: Subhash Ghai's crime drama starred Sanjay Dutt as the titular villain-protagonist, Ballu. It was the second-highest-grossing film of the year and became a cultural phenomenon, especially for its music and Dutt's "bad boy" image.
To understand the phenomenon, you cannot look at just one film. Instead, you have to look at the zeitgeist . 1993 was the "hangover" year after the 1991 economic liberalization. It was the year the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) witnessed its first major securities scam (the Harshad Mehta scandal). It was also the year Bollywood produced a crop of films that were darker, grittier, and more anxious than the romantic escapism of the 1980s. Bollywood Index Movie 1993