Teree badmaashiyaan aur meree kamzoriyaan
Posted on: October 21, 2026
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‘Zulmi’ (1999) was produced by Satyendra Pal Chaudhry and directed by Kuku Kohli. The cast included Akshya Kumar, Twinkle Khanna, Aruna Irani, Dara Singh, Milind Gunaji, Deep Dillon, Rakhee Malhotra, Amrish Puri, Gulshan Bawra, Preeti Joshi, Arun Bakshi etc. In this film, Milind Gunaji turns villain to his own guardian at the instigation of the main antagonist, Dilip Tahil.
I became aware of Milind Gunaji (Born: 23/07/1961) mainly due to his popular travel show on Zee Marathi which I used to watch regularly. The show was ‘Bhatkanti’ (Wanderer) which he used to present from the locations representing Maharashtra’s historic forts, ancient temples, rural villages, wildlife, and natural landscapes. Later, he published his travel stories in Marathi books. I have with me a book in English, ‘Off-beat Tracks in Maharashtra’ (2003) written by him. He has published 12 books on travel, wildlife, cultural history of Maharashtra etc
Milind Gunaji was born and brought up in Mumbai in a middle-class family. His father belongs to Tilakwadi in Belagavi while his mother is from Goa. After graduating in mechanical engineering, Milind Gunaji along with his two classmates set up a factory, Sigma Packaging Pvt. Ltd. in Satara. He was looking after the marketing of the products in Mumbai. At the same time, he was a travel freak with photography as his passion. He was also interested in sports, mainly badminton and cricket. However, after an accident resulting in dislocation of his shoulder, he had to give up sports.
Milind Gunaji was a fan of Clint Eastwood. He has grown his stubble with the cowboy hat to look like Clint Eastwood. Some of his friends were pushing him to become a model because of his good height with his stubble. On their suggestion, Milind Gunaji met Gautam Rajadhyaksha who took his profile pictures and advised him to hand it over to some of the advertising agencies. The very next day, he got the call from one of the advertising agencies for a screen test which he cleared and thus got his first modelling assignment for Digjam Suitings in 1989. He continued his modelling assignments for about five years which included Philips Electronics, Lifebuoy Soap, Capstan Cigarettes etc.
During shooting for one of his modelling assignments, Milind Gunaji and Govind Nihalani came face to face. During the talk, Govind Nihalani asked him whether he would like to work in the film. Since he had no inclination for acting in films, instead of saying ‘no’ to him, he asked for a couple of days to decide. Again, his friends pushed him to say ‘yes’ to Govind Nihalani who was making ‘Droh Kaal’ (1995) with Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, and Amrish Puri. This was his first feature film which he signed, though his second film, Sai Paranjape’s ‘Papeeha’ (1994) got released first. Since he did not have any acting experience, he was put under Pandit Satyadev Dube in his acting workshop. Simultaneously, Milind Gunaji worked in a TV Serial, ‘Kurukshetra’ (1995-96).
Milind Gunaji got his first mainstream Hindi film, ‘Fareb’ (1996) which became a super hit despite having all newcomers in main roles. With this success, Milind Gunaji began his active career in mainstream films which included ‘Viraasat’ (1997), ‘Godmother’ (1999), ‘Devdas’ (2002), ‘LOC Kargil” (2003), ‘Elaan’ (2005), ‘Phir Hera Pheri’ (2006), ‘Black and White’ (2008), ‘Idiot Box’ (2010), ‘Charge Sheet’ (2011), ‘Panipat’ (2019), Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’ (2022) etc. In all, he has so far acted in around 70 films in which he mostly worked in the roles of an antagonist. He never changed his signature ‘Clint Eastwood’ look. So, he did not venture into the roles of romantic hero. During his career in Hindi films, Milind Gunaji also worked in some popular Marathi films, again in the role of an antagonist.
Milind Gunaji leads a multi-faceted life – travel journalist, travel photographer, Brand Ambassador of Government of Maharashtra’s Forest and Wildlife Departments and promoting eco-tourism. He has been holding his solo photo exhibitions in galleries across Maharashtra.
Milind Gunaji married Rani Bagul, TV actress and show host in 1990. They have a son, Abhishek Gunaji, who is a filmmaker. He directed his father in Marathi film, ‘Raavan Calling’ (2026).
