Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani
Tags: good versus evil, romantic, humor, flashback

Plot synopsis:
Divya is a reincarnated soul who herself is unaware of this. When Rajesh (whose second attempt of raping Divya is successful) raped Divya, she commits suicide thinking that all of his friends were involved in the rape. The rest of the friends are completely unaware of anything and are innocent. When Kapil (Armaan Kohli), the lover of Divya's previous life finds out about her death, he comes back to life to get revenge from all of the group. As a punishment, Rajesh is strangled to death first. This is followed by Abdul being electrocuted. Atul & his other friends don't have a chance to tell Divya that they're truly innocent. A principal (Raj Babbar) gives the group of friends a necklace and assures them that they cannot be harmed when they are wearing the necklace. Atul doesn't believe in any of this. However, when he is attacked by Kapil, he realizes he survived because the necklace was stuck on his hand. Some more of their friends get killed unfortunately. Prem is possessed to commit murder but he is sentenced to be hanged by the court Vijay is pushed off the gym's roof. Vivek, afraid he's next, calls his big brother Karan (Sunny Deol). Karan arrives to rescue Vivek. Atul gets stabbed by Kapil while trying to save Vivek. Kapil chases Vivek. Atul, unable to destroy Kapil or save Vivek's life, goes to the same priest, who gave the lockets. Atul asks the priest to save Vivek's life. Atul dies due to blood loss from his injuries. Karan shows up to stop Kapil from killing Vivek. Karan gets killed by Kapil. The Priest resurrects Karan with outerworld powers, granting him supernatural powers like Kapil. Karan kills Kapil. Vivek turns out to be alive somehow.

Review: If he did think he was making a thriller, then he has by a stroke of luck, created one of the best bollywood comedies of all time.
OK, I would give this a 1, but I'm gonna give it a two because I laughed while watching this film...First of all, I can make a much better movie than this one...in a week...The special effects made this film look like a joke.
One shouldn't make such films with horrible special effects because then people won't take it seriously.
Don't watch this movie unless you are curious to see how bad it is.
I don't how come so many popular Bollywood actors and actresses took on to do this movie.
The visual effects in this movie was excrutiatingly painful to watch.
I believe that a kindergarten kid could have done a better job of the visual effect and a monkey could have done a better job of coming up with a plot.The plot has numerous attempts at copying major Hollywood movies like The Terminator but it fails miserably.
By putting several stars on the screen, he seems to toil on making the 'one dialog per actor' rule in almost every scene, but entirely forgets the message a film is supposed to give.
have all been in decent movies, but in this they look like they've just come out of rehabilitation center and took their parts for a quick buck.
They clearly didn't read the script or say 'What The F!' before accepting their parts, which makes me think they didn't care as long as they got the work.No story, No plot, No believable characters, No good dialogs, No scares, No decent effects, No hummable songs, and No pretty girls (at least get some GOOD looking women, not the rehab retards).Not worth watching/renting.
Bollywood is known to copy Hollywood movies.
Thats the problem with this film, if you want to make a T2 style movie, then do it properly.
The director added a bogus fantasy storyline about a reincarnated snake who finds his long lost girl (in the previous birth) dead by 2 guys, but the blame goes to 10 people.
The story is taken from the 70s' Sunil Dutt/Reena Roy starrer - "Nagin" and visual effects taken (a horrible attempt) from The Matrix, Terminator 2 and Mission Impossible II.Set in a college environment (Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Kumar, Manisha - college kids!!!???!!), Manisha Koirala is the victim, who mistakes a fatal assault on her by two students as a collective effort on the part of our heros.
As it turns out Manisha is a Cobra (Nag) snake reborn as a girl in this life and her mate from the previous life, now a super powerful-all-and-any-shape-assuming (Ichadhari Nag) - Munish Kohli, is out looking for her in this life.
Sunny Deol plays Manisha's love interest in her current life and the ultimate saviour against the all powerful Munish Kohli.Music and songs are below average.Avoid if you don't fancy cheap thrills..
All the people who voted a meager 1 on this movie, this is all I have to say: You guys have not matured enough to enjoy cinema of this kind.
