Andaz Apna Apna

Andaz Apna Apna (transl.  A style of their own) is a 1994 Indian Hindi language comedy film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, produced by Vinay Kumar Sinha, starring Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Paresh Rawal and Shakti Kapoor in the leading roles; Mehmood, Govinda and Juhi Chawla having guest appearances. The film was released on 4 November 1994. The plot elements of the film were later used in other language films such as Ullathai Allitha (1996), Veedevadandi Babu (1997) and Galate Aliyandru (2000), though none being a frame to frame remake. The film has emerged as a cult film over the years. The lexicon of the film has become part of every day language. The climax of this film is a rehashed version of the climax of a 1972 film Victoria No. 203.[4]

Andaz Apna Apna
Poster
Directed byRajkumar Santoshi
Produced byVinay Kumar Sinha
Written byRajkumar Santoshi
Dilip Shukla
StarringAamir Khan
Salman Khan
Raveena Tandon
Karisma Kapoor
Paresh Rawal
Shakti Kapoor
Music byTushar Bhatia
CinematographyIshwar Bidri
Edited byV. N. Mayekar
Distributed byVinay Pictures
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 4 November 1994 (1994-11-04)
[1][2]
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹29 million[3]
Box officeest.₹86.5 million[3]

Plot

Amar and Prem are two daydreamers with a common aim: getting rich by marrying a rich heiress, Raveena Bajaj, daughter of the wealthy Ram Gopal Bajaj. Raveena travels to India with her secretary and friend, Karishma. She's in India to find a suitable groom. The men run into each other on a bus bound for Ooty, where Raveena lives, and soon realise that they have a common goal. The two then fail at various attempts to woo the woman.

Meanwhile, they decide to insinuate themselves in her house. Amar pretends to be a man who has lost his memory after getting hit by Raveena, while Prem pretends to be a doctor. The boys do not know that Raveena and Karishma switched identities. The secretary "Karishma" is the real Raveena while the rich heiress "Raveena" is actually Karishma. Raveena switched her identity because she wanted to find a boy who will love her, not her money.

Nobody is aware that Ram Gopal has a twin brother called Shyam Gopal Bajaj, alias Teja. Teja is a criminal who has taken much money from Crime Master Gogo. Teja hopes to land the riches himself by kidnapping his brother and posing as Ram. He has also planted his cronies Robert and Bhalla in the household. Robert and Bhalla attempt to kill Raveena multiple times to no success.

Ram arrives in India and Teja plans to steal Ram's money converted in diamonds. Ram sees through the real nature of Amar and Prem, thus declining Raveena's marriage to either of them. The duo plan to fake a kidnapping where they will heroically "rescue" Ram. Unknown to them, Teja has also planned to kidnap Ram.

Teja succeeds in having Ram kidnapped. Amar and Prem go to rescue Ram, but Teja makes them believe that he is Ram and enters Ram's household. Initially, nobody suspects a thing, but the girls soon smell a rat. The boys have discovered the real identities of the girls. Prem has fallen for the real Raveena, while Amar has fallen for the real Karishma.

The girls tell their suspicions to the boys. The boys tail Teja and soon find out the truth. Here, Ram tricks Teja and escapes the prison. However, the boys mistake him for Teja, resulting in Ram being imprisoned again – with Amar and Prem. However, Amar and Prem succeed in convincing Robert and Bhalla that Ram is Teja.

The boys, along with Robert and Bhalla, stop Teja. Meanwhile, throughout the film, Robert and Bhalla are constantly harassed by Gogo who's demanding his money back. He soon discovers about the diamonds and kidnaps Ram along with Raveena and Karishma. At Gogo's lair, the boys try to control the situation along with Ram. In a comic standoff, the real motive of each villain is revealed. However, due to the smartness of the boys, police raid Gogo's lair, thus rounding up all the criminals. Ram gets his diamonds back and finally decides to let Karishma and Raveena marry Prem and Amar.

