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{{Short description|1993 film directed by Yash Chopra}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Darr: A Violent Love Story
| image = Darr poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical Release Poster
| director = [[Yash Chopra]]
| producer = Yash Chopra
| writer = [[Honey Irani]] [[Javed Siddiqui]]
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = [[Sunny Deol]] [[Juhi Chawla]] [[Shah Rukh Khan]] [[Anupam Kher]] [[Tanvi Azmi]] [[Dalip Tahil]]
| narrator =
| music = [[Shiv-Hari]]
| cinematography = [[Manmohan Singh (film director)|Manmohan Singh]]
| editing = '''Keshav Naidu'''
| studio = [[Yash Raj Films]]
| distributor = Yash Raj Films
| released = {{Film date|1993|12|24|df=yes}}
| runtime = 177 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Hindi]]
| budget = {{INR|3 crore}}<ref name="boxofficeindia1">{{cite web | title = Darr - Movie - Box Office India | work = boxofficeindia.com | access-date = 2016-08-11 | url = http://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=3320 }}</ref>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|21.31 crore}}<ref name="boxofficeindia1"/>
}}

'''''Darr''''' ({{Translation}} ''Fear'') is a 1993 [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[romantic film|romantic]] [[psychological thriller film]] directed by [[Yash Chopra]] through the studio [[Yash Raj Films]]. The film stars [[Sunny Deol]], [[Juhi Chawla]] and [[Shah Rukh Khan]] (in his first Yash Raj film), with [[Anupam Kher]], [[Tanvi Azmi]] and [[Dalip Tahil]] in supporting roles.

''Darr'' has won several accolades, including the [[National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment]]. The film received 10 nominations at the [[39th Filmfare Awards]], including [[Filmfare Award for Best Film|Best Film]], [[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for Chopra, [[Filmfare Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for Deol, [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for Chawla, and [[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role|Best Villain]] for Khan, and won 2 awards, including [[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role|Best Comedian]] for Kher. For Chawla, this was her fourth consecutive box office hit of the year solidifying her career as a leading lady in the 1990s. Khan's portrayal of obsessive lover was applauded by critics.

== Plot ==
The film begins with Kiran, a beautiful college student, returning home to her brother Vijay and his wife Poonam for Holi celebrations. She is being obsessively stalked along the way by Rahul, her classmate who has a crush on her. Kiran's boyfriend Sunil is a navy
officer Sunil's Captain Mehra is also the father of Rahul. Rahul tries to be friendly with Sunil in order to be closer to Kiran.

When Kiran reaches home, she is continually stalked by Rahul on the phone. This causes much stress to herself and her family. He crashes Kiran's family's Holi celebration as a member of the band. Sunil asks Kiran to offer the band some money for their performance, where Rahul expresses his love to Kiran, which disturbs her greatly and a foot chase ensues between Sunil and Rahul, but Rahul soon disappears into the crowd.

When Rahul receives the news of Kiran and Sunil's engagement, he tries to shoot and kill Sunil when the couple is out shopping for a wedding ring. He misses his aim and Sunil begins to chase him, from which Rahul escapes while Sunil meets with an accident.

Sunil after his recovery gets married to Kiran but Rahul still refuses to give up on Kiran. He kills the two cops assigned for their protection and defaces their new home with graffiti that declares his love and which causes them more distress. To get away from the stalker, Sunil takes Kiran on a surprise honeymoon to Switzerland while booking extra tickets to
Goa so that the stalker will go away. Rahul then kills his best friend Vikram and makes it look like that Vikram was the one who was her stalker. Rahul turns up at their hotel in the Alps after knowing their location from Poonam and Vijay. Kiran recognizes him from college and the couple welcomes him to be part of their festivities.

That very evening, Sunil finds out that Rahul was the one who has been Kiran's stalker all along. He sends Kiran away on a boat confronts Rahul and beats him up. Rahul stabs Sunil with a knife after feigning surrender and leaves him for dead. He then goes to the boat and starts forcing Kiran in marrying him. But Sunil comes back and beats him. He gets shocked when he hears Kiran supporting Sunil before being killed.

Kiran and Sunil then return to India and reunite with their family.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
*[[Sunny Deol]] as Sunil Malhotra, Kiran's husband
*[[Juhi Chawla]] as Kiran Awasthi
* [[Shah Rukh Khan]] as Rahul Mehra, Capt. Avinash's son
*[[Anupam Kher]] as Vijay Awasthi, Kiran's elder brother
*[[Tanvi Azmi]] as Poonam Awasthi, Kiran's Sister in-law and Vijay's wife
*[[Dalip Tahil]] as Captain Avinash Mehra, Rahul's father and Sunil's boss
*[[Annu Kapoor]] as Vikram 'Vicky' Oberoi, Rahul's friend
*[[Vikas Anand]] as Dr. Ajay Gupta
{{colend}}

== Production ==
<ref name=rediff>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2000/jan/31preet.htm |title=Rediff On The NeT, Movies: The Preethse review |publisher=Rediff|date=31 January 2000 |access-date=5 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chintamani |first1=Gautam |title=After 'Darr', Shah Rukh Khan channels Robert De Niro again in 'Fan'. Will it help?- Entertainment News, Firstpost |url=https://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/after-darr-shah-rukh-khan-channels-robert-de-niro-again-in-fan-will-it-help-2671356.html |website=Firstpost |language=en |date=12 March 2016}}</ref> [[Sanjay Dutt]] was the original choice of the role of antagonist Rahul, but Chopra was unable to finalize him because of his jail sentence due to illegal possession of arms. [[Sudesh Berry]] was then considered for the role, but was rejected after a screen test. [[Ajay Devgan]] was offered the role of Rahul, but he could not accept due to other commitments.

