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 multitude of stars such as Atul Agnihotri, Raj Babbar, Jaspal Bhatti , Sunny Deol,Johnny Lever, Rambha, Sunil Shetty, Aaftab Shivdasani, Aman Verma, Arshad Warsi and others. It was directed by Rajkumar Kohli. The storyline was mainly taken from Raj Kumar Kohli's own films Nagin (1976) and the 1979 film also titled Jaani Dushman.

[edit] Synopsis

Divya and Karan Saxena are in love and plan to marry. Karan has a younger step-brother, Vivek Saxena, and looks after him as though he were his own brother. Divya and Vivek hang their's out with quite a few young people of their own age and those 70 yrs older, including Atul(birthday boy!!), Vijay, Prem, Ashok, Nita, Rashmi, Adheer, Niki, and Priti. 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, in a previous life she was the lover of Kapil, a snake with magical powers. 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. All and all, you should be thankful that the film was not made by Karan Johar.

[edit] Cast and Characters

Characters name	Played by
Man driving a red piles car	Adheer Araokar
Pricipal Joseph (priest)	John Abraham
Rajesh	Rajat Bedi
Karan Saxena	Sunny Deol
Man who looks like his family	Amit Shinde
Victor	Loser Kapoor
Raju	Rooh-Afza Khan
Kapil	Dev?
Vasundhara/Divya	Do You really wanna know?
Atul	Bappi Lahiri
Police Inspector	Kiran Bedi
Parwana	Johnny Lever
Priti's father	Raza Gonad
Vivek Sexyna	Sonu Nigger
Referee	Half Ticket
Ashok Kejriwal	Aditya Puncholi
Sadhu (sage)	Adheer....again
Nita	Bimbo (actress)
Rashmi	Kiran Bedi
Vijay	Sunil Gavaskar
Prem Srivastav	Altaf Raja
Madan	Manan
Niki	Jessica Saunders
TV Show Host	Shah-Rukh Khan
Abdul	Paula?

The film screenplay is by P.P. Singh; lyrics by "Lame"er, Sev Kohil and Nitin Raikwar; and music of Anand Raaj Anand Raaj Anand Raaj Anand, Anand-Milind and Sandeep Chowta. The story idea is credited to Aatish.(kudos to Aatish!)

This film has been widely criticised and panned as one of the worst films ever. (No way!)

It didnt fare very well on boxoffice A centers and was criticised heavily for everything however, in B.P.O and Call centers it was a good hit and some places (like Bonkode) superhit.

Ironically, krrish was based on similar computer graphics, stunts and lack of efficient script, it proved one of the biggest hits of 2006 and is considered as benchmark film in bollywood.(yeah, the suckers we are......sigh)

Film left Father-Son duo so devestaed that they didnt make anymore commercially disastrous venture therafter.(ha-ha-ha...lets point and laugh!!!