The Burning Train

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The Burning Train
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Directed by	Ravi Chopra
Produced by	B.R. Chopra
Written by	Ravi Chopra
Starring	Parveen Babi Dharmendra Jeetendra Vinod Khanna Hema Malini Neetu Singh
Music by	R.D. Burman
Cinematography	Dharam Chopra
Editing by	R.P. Bapat S.B. Mane Pran Mehra
Distributed by	B.R. Films
Release date(s)	20 March 1980
Running time	142 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi
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The Burning Train was a Bollywood action film released in 1980 directed by Ravi Chopra and featuring a huge all-star cast. The plot revoled around a fast train, that caught fire on its innaugral run from Delhi to bombay.

1 Cast
2 Crew
3 Plot
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[edit] Cast

Dharmendra ..... Ashok
Hema Malini ..... Seema
Vinod Khanna .... Vinod Verma
Parveen Babi .... Sheetal
Neetu Singh ..... Madhu
Jeetendra ..... Thief
Vinod Mehra .... Rakesh
Simi Garewal .... School-teacher
Danny Denzongpa ..... Randhir
Madan Puri .... Ashok's dad
Navin Nischol .... Doctor
Om Shivpuri .... Rajaram
Iftekhar ..... Railway board Chairman
Mac Mohan .... Track Maintenance Supervisor

[edit] Crew

Director - Ravi Chopra
Writer - Ravi Chopra, Kamleshwar
Dialouges & Screenplay - Kamleshwar
Producer - B.R. Chopra
Asst. Producer - Madan Chopra
Cinematography - R.D. Burman
Editing - R.P. Bapat, S.B. Mane, Pran Mehra
Special Effects - Gerald Endler, Paul Wurztel
Stunts - A. Mansoor
Dubbing - G.S. Bhatia
Costume Design - Bhanu Athaiya
Publicity in-charge - Bunny Reuben

[edit] Plot

Vinod Verma (Vinod Khanna) is an employee of the Indian Railways, who wants to make the perfect and fastest train in India. After years of dedication, the Railway Board approves his prototype of the Super Express. His personal life with his wife (Parveen Babi) and children is ruined because he has paid his full attention to building the model. He hopes to make it up to them after the train makes its inaugural run from Delhi to Bombay in a record 12 hours. Showing him support are his friends, Ashok (Dharmendra) and Rakesh (Vinod Mehra). Another person, whose prototype of his own model of a fast train was not accepted, Randhir (Danny Denzongpa), wants to sabotage the Super Express' inaugural run. He places bombs in the train and sabotages the brakes. During the run of the train, the bombs bursts, brakes fail, and the train does not stop. Then, cooking gas catches fire engulfing the pantry car and a few adjacent passenger coaches in flames as the train hurtles at breakneck speed - thus the name - "The Burning Train". What follows are numerous plans to save and counter-save the now burning and unstoppable train with all by Ashok, Vinod, Rakesh, a petty thief (Jeetendra), and the train conductor.