| Aflatoon | |
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| Directed by | Guddu Dhanoa |
| Produced by | Guddu Dhanoa Lalit Kapoor Raju Narula |
| Starring | Akshay Kumar Urmila Matondkar Anupam Kher |
| Music by | Dilip Sen Sameer Sen |
| Cinematography | Sripad V. Natu |
| Editing by | A. Muthu |
| Release date(s) | December 19, 1997 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Aflatoon is a Bollywood romantic drama directed by Guddu Dhanoa. The film stars Akshay Kumar in a double role. Urmila Matondkar, Anupam Kher, and Farida Jalal, have important supporting roles. The music cassette of the film was set on T-Series.
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Raja (Akshay Kumar), a good for nothing trying to get rich, impersonates Parimal Chaturvedi, a school professor and involves into a school of beautiful rich woman. He falls for rich girl Pooja (Urmila Matondkar). Then he wins her heart. Trouble comes when Pooja's dad Prakash (Anupam Kher) mistakes Raja for Rocky (also Akshay Kumar), who is a lookalike of Raja and is a ruthless and merciless criminal who blackmails people for money or threatens to kill them. Prakash is also on Rocky's payroll. Prakash asks Raja for help, so Raja impersonates Rocky to get his secrets and Prakash's money. But tables are turned when Rocky finds out about Raja. When Raja wakes up finds himself to be in Rocky's mansion, he escapes. Rocky now plans to marry Pooja posing as Raja. Meanwhile, Rocky kidnaps his girlfriend, with whose help he was conning Prakash and hides her somewhere safe so she can not tell anybody about his plan. As Rocky and Pooja are about to get married, Raja crashes the wedding where Rocky's girlfriend tells the truth before dying. Rocky drives to a multi-story building, where Raja follows him into and they start fighting. Raja pushes Rocky off the building, and he dies. Raja and Pooja then get married.
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
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| 1 | "Aflatoon - Aflatoon" | Remo Fernandes |
| 2 | "Uee Maa Uee Maa Mar Gayi Re" | Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet, Anuradha Paudwal, Alisha Chinai |
| 3 | "Oye Oye Teri Si Ladki" | Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal |
| 4 | "Poster Lagwa Do Bazaar Mein" | Lalit Sen, Shweta Shetty |
| 5 | "Tu Mange Dil Main De Doon Jaan" | Hariharan, Chitra |
| 6 | "Gori Chori Chori (Male)" | Udit Narayan |
| 7 | "Gori Chori Chori (Female)" | Alisha Chinai |
| 8 | "We Love We Love Rocky" | Vinod Rathod |
The film's release delayed several months due to expletive contents in one of the songs penned by Anand Bakshi. The film's producer, lyricist and Super Cassettes got notices from the Supreme Court asking for the removal of the contents, which the court referred to as "Irrelevant use of vulgar, indecent, lewd and coarse language in films, especially in the present film where the expletive has been hurled at a policeman, only serves the purpose of corrupting the public morals." The film released only after the song was removed from the film.[1]
At the Box office, Aflatoon had an average opening and collected Rs. 130 million (Rs. 13 crore) during its opening weekend in India. By the end of its first week, the film collected Rs. 18.24 crore. After three weeks, the film grossed Rs. 23 crore in India, and Rs. 29.75 crore worldwide. Even though the film received mostly negative reviews from critics, Box Office India declared it a below average performer at the box office.
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