Ishq (1997 film)

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{{short description|1997 film by Indra Kumar}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Ishq
| image = Ishq 1997.jpg
| caption = Promotional Poster
| director = [[Indra Kumar]]
| producer = Gordhan Tanwani
| writer = Tanveer Khan (dialogues)
| story = Praful Parikh Rajiv Kaul
| screenplay = Praful Parikh Rajiv Kaul
| narrator =
| starring = [[Aamir Khan]] [[Ajay Devgan]] [[Juhi Chawla]] [[Kajol]]
| music = '''Songs:''' [[Anu Malik]] '''Background Score:''' [[Surinder Sodhi]]
| cinematography = [[Baba Azmi]]
| editing = Hussain A. Burmawala
| studio = Baba Films
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1997|11|28}}
| runtime = 170 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR|10.4 crores}}<ref name="boi"/>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|500million crores}}<ref name="boi"/>
}}

'''''Ishq''''' ({{translation}} ''Love'') is an Indian 1997 [[Hindi]]-language [[Romance film|romantic]] [[action comedy film]] directed by [[Indra Kumar]]. It stars [[Aamir Khan]], [[Ajay Devgn]], [[Juhi Chawla]] and [[Kajol]] along with [[Dalip Tahil]], [[Sadashiv Amrapurkar]], [[Johnny Lever]] and [[Mohan Joshi]] in supporting roles.

The film theatrically opened on 28 November 1997, to mixed reviews, but became the third-highest grossing film of 1997, grossing more than {{INRConvert|500|m}} worldwide.

==Plot==
Ranjit and Harbans Lal are wealthy businessmen who despise the poor. However, Ranjit's son Ajay is friends with poor mechanic Raja since childhood, and Harbans's daughter Madhu is friends with a poor Kajal. They fix up Ajay and Madhu's marriage. But instead Ajay falls in love with Kajal, and Raja and Madhu fall in love. Ranjit and Harbans plan to separate them. They pretend to accept Raja and Kajal. On the way to Raja and Madhu's engagement, Ranjit gets Kajal kidnapped by rapists. Raja saves and comforts her. Meanwhile their photos are taken, unaware to them. When they arrive at the party, Ranjit shows the same photos to play like they're intimate, which finally leads Ajay and Madhu to leave Kajal and Raja. The latter two move to Raja's house.

The situation worsens further when Ajay and Madhu think Kajal is pregnant with Raja's child. They decide to marry to their fathers' will. To prove his innocence, Raja joins hands with Ajay's uncle Lambodar by attacking Ajay and Madhu and pretending that he is about to rape Madhu but Ajay saves and comforts her. Lambodar takes same photos as like was previously for Raja and Kajal. Ranjit and Harbans make Kajal and Raja to agree to leave India. Ajay and Madhu's wedding is about to begin when Lambodar shows the photos he clicked of them after Raja almost raped her. This proves Raja had attacked them to recreate the situation he and Kajal were in, which proved Raja and Kajal are innocent and the fathers are real masterminds. Kajal's uncle Madan also confesses, Ranjit paid him 2 lakh rupees to hide the truth.

Angry and heartbroken, Ajay tries to kill Ranjit and then himself but Madhu and Lambodar stop him. They go to find Raja and Kajal and rush to the shipyard, stopping them. They apologize and get back together. It is revealed that Ranjit and Harbans, both having realised his mistakes, delayed the ship's departure. The lovers forgive the fathers and everyone is reunited.

==Cast==
*[[Aamir Khan]] as Raja Ahlawat
*[[Ajay Devgan]] as Ajay Rai
*[[Juhi Chawla]] as Madhu Saxena
*[[Kajol]] as Kajal Jindal
*[[Johnny Lever]] as Lambodar Upadhyay
*[[Sadashiv Amrapurkar]] as Ranjit Rai
*[[Dalip Tahil]] as Harbans Lal Saxena
*[[Mohan Joshi]] as Madan Jindal
*[[Razzak Khan]] as Nawaab naadin Dhinna Change
*[[Shwetha Menon]] as Jia, dancer in song "Humko Tumse Pyar Hai" (special appearance)
*[[Ghanashyam Nayak]] as ACP Ghanshyam Gulati
*[[Achyut Potdar]] as Barrister Chandrakant Gokhale
*[[Deepak Shirke]] as Damliya
*[[Tiku Talsania]] as Pankaj Gaitonde
*[[Deven Verma]] as Behram
*[[Anant Mahadevan]] as Brijesh Lal Saxena

==Production==
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===Development===

Director [[Indra Kumar]] had initially planned to make ''Ishq'' in 1991 with [[Aamir Khan]] and [[Pooja Bhatt]] as two of the four leads, but due to their personal problems at the time, they opted out of the film. Later, [[Boney Kapoor]] asked Kumar to make the film with [[Sanjay Kapoor]] and [[Vivek Mushran]] playing the roles of Ajay and Raja, respectively. However, Kumar had no happiness to cast the two, and he then made the film ''[[Raja (1995 film)|Raja]]'' (1995) with Sanjay Kapoor, which released in 1995. He again came with the idea of making ''Ishq'' in 1996 and selected [[Ajay Devgn]], [[Aamir Khan]], [[Kajol]] and [[Juhi Chawla]] to play the leads.

