Rajkumar Kohli bringing together a huge star cast is very attracting though sometimes we question whether it's a complete waste of a star cast (JAANI DUSHMAN: EK ANOKHI KAHANI)or one of those average multi-starer movies that turns out to be good (NAGIN, JAANI DUSHMAN)
The film is just a copy of BAGHAVAT ('82) and DHARAM VEER ('77) both starring Dharmendra. IRONIC!!!
Pran has a son - Sunil Dutt. Ajit has a son - Raj Kiran. Rajmata (dont know the actress's name) has a son Kamal Hassan
Ajit and Madan Puri are the bad guys so they launch an attack on the palace. Raaj Kumar, Raza Murad and Pran do their best to save the prince aka Kamal Hassan. The sword fight is so fake and stupid in this scene but is better later
Rajmata believes her son to be dead so Pran gives his son Sunil Dutt to her. But uh-oh. Ajit swaps Sunil Dutt with Raj Kiran while Ajit goes onto adopt Sunil Dutt. Meanwhile Kamal Hassan is revealed to be alive and is adopted by Om Prakash and Raaj Kumar is portrayed as a bad guy/villain by Ajit
MANY YEARS LATER ...
Sunil Dutt has grown up to be a dashing Rajput who is continually mistreated by his supposed father Ajit. He has a sister Hema Malini who was probably born after the baby swap
Raj Kiran is the Prince and is the bad guy who is about to get married to Reena Roy but dun-dun-dun who does she fall in love with - Kamal Hassan!
Kamal has grown up to be a gypsy whom Sarika likes but he likes Reena Roy so LOVE TRIANGLE!
Dharmendra and Rajeev Anand are the sons of Pran who were born after the baby swap. Rajeev Anand likes Ranjeeta Kaur but she likes Sunil Dutt so 1 MORE LOVE TRIANGLE meanwhile Dharmendra gives his heart to Hema Malini
Raaj Kumar is the guy who runs some kind of sword-fighting / martial arts club in some abandoned cave. He has trained Kamal Hassan, finishes training Sunil Dutt and is about to train Dharmendra in whatever he teaches
I won't reveal the rest of the story because apparently the more engrossing the movie starts, the more lazy and boring it becomes. However it is kind of fun seeing Raaj Kumar, Kamal Hassan, Dharmendra and Sunil Dutt together
PERFORMANCES
Sunil Dutt- average but too old to be the leading man. At age 54 he tries to play some 30-35 guy. His age isn't that much visible and his role is basically an extension of Lakhan from JAANI DUSHMAN ('79)
Dharmendra- don't understand what he was doing and I don't think the movie would have much too much difference if he wasn't in the movie. However he is passable
Hema Malini- though she is 35/36 in this movie, she still looks kinda young. This movie is kinda like evidence that even at age 36, she can still live up to her Dream Girl status. Her role is like Dharmendra's and mainly appears to give brother-sister advice to Sunil Dutt or talk romantically to Dharmendra
Reena Roy- not given as much scope as she deserved. Due to the million sub plots and plots the movie tries to force in, she doesn't manage to do anything that remarkable. However she's beautiful and gives her best in all the scenes she gets
Kamal Hassan- manages to give 1 or 2 funny moments but because his character has been copied from Bhagawat ('82) he cannot impress the audience as he could have done. He is almost lost in the 2nd half which gives more scope to Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt and Raaj Kumar. Kamal was relatively new to Bollywood that time so I don't blame him being overshadowed by anyone
Ranjeeta- don't really like her as she isn't mass-appealing. Her role is small so I guess Rajkumar Kohli would just have to pick a low-key actress. She's is tolerable
Sarika- her character is copied from Bhagawat ('82) and in this movie, you will notice she has been sort of portrayed as a sex siren with her ridiculously small clothes which of course, didn't worked. As expected, she dies
Ajit- always a good character actor and shines with every role given
Pran- plays a role he has played in DHARAM VEER
Raj Kiran- intolerable. Watch the movie and you will realise it looks like he's saying the same dialogue over and over again
Raaj Kumar- you can easily tell he was born to play this role
Watch this if you like multi-starer movies (who doesn't) but the movie is enjoyable if you don't get confused who is whose son
The last song "Aagye Aagye" is great fun
The film is just a copy of BAGHAVAT ('82) and DHARAM VEER ('77) both starring Dharmendra. IRONIC!!!