And now do i really need to mention the stellar cast and even stellar-er (that is a word from NOW) performances from them (a special mention goes to Mr. Nigam for the best debut ever in any movie on this earth).
Manisha Koirala still looks like she's 18 and wow man, with that figure I would have raped her too.
And that is so not like your average Bollywood type movies.
The 'makers' of this movie have called us all fools and gullible losers with too much time on our hands.Based on the mythical Indian shape-shifting powerful cobras and rebirth, the story takes us for a painful ride.
College going 40+ actors (now really?) are the target of their former friend Manisha Koirala (who was in her former life a cobra, but is now a ghost!) and her pathetic, eternal, powerful boyfriend cobra/killing machine boyfriend Munish Kohli (who thankfully hasn't been seen since).
The only acting that was happening was that all the actors were making weird faces at the camera and screaming most of the time.
It just wasn't a horror movie, it was horrible.Watch it if you want to see the worst Hindi movie ever made.
The Best Movie of all time...Not Kidding..
If you want to have a great time then this is THE movie to watch.Take the premise - There is this college which admits people with minimum qualifications of BA, B.Com, M.Com, MA, MBA, MCA, B.E., M.Tech and BCA.
So we think, as soon as Arman is out of the picture Akshay swims away to Raj Babbar, Principal of this college + Boxing Refree + Parapsychology ka professor + mumbling priest.But no one, I repeat no one takes the cake but a certain Mr. Nigam.
As with all of these stupid horror movies, everyone knows who has been killed and who will be killed next, but do nothing to prevent anything, all with the added CGI action effects from the Matrix.
His movies like Naagin (1976) and ironically same title Jaani Dushman (1979) were extremely successful since they were multistarrers with Horror as the theme.He clubbed the two scripts and made this film as his son's Launchpad in 2002.
His son had delivered plenty of flop films before this movie and had ensured to the audience that he is a terrible actor.He was cast as the Antagonist in this film and the starcast including fantastic actors like Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi , Suniel Shetty and many more had to fight Armaan Kohli who was a combination of Naagin + Terminator and Matrix Reloaded.The film proves the point that in the Hindi film industry these kids of Producers land with meaty roles and spoil a movie experience.If they want to spend their fathers money.
I just want to start off the review by saying that Rajkumar Kohli is a multi star specialist as he made NAGIN (76), JAANI DUSHMAN (79), RAAJ TILAK (84) so a whole host of Bollywood actors coming to work in what IMDb users call "the worst film ever" is not surprise.
But the fact that the directors son Armaan Kohli is in the movie takes us back to the 90s where Rajkumar repeatedly tried to launch his son but his sons career never rose.
A revamped version of the formula is evoked in Rajkumar Kohli's recent offering JAANI DUSHMAN: EK ANOKHI KAHANIThe film is a modern day version of NAGIN (no f****** idea where the original JAANI DUSHMAN came in except the place where Manisha gets raped) with Armaan's character being Terminator 2 and an Ichadari Nag which already sounds coolManisha is raped by two dudes and stabs herself then blames her friends (Rajat Bedi mimics everyone's voice on the phone).
Well Manisha is a ghost and can go inside people and control them and do stuff while Armaan has developed super powers while waiting for Manisha like blowing sandstorms out of his mouth, turning into a bike, making knives out of his hands and do matrix stuffThe reason Manisha blames her friends is just unintentionally hilarious and would have worked in a comedy movieBecause IMDb users have ridiculed this movie so much I might as well reveal what happensWho dies??
Rajat Bedi- Manisha turns into a skeleton (people said it was a ripoff of the mummy) ane throws him off a 20 storey building Sharad Kapoor-Armaan turns into a bike and drives onto his neck Arshad Warsi- thrown into a pool and electrocuted Aditya pancholi- Manisha's ghost goes into Aftab and makes Aftab kill Aditya Aftab Shidvasabi- Manisha ghost possessed him and made him kill Aditya but law and order wont believe this so they order him to get hanged Sunil Shetty- Manisha goes inside him and throws him off a buildingAkshay Kumar- now his death was the most annoying and sad as he delivers the best performance.
Its true that Akshay is very likable in the movies that he dies in.
