Karan Arjun
Tags: revenge, murder, violence

Plot synopsis:
Durga Singh (Raakhee) is a poor woman raising her two beloved sons Karan Singh (Salman Khan), the elder and Arjun Singh (Shah Rukh Khan), the younger. When Munim of an aging Thakur comes to talk to Durga, Karan and Arjun learn that their father is dead. Durga reveals that their father was the Thakur's son, who had married her against his father's wishes. Durjan Singh (Amrish Puri), a relative of Thakur, killed Durga's husband to prevent him, Durga, or their sons from inheriting the Thakur's estate. Karan and Arjun learn from her that the dying Thakur wants to give his estate to his grandchildren before dying as it is their birthright.
Durjan kills Thakur revealing to him that he did kill his son all those years ago and when he learns of his plans to sign over the estate to Karan and Arjun. He then brutally murders both Karan and Arjun by ambushing them with the help of his brothers-in law Nahar (Arjun) and Shamsher (Jack Gaud) in front of Durga. Durga cannot accept that her sons have died and prays to Goddess Kali to bring them back. Miraculously, Durga's prayers are heard and her sons are reborn but into different families with no knowledge of their past lives – Durga is unaware of this miracle. For 20 years she keeps persuading the people of her village that Karan and Arjun will come back. Durjan and his family mockingly give her garlands to put on the picture of Karan and Arjun. Durga vows to place the garlands over their dead bodies.
Arjun is reincarnated as Vijay. He falls in love with the wealthy Sonia (Kajol), but neither knows that Sonia is to marry Durjan Singh's son, Suraj (Aashif Sheikh). Karan is reincarnated as Ajay. He soon works for Saxena (Ranjeet), Sonia's father and Durjan's partner in his illegal arms trading business. Karan and Arjun still have nightmares about their deaths in previous lives. On learning about Vijay, Suraj attempts to kill him but ends up burning the farm of Arjun's Uncle. At Sonia and Suraj's engagement party, Vijay arrives and attacks Suraj. Ajay is sent to kill Vijay and the two start fighting.
Durga is given a sign of this when the photo of her sons falls. She rushes to the temple and prays to Goddess Kali. Vijay and Ajay suddenly stop fighting after a bolt of lightning strikes them. Saxena tries to shoot Vijay but Ajay stops him whilst shouting for Arjun to run. This is something that Ajay had said to Vijay in their previous births when he was being attacked by Nahar. Ajay is sent to prison while Vijay escapes. Vijay is confused about the incident, mostly because he had dreamt of somebody saying those exact words to him. Sonia is forcibly taken to Durjan's house to marry Suraj. She writes to Vijay begging him to come and rescue her.
Vijay and his friend Linghaiyya (Johnny Lever) travel to save Sonia. Everybody who sees him is stunned and calls him Arjun. He finally remembers his past life and reunites with Durga where he gets to know about his brother Karan who is now Ajay. Vijay saves Ajay and explains the whole situation. Ajay refuses to believe, but when Durjan's brothers-in-law attack Durga, he remembers his previous life. Durjan hears about Karan and Arjun's return but refuses to believe it so his brothers-in-law attempt to bring them before him. In the process, they are killed by Ajay and Vijay in a similar way as they killed Karan and Arjun and Durga places the garlands over their dead bodies.
At the village temple of Goddess Kali, rituals are held for Sonia and Suraj's wedding. Karan and Arjun frighten Durjan by convincing him that they are back. Soon, Saxena and Durjan have fallout, after which a fearful Saxena tells Sonia to run away with Vijay. Sonia meets Vijay, but just as everybody is helping them, Durjan and Saxena arrive, making them realize that it was a ruse. Ajay succeeds in creating a diversion, letting Vijay and Sonia escape. Vijay kills Suraj, upon which Durjan kills Saxena in a fit of rage.