The story of the film under discussion is as under:
Baba Thakur (Dara Singh) the ‘godfather’ of the underworld has hosted a party in the garden of his palatial house for celebrating the birthday of his grandson, Nihal and also the wedding anniversary of his son. However, in the birthday cake, a bomb is planted by his adversary, Zorawar (Dalip Tahil) to kill Baba Thakur and his family. Baba Thakur’s loyal bodyguard, Balraj Dutt (Amrish Puri) suspects something amiss as he sees Zorawar and his men are going away without waiting for completion of the cake cutting ceremony. Balraj throws the cake in the swimming pool where it gets blasted without any loss of life.
Having failed in their attempt, Zorawar and his men fired indiscriminately, killing Baba Thakur’s son and daughter-in-law and grievously injuring him. Balraj Dutt immediately rushes to Zorawar’s house and makes him lame to suffer for life. Zorawar is arrested by police and gets a life imprisonment. Before the death, Baba Thakur entrusts his grandson, Nihal to Balraj to take care of him in the same way as his own daughter, Komal.
The film’s story takes a big leap. Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) is an unemployed graduate who is staying with his younger sister, Pooja (Rakhee Malhotra) after the death of their parents. One day, when he has gone for a dinner in a restaurant with his sister, Pooja, a goon (Milind Gunaji) kidnaps Pooja and tries to rape her after which she commits suicide. After completing his life imprisonment term, Zorawar is released from the jail. He telephones Balraj that his entire family will be his target for revenge.
One day, Balraj on his way to office, notices a fight going on between Raj against half a dozen goons who have kidnapped a girl. With his combat skills, he overpowers them and rescues the girl. Balraj is very much impressed with his fights. He employs Raj as a bodyguard for his daughter, Komal (Twinkle Khanna) as he has already received another threatening call from Zorawar reminding him that his daughter, Komal is a target for his men.
Raj finds Komal the same girl who once almost knocked him down by driving her car at a high speed. He has found her to be arrogant with a high-handed attitude. Her attitudes toward him continue to be the same. There is nothing common in them to reconcile. She does not like Raj to watch her every move as a bodyguard impeaching her privacy. She even tries to create situations to get him dismissed from the job. But her father always supports him knowing fully well that Komal faces risk from Zorawar and she needs Raj to protect her.
One day Komal is targeted by Balraj’s younger brother, Bakhtawar (Deep Dhillon) while on a picnic with her college friends. Raj saves her putting his life in danger, This incident changes Komal’s attitude toward Raj from high-handedness to one of respect for his qualities. Gradually, they fall in love with each other. Furious with the attempt on Komal, Balraj goes to a club where Bakhtawar is gambling. He drives him out and kills him by dashing him to a pole by the force of his jeep. Now it is time for Zorawar to work out his revenge plan.
The story takes a twist when Raj goes with Balaraj to receive Nihal who is returning from Cochin after a long time. As soon as Raj sees Nihal at the Baggage Claim section, he pounces upon Nihal and beats him severely. When Balraj sees them fighting, he separates them. Balraj is very angry with Raj and questions him as to what has provoked him to fight with him. He explains the background and as a proof, Raj says that Nihal has an injury mark on his neck. Balraj remembers that Nihal did have some injury on the neck before he was sent to Cochin.
Without taking either side, Balraj reveals to Raj that as per his assurance to his boss, it is his duty to protect Nihal. Raj leaves by saying that let him do the duty to protect him. He will do his duty to finish him as a revenge for making his sister to commit suicide. Only time will decide who wins. Raj tries to kill Nihal for the second time in his own room but the timely intervention of Balraj saves Nihal. In order to avoid their further confrontations, Balraj calls police inspector Vikram (Arun Baxi)) to arrest Raj and put in prison but without creating inconvenience to him. But Raj escapes when he comes to arrest him for threatening to kill Nihal.
A situation has come in which Balraj and Raj continue to retain respect for each other but they are caught in the web of Nihal – one is bound to protect him as per his assurance and the other has taken a vow to destroy him. Nihal has decided to finish Raj so that he can spend his life without fear. The conclusion of this bind is that in either case, Balraj is bound to see the dead body of either Nihal or Raj. In this milieu, Zorawar exploits the deadly war between Raj and Nihal for his ultimate aim of totally destroying Balraj’s empire. He tells him that he is the grandson of Baba Thakur who has left his large property and wealth with Balraj which legitimately belongs to him. With making Raj his son-in-law, Balraj actually wants him out of the way in the guise of protecting him.
