Ab Ke Baras ( This Year) is a 2002 Indian
Hindi language
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action romance film
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. It had launched the career of the two newcomers,
Amrita Rao
Amrita Rao (born 7 June 1981), is an Indian actress who is known primarily for her work in Hindi films. Rao made her acting debut in ''Ab Ke Baras'' (2002), which earned her a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut in 2003. She su ...
and
Arya Babbar
Aarya Babbar is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood and Punjabi films. In 2014, Aarya participated in the eighth season of ''Bigg Boss''.
Career
Aarya Babbar started his film career with Raj Kanwar's ''Ab Ke Baras'' alongside Amrita R ...
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Plot
U.S. based Anjali Thapar has repeated dreams of a parallel life in India, the temple of Devi Maa Durga, some sword-wielding men on horseback. She and her mom consult a pandit, and he advises them to go to India to clear this matter up, as this pertains to her past life. Mr. Thapar will only let Anjali go there after she marries the man of his choice, so Anjali decides to run away. Her dad alerts her uncle, a ruthless CBI Officer, DCP Sikander Baksh, who is soon on her case. Anjali meets with car-thieves, Karan and his uncle, and then begins her journey into a past life, as Nandini, the lover of freedom fighter Abhay, and his subsequent death at the hands of British-aided traitor Tejeshwar Singhal. But both Karan and Anjali are unaware of the consequences. They both reach a college camp as husband and wife where college girls and professors give them new clothes and treat them lovingly. They both run away from the camp in the morning and come across a gang leader Ashish Vidyarthi whom Anjali remembers as the leader of goons attacking her in the old hotel. He along with his cronies takes the duo hostage and threatens them to reveal the location of his car as it has illegal arms worth 50 million. Anjali takes the robbers far into the forest and orders Karan to run from there. But Karan refuses and starts running dragging Anjali along. Then the goons attack them both, Karan is gravely injured and left to die near the river bank. He unfortunately falls into the river due to taking a bullet in his shoulder. Anjali is taken to a large villa and Vidyarthi leaves her alone inside a large room after slapping her angrily. Anjali shouts saying Karan is alive and will come back. Vidyarthi leaves for fetching his nephew Rajvir. It is revealed that Karan is found by an old doctor who knows Tejeshwar of old and describes his brutality as a British police officer who killed innocent protestors. Anjali meanwhile comes across Singhal's portrait and starts thinking of an escape route. She happily declares Tejeshwar will be soon finished. She stands in a corner for some time, lost in her own thoughts. Here, Tejeshwar is delivering a speech while canvassing for the upcoming elections with his sons and an assistant. Soon, the canvassing ends and Rajvir reaches the villa with his goons who lead him to the hostage, Anjali. Anjali threatens him to let go of her. She denies knowing anything when Rajvir asks her about their goods. Impressed with the beautiful and fiery teenage girl, Rajvir chides his uncle and their goons, apologizing to Anjali for their rude behavior. He asks them all to leave. Forwarding his hand he introduces himself and Anjali reciprocates. Rajvir kisses her knuckles and Anjali asks him about the man in the portrait. Rajvir tells her about his father and she expresses her desire to meet him. Rajvir agrees and they attend the evening birthday celebration in Tejeshwar's honor. Anjali is delighted to see Karan alive over there after being fetched by her uncle, and they start planning Tejeshwar's downfall. Rajvir falls in love with Anjali and Bmw i.e., Shakti Kapoor comes there as anjali's father. He brags about his wealth and Tejeshwar happily agrees for the alliance. The very same night, Anjali cleverly extracts the hidden safe information from Rajvir about their black money. But Rajvir tries to kill her after catching her red handed. While he attacks her with broken wine bottles, Karan saves her by killing Rajvir in the nick of time. Then rajvir's uncle is accused of killing him and abandoned by the family members mourning their son. Later, Tejeshwar's illegal consignments are destroyed. When he abducts Anjali and Bmw while trying to flee india, Karan and the police attack his helicopter in a second defence chopper. Rescuing Anjali, the police gun down Tejeshwar and his older son. Sikandar Baksh proudly produces a freedom order for Karan. As Karan and Anjali stare at him surprised, he bounds their hands with the same chain handcuff, this uniting the duo for ever.
Cast
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Arya Babbar
Aarya Babbar is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood and Punjabi films. In 2014, Aarya participated in the eighth season of ''Bigg Boss''.