Ugh. Sunny has an fight scene, goes London, phoned by his stepbrother Sonu to come and in a matter of minutes Sunny travels from London to Mumbai and in the climax saves his bro and kills Armaan.
The Javed Bhai So Rele Hai song is just plain stupid.Armaan Kohli is considered one of the worst actors of Bollywood.
The heroines are ordinary and are just opportunities for Armaan and Manisha to kill the goodies.In spite of the many flaws this movie can be quite enjoyable and definitely is a pulse pounding ride..
The film was so bad that many of us from school went to watch it because to enjoy it for its sheer stupidity.This film boasts of some talented actors like Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi, Aftab Shivdasani, Sunny Deol and above all Manisha Koirala.
One thing is for sure, if given a chance, all the above mentioned actors would do their best to remove this movie from their resumes and audiences memory.Taking two olden Indian beliefs of rebirth and nagins (cobras), this cocktail is awful from the word go.
E.g. Some of the scenes are ripped off from 'The Matrix' that left me bewildered and laughing.Everyone hams in this movie and the music is equally bad.
Worse, Manisha Koirala is overweight in this film for some reason and for some odd logic, Deol is able to kill the main protagonist in the end.Now coming to the main protagonist i.e. Armaan Kohli.
The most stupid horror movie i have ever seen..I always question myself that Why the hell did i watch it??It is a disaster in every sense..I think everything from writing script of this movie to its completion happened within 24 hours..Director must have hurriedly waken from his sleep,wrote the story,called the actors,started shooting and completed the movie just before going to bed again at night.Direction,screenplay,story,editing,dialogues,special effects all are patheticNever dare to watch this EPIC DISASTER.
what a story in which innocent people getting killed by an intelligent & very dashing look & like god's almighty snake which has power to doomed anybody & in the end he dies as heroic death like terminator .how he tell that he loves a girl after kills many innocent guys which has no guilty only to patch up to others.
To me, this movie seemed like the Bollywood version of the cult film, 'The Room'.
The actors and actresses were horrible, so were the direction and special effects.
I don't understand why so many stars of that time appeared n such a film..
Stupidly created songs, artificial (over) acting , so many holes in screenplay and unbelievably horrible direction by Rajkumar Kohli.
But one thing I am sure about that this must be the worst horror Indian film ever but it can be easily converted to Comedy Of Horrors, just by putting an audience burst of laugh after every special effect and horror seen.
In one sentence the direction, screenplay, story, editing, dialogues, special effects all are pathetically horrible..
This is rip-roaring laughter ride that frustrates and entertains you in the equal proportions.The best scenes of this movie like Akki producing a rocket launcher from nowhere and the mimicry scene from the villain will have you rolling in laughter and then some.
Suniel Shetty and Sunny Deol are poor actors but they at least try in this movie.Hilarious in its best moments, Jaani Dushman is a horrible B-movie that can be a pleasant Saturday diversion if you have a sense of humor..
Totally inspire form hollywood movies like Terminator2.
Akshay Kumar and Sunny Deol are the only reasons this movie got a 6 in my view.
I feel that if they got rid of a few characters and songs, then the movie would of been a superhit.
The person who played the bad guy, I have never seen in a movie before or after.
Personally, I think Sunny Deol should of been the bad guy because he has never been a villain and the fact he is a one man army, it would of made this intense.
For example, why are action stars like Akshay Kumar and Sunil Shetty playing college guys (they are too big for that)?
Amrish Puri was intriguing in his cameo as the sage, and Johnny Lever was funny (as ALWAYS), but the main reason I watched this film was because my favorite action star, Sunny Deol, was in this film, but I was disappointed that he had a small role (30 minutes), but he was the real hero in this film, as he vanquished the 'icchadari naag'.
Acting is wasted in a little known movie.
This movie was brilliant and entertaining sunny deol was good as the hero and the supporting character Akshay Kumar was brilliant Sunil shetty was average Sonu nigam was superb It was so good to see the trio of awara paagal deewana (akshay,Sunil,aftab)And the trio of qahar(sunny,Sunil,armaan)Arman was great as the villain Song are excellent to listen My rating 8/10.
