Khiladi (1968 film)

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| name = Khilari

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| director = Homi Wadia

| producer = Wadia Brothers Production

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| starring = Fearless Nadia
Dilip Raj
Sujata

| music = Lala Sattar

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| studio = Basant Studios

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| released = {{Film date|1968}}

| runtime = 155 min

| country = India

| language = Hindi

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Khiladi is a 1968 Hindi action film directed by Homi Wadia for Basant Pictures.{{cite web|url=http://www.gomolo.com/khiladi-movie/3929 |title=Khiladi|publisher=Gomolo.com|accessdate=17 September 2014}} It was produced under the Homi Wadia Production banner with music composed by Lala Sattar and lyrics written by Faruk Kaiser.{{cite web|url=http://www.lyricsbogie.com/category/movies/khiladi-1968|title=Khiladi 1968|publisher=Lyricsbogie.com|accessdate=17 September 2014}} Fearless Nadia starred in nearly fifty Wadia films, making stunt history starting with Hunterwali (1935).{{cite web|last1=Jain|first1=Madhu|title=Legally Blonde|url=http://www.verveonline.com/68/life/madhu_nadia.shtml|website=verveonline.com|publisher=Verve Magazine|accessdate=17 September 2014}} Khiladi was Nadia's last role in films.{{cite book|author1=Gulazāra|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT619|accessdate=17 September 2014|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=619–}} The film starred Nadia, Dilip Raj, Sujata, Amarnath, Suzie, Uma and Vishwas Kunte.{{cite web|url=http://www.citwf.com/film183927.htm|title=Khiladi 1968|publisher=Alan Goble|accessdate=17 September 2014}}

Nadia had last done an action role nine years earlier. Around the age of fifty-eight she made a flamboyant come-back in a cleverly executed "James Bond" type character in Khiladi where she was code-named "Living Fireball".{{cite book|author1=Dorothee Wenner|author2=Rebecca Morrison|title=Fearless Nadia: the true story of Bollywood's original stunt queen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCdlAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=17 September 2014|date=1 March 2005|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-303270-0}}{{cite book|title=India Today International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuQvAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=17 September 2014|year=2005|publisher=Living Media International Limited}}