After all his henchmen are killed, Durjan attempts to kill Karan and Arjun. They overpower him. He runs to Durga and begs her for forgiveness. However, she orders her sons to kill him for revenge. They do so and Durga places the garland over his dead body, fulfilling the promises she made to him. Later, at Goddess Kali's temple, Arjun marries Sonia and Karan marries his love Bindiya (Mamta Kulkarni), after which Durga places the bangles her sons gave her on her daughters-in-law's wrists, as she promised Karan and Arjun 20 years ago and the family is finally reunited.

Review: 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).
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).
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..
Karan Arjun was one of the best movie of its time.It was really cool.The plot was something crisp.The script was in-shape.SRK was good.Salman was average.I don't wan't talk about the lackluster acting by Kajol and Mamta.They really were a piece of junk.The songs were good enough.The music was nothing new.The directions were 'kind-of-good'.Overall, Enjoyable flick!.
The concept of the story depends on your faith, as it is to do with re-incarnation, and geared more towards the Hindu religion.The story did not appeal to me much; however, I watched the film for performances given by the actors and to see what the hype was all about.I think the film was stolen by Rakhee's persuasive dialogues and Salman's macho, don't give a crap, character.
Over the recent years Salman has really impressed me with his different roles.
SRK like his early movies overacted too much, the fighting scenes were unconvincing and the dialogues were as they say very filmy.
Mamta, although very short, but gave one of her better performances.All in all it's an over-hyped movie which won't be recognised as a classic.
A Reincarnation Revenge Masala Movie.
A reincarnation revenge masala movie made By Rakesh Roshan with a strong cast of Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Mamta Kulkarni, Kajol and above all The Great Rakhiji and Amrish Puri sahab.
The movie if not perfect then one of the best masala flick of its era with power packed action.
Kajol and Mamta Kulkarni acted as love interests of the protagonists.
A good movie to watch..
Salman won for acting, SRK won for romance and good music.
Though rebirth is not a thing a believe but the revenge motive I liked in this movie.
Karan Arjun is a 1995 Bollywood action masala film directed by Rakesh Roshan starring Salman Khan as Karan and Shahrukh Khan as Arjun.
Story revolves around Durga Singh(Rakhee) who is a poor girl marries a rich man but that rich man's father throws him out.
They settle in village and she gives birth to two sons Karan and Arjun.
Durjan Singh(Amrish Puri), evil brother of the rich man murders him aiming for his wealth.
But durjan Singh murders the grandfather and later Karan Arjun.
Salman is good but has very few dialogues.
This is the only film of Srk-Kajol were their chemistry is weak.
After Ram Lakhan, Rakhee once again plays widowed mother of two sons and Amrish Puri as villain.
Karan Arjun is my favorite multi starter films.
Durga Singh (Raakhee) has two sons, Karan (Salman Khan) and Arjun (Shah Rukh Khan) that are the joy of her life.
This is both a poignant story of a mother's love and faith, and an action packed tale of revenge.
(Though, in my opinion, seeing them together shows that Salman Khan is a superior fighter, dancer, and actor.) It's a solid movie overall, and will please fans of either Khan..
Reincarnation is the one word which can be used to describe Karan Arjun, a film which can easily be a fun watch for the entire family.
It is about two brothers who are killed and their mother who expects to see them again for some reason and desperately prays for the day they come back.
The film may particularly appeal to children - heroes and villains, fights and races, dialogue which does not have much sense, very caricaturish characters.
Despite that, there are some emotions that somehow work for others, so I would call it a children's film which may appeal to the rest of the family.
Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan work very well together and give the film a certain appeal not warranted by the script.
Perhaps, the only film of SRK and Salman as brothers :P Please watch it once.
Rakhee performed outstandingly as mother of both male protagonists.Film is popular even today with Indian audiences and is frequently broadcasted on the movie channels.
I still remember the first time I watched this movie back in 1995.
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.
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.
Salman Khan's best film.
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.
The best scenes throughout the whole movie are when Salman was fighting for money to cure his father.
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..
Reincarnation, Bollywood music and getting the bad guys.
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.
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.
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.
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!.
Two Hindu brothers Karan and Arjun lie dying after being attacked by bandits.
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.
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.
