| Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani | |
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| Directed by | Rajkumar Kohli |
| Produced by | Rajkumar Kohli |
| Written by | Rajkumar Kohli K.K. Singh Aatish |
| Starring | Sunny Deol Akshay Kumar Suniel Shetty Manisha Koirala Aftab Shivdasani Arshad Warsi Sonu Nigam Armaan Kohli |
| Music by | Anand Raj Anand Anand-Milind Sandeep Chowta |
| Cinematography | Damodar Naidu Thomas A. Xavier |
| Editing by | Dilip Darak Kuku |
| Distributed by | Shankar Movies |
| Release date(s) | 16 August 2002 |
| Running time | 179 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani is a Hindi supernatural horror film directed and produced by Rajkumar Kohli, featuring Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Manisha Koirala, Sonu Nigam, Aftab Shivdasani, Arshad Warsi. The storyline was a mixture of the two classic films, Nagin (1976) and Jaani Dushman (1979).
Despite the star cast the film failed to do well, it turned out to be a critical and huge commercial failure being one of the biggest disasters of 2002.
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The film met with all negative reviews, critics blamed the poor screenplay and direction as the result of the failure of the film.
Akshay Shah of PlanetBollywood.com gave the film 2/10 calling the entire film pathetic he said "The screenplay of the movie is pathetic, Lot of the scenes in the movie evoke laughter where it shouldn´t. Dialogues by K.K Singh are disappointing. He criticized all the performances saying Armaan Kohli is below average, Sunil Shetty and Aftab Shivadasani are barely average in there pathetic roles, Sonu Nigam makes a pathetic debut. Akshay Kumar gives the best performance in the entire movie, he did praise the performance of Manisha Koirala but said it was a poor choice of role for her". [1] Ronjita Kulkarni of Rediff.com rated the film 1.5/10 saying "The performances are half-hearted and the characters half-baked", He also called the film "unoriginal and disappointing".[2] Ninjadixon.blogspot also gave a negative review and stated that "Sometimes I wish I had words to explain how silly movie really is. With Jaani Dushman tt’s impossible to take this movie seriously, but at the same time: it’s so filled of energy, enthusiasm and pure insanity that it’s hard to say it’s a bad movie. It’s just silly, stupid and just wonderful in every way possible". [3] Omar Khan of thehotspotonline.com said "The film suffers for its emphasis upon slick action sequences and special effects rather than creating any atmosphere of dread or horror. Its pretty nonsensical, highly derivative and very cheap looking and even the local audiences will sneer at the dated special effects".[4]
On IMDB.com the film has received negative ratings of 2.8/10 from over 570 users/reviewers.[5] However on PlanetBollywood.com the film has received an public rating average of 5.18/10 from around 400 different users.
According to Boxoffice-india the film had a "average to good" opening and did decent business in its first few days but quickly negative word of mouth starting spreading and by the end of the first week collections saw a huge drop, ultimately resulting in the film being declared a huge flop in just its second week. Altogether the film grossed only Rs.10 Crores in its four weeks run at the box office. [6]
| # | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1 | Chal Kudiye | Sonu Nigam, Jaspinder Narula | 04:51 |
| 2 | Zindagi Mein Tujhpe | Udit Narayan | 02:05 |
| 3 | Aaja Aaja | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | 07:02 |
| 4 | Ishq Junu Hai | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Prashant | 06:42 |
| 5 | Jaaneman Tu Khub Hai | Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan | 05:38 |
| 6 | Roop Salona Tera Dekh Ke | Sonu Nigam, Poornima, Sanchaita | 06:28 |
| 7 | Javed Bhai So Re Le | Sonu Nigam | 05:20 |
| 8 | Zindagi Main Tujhpe | Alka Yagnik | 02:00 |
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