Soldier

Soldier is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Abbas–Mustan starring Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta and Raakhee Gulzar. This was the first of several films where Deol collaborated with Abbas–Mustan. Although Soldier was Zinta's first film, Mani Ratnam's ended up being released before Soldier and was thus Zinta's film debut. Soldier was the first film in Abbas–Mustan's career which was not a Hollywood remake or adaptation. According to film writer Shyam Goel, it was inspired by a real incident that happened in Punjab where a woman's forehead was branded with the message that her husband was a traitor. Her husband, a soldier, was accused of treachery, and she was thrown out of her village. The story was already made as a movie in Tamil in 1989 titled , starring Sathyaraj in dual roles. Soldier released on 20 November 1998 and was declared as a superhit by Box Office India, becoming the 2nd highest-grossing film of the year in India after .