''Keemat – They Are Back'' () is a 1998 Indian
Hindi
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-language
action film
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directed by Sameer Malkan based on a story by
Sayed Sultan
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and produced by brothers Ganesh and Ramesh Jain. It stars
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Hari Om Bhatia (born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia; 9 September 1967), known professionally as Akshay Kumar (), is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", through his career span ...
,
Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan (; born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi; 16 August 1970) is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Hindi cinema, Hindi films. The titular head of the Pataudi family since 2011, he is the son of actress Sharmila Tagore a ...
,
Raveena Tandon
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and
Sonali Bendre
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, with
Ravi Kishen and
Anupam Kher
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in supporting roles. This was the fourth collaboration between Kumar and Khan after hits like ''
Main Khiladi Tu Anari
''Main Khiladi Tu Anari'' () is a 1994 Indian action comedy film directed by Sameer Malkan. The screenplay is written by Sachin Bhowmick. Starring Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Shilpa Shetty and Raageshwari in the lead roles and Shakti Kapoo ...
'', ''
Yeh Dillagi
''Yeh Dillagi'' () is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama film film directed by Naresh Malhotra and produced by Yash Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner. An adaptation of the 1954 American film ''Sabrina'', which in turn w ...
'' and ''
Tu Chor Main Sipahi''.
Synopsis
Dev and Ajay are brothers, thieves and con men by profession. Sharmili is also a thief who meets Dev and Ajay in a pub, steals their wallets and runs away. Some goons attack her on the way, but Dev and Ajay rescue her. Sharmili is impressed with Dev's fighting skill and believes he is a good human being, so she falls in love with him. Then, Dev and Ajay accidentally kill a young man named Mohan Tripathi. This weighs heavily on their minds, so they find the address of the deceased and travel to his village called Badlapur. They learn that Mohan went to Mumbai to pursue his studies and become a doctor. They meet Mohan's father, Dinanath Tripathi, his mother, Sulakshana, a sister, and Mohan's wife, but are unable to tell them the sad news. So they lie and tell the Tripathis that Mohan is alive, and they are his friends. They decide to stay to assist the Tripathis. In this village Ajay meets Mansi, a village girl, and they fall in love. Sharmili then arrives in Badlapur seeking Dev. Dev also starts loving Sharmili.
Dev and Ajay learn that this village is being terrorized by a tyrannical land-owner named Bhanu Pratap Singh and his men. Bhanu Pratap wants to seize the lands of the poor villagers at any cost, so that he can start building on it. With the course of the story it is revealed that Bhanu Pratap brutally killed his honest elder brother as well as the original land-owner of this village Thakur Suraj Pratap Singh and his wife to seize all the "zamindari" in the past. Dev and Ajay start opposing Bhanu Pratap and his men. Meanwhile, Mohan's wife who is pregnant with Mohan's child, had died during her labour pain because there is no hospital at that village, and the doctor from the other village came late. That time Dev and Ajay reveal the truth of Mohan's death in front of everyone and also confess that they were responsible for his accidental death. Then Dinanath drives them away from the village but they stay there and save the villagers from Bhanu Pratap's torture.
Then Bhanu Pratap finds out with the help of Lala Wajanlal, a greedy money-lender that Ajay has vices of drinking and gambling — and he decides to exploit this in order to separate the two brothers, He creates differences and bitterness between Dev and Ajay and starts taking advantage of the situation. Ajay succumbs to his temptation to gamble and starts losing money. Shortly thereafter he has lost all his money. Humiliated, he steals some gold bangles belonging to the Tripathis and sells them, so that he can continue playing. Dev finds out about this theft, and thus begins the rift between the two brothers that Bhanu has been waiting for. But later it is revealed that Ajay's transformation was a master plan schemed by both Dev and Ajay to deceive Bhanu Pratap and to get money from him by winning his confidence, so that they can use the money to build a hospital in the village which was Dinanath's dream too. When Bhanu Pratap discovers their conspiracy, he attacks them and Dinanath's family with his goons. They fight with the goons, save Dinanath and his family, specially Dinanath's daughter and the poor villagers. Meanwhile, Bhanu Pratap publicly reveals that Mohan was not accidentally killed by Dev and Ajay, it was he who intentionally killed Mohan by hitting him by his car. Dev then kills Bhanu Pratap. Then everyone unites.
Cast
Source
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Akshay Kumar
Akshay Hari Om Bhatia (born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia; 9 September 1967), known professionally as Akshay Kumar (), is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", through his career span ...
as Dev
*
Raveena Tandon
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as Sharmili
*
Saif Ali Khan
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as Ajay
*
Sonali Bendre
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as Mansi
*
Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher (born 7 March 1955) is an Indian actor, director and producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he has acted in more than 540 films. A veteran of Indian cinema, Kher is recipient of two Na ...
as Dinanath Tripathi
*
Dalip Tahil
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as Bhanu Pratap Singh / Singhania
*
Shakti Kapoor
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as Lala Wajanlal
*
Moushmi Chatterjee as Sulakshana (Mohan's mother)
*
Avtar Gill
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as Ajay and Dev's foster father
*
Ravi Kishan
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as Mohan Tripathi
*
Johnny Lever
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as Sub-inspector Ultappan / Veerappan
*
Mukesh Khanna
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as Thakur Suraj Pratap Singh
*
Hussain Khan as Victor
* Kiran Javeri (as Mohan's wife)
* Sheetal Suvarna as Sharda (Mohan's sister)
Production
This film was delayed for 2 years.
Manisha Koirala
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was offered the role of Mansi but was replaced by
Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre Behl (born 1 January 1975), known professionally as Sonali Bendre, is an Indian actress predominantly known for her work in Hindi and Telugu films. Considered as one of the leading actresses of the 1990s and early 2000s, Bendre s ...
.
Saif Ali Khan
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's role was offered before to
Ajay Devgn
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. It was the last film of
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Hari Om Bhatia (born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia; 9 September 1967), known professionally as Akshay Kumar (), is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", through his career span ...
and
Raveena Tandon
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before their breakup.
Armaan Kohli
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Kohli was born to film director Rajkumar Kohli and actres ...
was approached but he was busy in ''
Qahar
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Plot
Amar Kapoor ( Sun ...
.''
Soundtrack
The music was directed by
Rajesh Roshan
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Career
Rajesh Roshan had a frequent successful collaboratio ...
. The song "Koi Nahin Tere Jaisa" was a copy of
Cotton Eye Joe
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by
Rednex
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.
References
1998 films
1998 action films
1990s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Rajesh Roshan
Indian action films
1990s masala films
Films about con artists
External links
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