Major Saab

Major Saab (: Respected Major) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Tinnu Anand, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Sonali Bendre, Ashish Vidhyarthi, and Nafisa Ali.

Plot
The plot concerns playboy Virendra "Vir" Pratap Singh. A clause in the will of his wealthy father forces him to enter a military academy in order to inherit. Vir's repeated attempts to get himself discharged are foiled by Major Jasbir Singh Rana. Then Virendra falls in love with Nisha, the sister of a gangster named Shankar. Shankar wants Nisha to marry the son of his friend Parshuram Bihari and hatches a plot to separate the couple, by pretending to accept Vir, however soon beats him up badly and attempts to break both his arms and legs. After that, the Major then begins training Vir to regain his strength and fight those who wronged him to win Nisha back. Finally, both are accepted by Shankar. However, Bihari kills Shankar and tries to force Nisha to marry his son, but is foiled by the Major and Vir.

In the end, the Major is court-martialed for leading soldiers to interfere in a civilian affair.

Cast

 * Amitabh Bachchan as Major Jasbir Singh Rana
 * Ajay Devgn as Virendra "Vir" Pratap Singh
 * Sonali Bendre as Nisha
 * Nafisa Ali as Dr. Priya Rana
 * Ashish Vidhyarthi as Shankar
 * Mohan Joshi as Parshuram Bihari
 * Shahbaaz Khan as Vicky
 * Naveen Nischol as Brig. Satish Khurana
 * Mushtaq Khan as Hanuman Prasad
 * Avtar Gill as Commissioner of Police
 * Dinesh Hingoo as Jai Singhaniya (special appearance)
 * Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Raja Thakur (guest appearance)
 * Siddharth Ray
 * Jasbir Thandi as Cadet Amrik singh
 * Pradeep Rawat as Subeidar Singh

Production
Many scenes of the film was filmed in Pune at National Defence Academy (NDA) including the song "Sona Sona".

Box office
The film was a moderate success at the box office, it earned 18 crore. It was also the 9th highest-grossing film of the year (Bollywood films of 1998).

Soundtrack
The music is composed by Anand Raaj Anand and Aadesh Shrivastava. Lyrics are penned by Anand Raj Anand and Dev Kohli. Initially Anand Raj Anand wanted to sing the song 'Akeli Na Bazaar Jaya Karo' and 'Pyar Kiya toh Nibhana' by himself, but could not due to circumstances, about which he spoke in an interview. However, the whole album gained hugh popularity and tracks like 'Akeli Na Bazaar jaya karo', 'Sona Sona' and 'Pyaar Kiya toh Nibhana' became hit. In 2017, the song 'Pyar kiya toh Nibhana' was recreated with Armaan Malik and Shruti Pathak as singers. Then in 2021 it was recreated by Jonita Gandhi, Millind Gaba and Abhijeet Vaghani on T-Series Mixtape.