That night Nihal reaches home fully drunk and gets into a heated argument with Balraj as per the script written by Zorawar. Komal reaches Raj to keep him informed about what has happened between her father and Nihal. He assures her that he will take care of her father when need arises. In the same night, Nihal, Zorawar and his goons storm into Balraj’s house. Raj rushes to Balraj house and kills all of Zorawar’s goons. Balraj gets an opportunity to break Zorawar’s other leg to make him completely handicapped. During this period, Nihal realises as to how Zorawar Singh has manipulated him by feeding the wrong history to create a rift in the family. When Raj’s revolver has no bullet lefts, a grievously injured Zorawar shoots at Raj. However, Nihal saves him and in the process he gets the bullet shot. Balraj shoots Zorawar dead.
The film ends with Nihal asking for forgiveness from Balraj and Raj and pleading Raj not to leave the house as Balraj needs him as his son-in-law. Nihal unites Komal and Raj before he passes away.
The film had six songs with one double-version song written by Gulshan Bawra which were set to music by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen. The film makes its debut on the Blog with its 1st song, ‘teree badmaashiyaan aur meree kamjoriyaan’ rendered by Asha Bhosle and Udit Narayan who sing for Twinkle Khanna and Akshay Kumar, respectively. The tune appears to be inspired from Pakistani folk singer, Attaullah Khan’s non-film song, la lai tein mundri meri (1980) which is in Saraiki dialect spoken in the border region between Punjab and Sind in Pakistan.
The context of the song is that after becoming the bodyguard of Komal (Twinkle Khanna), Raj (Akshay Kumar) has faced hostilities from her because Raj always overshadows her movements as part of his duties which she feels is an invasion of her privacy. But she is not aware that her life is in danger after the release of Zorawar (Dalip Tahil) from jail who is an adversary of her father (Amrish Puri). When Komal is saved by Raj from an apparent attempt on her life by the goons of Zorawar, putting his life at risk, there is a change in her attitude toward Raj which gets converted into their falling in love with each other. The song is the culmination of their love into a strong bonding which is still unknown to Komal’s parents.
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Song-Teree badmaashiyaan aur meree kamzoriyaan (Zulmi)(1999) Singers-Asha Bhosle, Udit Narayan, Lyricist-Gushan Bawra, Dilip Sen-Sameer SenLyrics :
teree badmaashiyaan aur meree kamzoriyaanteree badmaashiyaan aur meree kamzoriyaan
teree badmaashiyaan aur meree kamzoriyaan
ek din pakdee jaayengee
apnee ye choriyaan
hey
na taale tode na hee looteen tijoriyaan
na taale tode na hee looteen tijoriyaan
na taale tode na hee looteen tijoriyaan
phir kyun pakdee jaayengee
apnee ye choriyaan
main to baghaawat kar doon
meraa ye waadaa hai
itnaa bataa de mujhko
teraa kyaa iraadaa hai
main to baghaawat kar doon
meraa ye waadaa hai
itnaa bataa de mujhko
teraa kyaa iraadaa hai
saudaa dilon kaa hai ye
naheen joraa joriyaan
haay
saudaa dilon kaa hai ye
naheen joraa joriyaan
saudaa dilon kaa hai ye
naheen joraa joriyaan
ik din pakdee jaayengee
apnee ye choriyaan
kuchh to rahegaa hoke
chadhhtee jawaanee hai
tere mere pyaar kee bhee
yahee to kahaanee hai
ho ho
kuchh to rahegaa hoke
chadhhtee jawaanee hai
tere mere pyaar kee bhee yahee to kahaanee hai
aise bandhee hain apnee
saanson kee doriyaan
haay haay
aise bandhee hain apnee
saanson kee doriyaan
aise bandhee hain apnee
saanson kee doriyaan
phir kyun pakdee jaayengee
apnee ye choriyaan
teree badmaashiyaan aur meree kamzoriyaan
na taale tode na hee looteen tijoriyaan
ik din pakdee jaayengee
apnee ye choriyaan
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