Aflatoon (1997 film)

Aflatoon
DVD cover
Directed byGuddu Dhanoa
Produced byGuddu Dhanoa
Lalit Kapoor
Raju Narula
StarringAkshay Kumar
Urmila Matondkar
Anupam Kher
CinematographySripad V. Natu
Edited byA. Muthu
Music byDilip Sen-Sameer Sen
Production
company
Bhagwan Chitra Mandir
Release date
  • 19 December 1997 (1997-12-19)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box officeest.₹7.93 crore[1]

Aflatoon (transl. 'Maverick') is an Indian Hindi-language crime action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa. The film stars Akshay Kumar in dual roles along with Urmila Matondkar and Anupam Kher in supporting roles.

Plot

Raja (Akshay Kumar), a good-for-nothing loafer trying to get rich quick, impersonates Parimal Chaturvedi, a college professor and enters into a college full of beautiful rich women. He falls for a rich girl Pooja (Urmila Matondkar), and manages to win her heart.

Trouble comes when Pooja's father Prakash (Anupam Kher) mistakes Raja for Rocky (also Akshay Kumar), a ruthless and merciless criminal who extorts money from people by threatening to kill them. Prakash, who is being threatened by Rocky, asks Raja for help, so Raja decides to impersonate Rocky to get his secrets and Prakash's money. But the tables are turned when Rocky finds out about Raja's game and decides to return the favor.

Raja wakes up and finds himself kidnapped and held by Rocky and his goons. He then realizes he has been drugged for the past seven days, and in these seven days, Rocky has posed as Raja and has convinced Raja's friends, mother, and Pooja that he is Raja, and is all set to marry Pooja. Rocky sets up an elaborate scheme which ends with Raja framed and arrested under the name of Rocky. Raja manages to convince an officer to believe him, and is given 24 hours to prove himself. Raja ends up crashing the wedding, where he tells the truth; desperate, Rocky escapes and goes on the run with Pooja. Raja follows him to a multi-story building where the two fight brutally. Raja gains the advantage and knocks out Rocky, but he recovers to push Raja off the building, who falls to his death. At the end Rocky posing as Raja, marries Pooja

Cast

Soundtrack

The song "We Love We Love Rocky" was inspired by Queen's song We Will Rock You.[2] The song "Poster Lagwado Bazar Mein" was recreated by Tanishk Bagchi for 2019 film Luka Chuppi[3]

# Title Singer(s)
1 "Aflatoon - Aflatoon" Remo Fernandes
2 "Poster Lagwado Bazar Mein (Duet)" Lalit Sen, Shweta Shetty
3 "Oye Oye Tere Si Ladki" Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal
4 "Uee Maa Uee Maa Mar Gayi Re" Abhijeet, Anuradha Paudwal
5 "We Love We Love Rocky" Vinod Rathod
6 "Tu Mange Dil Main De Doon Jaan" Hariharan, Chitra
7 "Poster Lagwado Bazar Mein (Male)" Lalit Sen
8 "Gori Chori Chori" Alisha Chinai

References

  1. ^ "Aflatoon Box office collection". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Copied Bollywood Music Form English Songs, Pop and Rap Songs | Latest Articles".
  3. ^ "Luka Chuppi: Kartik Aaryan to star in recreated version of Akshay Kumar's song 'Yeh Khabar Chapwa Do Akhbar Mein'". Bollywood Hungama. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2019.