Shikari (2000 film)
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Shikari is 2000 Hindi
movie directed by N. Chandra
and starring Govinda
, Karishma Kapoor, Tabu
, Kiran Kumar
.
Other cast include Paresh Rawal
, Gulshan Grover
, Johnny Lever
, Sushma Seth
, Shweta Menon
, Nirmal Pandey, Raja Jung Bahadur.
), a business tycoon in South Africa, dies under mysterious circumstances. A stranger named Om Srivastav(Govinda
) enters the scene. As Om becomes a pillar for Virendra's grieving family, Virendra's sister Rajeshwari(Karishma Kapoor) falls for him. Virendra's widow Suman(Tabu
), however, does not like this blossoming reletionship a bit. Rajeshwari attributes this to the not so perfect relationship of her sister-in-law & her late brother, but some truths are more unappealing that expected.
) is a business tycoon in Cape Town, South Africa. His sister Rajeshwari(Karishma Kapoor), his mother(Sushma Seth
) & his wife Suman(Tabu
) are his only relatives. Although Suman is his wife, Virendra has not even touched her since their marriage. Virendra's perfectly shaped business world is shattered by the entry of Mahendra Pratap Singh.
Virendra learns that Mahendra is an Indian spice tycoon, who has come to South Africa to expand his business. Unknown to him, Mahendra is actually Om Srivastav(Govinda
), a ghost from the past, in disguise. Virendra is initially wary of Mahendra's expansion plans, but sees the latter's entry as a tool to expand his own business. Mahendra & Virendra strike a deal.
Mahendra invites Virendra to a house in the forest to celebrate the deal. There, Mahendra reveals his true face. Virendra recognizes him & Om kills him brutally. Whole Rawal family gets a brutal shock by his death. At the same time, Om makes an entry as Om Srivastav. Om explains that he had met Virendra in India, whereupon the latter had extended a hand of friendship in case Om wanted to start his business in Africa.
Though Om appears benign, Rajeshwari does not like him a bit. She finds his timing suspicious. Suman too is particularly unhappy on seeing Om. Suman reveals to her mother-in-law that she knows Om. She confesses that she & Om were in love with each other, but as both her & Om's families were poor, her father did not accept this. Instead, she was married to Virendra, the son of her father's old friend, hoping that Virendra would keep her happy. Suman tells that she had told Virendra about the relationship, on which he told her to go with Om.
But Suman did not go with Om. Instead, she stayed with Virendra, being overwhelmed by his compassion. However, Virendra now thought that Suman deserted Om just for money & developed hatred towards her. This explains Virendra's behaviour towards her. Meanwhile, Rajeshwari goes on hunting clues against Om & even finds that Om may be Mahendra. However, Om cleans his traces pretty nicely.
Rajeshwari succeeds in finding some clues nevertheless. She brings in the police, but Om succeeds in proving his innocence yet again. This time, however, he appears hurt by Rajeshwari's distrust in him. Rajeshwari thinks that Om may not be the killer & she has inadvertently hurt the wrong man. She goes to apologize, but finds many pictures of her at his apartment. Rajeshwari thinks that Om was hurt because he was secretly in love with her.
Rajeshwari asks for apology & Om plays along after discovering her misunderstanding. Suman becomes both jealous & uneasy of this new relationship. She & Rajeshwari have a fight, where the latter hits her way below the belt. In rage, Suman proceeds to slap her, but refrains. Rajeshwari leaves home & goes to Om. On learning what happened, Om slaps her instead saying that this is the slap which Suman should have given her.
As a shocked Rajeshwari listens, an angered Om goes on to tell her the story of his relationship with Suman. He also confesses to the murder of Virendra. Before Rajeshwari can do anything, he throws her in a dry well & escapes in his car. Here, Suman learns that Rajeshwari is missing & tries to find her at Om's place. Om feigns ignorance saying that she never came to him. Together, the duo start to search for her, while actually Om is leading Suman away from the place where he left Rajeshwari to die.
Rajeshwari is in the bottom of the well, but not dead. She screams for help, until Zafrani(Johnny Lever
) comes to that place. On hearing the screams, he peeks down the well & sees her. Rajeshwari is rescued & she darts back to find Om. Just as Om & Suman are heading towards a place to find her, Rajeshwari comes in front of their car.
