Ab Ke Baras

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Ab Ke Baras
Ab Ke Baras Movie Poster.jpg
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Directed by Raj Kanwar
Written byRavi Rai (dialogues)
Screenplay by Robin Bhatt
Sutanu Gupta
Starring Arya Babbar
Amrita Rao
CinematographyIshwar Bidri
Edited byKuldip Mehan
Music by Anu Malik
Production
company
Inderjit Films Combines
Release date
  • 10 May 2002 (2002-05-10)
Running time
169 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Ab Ke Baras (transl. This Year) is a 2002 Indian Hindi language action romance film. It had launched the career of the two newcomers, Amrita Rao and Arya Babbar.

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Plot

U.S.-based Anjali Thapar has repeated dreams of a parallel life in India: the temple of Devi Maa Durga, some sword-wielding men on horseback. She and her mother consult a pandit, and he advises them to go to India to clear this matter up, as this pertains to her past life.

Mr. Thapar will only let Anjali go there after she marries the man of his choice, so Anjali decides to run away. Her dad alerts her uncle, a ruthless CBI officer, DCP Sikander Baksh, who is soon on her case. Anjali meets with car thieves Karan and his uncle, and then begins her journey into a past life as Nandini, the lover of freedom fighter Abhay, and his subsequent death at the hands of British-aided traitor Tejeshwar Singhal.

But both Karan and Anjali are unaware of the consequences. They both reach a college camp as husband and wife, where college girls and professors give them new clothes and treat them lovingly. They both run away from the camp in the morning and come across a gang leader, Rudra Singh, whom Anjali remembers as the leader of goons attacking her at the old hotel. He, along with his cronies, takes the duo hostage and threatens them to reveal the location of his car, as it has illegal arms worth 50 million. Anjali takes the robbers far into the forest and orders Karan to run from there. But Karan refuses and starts running, dragging Anjali along. Then the goons attack them both; Karan is gravely injured and left to die near the river bank. He unfortunately falls into the river due to taking a bullet in his shoulder.

Anjali is taken to a large villa, and Rudra Singh leaves her alone inside a large room after slapping her angrily. Anjali shouts, saying Karan is alive and will come back. Rudra Singh leaves for fetching his nephew Rajvir. It is revealed that Karan is found by an old doctor who knows Tejeshwar of old and describes his brutality as a British police officer who killed innocent protestors.

Anjali meanwhile comes across Singhal's portrait and starts thinking of an escape route. She happily declares Tejeshwar will be finished soon. She stands in a corner for some time, lost in her own thoughts. Here, Tejeshwar is delivering a speech while canvassing for the upcoming elections with his sons and an assistant. Soon, the canvassing ends and Rajvir reaches the villa with his goons, who lead him to the hostage, Anjali. She threatens him to let go of her. She denies knowing anything when Rajvir asks her about their goods. Impressed with the beautiful and fiery teenage girl, Rajvir chides his uncle and their goons, apologizing to Anjali for their rude behavior. He asks them all to leave. Forwarding his hand, he introduces himself, and Anjali reciprocates. Rajvir kisses her knuckles, and Anjali asks him about the man in the portrait. Rajvir tells her about his father, and she expresses her desire to meet him. Rajvir agrees, and they attend the evening birthday celebration in Tejeshwar's honor.

Anjali is delighted to see Karan alive over there after being fetched by her uncle, and they start planning Tejeshwar's downfall. Rajvir falls in love with Anjali, and Bmw i.e., Shakti Kapoor, comes there as Anjali's father. He brags about his wealth, and Tejeshwar happily agrees for the alliance. The very same night, Anjali cleverly extracts the hidden safe information from Rajvir about their black money. But Rajvir tries to kill her after catching her red-handed. While he attacks her with broken wine bottles, Karan saves her by killing Rajvir in the nick of time. Then Rajvir's uncle is accused of killing him and abandoned by the family members mourning their son.

Later, Tejeshwar's illegal consignments are destroyed. When he abducts Anjali and Bmw while trying to flee India, Karan and the police attack his helicopter in a second defence helicopter. Rescuing Anjali, the police gun down Tejeshwar and his older son. Sikandar Baksh proudly produces a freedom order for Karan. As Karan and Anjali stare at him surprised, he bounds their hands with the same chain handcuff, this uniting the duo for ever.

Cast

Soundtrack

Ab Ke Baras
Soundtrack album by
Anu Malik
Released16 March 2002
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label T-Series

Music composer is Anu Malik. The song "Aya Mahi Aya" was quite popular.

No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Deewane Aate Jaate"Sameer Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Kunal Ganjawala  
2."Main Pyaar Mein Hoon"Sameer Anuradha Paudwal, Shaan  
3."Saari Umar Main Rahun"Sameer Sonu Nigam  
4."Aaya Mahi"Sameer Sukhwinder Singh, Richa Sharma, Sunidhi Chauhan  
5."Mujhe Rab Se Pyaar"Sameer Adnan Sami, Anuradha Sriram  
6."Hoga Hoga"Sameer Sonu Nigam, Preeti & Pinky  
7."Pyaar Mohabbat"Sameer Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal  
8."Aawara Dil (Club Mix)"SameerSonu Nigam, Anuradha Paudwal  
9."Pyaar Mohabbat (sad)"SameerSonu Nigam, Anuradha Paudwal  

Critical reception

Priyanka Bhattacharya of Rediff.com wrote ″Director Raj Kanwar uses the tried-and-tested reincarnation formula. But he seems to lose focus somewhere along the film. So in spite of a decent beginning, the film gets hopelessly melodramatic and irksome post interval.″ [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article". www.tribuneindia.com.
  2. ↑ "rediff.com: Movies: The Rediff Review: Ab Ke Baras". www.rediff.com.
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