Karam 2005 Bollywood film Trailer, Review,Song,Box office

Karam is a 2005 Bollywood action thriller film directer is Sanjay F. Gupta in his directorial debut who earlier is cinematographer. Starring John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra and Bharat Dabholkar, the film follows John, a professional assassin who ends up unintentionally killing an innocent family during a mission and becomes traumatized, eventually tendering his resignation. This does not go down well with his boss who kidnaps John’s wife and holds her hostage. In order to win back her freedom, John must complete one last job: killing some of the city’s top men within a limited period of time. The film co-stars Vishwajeet Pradhan, Shiney Ahuja, Murli Sharma, Rajesh Khera and Aanjjan Srivastav.

Having directed several music videos, Sanjay F. Gupta decided to direct the film after being impressed with Suparn Verma’s script. Confirming that it was not inspired by any Hong Kong film, Sanjay decided to do his own take on it despite feeling the script wasn’t novel. Feeling John Abraham suited the role from the beginning, Sanjay cast him as the lead with Priyanka Chopra, and named the protagonist after Abraham. Producer Harry Baweja revealed the film was based on a true story and shot entirely in Mumbai.

Karam was released theatrically on 11 March 2005, opening to negative reviews from critics and audiences. It was a commercial failure both domestically and in the overseas. In 2011 during an interview for his film Force, John Abraham revealed a number of people came up and told him Karam was their favorite film.

Directer : Sanjay F. Gupta
Producer : Pammi Baweja
Screenplay : Suparn Verma
Story : Suparn Verma
Starring : John Abraham,Priyanka Chopra,Shiney Ahuja
Music : Vishal-Shekhar,Pankaj Awasthi
Editor : Marzin Tavaria
Distributor : Baweja Movies
Release date : 11 March 2005
Country : India
Language : Hindi

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Karam Movie Trailer :

Karam Movie story :

Shalini (Priyanka Chopra) showing how much she loved John (John Abraham) despite of knowing he was contract killer and how things might have been different had he not picked up a gun. The film goes into flashback mode and John is shown to be an assassin working for a mobster named Captain (Bharat Dabholkar). Accompanied by two friends Kaif (Murali Sharma) and Bull (Rajesh Khera), he is assigned a hit which he carries out but also ends up killing an entire family which arrives untimely to the house from where the hit was planned. Apart from the adults, one of their daughters gets shot unintentionally by John. He gets traumatized and despite of his friends telling him to move on, he becomes guilt-ridden and explains everything to Shalini, with whom he plans to escape away. The city’s toughest cop, Wagh (Shiney Ahuja), starts investigating the murder and in the process, comes close to the surviving daughter of the deceased family.

John Abraham with Villain in Karam Film — John Abraham in the Movie

After that, Captain is attacked by the rival don, Yunus (Vishwajeet Pradhan), and as a result decides to teach the city a lesson by killing the city’s top industrialist, top film producer, the cop backing Yunus and Yunus himself; so that everyone else falls in line and no one dreams of becoming another Yunus. He decides that John must carry out this plan of his. To achieve this, he takes Shalini hostage. John is given 36 hours to kill the five targets on the hitlist. John re-unites with his friends but struggles to carry out the hits initially due to still being traumatized. He, however, manages to kill the targets one by one, while his wife tries to escape in order to stop him from killing. Kaif, however, gets killed by Wagh after John manages to kill a few more targets. Shalini slashes her wrist and is admitted to a hospital, where she realizes she’s pregnant and manages to escape. She manages to contact John, who arrives to pick her up, only to find himself trapped when she gets taken hostage once again. Realizing that he has been double-crossed, John shoots Bull in front of Captain, who reminds him of the remaining time he has.

John meets Wagh and asks for his help in exchange for providing all evidence against Captain, to which Wagh agrees. Along with sub-inspector Naik, he arrives on spot and after a gunfight, manages to free Shalini. John, on the other hand, meets Yunus and his friend, DCP Patil (Aanjjan Srivastav). He blackmails Patil into bringing him Shalini, which he does. However, John kills both Yunus and Patil, escaping with Shalini. A chase ensues, resulting in a rough fight between John and Captain. John manages to kill Captain and his team, but when one of his surviving members tries to shoot, John shoots him and himself gets shot unintentionally by Naik, the same way John mistakenly shot the young girl. He breathes his last near Shalini, who gets shattered by his death.

At the ends, where Shalini is happily playing with two kids.

Music / song of the movie :

The music composer is Vishal-Shekhar and Pankaj Awasthi whileThe lyricist Vishal Dadlani, Irshad Kamil, Dev Kohli, Pankaj Awasthi, Amit Mishra and Harshdeep.

“Ishq Nachaya Kare”……………………Sunidhi Chauhan
“Koi Aisa Alam”…………………Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer
“Le Jaa”………………………….Harshdeep, Vishal Dadlani
“Tera Hi Karam”…………………..Pankaj Awasthi
“Tinka Tinka”………………………..Alisha Chinai
“Ishq Nachaya Kare” (Instrumental)………….Vishal-Shekhar
“Tinka Tinka” (Instrumental)……………….Vishal-Shekhar

“Tinka Tinka” full video song :

Priyanka Chopra in the song

Singer : Alisha Chinoy
Music Director : Vishal, Shekhar
Lyricst : Vishal, Irshad Kamil
Music Label : T-Series

Review of the film :

Mostly Negative review from critics and also Box office disaster.

Box office collection :

First Day…………………..0.77 crores
Saturday…………………..0.65 crores
Sunday…………………….0.80 crores
First Weekend……………2.22 crores
Monday…………………….0.40 crores
Tuesday……………………0.30 crores
First Week……………….3.41 crores
Second Week……………1.08 crores
Third Week………………0.26 crores
Lifetime India (net)……….5 crores
Worldwide Gross…………8 crores