Cast and crew

Cast

In 2013, there were rumors that former United Nations diplomat and member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor made a guest appearance in the film. Tharoor clarified on Twitter that the person in question was not him.[5]

Crew

Production

The film's producer Vinay Sinha approached writer-director Rajkumar Santoshi with the idea of making a film with Aamir Khan.[6] Having made two back-to-back serious films like Ghayal (1990) and Damini – Lightning (1993), Santoshi wanted to make a comedy film.[7] It was then decided that he would script a funny film about two warring buddies, the human versions of Tom and Jerry.[6] He then decided to bring Salman Khan to the party followed by then relative newcomers Karishma Kapoor and Raveena Tandon as the female leads along with Paresh Rawal in a double role.[7] Santoshi started writing the script after the casting.[8] Initially Salman Khan wanted more screen space than the other, but later agreed to have the same amount of screen time.[9] Tinnu Anand was offered the role of the villain "Gogo", but could not do it because of date issues.[8] It eventually went to Shakti Kapoor. The Muhurat shot was done by cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.[9] Andaz Apna Apna took three years in making, and several scenes were improvised by the actors on set.[8][9]

Reception

The film only did moderately well at box-office; it was able to recover its budget cost mainly due to business from big cities, but did not turn out to be a massive hit contrary to everyone's expectations. It earned an excess of ₹5 crore nett in India.[10] Its total domestic gross was ₹8.18 crore, and its overseas gross was $150,000, bringing its worldwide gross to ₹8.653 crore (equivalent to ₹46 crore or US$6.4 million in 2019).[3] It was the year's 17th highest-grossing Indian film.[11]

The lack of publicity and tough competition from other films of that year including Laadla, Mohra, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Krantiveer and 1942: A Love Story were reasons for its average business.[12] All of these films were very strong in their box office presence and Andaz Apna Apna, belonging to a different genre, could not compete well. It has however, in subsequent years, achieved a cult classic status among Hindi audiences.[6][7]

Several dialogues from this film like "Teja main hu. Mark Idhar hai", "Crime Master Gogo, Mogambo ka Bhatija", "Do dost ek cup me chay piyenge" etc., are popular.[13][14] It went on to be an inspiration for the plot element of the Tamil film Ullathai Allitha, the Telugu film Veedevadandi Babu and the Kannada film Galate Aliyandru. It was also reported that the climax of 1973 film Victoria No. 203, including the set and the action, was shot-to-shot copied in this film.[15]

While reviewing Grand Masti in 2013, critic Khalid Mohamed described Andaz Apna Apna in the "collection of excellent comedies" from Hindi cinema.[16] Film critic Raja Sen called it a "cornball classic" and "one of the greatest comedies in recent times."[17] In 2014, comedian Aditi Mittal wrote: "Writing about Andaz Apna Apna, I have realised, is like writing about mother’s love. Everyone has their own version of how it affects them, what lines they remember the most."[18]

Soundtrack
Andaz Apna Apna
Soundtrack album by
Tushar Bhatia
Released11 April 1994 (1994-04-11)[19]
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelTips Music
External audio
Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The film has four songs composed by Tushar Bhatia with lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Do Mastane Chale"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Debashish Dasgupta06:03
2."Dil Karta Hai"Mangal Singh04:58
3."Ye Raat Aur Ye Doori"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Asha Bhosle05:12
4."Ello Ello"Behroze Chaterjee, Vicky Mehta05:55
5."Jaane Tune Jaana Nahin (Not in film)"Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Behroze Chaterjee, Debashish Dasgupta, Sadhana Sargam04:36
6."Shola Shola Tu Bhadke (Not in film)"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Behroze Chaterjee, Debashish Dasgupta, Sapna Mukherjee05:03
Total length:31:47

Remakes

The plot elements of the film were used in many languages as Ullathai Allitha (1996), Veedevadandi Babu (1997) and Galate Aliyandru (2000). Andaz Naya Naya is a Bollywood animated 3D film, which is an official remake of Andaz Apna Apna, but it has been shelved due to unknown reasons.[20] Producer Sidharth Jain began to question if the film would do any good at the box office because Indian animated films do not get good market, so Jain shelved the film after being 35% done.[21]

Awards

AwardCategoryNomineeResult
40th Filmfare AwardsBest ComedianShakti KapoorNominated
Best FilmVinay Kumar SinhaNominated
Best DirectorRajkumar SantoshiNominated
Best ActorAamir KhanNominated

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