Aaghaaz
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Directed by | Yogesh Ishwar |
Produced by | Dr. D. Ramanaidu |
Screenplay by | Nikhil Saini |
Starring | Sunil Shetty Sushmita Sen Namrata Shirodkar |
Music by | Anu Malik |
Cinematography | Shyam K. Naidu |
Edited by | K. V. Krishna Reddy |
Distributed by | Suresh Productions |
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Running time
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160 mins |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Aaghaaz (Hindi: आगाज़; Translated: Start) is a 2000 Indian Bollywood mobster action film directed by Yogesh Ishwar. It is the remake of a Telugu movie "Shivaiah", which was also produced by D. Suresh Babu.
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Plot summary
The film is the story of Govind Narang (Sunil Shetty), an honest and chivalrous man from a small village in Punjab. He falls in love with Sudha (Sushmita Sen), but marries Masterji's daughter, Pushpa (Suman Ranganathan), to save her from public ridicule. Pushpa was impregnated by a police officer who refuses to marry her. She does not love Govind and hates Sudha with a passion. Together with her brother, Laxman (Sharad Kapoor), Pushpa tries to expel Sudha from the village, but is unsuccessful. When Laxman finds out about Pushpa's infidelity, he poisons her. After his wife's death, Govind relocates to Mumbai with his sister, Ratna (Shraddha Nigam). He meets beautiful Gitika (Namrata Shirodkar) and they fall in love. One day, as Govind defends the honor of a young girl from the brother of a hoodlum, Johnny Handsome (Sharat Saxena), he generates hatred and animosity. Johnny is humiliated by Govind and swears vengeance with the help of Sadanand Kutty (Gulshan Grover) and Karim Khan Toofani (Govind Namdeo). On the other hand, Govind befriends Ram Sevak (Alok Nath), and with his help and assistance of a landowner arranges the purchase of a large plot of land so that hawkers and small shop-owners could set up their businesses. But nothing goes according to plan. The plot of land and the owner turn out to be fake, Ram Sevak turns out to be in hand with the gangsters, and Govind gets all the blame; His sister is openly raped, and Govind himself gets seriously wounded, in broad daylight before the very eyes of the people he defended. Govind is then helped by Sudha, and he decides to teach everyone a lesson. He files an FIR against everyone in the neighbourhood who witnessed what happened to his sister except the culprits themseleves. When they are brought to court, he condemns everyone for their attitude, and then tells them to be brave and fight goondaism. Encouraged by this, the entire neighborhood decides to take on the gang. They attack the gangsters with bottles when they come to threaten them in the locality, and then move on to Johnny handsome's office, breaking everything and attacking all the goons. In join Govind and Sudha to attack the gangsters and arrest them. The criminals are sentenced and everything returns to normal. In the end, though on a happy note, Govind's sister marries a close friend of the family, and Govind agrees to marry Sudha.
Cast
- Sunil Shetty as Govind Narang
- Sushmita Sen as Sudha
- Namrata Shirodkar as Gitika
- Suman Ranganathan as Pushpa, Govind's Wife
- Shraddha Nigam as Ratna
- Akshay Anand as Harish Patel
- Sharat Saxena as Johnny Handsome Mendoza, the main antagonist
- Asrani as Gullu, Gay
- Rakesh Bedi as Dilip Roy
- Sudhir Dalvi as Pushpa's Father
- Gulshan Grover as Sadanand Kutty
- Sharad Kapoor as Laxman
- Anupam Kher as Balraj Nanda
- Viju Khote as Deshpande
- Johnny Lever as Rajni Deva
- Govind Namdeo as Karim Khan Toofani
- Alok Nath as Ram Charan Shukla
- Yunus Parvez as Dheerajlal
- Achyut Potdar as The Judge
- Rajesh Puri as Professor Pillai
- Shiva Rindani as Suku
- Asha Sachdev as Woman Summoned at Court
- Anjan Srivastav as The Ordinary Man
- Mukesh Tiwari as Danny Mendoza, Johnny's younger brother
- Manoj Joshi (actor) as assistant of Danny Mendoza, Johnny's younger brother
- Rajnikanth as Himself, in a scene from a movie
- Padmini Kapila as Mrs. Balraj Nanda
Soundtrack
All lyrics written by Sameer, all music composed by Anu Malik.
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No. | Title | Playback | Length |
1. | "Aaghaaz Karo" | Babul Supriyo, Alka Yagnik | |
2. | "Dil Dil Dil" (Female) | Hema Sardesai | |
3. | "Dil Dil Dil" (Male) | Sonu Nigam | |
4. | "Dil Ko Patthar" | Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik | |
5. | "Dosti Ho Gayi" | Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan | |
6. | "Man Tera Mera Man" | Babul Supriyo, Alka Yagnik | |
7. | "Nau Nau Lakha" | Hema Sardesai, Sunidhi Chauhan |
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- 2000s Hindi-language films
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- 2000s crime drama films
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- Film scores by Anu Malik
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