Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani (2002)

A shape-shifting snake exacts vengeance on a group of friends for a crime they did not even committed.

Director:

Rajkumar Kohli (as Raj Kumar Kohli)

Writers:

Naveena Bhandari (screenplay), Ravi Shankar Jaiswal (additional dialogue)

Stars:

Akshay Kumar, Sunny Deol, Sonu Nigam

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Akshay Kumar	...	Atul
Sunny Deol	...	Karan Saxena
Sonu Nigam	...	Vivek Saxena
Sunil Shetty	...	Vijay
Arshad Warsi	...	Abdul
Sharad S. Kapoor	...	Victor
Aftab Shivdasani	...	Prem Srivastav
Aditya Pancholi	...	Ashok Kejriwal
Pinky Campbell	...	(as Mohini Sharma)
Arman Kohli	...	Kapil
Manisha Koirala	...	Vasundhara / Divya
Rambha	...	Nita
Kiran Rathod	...	Rashmi
Nikita
Amrish Puri	...	Sadhu (sage)

Storyline

Diyva and Karan Saxena are in love and plan to marry. Karan has a younger step-brother, Vivek Saxena who he looks after him as though he were his own brother. Divya and Vivek hang out with quite a few young people of their own age, Atul, Vijay, Prem, Ashok, Nita, Rashmi, Niki, and Priti, just to name a few. Two male members try to sexually molest Divya, and get a sound thrashing from Karan. After apologizing, these two members decide to avenge their beating and humiliation. After entrapping Divya, they sexually molest her to such an extent that Divya attempts to kill herself. Unknown to Divya, she was the lover of Kapil a snake with magical powers, in a previous life. 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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

death | curse | beating | snake | interrupted rape | 

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Genres:

Action | Fantasy | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

16 August 2002 (India)

Also Known As:

Проклятие

Filming Locations:

Switzerland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shankar Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Akshay Kumar and Sunil Shetty paired again after the duo acted in several films like Hera Pheri (2000), Dhadkan (2002), Mohra (1994), Sapoot (1994).

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Goofs

When Vijay falls from the building, it is shown Vasundhara's spirit comes out of him, but then shows Kapil, before showing Vasundhara.

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Connections

References Face/Off (1997)

User Reviews

Wow ! They really tried hard to make the Worst movie in the Universe ...

It seems that with this movie they wanted to get a Nobel Prize for being the pioneers of Worst Movie Making. A legendary low for Bollywood. I cannot believe they released this junk. It may sound paranoid but it seems this movie was deliberately thrust upon the masses to get some sort of psychological reaction and/or publicity.

I cannot realise a script worse than this! Thumbs up to the director for this accomplishment. Anything worse than this cannot have even come in the domains of intelligible or comprehensible visual entertainment.

Originality has been completely compromised with all exhibition and clear intentions. Climax idea taken from Terminator 2 - Judgement Day etc. I have no further civilised words to continue my review ...