Rajeshwari is fully convinced that her brother's murder was a murder pre-meditated by Om & Suman. She rebukes Suman, who happens to be ignorant of what is happening. Om realizes that his cover will not remain intact for long. He overpowers the duo & ties them by ropes. He confesses the crime before Suman, making Rajeshwari realize that Suman is in fact innocent.
But then Om tells of the real reason why he killed Virendra. Om reveals that Virendra was not exactly a kind man that Suman thought him to be. He secretly came with his goons, assaulted Om, killed his father & raped his sisters. His sisters committed suicide. Om came to South Africa to avenge this crime & not for Suman.
In the climax, Om has Rajeshwari & Suman tied down firmly & is ready to run them down by his car. But Zafrani arrives there with a police team. The women are rescued, but Om still goes with his car behind them. It is only when Om plunges in the valley with his car that they realize that Om was not going to kill them, but trying to commit suicide to avoid police, now that his work was done. The women return home distraught.
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
, who had given a benchmark blockbuster like Tezaab
. But it was panned by critics & audience alike. He went on to make films such as Style
and Xcuse Me
, but none of his films won the popularity & success of Tezaab.
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
movie directed by N. Chandra
N. Chandra
N. Chandra , born Chandrashekhar Narvekar, is an Indian producer, writer and director, known for his dark and loud films such as Ankush, Pratighaat, Tezaab and Narasimha, made as a film editor in the beginning of his career...
and starring Govinda
Govinda (actor)
Govinda is a Filmfare award-winning Indian actor and politician. He has appeared in over 120 Hindi language films. At the start of his career, his acting and dancing skills gained him widespread attention among film viewers. He later gained worldwide fame as a Bollywood icon through comedy films...
, Karishma Kapoor, Tabu
Tabu (actress)
Tabu is an Indian film actress. She has mainly acted in Hindi films, though she has also starred in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali language films, as well as one American film...
, Kiran Kumar
.
Other cast include Paresh Rawal
Paresh Rawal
Paresh Rawal is an Indian actor of Gujarati background.Making his film debut in 1984, he mainly played supporting and villain roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he has mostly played comic roles.- Family and early life :...
, Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover is an Indian actor, who has acted in over 400 films through a career spanning over 30 years.Gulshan Grover is one of the first Indian actors to have made a successful transition from Bollywood into Hollywood and international Cinema....
, Johnny Lever
Johnny Lever
John Prakasa Rao Janumala famously known as Johnny Lever is an Indian film actor and comedian. He was born to Prakash Rao Janumala and Karunamma Janumala and brought up in Mumbai. He started his career in 1984 and has acted in over 350 Bollywood films...
, Sushma Seth
Sushma Seth
Sushma Seth is an Indian film, television, and stage actress. She started her career in the late 1970s, and has been known for playing the mother and the grandmother in movies and television. She is most known as the role of Dadi in pioneering TV soap Hum Log . She is also a theatre actor and...
, Shweta Menon
Shweta Menon
Shweta Menon is an Indian model, film actress and television anchor. She has predominantly acted in Hindi and Malayalam language films, besides appearing in a number of Tamil productions....
, Nirmal Pandey, Raja Jung Bahadur.
Synopsis
Virendra Rawal(Nirmal PandeyNirmal Pandey
Nirmal Pandey was an Indian Bollywood actor, who was known for his role Vikram Mallah in Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen , for portrayal of a transvestite in Daayraa for which he won a Best Actor Valenti award in France, Train To Pakistan and Godmother .He was supposed to watch his latest film...
), a business tycoon in South Africa, dies under mysterious circumstances. A stranger named Om Srivastav(Govinda
Govinda
' and ' are names of Krishna, referring to his youthful occupation as a cowherd. He is regarded as the Supreme Godhead in the Vaishnava tradition and also by much of the pan-Hindu tradition...
