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	Akshay Kumar Aditya Pancholi Sunil Shetty Sunny Deol 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 dates	16 August 2002 (2002-08-16)
Running time	169 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Jaani Dushman (English: Archenemy) is a Hindi supernatural thriller film directed and produced by Rajkumar Kohli making it his final film as director. The film features a multiple cast; including Raj Kumar Kohli's son Armaan Kohli as the main Villain seeking for revenge against a set of heroes Aditya Pancholi, Akshay Kumar, Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Sharad Kapoor, playback singer Sonu Nigam in his acting debut, and Arshad Warsi and the only Heroine of film is Manisha Koirala who plays as the lover of the villain. The fim released on 16 August 2002.

Plot

(Sonu Nigam), Prem (Aftab Shivdasani), Sadhu Maharaj (Amrish Puri),Abdul (Arshad Warsi) and Rajesh (Rajat Bedi) amongst others. Divya is a reincarnated soul who herself is unaware of this. When Rajesh (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, Rajesh is strangled to death first. This is followed by Abdul being electrocuted. Atul & his other friends don't have a chance to tell Divya that they're truly innocent. A principal (Raj Babbar) 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.

Some more of their friends get killed unfortunately. Prem is possessed to commit murder but 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. 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. The Priest resurrects Karan with outerworld powers, granting him supernatural powers like Kapil. Karan kills Kapil. Vivek turns out to be alive somehow.

Cast

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

Reception

Critical reception

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".^[1]

Box office

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 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. 100 million in its four weeks run at the box office.^[2]

Soundtracks

References

External links

• Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani at the Internet Movie Database