Imtihaan

''Imtihan'' (translation: ''Trial'') is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action romance film directed by Harry Baweja, starring Sunny Deol, Saif Ali Khan and Raveena Tandon. The film was remade in Telugu as ''Prema Prayanam'' (1996).

Plot

Vicky (Saif Ali Khan) is a popular singer, who meets and falls in love with Preeti (Raveena Tandon). He asks permission to marry her from her father, who instantly approves of him. Preeti is reluctant to get married but her father falls ill and agrees for her father's sake. Soon, her father falls He makes her promise that she will not tell Vicky about her past life.

A few years earlier, Preeti had fallen in love with and married Raja (Sunny Deol) against her father's wishes. Though the two were very happy together, they were cruelly separated when Raja is presumed dead after being captured by a gang in revenge for beating up Gulshan, but falls into a river below.

Preeti’s father falls ill again. He tells the reason he is ill is because he has been hiding a secret: Preeti gave birth to a daughter; however, her father lied to her and said the baby died. Instead he sent the baby to an orphanage and tells her where. He then passes away. A mysterious figure overhears this conversation.

After marrying Vicky, Preeti is quite happy with him. She meets her daughter, Pinky, in the orphanage, and decides to legally adopt her. Vicky, who does not know about Preeti's connection to Pinky, opposes the adoption because he looks forward to having his own children some day. Preeti continues to meet Pinky. However, a mysterious stranger also contacts Preeti. She starts to receive phone calls from someone, and repeatedly lies to Vicky regarding her whereabouts. Convinced that Preeti is having an extramarital affair, Vicky follows her. It turns out she is being called by Raja, her first husband. Raja tells Vicky about their past and that Gulshan has kidnapped Pinky because she has witnessed him commit another murder and is with Gulshan's father. Raja has managed to capture Gulshan and agreed to exchange him with Pinky. Vicky agrees to help Raja. This is followed by some action scenes, which result in Raja's death. Before he dies he hands over Pinky's responsibility to Vicky.

Cast

* Sunny Deol as Raja
* Saif Ali Khan as Vicky
* Raveena Tandon as Preeti
* Shakti Kapoor as Shekhar
* Dalip Tahil as Dindayal Khanna
* Gulshan Grover as Gulshan
* Mohan Joshi as K.K.
* Asrani as Nandu
* Avtar Gill as Dr. Pandey
* Shammi as Orphanage Manager
* Baby Ghazala as Pinky
* Anil Nagrath as Ishwarchand
* Brij Gopal as Police Inspector

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was very popular especially track "Is Tarah Aashiqui Ka". According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 2,800,000 units sold the soundtrack became the ninth highest-selling album of the year.

Vocals for Deol were performed by Amit Kumar,
for Khan by Kumar Sanu and Vinod Rathod, and
for Tandon by Alka Yagnik and Bela Sulakhe

References

1990s Indian films
1990s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Anu Malik
Films directed by Harry Baweja
Indian romantic action films
Hindi films remade in other languages

External links

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{{Harry Baweja