Refugee Box Office: 24 years ago, JP Dutta released a film which depicted a love story across the border. Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor debuted with this film. The film shows a beautiful love story of Abhishek and Kareena which takes place across the border. Today, Kareena Kapoor is celebrating the completion of 24 years of this film and her career.
JP Dutta is an expert in showing stories on borders and he has shown not only ‘Refugee’ but many border stories through his films. What is the story of the film Refugee, what was its box office collection, let us tell you.
‘Refugee’ completes 24 years
Kareena Kapoor Khan has shared a video on the completion of 24 years of the film Refugee. Kareena Kapoor wrote, ‘It’s been 24 years of discovering myself and my characters. The best is yet to come…love you all.’
This video shows how Kareena Kapoor’s character was in the film Refugee. This was Kareena Kapoor’s first film along with Abhishek Bachchan. In these 24 years, the film career of Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor has progressed a lot.
Kareena Kapoor has given successful films like ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’, ‘Mujhse Dosti Karoge’, ‘Jab We Met’, ‘Singham Returns’, ‘3 Idiots’, ‘Talaash’, ‘Veere Di Wedding’, ‘Aitraaz’, ‘Chup Chupke’, ‘Don’, ‘Good News’ and ‘Crew’. Abhishek Bachchan has given films like ‘Bunty Aur Babli’, ‘Yuva’, ‘Guru’, ‘Dostana’ and ‘Dasvi’ apart from the Dhoom franchise.
‘Refugee’ box office collection
Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor were seen in the lead roles in the film Refugee, directed and produced by JP Dutta. Actors like Sunil Shetty and Jackie Shroff also played important characters in the film.
Apart from these, actors like Anupam Kher, Reena Roy, Sudesh Berry, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Puneet Issar were also seen. According to Sacnilk, the budget of the film Refugee was Rs 14 crore while the film did a worldwide business of Rs 34.41 crore at the box office. The verdict of the film was said to be average.
The story of ‘Refugee’
The film is the story of a refugee (Abhishek Bachchan) whose home is on the border and he works to transport some needy people across the border to Pakistan. This is how he earns his living and in the meantime he takes a family across the border and on the way he meets Nazneen Ahmed (Kareena Kapoor), a member of the same family.
The refugee falls in love with Nazneen as soon as he sees her and then they meet again and again. Both dream of getting married but due to the bad situation between India and Pakistan, they have to face many difficulties. You can watch this film on Amazon Prime Video.
