Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani

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Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani
Directed by Rajkumar Kohli
Produced by Rajkumar Kohli
Written by Naveena Bhandari
Rajkumar Kohli
Rajendra Singh
K.K. Singh
Starring Sunny Deol
Manisha Koirala
Akshay Kumar
Sonu Nigam
Rambha
Sunil Shetty
Music by Anand Raj Anand
Anand-Milind
Sandeep Chowta
Sameer
Cinematography Damodar Naidu
Thomas A. Xavier
Editing by Dilip Darak
Distributed by Shankar Films
Release date(s) 16 August 2002
Running time 178 mins
Country India
Language Hindi
IMDb profile
For the 1979 film see Jaani Dushman

Jaani Dushman (2002), a Hindi fantasy film about a snake with the ability to transform itself into any form which takes revenge for the suicide of its lover on the people who caused it. It has a multitude of stars such as Manisha Koirala, Atul Agnihotri, Raj Babbar, Jaspal Bhatti, Sunny Deol, Johnny Lever, Rambha, Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Aman Verma, Arshad Warsi and others. It was directed by Rajkumar Kohli. The storyline was taken from Raj Kumar Kohli's own films Nagin (1976) and Jaani Dushman (1979). This film has been widely criticised and panned as one of the worst films ever.

[edit] Synopsis

Divya (Manisha Koirala) and Karan Saxena (Sunny Deol) are in love and plan to marry. Karan has a younger step-brother, Vivek Saxena (Sonu Nigam), and looks after him as though he were his own brother. Divya and Vivek hang out with quite a few people in their college including Atul (Akshay Kumar), Vijay (Sunil Shetty), Prem (Aftab Shivdasani), Ashok (Aditya Pancholi), Nita (Rambha), Abdul (Arshad Warsi) and Victor (Sharad Kapoor). Two men, Rajesh (Rajat Bedi) and Madan (Siddharth) try to sexually molest Divya, and get a sound thrashing from Karan. However, later they apologize and after the special request from her all friends, she forgives them.

After being made to apologise, the two decide to avenge their beating and humiliation. Karan goes out of India for business. After entrapping Divya, they sexually molest her to such an extent that Divya attempts to kill herself. Unknown to Divya, in a previous life she was the lover of Kapil, a snake with magical powers. Their love life was shattered by an angry sage who cursed them with separation until the 21st century. Divya, who was called Vasundhara in her previous life, dies after this curse, and is reborn as Divya. Now seeing Divya dying, Kapil swears to avenge her death by killing them one by one. Divya does die, but her spirit has survived and joins Kapil to avenge her humiliation and death, not just against the rapists, but against all the male members of the gang. Soon death visits the friends one by one, and no one can stop the killing. People die in all possible ways, from drowning to electrocution, to being sliced, smashed.

However, the priest and the principal of their college (Raj Babbar) creates a force field when Kapil is fighting Karan and Vivek and eventually Kapil is defeated by Karan.

[edit] Cast and Characters

Characters name Played by
Principal Joseph (priest) Raj Babbar
Rajesh Rajat Bedi
Karan Saxena Sunny Deol
Victor Sharad Kapoor
Kapil Armaan Kohli
Vasundhara/Divya Manisha Koirala
Atul Akshay Kumar
Police Inspector Kiran Kumar
Nita Rambha
Priti's father Raza Murad
Vivek Saxena Sonu Nigam
Ashok Kejriwal Aditya Pancholi
Sadhu (sage) Amrish Puri
Vijay Sunil Shetty
Prem Srivastav Aftab Shivdasani
Madan Siddarth
TV Show Host Aman Verma
Abdul Arshad Warsi

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