This is the kind of 10 you give to a movie which just makes you laugh,over and over again!
It's the most horribly written and directed movie, yet it doesn't fail to entertain.
I saw this movie today on TV, and I didn't want to move away!
(No response from Manisha) Akshay: Come on,forgive them!
Every actor takes turns to speak..One line from Akshay,then from Suniel, then from Arshad, then Aftab, then Nigam.
All these things make it an enjoyable movie, and I can watch it over and over again.
I think this movie can go into the comedy hall of fame if there is one..The only problem is that it wasn't trying to be funny..
hi, This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.
But still I watched the movie with lots of patience.
And after watching the movie, I felt like repenting.
I could have taken rest rather then watching this movie.
And I was really surprised that how come actors like Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar Aftab etc acted in this movie.I don't understand if directors don't find a good story to make a film then why do they remain as directors?
This movie is without a doubt the best I have seen in my entire life.
Sonu Nigam delivers a very mature and deep performance in this film, and all the other actors do almost as well.
You simply HAVE to watch this movie!!!.
The film was in news due to it's huge cast, from Akshay,Sunil,Aftab(all three starred in Awara Paagal Deewana in the same year), Aditya Panscholi, Sharad Kapoor, Sonu Nigam(acting debut), Arshad Warsi(in his bad days).
The film actually was made to relaunch Munish(Arman Kohli) Kohli by his father Rajkumar Kohli yet again after previous failed attempts like Virodhi, Qahar, Aulad Ke Dushman.etc Rajkumar Kohli thought casting his son with bigger stars right from his first film will take him places, but anywayz nothing happened The film makes even badly made comedies seem masterpeices.
First of all, 40 yr old actors play college students, at least ppl can forgive Srk or Aamir but Aditya Panscholi, Sharad Kapoor, Akshay Kumar.etc as students?
The scenes are directed like a stage play where each actor gets one dialogue to say The film mixes NAGIN and JAANI DUSHMAN(old) and we have special effects from THE MUMMY to every Hollywood film ever seen.
In fact every scene is like a badly made 70s movie.Direction by Rajkumar Kohli is pathetic Music is nothing greatAmongst the huge cast, all have hardly anything worthwhile Akshay Kumar gets some scope but he is decent, his death scene seems weird as he never dies.
Suneil Shetty is horrible, though its not his blame entirely Aftab is as usual, Arshad Warsi just cracks jokes, poor guy he was in his bad phase, Aditya Panscholi, Sharad Kapoor are all okay Sunny Deol has a brief role and is as usual, Sonu Nigam can give Fardeen Khan in Prem Aggan a run for his money in the worst debut award, he is simply nonsense.
Armaan Kohli who was relaunched is given to glare, growl this actor has a good voice and a height but lacks everything else Manisha Koirala(poor thin) looks plump and is okay, post 2000 her career went downhill Rambha too slowly started fading away The rest heroines just are there one heroine who is paired opposite Suneil, stands out due to her bad dubbing, her voice keeps echoing.One weird thing to speak about in the film is the poor set design, in the scene when Manisha hears Arman's voice, the buildings in the background look like cardboard..
Its like the director literally took a s*** in a roll of film and sent it out to the viewing public.The acting in this movie is horrendous, The plot is so dumb, and the deaths of each character is laughably bad.
The shopping job looks like it was done in microsoft paint.The best parts in this movie are with Sunny Deol.
I mean, where do I start and when do I stop?Manisha spent her whole career sneakily trying to make a Guinness World Record of the highest number of films where she played a rape victim.
Anyway, I know I shouldn't have expectations from this movie but I have two major questions: "What?" and "How?".What as in what exactly was what I watched?
I mean, how is it even possible to think of the things they actually showed in this movie.
The dialogues and irrational actions and reactions of actors like Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty (who were pretty accomplished by then), are literally traumatizing, like another review mentioned, the iconic scene where they convince Manisha to forgive the villains is not only stupid but wrong at so many levels.I know Arshad was struggling badly when this movie was made, but his character was excruciatingly pathetic and meaningless.
I still wonder how they got such top-level actors to do this movie.