Indians believe in rebirth and karma - but since majority of us are below poverty line and uneducated, the Bollywood Directors try their level best to teach us all the Theories regulating our lives!Karna & Arjun were 2 brothers - living with their Mother.
The brutes kill the 2 sons in front of Mother as a reply !!
She gets an indication that a baby is born almost instantly and gets assured that the 'souls' of her sons have again taken birth - in human form - somewhere...Next Scene: 2 infants are born to 2 different houses - in the house of 'not so well to do families' - one baby gets an 'alcoholic ,beater poverty stricken' father who hits the child all the time - THUS - the child learns to fend for himself and becomes bitter and strong since childhood - a training plan by the upper world - for he had to ultimately go to the village to kill the brutes.
:P)I thought Salman Khan did an excellent job as the brooding Karan and Shah Rukh Khan (Arjun) was his usual energetic self.
Salman and Shah Rukh click very well on screen together and have almost what I would call 'on-screen chemistry' - in a brotherly way of course.I dont remember much of the music so I guess it wasnt particularly good, but the first song "Yeh Bandan" (I think that's what it was called) was *excellent*.
(lol) And some rather fake looking special effects, lightning bolts and the like.Karan Arjun is not flashy or overdone, not over-glammed, just sincere.
Karan Arjun- 1995 Director: Rakesh Roshan The performances are top!
Emotions are high and the direction is superb!If you are bored of boy meets girl stories, political stories or typical murder thrillers, then watch Karan Arjun!
Emotions are high and the direction is superb!If you are bored of boy meets girl stories, political stories or typical murder thrillers, then watch Karan Arjun!
And last but not the least, Rakhee Gulzar leaves a great mark as a mother!I wish they would remake this movie with better effects and the camera quality being higher!
And last but not the least, Rakhee Gulzar leaves a great mark as a mother!I wish they would remake this movie with better effects and the camera quality being higher!
This film was absolutely brilliant The real reasons why the film was a blockbuster was because of the music, action scenes and chemistry of the two KhansThe film has Salman and Shah Rukh as two brothers killed by Amrish Puri Their mother Raakhee prays at a Kali Temple and the brothers are reborn in separate and later surface to kill Amrish PuriThe film has several references to KARZ (1980) like the hero being reincarnated, a mother who pines for her son, the villain that becomes really rich after the death of the hero, a Kali temple, the hero getting hallucinations, etcThe direction by Rakesh Roshan is brilliantly and leaves no piece left behind Surprisingly his son Hrithik Roshan also helped with the film as the assistant director Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan were paired for the first time and play their roles absolutely brilliantly and both of them share amazing chemistry together Mamta Kulkarni and Kajol ably support them and both of them are quite beautiful Amrish Puri is a menacing villain Raakhee is awesome Johny Lever is funny Ashok Saraf rocks all the way.
(Rated on the basis of watching on T.V. 17 years after release)Plot:The two sons of a widow, Karan and Arjun are murdered by the evil village-lord.
Will the miracle happen?Review: Reincarnation has been the subject of Bollywood films for a long time from "Madhumati"(1958) to "Dangerous Ishq"(2012).
Rakesh Roshan also chose reincarnation as the subject of his 1995 venture, "Karan Arjun"; but with a difference.
Unlike other films where the purpose of rebirth was unfulfilled/betrayed love; the sole objective of reincarnation here is revenge.
The murder-sequence of Karan-Arjun hammers at the heart.
But the film springs back to life from the well-shot stable-fire sequence and from there onwards it's non-stop fun.The second half is thoroughly entertaining.
One can't hold back a smile (or tear!) at the scene where the two brothers are reunited with their mother.
The dialogues range from emotionally stirring to hilarious.Getting Salman Khan (riding high on "Hum Aapke Hain Kaun") and Shah Rukh Khan (of "Baazigar","Darr" fame) together for the first time was a casting-coup.
The makers clearly modelled the characters of Karan/Ajay & Arjun/Vijay on Jai & Veeru from "Sholay".
