Bollywood romantic action thriller, Baaghi, directed by Rajesh Kumar Singh and written by Ikram Akhtar was released on April 7, 2000. The movie starred Sanjay Dutt and Manisha Koirala in lead roles while Inder Kumar, Tina Sen, Aditya Pancholi, Gulshan Grover, Shivaji Satham, Mohan Joshi, Mahesh Anand, Tej Sapru and Dinesh Hingoo also played important characters in the film. The music of the movie was composed by two music director duo, Sajid Wajid and Sameer-Dilip Sen while the songs were rendered by Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sunidhi Chauhan and Jaspinder Narula.

Raja ( Sanjay Dutt ) is a notorious gangster who has a strong hold on the area and the community where he lives. Then enters Professor Vidyashankar Pandey ( Shivaji Satham ) in the area alongwith his family which comprises of his wife and a young son named Suryaprakash aka Surya ( Inder Kumar ). Professor ask his son to not have any type of relation with Raja and his mens. But Surya get impressed by Raja after an incident. Surya starts treating Raja as a hero. Raja too starts treating him like his best friend when Surya saves his life.

Surya also becomes a member of Raja and his men’s company. Surya starts giving more time with Raja
. Surya falls in love with the beautiful girl named Kiran ( Tina Sen ), who studies in his college. Kiran is the only sister of Raja’s friend, Vikram ( Aditya Pancholi ), who is also a gangster like him but lives a sophisticated life. When Vikram learns about Surya and Kiran relationship he tries to seperate them but Raja comes in between the lovers and Vikram.

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Sapne mein kudi
2. Tumhi ko chahta hai
3. Piya tu kahaan hai
4. Ek kabhi do kabhi
5. Khaai hai kasam