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KhalNayak is known for its music, especially the song "Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai", sung by Alka Yagnik and Ila Arun. The Khal Nayak soundtrack album sold 10 million copies, making it one of the year's best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums, along with Baazigar.[2] Khal Nayak was released on 6 August 1993, and became the second highest grossing Hindi film of 1993, surpassed only by Aankhen.[3] It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its screenplay, soundtrack and performances of the cast.

Balram "Ballu" Prasad, a gangster, gets arrested by Inspector Ram, who shows compassion to Ballu while trying to extract information that would lead to the capture of Ballu's mentor Roshida. However, Ballu does not cooperate and later promises to escape from prison. While visiting his officer girlfriend, Ganga, Ram learns that Ballu has escaped from prison and his reputation is in tatters as the media portrays him as a negligent officer. In an attempt to restore Ram's reputation, Ganga goes undercover as a street-girl, and realizes that Ballu is a kind-hearted person, who turned to crime due to his circumstances. She tries to rehabilitate him while on the run.

Meanwhile, Ballu falls in love with Ganga but becomes enraged when he learns she does not love him and is a cop. Ganga continues to help Ballu as she has seen good in him. Meanwhile, Ram approaches Ballu's mother Aarti for help and realises that Ballu is his childhood friend. She reveals that Roshan Da had used their poverty to corrupt Ballu and killed Ballu's sister Sunita and placed the blame on the cops. Enraged, Ballu had killed a policeman and thus got sucked into a life of crime. Afraid that the police will kill Ballu, Ganga stops the police from shooting at him, allowing him to escape. She is arrested for aiding a criminal and for being in a relationship with Ballu, which destroys her professional and personal reputation.

Ballu's mother finds him, while Ram follows her. In the following confrontation, Ballu's mother takes Ram's side, trying to convince Ballu to surrender. Seeing Ganga's picture in Ram's wallet, Ballu realizes that Ram is the one who she loves and manages to escape to Roshan Da's base where Roshan Da promises to help him escape but betrays him and attempts to kill him and his mother. Led by Ram, police attack Roshan Da's lair. In the ensuing conflict, Ballu discovers that Roshan Da killed his sister, Ram kills Roshan Da and Ballu escapes. Following Roshan Da's death, Ballu proclaims himself the new boss, but his girlfriend informs him that Ganga is about to go on trial for aiding him. Ballu surrenders and swears that Ganga is innocent, thereby restoring her reputation and leading to her and Ram's reconciliation. Ballu goes to prison.

The movie's director, Subhash Ghai wanted to make an art film with Nana Patekar. When he began the film with Patekar, in the movie's original story, the protagonist arrives from Pune to Mumbai. But when Ghai's a screenwriter gave him the idea, that he should make this movie an action film rather than an art film, he changed his mind and tried to make an action film.[4]

Ghai was sure to take Jackie Shroff for the character of Ram. Anil Kapoor was keen to play the antagonist's character, but Ghai told him, you will not suit it and the film will fail. Anand Bakshi wrote the lyrics.[4]

The best known song from the soundtrack were "Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai", "Palki Mein Hoke Sawar" and "Nayak Nahi Khal Nayak". The Khal Nayak soundtrack album sold 10 million copies, making it one of the year's best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums, along with Baazigar.[2]

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"It contributed a lot to my bank and my personal life," Ila tells Mayur Sanap/Rediff.com with a laugh, explaining, "When the song became a huge success, I started getting a lot of live shows.'

'Choli Ke Peeche' was originally conceived as a folk song and the brouhaha over its lyrics was shocking, says filmmaker Subhash Ghai as he remembered his 1993 film Khalnayak, which turned 30 on Sunday.

It was a trademark Ghai movie -- full of entertainment, elaborate musical pieces, and a star-studded cast in Sanjay Dutt as the anti-hero Ballu, Jackie Shroff as police officer Ram and Madhuri Dixit as undercover police officer Ganga. The film, remembered as one of the biggest hits of the 1990s, has attained cult status over the years.

"My closest memory of 'Khalnayak' is when people labelled 'Choli Ke Peeche' as vulgar. It was a tragedy for me... a major shock. We treated it as a folk song and presented it in an artistic way. But when the film was released, there were protests," Ghai told PTI.

'Choli Ke Peeche', penned by Anand Bakshi, was composed by veteran music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Singer Alka Yagnik did the playback for Madhuri Dixit, while Ila Arun sang the folk version filmed on Neena Gupta.

The protests over 'Choli Ke Peeche' lyrics was not the only controversy that 'Khalnayak' faced as Dutt, who played a terrorist in the movie, was arrested under the TADA and the Arms Act months before the film's theatrical premiere leaving many to draw parallels between the real and the reel.

"When Sanju (Dutt) got arrested none of us ever thought that something like this would happen. There was a lot of noise. Our film was supposed to arrive two months later... And it was in the making for a year before that... But people just joined the dots as he was playing a terrorist in the film. Media and people do a lot of things in excitement... but over a period of time they realised that it was wrong," he said.

'Khalnayak' was an anti-hero story, a concept that was not much-explored by the Hindi film industry till that time. The story revolved around Dutt's Ballu, who escapes from jail, and police officers Ram and Ganga's quest to capture him. As Ganga goes undercover to bring him behind the bars, she realises the good in Ballu and tries to rehabilitate him.

"I wanted to cast somebody who had a face that can show shades of a son, lover, murderer, terrorist... I believe an actor's real performance comes out when they are silent and it's just their eyes that are expressing. So, Sanju was the only actor who had that. The combination of pain, innocence and anger in his eyes was perfect for this role," the filmmaker said.

'Khalnayak', the writer-director said, was supposed to be a mother-son story, but the entertaining aspects of the movie sort of overshadowed his intent. Veteran actor Rakhee played Dutt's mother Aarti in the film.

"For me, it was the story of a mother and her son. The first shot of the film is of a mother waiting for her son and the last shot is of Ballu remembering his mother. I had huge hopes that 'O Maa Tujhe Salaam' would become a chartbuster, but the songs that became hits were 'Choli ke peeche' and 'Nayak nahin khal nayak hoon main'. At times, mirch masala works more...

"This film was Ballu's journey from being a 'khalnayak' (anti-hero) to becoming a 'nayak' (hero). I wanted to convey that every bad man has a good soul and they just need realisation. With love, there is always a possibility of change," he said.

"But if the film is alive for three decades, it is a result of a lot of hard work by everyone involved... From a director, writer, actor, music composer, to a lyricist. I feel happy the audience still appreciates all of us for our work," he said.

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