Deewane

Deewane
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Directed byHarry Baweja
Written byAnees Bazmee
Screenplay byKaran Razdan
Produced byParamjeet Baweja
StarringAjay Devgn
Urmila Matondkar
Mahima Chaudhry
Paresh Rawal
Gulshan Grover
Shivaji Satham
CinematographyYogesh Jani
Edited byKuldip Mehan
Music bySanjeev-Darshan
Production
company
Distributed byShemaroo Entertainment
Release date
  • 11 August 2000 (2000-08-11)
Running time
180 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget85 million[1]
Box office122.5 million[1]

Deewane is a 2000 Indian Hindi romantic action drama film that stars Ajay Devgn (in a double role), Urmila Matondkar and Mahima Chaudhary. After Bedardi and Kanoon, it was the third film Ajay and Urmila did together. The film was a semi hit at the box office.[2][3][4][5]

Plot

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Vishal (Ajay Devgn), is a very hard-working officer who takes care of his family. He loves Sapna (Urmila Matondkar). His uncle, Lekhraj (Paresh Rawal), is trying to kill Vishal because he is a criminal whom Vishal is trying to unveil but does not know it is his uncle whom he respects. Then a robbery happens and Arun (Ajay Devgn) is the robber who is the duplicate of Vishal. Then Vishal was telling the Commissioner (Shivaji Satham), about Arun and him being his duplicate when he is shot by Lehkraj's son because he is on his father's side. Then Vishal goes into a coma and then the Commissioner makes a scheme with Arun to portray him as Vishal in the world's eyes so criminals have a fear of Vishal. When the Commissioner is talking with Arun, Sapna comes and the Commissioner tells Arun to hide behind the one-way transparent mirror. When Sapna comes, Arun instantly falls in love at first sight. When she was seeing through the mirror she did not see Arun but he saw her. Then the Commissioner tells Vishal's family that Arun is Vishal. Arun's two friends, Pooja (Mahima Chaudhry) (who loves Arun but Arun does not love her back), and Okay (Johnny Lever). Pooja cries and adamantly asks the Commissioner to tell her the whereabouts of Arun. Time passes by and Vishal comes back from coma and Sapna is shocked and starts to hate Arun because of him not being Vishal and not telling her. Then as time passes, Arun keeps coming back because Vishal needs to be concentrating on his criminals and Sapna so he tells Arun to look after Sapna.

One day Sapna tells Arun that "she spent time with Arun" thinking that whom she is talking to is Vishal (but it is actually Arun she is talking to). She then starts to love Arun. Then Pooja finds out that Arun loves Sapna and Pooja is heartbroken. Sapna comes to Arun and asks him what she should do. He tells her that he does not deserve her but Vishal does.

Vishal's and Sapna's marriage is arranged and the Commissioner finds out that the uncle of Vishal is the one who is terrorizing the city and Vishal is informed by him. Then the uncle shoots Arun trying to shoot Vishal. His uncle and his son are arrested and Arun survives. Just as he is leaving, he is stopped by Vishal and is told why is he leaving without Sapna. It is then revealed that when Pooja was telling Arun that Sapna loves Arun, she was actually talking to Vishal. Then Vishal unites Arun and Sapna. In the end, Vishal goes his own way, and so does Pooja, telling that he will unite with Pooja.

Cast

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Cast Role(s) Note
Ajay Devgn Police Officer Vishal Singh/Arun Gupta Dual roles/Duplicate Twins
Urmila Matondkar Sapna Sharma Vishal's Love interest later to Arun
Mahima Chaudhry Pooja Bahl Love's Arun who do not notice her later to Vishal (also in special appearance)
Reema Lagoo Herself Vishal/Arun's mother
Shivaji Satham Mr. Amar Chouhan Police Commissioner
Paresh Rawal Lekhraj Vishal's Uncle and a notorious gangster
Johnny Lever Okey
Pramod Moutho Lekhraj's Brother Vishal's second uncle
Aasif Sheikh Lekhraj's Son Vishal's cousin
Gulshan Grover Himself Vishal's cousin
Neha Pendse Nimmo Sapna's sister
Raju Mavani Himself goon
Padmini Kapila Dhanwanti Sapna's mother
Tiku Talsania Himself Sapna's dad
Dinesh Hingoo Himself Drunken dancer on boat (uncredited)

Soundtrack

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According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 14,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's thirteenth highest-selling.[6] The track "Deewane" became the most popular one.[7]

# Title Singer(s) Length
1 "Deewane" Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik 05:14
2 "Churao Na Dil" Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan 06:35
3 "Ishq Da Gunjal" Sukhwinder Singh, Jaspinder Narula 06:17
4 "Ae Dil" Jaspinder Narula 05:56
5 "Qayamat" Sukhwinder Singh, Alka Yagnik 06:42
6 "Jogiya" Sukhwinder Singh, Anuradha Paudwal 05:20
7 "Ae Dil" Hariharan 05:49
8 "Sajna Ne Phool Marya" Sukhwinder Singh, Jaspinder Narula 06:36

Box office

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The film was released on 11 August 2000 at budget of (₹9 cr)

On opening day collection was (₹0.70 cr) and first weekend collection was (₹2.09 cr). First week collection was (₹7 cr) and life time taking were (₹12 cr). India boxoffice nett gross collection was (₹6.95 cr) India boxoffice gross collection was (₹9.65 cr). Total netgross collection was (₹1,53,50,000) and film was considered as Flop at Box Office India.

Overseas

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Territory Territory wise collection
Overseas (Opening weekend)
US$0.06
(Gross)
US$0.58 cr
(Total)
US$0.13
International (first weekend)
US$26,400
(Total)
US$45,000
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
IMDb7/10

It was 30th-highest-grossing film of 2000.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Deewane Movie – Box Office India".
  2. ^ "Deewane Review 2.5/5 | Deewane Movie Review | Deewane 2000 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama. 11 August 2000.
  3. ^ "Deewane review – rediff.com".
  4. ^ "Deewane – movie review by Narbir Gosal – Planet Bollywood".
  5. ^ "Deewane (Hindi) Movie Review – fullhyd.com".
  6. ^ "Music Hits 2000–2009 (Figures in Units)". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Planet-Bollywood – Music Reviews".
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