Aankhen movie is a 2002 Bollywood heist drama-thriller film directer is Vipul Amrutlal Shah, Producer is Gaurang Doshi under banner of Gaurang Doshi Productions. Directorial debut of Vipul Shah in Bollywood.
This film leading stars cast are Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Sushmita Sen, Arjun Rampal and Paresh Rawal. Aditya Pancholi is shown in an important supporting role.
The film is an adaptation of Vipul Shah’s own Gujarati play Andhalo Pato,The film tells the story follows Vijay Singh Rajput Bachchan a hard-working but temperamental man, who has spent all his life working for one bank and even achieving them International recognition. When Vijay loses his mind and goes on a violent rampage beating up another employee, he is subsequently fired. He decides to take vengeance by organizing a full on heist, and having the same bank robbed by three blind men, as no one will suspect them.
Aankhen movie is releasing on 5th April, 2002 with Highly positive critical acclaim, Mainly Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and Paresh Rawal is appreciated from critics and also from audience and Become 2nd Highest grossing movie of 2002.
- Directer : Vipul Amrutlal Shah
- Producer : Gaurang Doshi
- Screenplay : Aatish Kapadia,Vipul Amrutlal Shah
- Story : Aatish Kapadia,Vipul Amrutlal Shah
- Starring : Amitabh Bachchan,Akshay Kumar,Sushmita Sen,Arjun Rampal,Paresh Rawal,Aditya Pancholi
- Music : Jatin Lalit,Aadesh Shrivastava,Nitin Raikwar
- Cinematography : Ashok Mehta
- Editor : Shirish Kunder
- Production Company : Gaurang Doshi Productions
- Distributor : V R Films
- Genres : Crime-Drama, Thriller
- Release date : 5 April 2002
- Running time : 165 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Aankhen movie trailer :
Star cast of the film :
- Amitabh Bachchan as a Vijay Singh Rajput
- Akshay Kumar as a Vishwas Prajapati
- Sushmita Sen as a Neha Srivastav
- Arjun Rampal as a Arjun Verma
- Paresh Rawal as a Ilias
- Aditya Pancholi as a Police Inspector
- Bipasha Basu as a Raina
- Kashmira Shah as a Dancer (‘Chalka Chalka’)
- Ajit Vachani as a Mr. Bhandari
- Arun Bali as a Mr. Goenka
- Daya Shankar Pandey as a Taxi driver
- Paresh Ganatra as a Shailesh
- Depesh Shah
- Malvika Singh as a Delnaz
- Ashok Banthia
- Pradeep Tawte
- Amit Thakur
- Prakash Bharadwaj
- Dharmendra Singh
- Shreyas Talpade as a Tea stall vendor
- Smit Sheth
- Master Fardeen
- Ravinder Choudhary
Pre-Post Production :
The film’s earlier working name was “All The Best” but was later changed for numerology reasons and to better suit Indian audiences. Initially Raveena Tandon was cast for the role of Neha, but she was unexpectedly dropped and replaced by Sushmita Sen.
Sushmita in turn made a lot of preparations for her role as a teacher to the blind. She visited schools for the blind and interacted with the students for a more-realistic feel to her role. Akshaye Khanna was the original choice for the role played by Arjun Rampal but things didn’t work out after Akshaye Khanna rejected Saif Ali Khan was approached to play the role but he was busy with Kal Ho Naa Ho.
Vipul Shah once tickled his nephew to such an extent that he became breathless. This gave Vipul Shah an idea to tickle uncontrollably the character-Iliyas so that his life could be lost.
After an unhappy working relation with the Producer during the making of this film, Vipul Shah decided to turn producer himself and went on to direct and produce Waqt with Akshay Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan.
Sequel of this movie Aankhen 2 is made.
Aankhen movie Songs / Music :
The music composer are Aadesh Shrivastav and Jatin-Lalit while Lyricist are Prasoon Joshi, Praveen Bharadwaj and Nitin Raikwar.
- “Amitabh Solilogi”………Amitabh Bachchan, Sonu Nigam & Remo Fernandes
- “Gustakhiyan”…………….Aadesh Shrivastava & Vasundhara Das
- “Kuchh Kasme”…………..Sonu Nigam & Alka Yagnik
- “Theme Song”…………….Remo Fernandes
- “Phatela Jeb”………..Arun Bakshi, Aadesh Shrivastava & Nitin Raikwar
- “Chalka Chalka”…….Alka Yagnik & Javed
- “Nazron Ne Teri”……..Kavita Krishnamurthy & Udit Narayan
- “All The Best”…………Remo Fernandes
- “Aankhen”………………Remo Fernandes & Sonu Nigam
“Kuchh Kasme” full video song :
- Singer : Sonu Nigam & Alka Yagnik
- Music Director : Jatin-Lalit
- Lyricist : Praveen Bharadwaj
Awards and Nomination :
48th Filmfare Awards :
- Best Supporting Actor – Amitabh Bachchan-Nominated
- Best Performance in a Comic Role – Paresh Rawal-Nominated
9th Annual Star Screen Awards :
- Award for Best Film- Aankhen movie-Nominated
- Award for Best Comedian – Paresh Rawal-Nominated
- Award for Best Villain – Amitabh Bachchan-Nominated
Review of the film :
This film reviews are mostly positive from critics and gains a classic status of the film overtime.
Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave only 2 star from 5 star and stated that “Debutante director Vipul Shah impresses you with his shot execution.Ashok Mehta’s cinematography is at par with any top international flick.Amitabh Bachchan delivers a dynamic performance.Akshay Kumar is as confident as ever.Sushmita Sen is first-rate.Paresh Rawal has a role that will be appreciated by the masses. However, he tends to go over the top in a few scenes. Aditya Panscholi gets no scope. On the whole, film has a multi-starrer cast, a novel theme, popular music and a grandiose look as its strong points, but the novel theme will not find many takers beyond metropolitan cities.”
IMDB Public reviewing site gave 7.4 star from 10 star.
Box office collection :
- Screens : 310
- Day 1 – Friday………….1.20 Cr
- Day 2 – Saturday………1.10 Cr
- Day 3 – Sunday………..1.33 Cr
- Day 4 – Monday………..1.00 Cr
- Day 5 – Tuesday………..0.87 Cr
- Day 6 – Wednesday……0.70 Cr
- Day 7 – Thursday………0.47 Cr
- Week 1 Collection……..6.67 Cr
- Week 2 Collection…….5.35 Cr
- Week 3 Collection……3.58 Cr
- Week 4 Collection…….1.27 Cr
- Week 5 Collection…….0.54 Cr
- Week 6 Collection……0.06 Cr
- Total Net Collection…………17.47 Cr
- India Gross Collection………23.58 Cr
- Overseas Collection………….5.86 Cr
- Worldwide Collection Gross…………29.44 Cr
- Aankhen movie Budget :…….15.00 Cr
- Aankhen movie Verdict : HIT
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