) enters the scene. As Om becomes a pillar for Virendra's grieving family, Virendra's sister Rajeshwari(Karishma Kapoor) falls for him. Virendra's widow Suman(Tabu
Tabu
Tabu may refer to:*Tapu , a Polynesian cultural concept, from which the word taboo derives*Tabu , a 1931 award winning film*Tabu , Indian actress*Tabu Ley, Congolese musician...
), however, does not like this blossoming reletionship a bit. Rajeshwari attributes this to the not so perfect relationship of her sister-in-law & her late brother, but some truths are more unappealing that expected.
Plot
Virendra Singh Rawal(Nirmal PandeyNirmal Pandey
Nirmal Pandey was an Indian Bollywood actor, who was known for his role Vikram Mallah in Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen , for portrayal of a transvestite in Daayraa for which he won a Best Actor Valenti award in France, Train To Pakistan and Godmother .He was supposed to watch his latest film...
) is a business tycoon in Cape Town, South Africa. His sister Rajeshwari(Karishma Kapoor), his mother(Sushma Seth
Sushma Seth
Sushma Seth is an Indian film, television, and stage actress. She started her career in the late 1970s, and has been known for playing the mother and the grandmother in movies and television. She is most known as the role of Dadi in pioneering TV soap Hum Log . She is also a theatre actor and...
) & his wife Suman(Tabu
Tabu
Tabu may refer to:*Tapu , a Polynesian cultural concept, from which the word taboo derives*Tabu , a 1931 award winning film*Tabu , Indian actress*Tabu Ley, Congolese musician...
) are his only relatives. Although Suman is his wife, Virendra has not even touched her since their marriage. Virendra's perfectly shaped business world is shattered by the entry of Mahendra Pratap Singh.
Virendra learns that Mahendra is an Indian spice tycoon, who has come to South Africa to expand his business. Unknown to him, Mahendra is actually Om Srivastav(Govinda
Govinda
' and ' are names of Krishna, referring to his youthful occupation as a cowherd. He is regarded as the Supreme Godhead in the Vaishnava tradition and also by much of the pan-Hindu tradition...
), a ghost from the past, in disguise. Virendra is initially wary of Mahendra's expansion plans, but sees the latter's entry as a tool to expand his own business. Mahendra & Virendra strike a deal.
Mahendra invites Virendra to a house in the forest to celebrate the deal. There, Mahendra reveals his true face. Virendra recognizes him & Om kills him brutally. Whole Rawal family gets a brutal shock by his death. At the same time, Om makes an entry as Om Srivastav. Om explains that he had met Virendra in India, whereupon the latter had extended a hand of friendship in case Om wanted to start his business in Africa.
Though Om appears benign, Rajeshwari does not like him a bit. She finds his timing suspicious. Suman too is particularly unhappy on seeing Om. Suman reveals to her mother-in-law that she knows Om. She confesses that she & Om were in love with each other, but as both her & Om's families were poor, her father did not accept this. Instead, she was married to Virendra, the son of her father's old friend, hoping that Virendra would keep her happy. Suman tells that she had told Virendra about the relationship, on which he told her to go with Om.
But Suman did not go with Om. Instead, she stayed with Virendra, being overwhelmed by his compassion. However, Virendra now thought that Suman deserted Om just for money & developed hatred towards her. This explains Virendra's behaviour towards her. Meanwhile, Rajeshwari goes on hunting clues against Om & even finds that Om may be Mahendra. However, Om cleans his traces pretty nicely.
Rajeshwari succeeds in finding some clues nevertheless. She brings in the police, but Om succeeds in proving his innocence yet again. This time, however, he appears hurt by Rajeshwari's distrust in him. Rajeshwari thinks that Om may not be the killer & she has inadvertently hurt the wrong man. She goes to apologize, but finds many pictures of her at his apartment. Rajeshwari thinks that Om was hurt because he was secretly in love with her.
Rajeshwari asks for apology & Om plays along after discovering her misunderstanding. Suman becomes both jealous & uneasy of this new relationship. She & Rajeshwari have a fight, where the latter hits her way below the belt. In rage, Suman proceeds to slap her, but refrains. Rajeshwari leaves home & goes to Om. On learning what happened, Om slaps her instead saying that this is the slap which Suman should have given her.
As a shocked Rajeshwari listens, an angered Om goes on to tell her the story of his relationship with Suman. He also confesses to the murder of Virendra. Before Rajeshwari can do anything, he throws her in a dry well & escapes in his car. Here, Suman learns that Rajeshwari is missing & tries to find her at Om's place. Om feigns ignorance saying that she never came to him. Together, the duo start to search for her, while actually Om is leading Suman away from the place where he left Rajeshwari to die.
Rajeshwari is in the bottom of the well, but not dead. She screams for help, until Zafrani(Johnny Lever
Johnny Lever
John Prakasa Rao Janumala famously known as Johnny Lever is an Indian film actor and comedian. He was born to Prakash Rao Janumala and Karunamma Janumala and brought up in Mumbai. He started his career in 1984 and has acted in over 350 Bollywood films...
) comes to that place. On hearing the screams, he peeks down the well & sees her. Rajeshwari is rescued & she darts back to find Om. Just as Om & Suman are heading towards a place to find her, Rajeshwari comes in front of their car.
Rajeshwari is fully convinced that her brother's murder was a murder pre-meditated by Om & Suman. She rebukes Suman, who happens to be ignorant of what is happening. Om realizes that his cover will not remain intact for long. He overpowers the duo & ties them by ropes. He confesses the crime before Suman, making Rajeshwari realize that Suman is in fact innocent.
But then Om tells of the real reason why he killed Virendra. Om reveals that Virendra was not exactly a kind man that Suman thought him to be. He secretly came with his goons, assaulted Om, killed his father & raped his sisters. His sisters committed suicide. Om came to South Africa to avenge this crime & not for Suman.
In the climax, Om has Rajeshwari & Suman tied down firmly & is ready to run them down by his car. But Zafrani arrives there with a police team. The women are rescued, but Om still goes with his car behind them. It is only when Om plunges in the valley with his car that they realize that Om was not going to kill them, but trying to commit suicide to avoid police, now that his work was done. The women return home distraught.
Cast
- GovindaGovinda' and ' are names of Krishna, referring to his youthful occupation as a cowherd. He is regarded as the Supreme Godhead in the Vaishnava tradition and also by much of the pan-Hindu tradition...
: Om Srivastav / Mahendra Pratap Singh - TabuTabu (actress)Tabu is an Indian film actress. She has mainly acted in Hindi films, though she has also starred in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali language films, as well as one American film...
: Suman - Karishma Kapoor : Rajeshwari Rawal
- Shweta MenonShweta MenonShweta Menon is an Indian model, film actress and television anchor. She has predominantly acted in Hindi and Malayalam language films, besides appearing in a number of Tamil productions....
: Tania Jacobs - Nirmal PandeyNirmal PandeyNirmal Pandey was an Indian Bollywood actor, who was known for his role Vikram Mallah in Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen , for portrayal of a transvestite in Daayraa for which he won a Best Actor Valenti award in France, Train To Pakistan and Godmother .He was supposed to watch his latest film...
: Virendra Singh Rawal - Sushma SethSushma SethSushma Seth is an Indian film, television, and stage actress. She started her career in the late 1970s, and has been known for playing the mother and the grandmother in movies and television. She is most known as the role of Dadi in pioneering TV soap Hum Log . She is also a theatre actor and...
: Rajeshwari's mother - Kiran Kumar : Arjun Singh
- Johnny LeverJohnny LeverJohn Prakasa Rao Janumala famously known as Johnny Lever is an Indian film actor and comedian. He was born to Prakash Rao Janumala and Karunamma Janumala and brought up in Mumbai. He started his career in 1984 and has acted in over 350 Bollywood films...
: Jafrani - Rana Jung Bahadur : Inspector Rana
- Vishnu Sharma
- Beena Banerjee(as Beena)
- Deep Dhillon
- Razak Khan
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
- Arun BaliArun BaliArun Bali is an Indian actor who has worked in numerous films and television series. He played the part of King Porus in the 1991 period drama Chanakya, Kunwar Singh in the Doordarshan soap opera Swabhimaan and the Chief Minister of undivided Bengal, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, in the controversial...