===Casting===

[[Karisma Kapoor]] and [[Madhuri Dixit]] were offered the roles of Kajol and Juhi Chawla, respectively, but the former declined to work opposite Devgan and the latter had date issues. Along with this, [[Amitabh Bachchan]] was signed to play the role of a man who after completing an intermission tries to unite the four lovers, but due to some problems with Kumar, he left the film, and Kumar later removed that character from the film. ''Ishq'' was Kumar's first film to not star Madhuri Dixit as a female lead and the second movie with Aamir Khan after 1990's ''[[Dil (1990 film)|Dil]]''. The film also marked the first collaboration between Kumar and Devgn.

===Filming===

During the shooting of the film, Aamir Khan threw a prank on Juhi Chawla, after which she got irritated.

==Box office==
The movie was a blockbuster at the box office. It earned {{₹|53.2 [[crore]]}}, against a budget of {{₹|10 crore}}. Its gross is equivalent to {{INR|{{#expr:45.61125*(2009760660/249325000) round 0}} crore}} adjusted for inflation in 2019.<ref name="boi">{{cite web |title=Ishq – Movie |url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=2627 |website=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=15 January 2019}}</ref> It became the third-highest grossing film of 1997, behind ''[[Dil To Pagal Hai]]'' and ''[[Border (1997 film)|Border]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top Hits 1997 |url=https://boxofficeindia.com/hit-down.php?txtYearlyData=1990-1999&year=1997 |website=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=1 April 2020}}</ref>

==Music==
The music was composed by Anu Malik. The ''Ishq'' [[soundtrack album]] sold 3{{nbsp}}million units, making it the year's sixth best-selling [[Bollywood soundtrack]] album.<ref name="boi90s">{{cite web|title=Music Hits 1990–1999 (Figures in Units)|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=284&catName=MTk5MC0xOTk5|website=[[Box Office India]]|date=2 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205042906/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=284&catName=MTk5MC0xOTk5|archive-date=5 February 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The tune of the hit track '"Neend Churai Meri" was copied from the [[Linear (group)|Linear]] song "[[Sending All My Love]]". It was subsequently remade as ''Maine Tujhko Dekha'' by Malik's nephew [[Amaal Malik]] for the 2017 film ''[[Golmaal Again]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.storypick.com/amaal-responds-to-anu-malik/|title="It'll Always Be My Tune," Anu Malik Miffed With Amaal For No Credits In 'Neend Churai' Remix|date=2017-10-25|work=Storypick|access-date=2018-09-17|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/amaal-mallik-breaks-his-silence-ongoing-controversy-uncle-anu-malik-over-golmaal-again-song-747208|title=Amaal Mallik breaks his silence on ongoing controversy with uncle Anu Malik over Golmaal Again song credits|last=Gaikwad|first=Pramod|work=International Business Times, India Edition|access-date=2018-09-17}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Title !! Singer(s)!! Lyrics !! Length
|-
| "Neend Churai Meri"
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Udit Narayan]], [[Alka Yagnik]] & [[Kavita Krishnamurthy]]
| [[Rahat Indori]]
| 05:47
|-
| "Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai"
|[[Abhijeet Bhattacharya|Abhijeet]], [[Anu Malik]]
| Anu Malik
| 05:08
|-
|"Dekho Dekho Jaanam"
|Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
| Rahat Indori
| 05:14
|-
|"Ishq Hua... Kaise Hua"
|Udit Narayan, [[Vibha Sharma]]
| [[Javed Akhtar]]
| 07:34
|-
|"Mr. Lova Lova" (Ankhiyaan Tu Mila Le)
|Udit Narayan, Abhijeet, [[Sudesh Bhosle]], Kavita Krishnamurthy, [[Sushma Shrestha|Poornima]]
| [[Dev Kohli]]
| 05:25
|-
|"Kaise Kahoon Kaise Ho Tum"
|Kumar Sanu, Vibha Sharma
| Javed Akhtar
| 06:25
|-
|"Ishq Hai Ishq Hai" (Jab Nind Na Aaye)
|Jayshree Shivram
| Dev Kohli
| 05:29
|-
|"Tu Jhootha"
|Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Abhijeet, [[Sadhna Sargam]]
| Javed Akhtar
| 07:45
|}

==Awards==

{| class="wikitable"
! Ceremony !! Category !! Recipient(s)/Nominees(s) !! Result
|-
| [[43rd Filmfare Awards]] || [[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role|Best Villain]] || [[Sadashiv Amrapurkar]] || rowspan="3" {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[Zee Cine Awards|1st Zee Cine Awards]] || [[Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Male|Best Actor]] || [[Aamir Khan]]
|-
| [[Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female|Best Actress]] || [[Juhi Chawla]]
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0133024|title=Ishq}}

{{Films directed by Indra Kumar}}

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[[Category:1990s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1990s buddy comedy films]]
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[[Category:Films directed by Indra Kumar]]
[[Category:Films scored by Anu Malik]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Indian romantic comedy-drama films]]
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[[Category:Films set in Mumbai]]
[[Category:1990s romantic comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Films scored by Surinder Sodhi]]
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