Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani

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Jaani Dushman
Directed by	Rajkumar Kohli
Written by	Aatish K.K. Singh
Starring	Atul Agnihotri Akshay Kumar Sunil Shetty Sunny Deol Aftab Shivadsani Sonu Nigam
Music by	Anand Raaj Anand Anand-Milind Sandeep Chowta
Language	Hindi

Jaani Dushman (2002), a Hindi fantasy film about a snake which takes revenge for the suicide of its lover on the people who caused it. It has a plethora of stars such as Atul Agnihotri, Raj Babbar, Rajat Bedi, Jaspal Bhatti , Sunny Deol, Sharad Kapoor, Shahbaaz Khan, Arman Kohli, Manisha Koirala, Akshay Kumar, Kiran Kumar, Johnny Lever, Raza Murad, Sonu Nigam, Aditya Pancholi, Amrish Puri, Rambha, Sunil Shetty, Aaftab Shivdasani, Aman Verma, Arshad Warsi and many more. It has been directed by Rajkumar Kohli.

[edit] Synopsis

Diyva and Karan Saxena are in love and plan to marry. Karan has a younger step-brother, Vivek Saxena who he looks after him as though he were his own brother. Divya and Vivek hang out with quite a few young people of their own age, Atul,Vijay,Prem,Ashok,Nita, Rashmi,Niki, and Priti, just to name a few. Two male members try to sexually molest Divya, and get a sound thrashing from Karan. After apologizing, these two members decide to avenge their beating and humiliation. After entrapping Divya, they sexually molest her to such an extent that Divya attempts to kill herself. Unknown to Divya, she was the lover of Kapil a snake with magical powers, in a previous life. Their love life was shattered by an angry sage who cursed them with separation until the 21st century. Divya, who was called Vasundhara in her previous life, dies after this curse, and is reborn as Divya. Now seeing Divya dying, Kapil swears to avenge her death by killing them one by one. Divya does die, but her spirit has survived and joins Kapil to avenge her humiliation and death, not against the two members, but against all the male members. Soon death visits the friends one by one, and no one can stop the killing. People die in all possible ways, from drowning to electrocution, to being sliced, smashed, etc. The snake changes into guys, girls, motorbike, sword etc.

[edit] Cast and Characters

Characters name	Played by
Man driving a red car	Atul Agnihotri
Pricipal Joseph (priest)	Raj Babbar
Rajesh	Rajat Bedi
Karan Saxena	Sunny Deol
Man in a car with his family	Dinesh Hingoo
Victor	Sharad Kapoor
Raju	Shahbaaz Khan
Kapil	Arman Kohli
Vasundhara/Divya	Manisha Koirala
Atul	Akshay Kumar
Police Inspector	Kiran Kumar
Parwana	Johnny Lever
Priti's father	Raza Murad
Vivek Saxena	Sonu Nigam
Referee	Gavind Packard
Ashok Kejriwal	Aditya Pancholi
Sadhu (sage)	Amrish Puri
Nita	Rambha (actress)
Rashmi	Kiran Rathod
Vijay	Sunil Shetty
Prem Srivastav	Aaftab Shivdasani
Madan	Siddharth
Niki	Upasna Singh
TV Show Host	Aman Verma
Abdul	Arshad Warsi

This film comes with dialogues by K.K. Singh and lyrics of Sameer, Dev Kohil and Nitin Raikwar; and music of Anand Raaj Anand, Anand-Milind and Sandeep Chowta. The story idea is credited to Aatish.

This film has been widely criticised and panned as one of the worst films ever.