Deewaanapan

Deewaanapan (English: Insanity) is a Bollywood movie, released on 16 November 2001. It stars Arjun Rampal and Dia Mirza and is directed by Ashu Trikha. Om Puri and Vinod Khanna have supporting roles.

Synopsis

Suraj Saxena (Arjun Rampal) lives in a remote hill station in India with his dad (Om Puri), mom (Smita Jaykar), and sister, Asha (Amita Nangia). One day he meets with Kiran Choudhary (Diya Mirza), who has come on holiday trip with a group of girls. He offers to show her around and they fall in love with each other. Suraj is unable to see her home by the train as his dad has chest pains and has to be rushed to hospital. But Suraj is unable to get Kiran out of his mind and heart. After his sister gets married, the family decide to relocate to Bombay, where Suraj enlists in College and makes several new friends, as well as becomes a popular football player. He eventually meets Kiran and both renew their romance. Ranvir Choudhary (Vinod Khanna) does not appreciate the attentions of a poor man like Suraj on his daughter, and has Suraj brought up before him and introduced to his many friends, which include prominent lawyers, politicians, high ranking civil and municipal employees, the police commissioner as well as the state chief minister. Suraj is warned of dire consequences if he and his family do not leave town immediately. Suraj does not leave town, and hell descends on his family and himself. His mother is unable to purchase food and is publicly humiliated; his father is followed around by Ranvir's goons, harassed, and robbed, and then faces the ultimate humiliation of being publicly arrested, handcuffed, and imprisoned on charges of conspiring against the country and loses his job; and some of Suraj's friends exile him. With so much pressure, will Suraj relent and leave the city, or will he let his dad rot in prison? Ranvir has sworn to kill Suraj, and if he does so, what will happen to Suraj's mom?

Cast

Crew

• Director: Ashu Trikha
• Screenplay: Ashu Trikha
• Story: Ashu Trikha
• Dialogue: Ashu Trikha
• Producers: Vashu Bhagnani
• Music: Aadesh Shrivastav
• Cinematography: Samir Chanda
• Production Designer: Samir Chanda
• Lyrics: Sameer
• Chereographer: Ganesh Acharya, Longines Fernandes, Ahmed Khan

Trivia

• When Suraj and Kiran meet for the first time, he is wearing a grey jacket. Later on, she is wearing the grey jacket without any explanation and gives it to him. He later wants to return it to her, explaining it belongs to her, though he was the first to wear it in the movie.

External links

• Deewaanapan at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.planetbollywood.com/Film/Deewaanapan/index.html