Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani

Jaani Dushman
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जानी दुश्मन:एक अनोखी कहानी
Directed by	Rajkumar Kohli
Produced by	Rajkumar Kohli
Written by	K. K. Singh (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Rajkumar Kohli Naveena Bhandari
Story by	Rajinder Singh Aatish
Starring	Raj Babbar Sunny Deol Aditya Pancholi Akshay Kumar Sunil Shetty Manisha Koirala Armaan Kohli Aftab Shivdasani Sharad Kapoor Rajat Bedi Arshad Warsi Sonu Nigam Atul Agnihotri
Music by	Anand-Milind Anand Raj Anand Sandeep Chowta
Cinematography	Thomas A. Xavier Damodar Naidu
Edited by	Kuku Cuckoo Dilip Darak
Production company	Shankar Movies
Release date	16 August 2002 (2002-08-16)
Running time	179 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Jaani Dushman (English: Archenemy) is an Indian Hindi dark fantasy-action film directed and produced by Rajkumar Kohli making it his last film as director. The film features an assembled cast; including Manisha Koirala, Armaan Kohli Aditya Pancholi, Akshay Kumar, Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Sharad Kapoor, Sonu Nigam in his acting debut, and Arshad Warsi.

Plot

Divya (Manisha Koirala) is a reincarnated snake who herself is unaware of this. When Rajesh and Madan (whose second attempt of raping Divya is successful) raped Divya, she commits suicide thinking that all of his friends were involved in the rape. The rest of the friends are completely unaware of anything and are innocent. When Kapil (Armaan Kohli), the lover of Divya's previous life finds out about her death, he comes back to life to get revenge from all of the group. As a punishment, Madan is killed on the same day as Divya and then Rajesh is strangled to death on his wedding night. This is followed by Victor being run over by Kapil's motorbike and Abdul being electrocuted to death. Atul & his other friends don't have a chance to tell Divya that they're truly innocent. The college principal Joseph (Raj Babbar), who is also a professor of parapsychology, gives the group of friends a necklace and assures them that they cannot be harmed when they are wearing the necklace. Atul doesn't believe in any of this. However, when he is attacked by Kapil, he realizes he survived because the necklace was stuck on his hand. Atul is badly injured by Kapil and he goes to coma. Divya then enters Prem's body and kills Ashok. Prem is thus accused to commit murder and he is sentenced to be hanged by the court. Vijay is pushed off the gym's roof. Vivek, afraid he's next, calls his big brother Karan (Sunny Deol). Karan arrives to rescue Vivek, but before that, Kapil stabs Vivek using Karan's image. Karan is arrested after Vivek accused Karan of stabbing him. Atul comes out of coma and tries to save Vivek. Atul gets stabbed by Kapil while trying to save Vivek. Kapil chases Vivek. Atul, unable to destroy Kapil or save Vivek's life, goes to the same priest, who gave the lockets. Atul asks the priest to save Vivek's life. Atul dies due to blood loss from his injuries. Karan shows up to stop Kapil from killing Vivek. Karan gets killed by Kapil. Principal Joseph resurrects Karan with outerworld powers, granting him supernatural powers like Kapil. Karan kills Kapil. Vivek turns out to be the only survivor along with his brother Karan. Kapil and Vasundhra reunites in heaven.

Cast

• Manisha Koirala as Vasundhara/Divya
• Armaan Kohli as Kapil
• Sunny Deol as Karan Saxena
• Sonu Nigam as Vivek Saxena
• Akshay Kumar as Atul
• Rambha as Nitha
• Sunil Shetty as Vijay
• Aditya Pancholi as Ashok
• Aftab Shivdasani as Prem Srivastav
• Kiran Rathod as Rashmi
• Sharad Kapoor as Victor
• Rajat Bedi as Rajesh
• Siddharth Ray as Madan
• Arshad Warsi as Abdul
• Raj Babbar as Principal Joseph
• Amrish Puri as Maharaj (Sadhu)
• Johnny Lever as Parwana, Vevek's servant
• Upasana Singh as Nikki, Vivek's maid
• Atul Agnihotri as Driver
• Raza Murad as Preeti's father
• Kiran Kumar as Inspector
• Aman Verma as TV show host

Casting

Salman Khan was offered Sonu Nigam's role but declined due to date issues. Pooja Batra was the first choice for the role opposite Sunil Shetty. Chandrachur Singh and Jas Arora were considered for Aditya Pancholi and Sharad Kapoor's role. Shah Rukh Khan was offered Akshay Kumar's role but he declined it because he was filming Kal Ho Naa Ho.

Reception

Critical reception

This flim received negative reviews from critics. 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". Akshay Kumar was the only with watchable performances, Sunil Shetty was barely average & Sunny Deol was wasted in this movie because he did less scenes than his previous movies.^[1]

Box office

According to Boxoffice-india the film had an "average to good" opening and did decent business in its first few days but quickly negative word of mouth started 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 thousand in its four weeks run at the box office.^[2]

Soundtracks

References

External links

• Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani on IMDb