Jaanwar (1999 film)

Jaanwar
DVD cover
Directed by	Suneel Darshan
Produced by	Suneel Darshan
Written by	Robin Bhatt K.K. Singh
Starring	Akshay Kumar Karisma Kapoor Shilpa Shetty Mohnish Bahl
Music by	Anand-Milind
Cinematography	Sameer Reddy
Editing by	Sanjay Sankla
Distributed by	Shree Krishna International
Release dates	24 December 1999
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	200 million (US$3.2 million)
Box office	450 million (US$7.2 million)

Jaanwar (English language: Animal) is a Bollywood gangster drama film directed by Suneel Darshan, released on 24 December, 1999. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor and Shilpa Shetty in pivotal roles. The Films was a huge critically and commercially successful film of that year and it is known for reviving Akshay Kumar's career when he was going through a rough patch.

Plot

Orphaned when his mother dies of hunger, Babu (Akshay Kumar) is corrupted by Sultan, an ambitious criminal mastermind. He grows up to become "Badshah", a professional criminal working for Sultan. The story starts with Badshah and Abdul robbing a jewellery store and being followed by the police. The police lost track of them. The next day Badshah sees Sapna (Karishma Kapoor) singing and dancing for money. Badshah notices her ripped clothes and she says that he was the first person to realise that. Inspector Pradhan comes to Badshah and tells him that he knows that Badshah did the robbery last night. Badshah and Abdul go to exchange stuff with other people and the police interrupts. Badshah and Abdul leave and get into an accident as well as the police officer did. Badshah helps Pradhan, but Pradhan tries to put him under arrest. The car explodes and Badshah is injured.

Sapna finds Badshah injured on the river and takes him to her home. Abdul takes the bullet out of Badshah's arm with wine and knife. Sapna looks after Badshah and cures him. Sapna sleeps next to Badshah and her Mama comes and see Badshah on the bed. He doubts Sapna and asks her about him. Sapna argues and tells him. Abdul tells Badshah to rest and Sapna's Mama comes and tells her that he knows a job that she can do to get more money. When she goes there, the man rips her clothes and Badshah comes and saves her. Badshah tells Sapna everything and tells her that she probably hates him which didn't make any difference to her because she was lonely, too. Badshah makes another deal with the same person, but he was working with the police which made Abdul arrested. Badshah jumped and got away. Pradhan tried to beat out answers from Abdul. Meanwhile, the people and Sapna's Mama were talking about what her relationship with Badshah is. Badshah comes and says to Sapna that they will get married the next day.

While waiting for Badshah to come, Badshah chases after the person he was dealing with and tries to kill him. He runs away when the police comes. Sapna was being laughed because she hasn't gotten married. Badshah finds a baby who was lost from its parents because of a train accident. The baby catches a fever and Badshah goes to Sapna for help. Sapna mistakenly thinks that he was already married. Badshah raises the baby and takes care of it when he realises how important that baby is to him. He makes steel and works hard to earn money and raise the baby. He calls himself Babu Lohar. He takes care of the baby and becomes its mother and father. He names the baby Raju and he doesn't want the baby to end up as him.

Seven years later Abdul is released from prison and Raju goes to school. Babu doesn't want any rich people to ruin his son and, when he finds a new job, Abdul sees him. Babu talks to Abdul and goes to Sultan telling him to leave him alone. Abdul has Sapna try to kill Babu and Sapna hears the talk going between Mamta and Babu. She cries and realises she was wrong. Meantime, the police comes and says that Raju has to go to his real parents. Raju doesn't like it and goes back to Babu,but Sultan's men capture Raju.

Babu goes to save Raju and Raju gets bitten by two dogs. Babu frees himself and saves Raju. He kills Abdul and Sultan. The story ends when Raju and Babu hug and decide to live with Raju's real parents.

Cast

• Akshay Kumar .... Badshah/Babu Lohar
• Karisma Kapoor .... Sapna
• Shilpa Shetty .... Mamta
• Mohnish Bahl.... Aditya Oberoi
• Ashutosh Rana .... Abdul
• Ashish Vidyarthi .... Inspector Pradhan
• Johnny Lever .... Bajrangi
• Aditya Kapadia .... Raju
• Shakti Kapoor .... Sultan
• Kader Khan .... Special Appearance

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Anand-Milind. Anand-Milind had previously worked with producer Suneel Darshan in Lootere and Ajay. Darshan never worked with them after this film but went on and signed Nadeem-Shravan, Sanjeev-Darshan and Himesh Reshamiya for his future projects.

References

External links

• Jaanwar at the Internet Movie Database