 'Baaghi 4' plans". BizAsia. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- "Baaghi Box Office Collection till Now - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama.
- "Baaghi 3 Box Office Collection - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama.