# 2001: Do Hazaar Ek

2001: Do Hazaar Ek is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language murder mystery film directed by Raj N. Sippy and produced by the Ramsay Brothers. It stars Jackie Shroff, Dimple Kapadia, Tabu and Rajat Bedi.

## Plot

Following the brutal slaying of a call-girl named Julie in Mumbai, two police inspectors, namely Anil Kumar Sharma and Rajat Bedi are assigned to investigate and bring the culprit(s) to book. Anil and Rajat note that the killer leaves "2001" marked on the body of the victim. Anil learns that the man staying in Julie's room is a prominent Member of State Parliament, Ramaswamy, and would like to list him as a suspect.
Julie's death is followed by more killings in the same style, and killed ones are advocates Sarkari and Kajal, and a man named Krishna Rao. Then Ramaswamy himself is attacked, but survives and is hospitalized. When he regains consciousness for a brief period of time, he points an accusing finger at Rajat and then relapses. Not wanting to take any chance, Police Commissioner Malik places Rajat under house arrest. Then Anil comes across some evidence that links the killing to none other than Malik himself, while Rajat starts suspecting Anil and gathers evidence against Anil.
Roshni writes a letter and gives it to Billu, who then shows to Anil and Rajat; it is revealed that Roshni was behind the all the murders. She then goes to Amirchand's house with a bomb being attached to her and threatens to blow herself along with him and the whole mansion, but in the mean time Anil and Rajat show up and stop her. Anil feels bad for Roshni as he puts her in the jail and it is revealed that it was Anil himself behind all the murders as he leaves the "2001" mark.
He then goes to Amirchand's house to murder him and reveals that he did all the murders to avenge his families death for which Amirchand was responsible along with his henchmens but before he can kill Amirchand, Rajat stops him. Despite not listening to Rajat, he reluctantly shoots at Anil's leg but accidentally shoots his chest, killing him. Billu is heartbroken and upset about killing his best friend like that, upon hearing the truth from Roshni and realising the whole story. Rajat then goes to Amirchand's mansion, takes downs his henchmen and then locks up Amirchand with steel chains. In the end Rajat uses the rocket launcher at the mansion and destroys it, thus ending Amirchand and his evil activities once for all.

## Cast

* Jackie Shroff as Inspector Anil Sharma
* Dimple Kapadia as Roshni Sharma, Anil's wife
* Tabu as Billu
* Rajat Bedi as Inspector Rajat Bedi
* Gulshan Grover as Krishna Rao
* Deven Verma as Billu's Uncle
* Suresh Oberoi as Ameerchand
* Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Minister Ramaswamy from Bangalore
* Sharat Saxena as Advocate P. K. Sarkari
* Mohan Joshi as Police Commissioner Malik
* Mukesh Khanna as Dr. Vishal Sharma (guest appearance)
* Navneet Nishan as Advocate Kajal
* Upasana Singh as Julie
* Kishore Bhanushali as Havaldar
* Baby Sharmika as Neelam

## Soundtrack

| # | Track listing | Singers | Lyricist(s) |
| 1 | "Teri Yeh Bindiya" | Hariharan, Preeti Uttam Singh | Dev Kohli |
| 2 | "Tu Qatil Tera Dil Qatil" | Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy | Manoj Darpan |
| 3 | "Teri Meri Dosti (Happy Version)" | Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan | Dev Kohli |
| 4 | "Teri Meri Dosti (Sad Version)" | Mohammed Aziz | Dev Kohli |
| 5 | "Yahi To Pyar Hai" | Mohammed Aziz, Kavita Krishnamurthy | Dev Kohli |
| 6 | "Rappa Rappa Rum Pum Pum" | Aditya Narayan | Dev Kohli |
| 7 | "Neend Udaye" | Alka Yagnik | Anand Raaj Anand |
| 8 | "Yun Na Rootho" | Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal | Dev Kohli |

## Reception

Komal Nahta of Film Information was critical of the film, saying it "does not have the chill and thrill of a suspense drama".