- Ghanshyam
- Gulshan GroverGulshan GroverGulshan Grover is an Indian actor, who has acted in over 400 films through a career spanning over 30 years.Gulshan Grover is one of the first Indian actors to have made a successful transition from Bollywood into Hollywood and international Cinema....
- Pramod Muthu
- Anil Nagrath
- Paresh RawalParesh RawalParesh Rawal is an Indian actor of Gujarati background.Making his film debut in 1984, he mainly played supporting and villain roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he has mostly played comic roles.- Family and early life :...
- Pushpa Verma
Soundtracks
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chunri Ude To Aankh Phadke | Abhijeet, Jaspinder Narula Jaspinder Narula Jaspinder Narula is a noted Punjabi singer and Bollywood playback singer, who shot to fame after the duet "Pyar to hona hi tha" with Remo Fernandes from the 1998 film Pyar To Hona Hi Tha for which she won the 1999 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award. Her other notable films are Mission Kashmir,... |
| 2 | Bahut Khoobsurat Ghazal | Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya , born in Kolkata, is a leading Indian Bollywood playback singer. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award over five consecutive years. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009.... |
| 3 | Shikari Ne Shikar Kiya | Udit Narayan Udit Narayan -Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B... , Anuradha Paudwal Anuradha Paudwal Anuradha Paudwal is a popular playback singer in Bollywood in India.She has sung songs in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.- Biography :She studied at Xavier's College in Mumbai. She was married to the late Arun Paudwal, who worked with music director S. D. Burman as his assistant... |
| 4 | Chalee Chalee Ri Gori | Vinod Rathod Vinod Rathod Vinod Rathod, the son of singer Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod, is a Bollywood playback singer. He has sung in numerous popular Bollywood films including Chal Mere Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Mission Kashmir and Baazigar.... , Alka Yagnik Alka Yagnik Alka Yagnik is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award as well as a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Film Awards... |
| 5 | Bheja Hai Ek Gulab | Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya , born in Kolkata, is a leading Indian Bollywood playback singer. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award over five consecutive years. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009.... , Asha Bhosle Asha Bhosle Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies... |
| 6 | Gora Pareshaan Hai | Amit Kumar Amit Kumar Amit Kumar is an Indian film playback singer, actor, director, and music director. He is the son of famous singer and actor Kishore Kumar and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father he too loved singing since childhood and used to sing in Kolkata during Durga Pooja functions... , Poornima Sushma Shrestha Sushma Shrestha also known as Poornima, is a noted Nepali singer who has sung many Nepali, Hindi and Marathi songs in the Nepali and Indian music industry. Sushma started her career as a child singer in the Ramesh Sippy directed, 1971 film Andaz... |
| 7 | Kudi Badi Hai Soni Soni | Sonu Nigam Sonu Nigam Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi movies, as well as films in Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada language. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi feature films... |
| 8 | Bahut Khoobsurat Ghazal (Instrumental) |
Reception
This film was supposed to be the comeback vehicle of director N. ChandraN. Chandra
N. Chandra , born Chandrashekhar Narvekar, is an Indian producer, writer and director, known for his dark and loud films such as Ankush, Pratighaat, Tezaab and Narasimha, made as a film editor in the beginning of his career...
, who had given a benchmark blockbuster like Tezaab
Tezaab
Tezaab , released on 11 November 1988, is an Indian Hindi movie. This was the movie that gave actress Madhuri Dixit her first big break and reaffirmed Anil Kapoor's status, after a successful Mr India .The film was directed by N. Chandra. The music is by Laxmikant-Pyarelal...
. But it was panned by critics & audience alike. He went on to make films such as Style
Style (2001 film)
Style is a 2001 Bollywood low-budget comedy film. Although the movie was criticized as a forgettable romantic-comedy caper, it was a commercial success.The film was released on 28 December 2001....
and Xcuse Me
Xcuse Me
Xcuse Me is a Hindi comedy film released in 2003. It is the sequel to N. Chandra's 2001 film Style .-Plot:Bantu and Chantu are unemployed, and are not able to get any jobs due to lack of experience. They come across an advertisement for a hotel management program in Goa, and make their way there...
, but none of his films won the popularity & success of Tezaab.