| 1 | '''Karan Arjun''' |
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| 4 | 1995 175’ col/scope Hindi |
| 5 | d/p Rakesh Roshan pc Film Kraft st/sc Sachin |
| 6 | Bhowmick, Ravi Kapoor dial Anwar Khan |
| 7 | lyr Indivar c Kaka Thakur m Rajesh Roshan |
| 8 | lp Raakhee, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, |
| 9 | Kajol, Mamta Kulkarni, Amrish Puri, Ranjeet, |
| 10 | Ashok Saraf, Johnny Lever |
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| 12 | |
| 13 | The Hindi hit of 1995 is a remarkably scripted |
| 14 | drama combining at least four genres: a Kali |
| 15 | mythological, a reincarnation drama, a |
| 16 | modernisation melodrama and a Sholay (1975) |
| 17 | kind of Western. At some time in the past in |
| 18 | Rajasthan, shown before the credit titles, Karan |
| 19 | (Salman Khan) and Arjun (Shah Rukh Khan), |
| 20 | the sons of Durga (Raakhee), are killed by the |
| 21 | evil Durjan Singh (Puri). Durjan Singh had |
| 22 | earlier killed their father and grandfather and |
| 23 | appropriated the family’s ancestral property. |
| 24 | However, Kali responds to Durga’s pleas and |
| 25 | the dead sons are reborn as the streetfighter |
| 26 | Ajay and the stable boy Vijay. The plot |
| 27 | becomes complicated when a ‘modernised’ |
| 28 | Durjan Singh, his villainy intact, becomes an |
| 29 | arms smuggler in partnership with Mr Saxena |
| 30 | (Ranjeet), whose daughter Sonia (Kajol) loves |
| 31 | Vijay although she is supposed to marry Durjan |
| 32 | Singh’s equally villainous son, Suraj. However, |
| 33 | troubled as well as invigorated by memory |
| 34 | flashes stemming from their earlier |
| 35 | incarnations, Ajay and Vijay in the end unite |
| 36 | with their mother to defeat the evil gang. The |
| 37 | film had a series of hit songs, e.g. Yeh janmon |
| 38 | ka bandhan hai (its leitmotif spanning the |
| 39 | generational divide) and Jaati hun main/Jaldi |
| 40 | hai kya, picturised on Kajol and Shah Rukh |
| 41 | Khan. |
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| 43 | [[Film]] |