Bamfaad

Nasir Jamal (Aditya Rawal), a teenage boy and resident of the Kareli area in Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh). His friends call him 'Naate' despite him being quite tall. Naate brings home complaints regularly. His father, Shahid Jamal, a reputed contractor, overlooks his son's deeds and, in turn, encourages his behaviour for the worse while his mother is worried sick about her son and his carelessness.

One evening, Nasir goes to drop off a parcel at Sanam CD Music shop on his childhood friend Zahid's request. There, he finds the shop closed and meets a young girl, Neelam (Shalini Pandey), who lives right above the shop. An interesting conversation takes place between them. Soon after, they happen to meet a few more times, and Naate is now drawn to her. On the other hand, while Neelam appreciates Nasir's genuine gestures towards her, she is hesitant to take things forward. Having had a tough journey, she battles to make things work with Nasir, but he is too lighthearted about it all to see any red flags.

While Nasir and Neelam get closer, Jigar Fareedi (Vijay Varma), a seemingly charming, influential person, crosses paths with Nasir on account of his fight with Rajeeb Mehndi, a college student politician who is Jigar's candidate. Jigar demands that Nasir make a public apology and is arrogantly turned down, leading to the beginning of an ego conflict between the two.

Neelam struggles to understand her relationship with Nasir but is unaware of how much she has grown to like him. They face multiple obstacles and are presented with testing times.

• Aditya Rawal as Nasir Jamal
• Shalini Pandey as Neelam
• Vijay Varma as Jigar Fareedi
• Jatin Sarna as Zahid
• Sana Amin Sheikh as Walia

Director Ranjan met his co-writer, Hanzalah Shahid, after coming back from the shoot of the film 'Mukkabaaz'. Hanzalah gave him a script to read of a different title. Ranjan read the script and got fascinated by some characters of that world which inspired him to dwell more into that world. He took those characters and some incidents and started writing a new draft from the scratch of the script and titled it 'Bamfaad'.^[5] Bamfaad^[6] is a north Indian slang which portrays a certain energy and it means "Explosive" or "Kickass".^[7]

The principal photography of the film began on 2 September 2018 in Unnao, and the film was wrapped on 22 October 2018 in Lucknow. The shooting of the film was finished in 45 days.^[8]

The soundtrack is composed by Vishal Mishra, and the lyrics are written by Raj Shekhar.

The film contains Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' - Baadal Raag, composed and sung by Harpreet Singh. It describes the journey of a thundercloud. Ranjan found the composition as a passionate composition of a compelling poem.