Karan Arjun (1995) Reviews

• One of the best of 90s

  chetan_r4112010-05-11

  I still remember the first time I watched this movie back in 1995. I was almost hypnotized during the movie. Dialogues like "Mamta Ka Karz" and "Inteqam Ki Aag" may sound cheesy in today's time, but these were pretty common those days and who better than Shahrukh and Salman to mouth those lines. Salman did his tough guy role with élan. Shahrukh though physically unsuitable to play that kind of role didn't do bad either. Kajol may be remembered as an actress of substance today but this movie showed her and Mamta Kulkarni, both as mere showpieces, a trait of 90s. Amrish Puri did another of those evil Thakur kind of roles, that he could even played in his sleep. However the soul of the movie is Rakhi Gulzar, every time she mouthed that unforgettable "Mere Bete Aayenge, Mere Karan Arjun Aayenge" line, I used to find myself almost in tears. Music was average, but "Jaati Hun Main, Jaldi Hai Kya" became a chart-buster and was like Kajol's own "Dhak Dhak".Not to forget "Mujhko Ranaji Maaf Karna", which was one of the most talked about songs after "Choli Ke Peeche". Bravura performances, hit songs, high emotional melodrama and above all Rakhi's spirited performance made this movie a cult. Not to miss if you have been bored of NRI characters roaming in Mercedes and dancing in exotic locales and want to see some real Bollywood extravaganza.

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• Salman Khan's best film

  springsunnywinter2007-07-26

  Salman Khan's acting and films used to be good in the early 90's but not nowadays. I like a lot of Shah Rukh Khan's films so that is why I can say Karan Arjun is Salman's best film and not Shah Rukh's. I really liked the idea of the story about a mother's two sons killed and she prayed to faithfully ask for the return of her sons. A miracle takes place and they are both born again. The film was so heartfelt & emotional about relationships. The best scenes throughout the whole movie are when Salman was fighting for money to cure his father. Every actor was terrific in their own place but not Kajol she was a complete show-off and just can not act (sorry Kajol fans!). Mamta Kulkarni was also good for her small role also she is beautiful & cute, I really do like her but sadly she doe's not appear anymore. Directed by one of my most favourite directors Rakesh Roshan, his films always took Bollywood to a new level e.g. Koi Mil Gaya was the first Indian sci-fi & Krrish is the first superhero movie. Overall Karan Arjun is a very unforgettable film and I just recently bought it on DVD.

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• Reincarnation, Bollywood music and getting the bad guys

  michaelmeigs2005-07-03

  This 1995 drama has a little of everything, thoroughly mixed together. The familiar leading man Shakrukh Kahn is paired with Salman Khan as a pair of brothers done in early in the film by the ever deliciously evil Amrish Puri, to keep them from their unsuspected inheritance. Their devastated mother, played by the long-suffering and then fiercely vindictive Rakhee, prays to the goddess Kali for the return of her sons. Temple bells sway, the camera gives a closeup of a the goddess figure, and reincarnation is underway. The plot is a garish comic book, of course, in which the bad guys strut, bluster, and can't shoot straight even with the latest smuggled machine guns. Shakrukh Khan in his new avatar as a raffish stableboy is a crack shot with a sling shot; Salman Khan is a muscled bare knuckle fighter. They are briefly pitched against one another when Shakrukh breaks into the gangster wedding where his beloved (Kajol, as cute as always but more mannerisms than acting here) is about to be pledged to the bad guy's affected son (just back from London with brilliantined hair & moustache and the catchphrase in English, "It's a joke!"). Salman Khan, his unrecognized reincarnated brother, is a hired heavy for the gangsters. . . after they have trashed the bar, each other and many of the tables, throwing one another around, cue the lightning flash and dizzying flashbacks to stop the fight. Shakrukh flees, Salman is arrested, and Kajol is still helpless in the grip of the bad guys. The Khans did much better, slicker pictures later in their careers. This one is amusing for posturing that recalls Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns but never bothers to keep consistency of tone. Salman with his handsome and often sullen look is more convincing than Shakruh, who is alternately too boyish and too grief stricken. But the best of show is the classic bad guy, Amrish Puri, bullet headed, pop eyed and fierce, a villain epic enough to make you believe that he would assassinate his associates but then howl like an animal in the dust when vengeance touches his own family. Music and dance is familiar Bollywood; my favorite number was that one done in Kali's temple, silhouetted in the dark as the boys appear and then disappear before a baffled Amrish Puri. A trifle, but a lot of fun!

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• No brains required, just sit back and enjoy.

  raymond-152002-05-20

  Two Hindu brothers Karan and Arjun lie dying after being attacked by bandits. Clasping each others hands they are quickly despatched by a final thrust of a sabre. I don't know how many bloodied bodies we see in the ensuing scenes. There must be 100 or more. If you like action and lots of blood, this movie is for you. The boys' mother cannot accept the death of her two handsome sons so she prays in the temple for them to be restored to her. She is ridiculed by the perpetrators of the crime, but she continues to believe that with faith anything is possible. Judging by the antics in this film anything can happen. There is a lot of fighting with sword, gun and catapult. When it comes to fisticuffs, there seems to be no holds barred. Head-butting and kicking with the boot in any place that hurts. None of this is to be taken seriously. It's like reading the comics. It's goodness winning over evil. When the boys do in fact reappear in the village, there is great celebration. Fortunately we gain some relief from the fighting episodes ( far too long) when some rather elaborate song and dance sequences are introduced. The choreography is different. There is much thrusting of the pelvis and jerking of the neck muscles and the ensemble cast are most adept at these movements. The boys of course have come back to avenge their deaths and to kill the perpetrators who were so cruel to their mother. And the two pre-arranged marriages that precluded the boys from marrying their sweethearts are quickly overturned with a few extra gunshots.

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• Karan Arjun!!! The movie that tells the story of reincarnation

  gavin_coolhgr2007-11-24

  Durga Singh (Rakhee Gulzar) gets married into an Indian joint family and gives birth to two twin sons Karan Singh (Salman Khan) & Arjun Singh (Shahrukh Khan). Before dieing the land lord of the house wanted to give Durga and her two sons the house as a gift. But the land lord's brother Thakur Durjan Singh (Amrish Puri) had evil intentions and he decided to kill his brother and Durga's two sons Karan & Arjun. Later on, by the grace of mother Kali, Karan & Arjun was born again into different neighbor hood and they also found there love. Karan with Bindiya (Mamta Kulkarni) and Arjun with Seema (Kajol Mukurjee). However, they manage to reach up during a fight between the two and all the old memories began to flash back. And before you know it there were with there mother Durga again in order to take revenge from Durjan Singh for there death and mother's ruination.

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