Pran has a son - Sunil Dutt. Ajit has a son - Raj Kiran. Rajmata (dont know the actress's name) has a son Kamal Hassan
Ajit and Madan Puri are the bad guys so they launch an attack on the palace. Raaj Kumar, Raza Murad and Pran do their best to save the prince aka Kamal Hassan. The sword fight is so fake and stupid in this scene but is better later
Rajmata believes her son to be dead so Pran gives his son Sunil Dutt to her. But uh-oh. Ajit swaps Sunil Dutt with Raj Kiran while Ajit goes onto adopt Sunil Dutt. Meanwhile Kamal Hassan is revealed to be alive and is adopted by Om Prakash and Raaj Kumar is portrayed as a bad guy/villain by Ajit
MANY YEARS LATER ...
Sunil Dutt has grown up to be a dashing Rajput who is continually mistreated by his supposed father Ajit. He has a sister Hema Malini who was probably born after the baby swap
Raj Kiran is the Prince and is the bad guy who is about to get married to Reena Roy but dun-dun-dun who does she fall in love with - Kamal Hassan!
Kamal has grown up to be a gypsy whom Sarika likes but he likes Reena Roy so LOVE TRIANGLE!
Dharmendra and Rajeev Anand are the sons of Pran who were born after the baby swap. Rajeev Anand likes Ranjeeta Kaur but she likes Sunil Dutt so 1 MORE LOVE TRIANGLE meanwhile Dharmendra gives his heart to Hema Malini
Raaj Kumar is the guy who runs some kind of sword-fighting / martial arts club in some abandoned cave. He has trained Kamal Hassan, finishes training Sunil Dutt and is about to train Dharmendra in whatever he teaches
I won't reveal the rest of the story because apparently the more engrossing the movie starts, the more lazy and boring it becomes. However it is kind of fun seeing Raaj Kumar, Kamal Hassan, Dharmendra and Sunil Dutt together
PERFORMANCES
Sunil Dutt- average but too old to be the leading man. At age 54 he tries to play some 30-35 guy. His age isn't that much visible and his role is basically an extension of Lakhan from JAANI DUSHMAN ('79)
Dharmendra- don't understand what he was doing and I don't think the movie would have much too much difference if he wasn't in the movie. However he is passable
Hema Malini- though she is 35/36 in this movie, she still looks kinda young. This movie is kinda like evidence that even at age 36, she can still live up to her Dream Girl status. Her role is like Dharmendra's and mainly appears to give brother-sister advice to Sunil Dutt or talk romantically to Dharmendra
Reena Roy- not given as much scope as she deserved. Due to the million sub plots and plots the movie tries to force in, she doesn't manage to do anything that remarkable. However she's beautiful and gives her best in all the scenes she gets
Kamal Hassan- manages to give 1 or 2 funny moments but because his character has been copied from Bhagawat ('82) he cannot impress the audience as he could have done. He is almost lost in the 2nd half which gives more scope to Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt and Raaj Kumar. Kamal was relatively new to Bollywood that time so I don't blame him being overshadowed by anyone
Ranjeeta- don't really like her as she isn't mass-appealing. Her role is small so I guess Rajkumar Kohli would just have to pick a low-key actress. She's is tolerable
Sarika- her character is copied from Bhagawat ('82) and in this movie, you will notice she has been sort of portrayed as a sex siren with her ridiculously small clothes which of course, didn't worked. As expected, she dies
Ajit- always a good character actor and shines with every role given
Pran- plays a role he has played in DHARAM VEER
Raj Kiran- intolerable. Watch the movie and you will realise it looks like he's saying the same dialogue over and over again
Raaj Kumar- you can easily tell he was born to play this role
Watch this if you like multi-starer movies (who doesn't) but the movie is enjoyable if you don't get confused who is whose son
The last song "Aagye Aagye" is great fun