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Ab Ke Baras ( This Year) is a 2002 Indian
Hindi language Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
action romance film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
. 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 ...
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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 ...
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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