While SRK as the chirpy and cheerful Vijay scores easily; Salman as the brooding and quiet Ajay fails to create much impression as he lacks that imposing personality in Big B's immortal portrayal of Jai. Kajol and her chemistry with SRK is rollicking as ever.
Amrish Puri in his habituated evil- avatar is good, though his broom- moustache was unintentionally comical.
The composer, Rajesh Roshan scores with all the songs (except 'Ek Munda'), out of which 'Yeh Bandhan' and 'Jaati Hun Main' live on in the mind for long.
Equally impressive is the background music where special scores are played for almost every character in similar sequences.But despite a brilliant track, the picturisation of 'Jaati Hun Main' is quite atrocious.
Due to limitations in script, the makers clearly wanted to exploit the famous SRK-Kajol chemistry to the hilt through this one song.
Even in 'Bhangra Pale' the continuity is absent with alternate scenes of sunshine and overcast skies.But the biggest flaw of the film is that it doesn't give equal weightage to both its leads.
Salman is not required to perform any task alone (unlike SRK's discovery of their past) which prevents him from creating an unique impression.
But Salman's latent utility lies in the formidability he lends to the Karan-Arjun duo; as without his muscled physique SRK, in his slim figure standing up to the mighty villains would have been unconvincing.
They make you root for them; only if they had engaged in some banter between them."Karan Arjun" is not a totally satisfying watch considering its unfulfilled potential.
What more important can one ask for?Box-Office Verdict: Riding on its cast, songs and time-tested theme of reincarnation, the film became a 'blockbuster'.
The songs 'Yeh Bandhan', 'Jaati Hun Main' and 'Bhangra Pale' became hits with the first two becoming classics.
Rakhee's dialogue 'Mere Karan-Arjun aayenge' got cult-status.
SRK-Kajol went on to become one of the most popular pairs of all time, starting with "DDLJ" later that year.
"Karan Arjun" set the path to mega-stardom for Salman, SRK and Kajol.
Violent and flawed film, good Rakhee and Amrish Puri.
This is a long reincarnation flick whose sole selling point is the combination of the two Khans- Shahrukh and Salman.
However, Rakhee and Amrish Puri breathe life into stereotypical roles.
Rakhee specially convinces as the pining mother out for revenge.
I stay away from writing comments on films I disliked, but just for you I saw Karan Arjun again so I could write a factual review.A loving mother Durga (Rakhee) and her two super loving sons (the Khan duo of SRK and Salman) live an idyllic life that seems to consist of lots of running to grab mother's feet, sleeping with their heads in her lap.
Cut to the mystery of their heritage, they are the grandsons of a rich Zamindar who is in the clutches of an evil relative, Durjan Singh (a particularly bug eyed Amrish Puri).
Durjan pursues and kills Karan (Salman) and Arjun (SRK) and the heroes are gone just like that.
But the mother prays to the Goddess Kali and asks that her children be reborn - and they are, as Ajay and Vijay, in two separate families.
Ajay romances the buxom Sonia (Kajol) while Vijay is pursued by the equally buxom Bindiya (Mamta Kulkarni).
Durjan's son wants to marry Sonia, tries to kill Ajay, eventually Sonia is spirited away to Malakheda - where Durjan Singh lives.
All this while Ajay and Vijay have flashbacks of their past life and eventually meet, discover their past and go to Malakheda to try and rescue Sonia and help their "mother".What is good about this film?
You know one has scraped the bottom of the barrel when Johny becomes a plus.The negatives: SRK, Salman, Kajol are completely wasted in this silly movie.
If you have avoided KA up to this point then go view this song just to see how stars do not a film make.
Shahrukh is pretty bad too, in a role that has no scope for any kind of acting.
Kajol is awful and is probably very glad that she spent most of her time in a locked room in the film.
One hear rumors that Ajay Devgan was to do the role of Arjun but things didn't work out and SRK got the role - this caused a rift between the two.
If I were Ajay, I would be SRK's lifelong friend for his help in escaping from acting in this movie.
There are fight scenes that could have been planned and written by either Laurel and Hardy or students in second grade.The movie was a huge blockbuster.