Aarzoo

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Aarzoo
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Directed by Lawrence D'Souza
Story by Reema Rakesh Nath
Produced byVikas Mohan
Starring Akshay Kumar
Madhuri Dixit
Saif Ali Khan
Paresh Rawal
Amrish Puri
CinematographyLawrence D'Souza
Edited byR Rajendran
Music bySongs:
Anu Malik
Background Score:
Surinder Sodhi
Release date
  • 19 March 1999 (1999-03-19)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹ 5 crore
Box office₹ 9 crore

Aarzoo (transl. Desire) is a 1999 Indian Hindi romantic action film directed by Lawrence D'Souza stars Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Saif Ali Khan, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal and Reema Lagoo. The film was primarily filmed in Mumbai, but some scenes were filmed in London and Edinburgh. The film was remade in Bengali Bangladesh as O Priya Tumi Kothay (2002).

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Plot

Dayashankar (Amrish Puri) is a wealthy NRI living in London with his wife Parvati and daughter Pooja (Madhuri Dixit), who is the apple of his eye. Dayashankar also takes care of his deceased best friend's son Amar (Saif Ali Khan), who he regards as a surrogate son, and has always wished that he eventually marry Pooja. Studying in Edinburgh, Amar is overjoyed when he is invited to stay with Dayashankar's family in London. He eagerly prepares for his meeting with Pooja, with whom he has shared his childhood, and plans to ask her father for her hand in marriage as soon as possible.

However, Pooja has other plans – she has fallen in love with Vijay (Akshay Kumar), a pilot and plans to marry him. This bitterly disappoints Dayashankar, as he has already tacitly promised Amar that he would marry Pooja. After some convincing from Parvati and Amar, who has decided to give up on marrying Pooja, Dayashankar agrees to his daughter's wishes. Though heartbroken, Amar puts on a brave face during Vijay and Pooja's engagement and subsequent marriage.

However, tragedy strikes soon afterward as Vijay is declared dead in an aviation accident. Consequently, Pooja becomes a widow and becomes severely depressed; to make matters worse, she finds out she is pregnant with Vijay's child. Her father tells her to abort the child with the fear of society looking down upon their family and claims they will call her son a "bastard". Amar then tells Pooja he will take the responsibility to marry her and give the child his name. Amar willingly accepts this marriage and takes on the role of father to Pooja's baby boy. When Pooja realises that Amar has always loved her, she begins to reciprocate his feelings.

In a twist of fate, after a few years the police reveal that Vijay is very much alive, and after his recovery he goes back to the UK to reclaim Pooja. Pooja is overjoyed to see him, but when Vijay sees that Pooja is happily married to Amar, he misunderstands the situation and believes societal rumours about Amar – that he had planned Vijay's aviation accident so that he could marry Pooja. Vijay becomes so hostile towards Amar that he gangs up with Kailashnath, an old enemy of Amar's father who had killed him, and sets out for revenge by setting fire to Amar's factories and kidnapping Pooja's son, not knowing that the boy is his own son. Even though Pooja attempts to explain that she married Amar in order to give her child a father figure, Vijay continues to believe in the rumours about Amar. Dayashankar reveals that he plotted the murder of Vijay to Pooja and Amar who are extremely shocked.

Vijay, Dayashankar, and Amar cook up a plan to retrieve Vijay's son from Kailashnath. When they all finally get near Kailashnath and his gang, Kailashnath shoots Amar multiple times, but Amar uses his body as a shield to protect the child whereupon Dayashankar intervenes to shoot Kailashnath to death. Amar slowly passes away, surrounded by a sobbing Pooja, a regretful Vijay, their rescued son, and a saddened Dayashankar. Pooja and Vijay reconcile and honour Amar after his death.

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Soundtrack

Aarzoo
Soundtrack album by
Anu Malik
Released10 December 1998
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Saregama

The music was composed by Anu Malik and lyrics were penned by Anand Bakshi.

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Ab Tere Dil Mein To" Anand Bakshi Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik 8:20
2."Sajan Sajan Teri Dulhan"Anand Bakshi Alka Yagnik 7:20
3."Mil Jaate Hain"Anand BakshiKumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik7:13
4."Main Aa Rahan Hoon Wapas"Anand Bakshi Udit Narayan 6:27
5."Rabba Rabba I Love You"Anand Bakshi Sonu Nigam 6:26
6."Jai Mata Di"Anand BakshiSonu Nigam8:46
7."Dosti Karte Nahin"Anand BakshiKumar Sanu, Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik6:43
8."Tu Soni Kudi"Anand BakshiUdit Narayan & Anu Malik 6:21

Reception

K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote that "The attraction in this movie is definitely the stars, exotic scenery and the songs, not the story". [1]

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References

  1. ↑ Vijiyan, K. N. (29 March 1999). "See this movie for the stars, songs and scenery". New Straits Times . p. 3.
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