Career
Aarya Babbar started his film career with Raj Kanwar's ''Ab Ke Baras'' alongside Amrita R ...
as Karan/Abhay
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Amrita Rao
Amrita Rao (born 7 June 1981), is an Indian actress who is known primarily for her work in Hindi films. Rao made her acting debut in ''Ab Ke Baras'' (2002), which earned her a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut in 2003. She su ...
as Anjali Thapar/Nandini
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Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh Ramnarayan Neekhra (born 10 November 1967), known professionally as Ashutosh Rana, is an Indian actor, producer, author and television personality. He has worked in Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi films. He has also worked ...
as Tejeshwar Singhal
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Danny Denzongpa
Tshering Phintso "Danny" Denzongpa (born 25 February 1948) is an Indian actor, singer and film director who primarily works in Hindi films. He has acted in over 190 films since 1971. In 2003, Denzongpa was awarded the Padma Shree, India's fourt ...
as CBI Officer Sikander Baksh
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Shakti Kapoor
Shakti Kapoor (born Sunil Kapoor; 3 September 1952) is an Indian actor and comedian who appears in Bollywood films. Known for his villainous and comic roles in Hindi films, he has featured in over 600 films. In the 1980s and 1990s, Kapoor teame ...
as Cameo appearance
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Ghanshyam
Swaminarayan (IAST: ', 3 April 1781 – 1 June 1830), also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi and ascetic, who is believed by followers to be a manifestation of God Krishna, or as the highest manifestation of Purushottam, and around ...
as Kancha
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Ashish Vidyarthi
Ashish Vidyarthi (born 19 June 1962) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Odia, Marathi and Bengali films. He is noted for his antagonist and character roles. In 1995, he received t ...
as Rudra Singh
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Shakti Kapoor
Shakti Kapoor (born Sunil Kapoor; 3 September 1952) is an Indian actor and comedian who appears in Bollywood films. Known for his villainous and comic roles in Hindi films, he has featured in over 600 films. In the 1980s and 1990s, Kapoor teame ...
as Bmw
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Vishwajeet Pradhan
Vishwajeet Pradhan (born 11 September 1965) is an Indian and television actor who has worked in Hindi films and television.
Incidents on sets
A major fire broke out on the sets of ''No Problem'' while the unit was shooting in the middle of th ...
as Bali
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Vivek Shauq
Vivek Shauq (21 June 1963 – 10 January 2011) was an Indian actor, comedian, writer and singer. He had acted in Hindi and Punjabi films, television serials, theatre and television commercials. He was also a popular writer and singer. Shauq w ...
as Nainsukh Pathak
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Nina Kulkarni
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as Prerna
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Mohan Joshi
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Early life
Joshi was born in Bangalore, Karnataka. He made his acting debut in Pune, Maharashtra. For better career prospects, ...
as Raghuvir Singh
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Dolly Minhas
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as Abhay Sister
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Rajat Bedi
Rajat Narendra Bedi is an Indo-Canadians, Indo-Canadian actor, who primarily appears in Bollywood, Hindi cinema. He is best known for portraying Raj Saxena in the film ''Koi... Mil Gaya'' (2003).
Career
Bedi has worked over 40 films, including ...
as Rajbir Singhal
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Manoj Joshi
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Snehal Dabi
Snehal Dabi (born 24 February 1977) is an Indian actor, writer, director, and producer born into a Gujarati family and brought up in Mumbai. He is a theater performer since his school days. He has performed in Hindi language films, Marathi, G ...
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Hemant Pandey
Hemant Pandey is an India film, theatre and television actor, most known for his role as Pandeyji in TV series, ''Office Office'' (2000). Originally from Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, Hemant Pandey got his first break in Delhi by an NGO called Janm ...
as Hotel/ Lodge Manager
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Yusuf Hussain
Yusuf Hussain (21 January 1948 – 30 October 2021) was an Indian television actor known for his work predominantly in Bollywood. Yusuf was also known for his work in Dhoom 2, OMG – Oh My God!, Raees Dil Chahta Hai and Krrish 3. Yusuf was ...
Track listing
Music composer is
Anu Malik
Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer. He is an Indian National Award and Filmfare Award winning musician, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film indus ...
. The song "Aya Mahi Aya" was quite popular.
Critical reception
Priyanka Bhattacharya of
Rediff.com
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, it had more than 300 e ...
wrote ″Director Raj Kanwar uses the tried-and-tested reincarnation formula. But he seems to lose focus somewhere along the film. So in spite of a decent beginning, the film gets hopelessly melodramatic and irksome post interval.″
References
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2000s Hindi-language films
2002 films
Films about reincarnation
Films scored by Anu Malik
Indian romantic action films
Films directed by Raj Kanwar
2000s romantic action films
Hindi-language romance films
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