[[Aamir Khan]], who had worked with Chopra on ''[[Parampara (1993 film)|Parampara]],'' was then signed as Rahul. However, problems arose when Khan asked Chopra for a joint narration of the script with him and [[Sunny Deol]]. Khan's reasoning for this was that since he and Deol were two leading actors, they could hear their roles and if they were both satisfied, no ego hassles would happen henceforth. However, Chopra refused to heed to such a request. Khan was also unhappy with the way Deol's character beat Rahul up in the film's climax. Khan was then removed from the project. Ironically, after the release, Deol was miffed as he felt that the other male lead role was stronger than his.

After Aamir left the film, [[Shah Rukh Khan]] was cast as Rahul. ''Darr'' helped bring Shahrukh to stardom and he went on to star in all of Chopra's future directorial ventures. [[Rishi Kapoor]], [[Mithun Chakraborty]] and [[Jackie Shroff]] were all offered the role of Sunil before [[Sunny Deol]].

[[Sridevi]], who had previously worked with Chopra in ''[[Chandni (film)|Chandni]]'' (1989) and ''[[Lamhe]]'' (1991), was the original choice for the role of Kiran. The role was crafted and planned much like her previous roles in ''Chandni'' and ''Lamhe''. Chopra too admitted dressing Kiran like Chandni and Pallavi/Pooja, which can be observed in the film as well. However, Sridevi refused to accept the role as she wanted Kiran's character to be the obsessed lover instead of the victim, but Chopra refused this change of plot. After Sridevi, the role was offered to [[Divya Bharti]] mainly on the consultation of [[Sunny Deol]]. But owing to some previous misunderstandings, Aamir got Divya replaced by Juhi Chawla.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/nostalgia/did-you-know-aamir-khan-got-divya-bharti-replaced-juhi-chawla-darr-due-reason-523740|title=Did You Know: Aamir Khan got Divya Bharti replaced with Juhi Chawla in Darr due to THIS reason?|website=PINKVILLA|language=en|access-date=2020-04-13}}</ref>

[[Nitish Bharadwaj]] was approached for Sunil's role after Rishi Kapoor and Jackie Shroff rejected the role. This is because of his popularity as [[Krishna|Lord Krishna]]'s role in B.R. Chopra's ''Mahabharat''. But Nitish rejected the role claiming that the role is not as challenging as it would be.

The film's title ''Darr'' was suggested to Yash Chopra by [[Hrithik Roshan]] and Chopra's younger son [[Uday Chopra]].<ref name="indiatv">{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/bollywood-darr-shah-rukh-khan-lesser-known-facts-418621|title=24 years of Darr: We bet you didn't know these 7 unknown facts about Shah Rukh Khan's film|date=24 December 2017|agency=[[India TV]]}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack for ''Darr'' was composed by the duo [[Shiv-Hari]] (Shiv Kumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia). It is written by Anand Bakshi It was the second best-selling [[Bollywood soundtrack]] album of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=284&catName=MTk5MC0xOTk5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215081552/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=284&catName=MTk5MC0xOTk5&PHPSESSID=108b9056cd4ca14236f9c6119d34dcce |archive-date=15 February 2008 |title=Music Hits 1990–1999 (Figures in Units) |publisher=Box Office India |date=22 January 2009 |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref> The soundtrack album sold about 4.5{{nbsp}}million units in India,<ref name="Outlook">{{cite journal|title=Making Music Like Ne'er Before|journal=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]|date=13 March 1996|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/making-music-like-neer-before/200987}}</ref> earning at least {{INRConvert|10.8|c|year=1993}}.<ref>{{cite journal|title=India Today|journal=[[India Today]]|date=1994|volume=19|page=iv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHEZAQAAMAAJ|language=en|quote=DARR Music Director: Shiv-Harl Lyricist: Anand Bakshi Sales: 40 lakh tapes Value: Rs 10.8 crore}}</ref> Rakesh Budhu of ''Planet Bollywood'' in his review gave the album 8.5 stars out of 10.<ref name="pb"/>

{{Infobox album
| name = Darr
| type = soundtrack
| artist = [[Shiv-Hari]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 1993
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack]]
| length = 42:12
| label = [[HMV Records]]
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Sahibaan]]
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Planet Bollywood
| rev1Score = {{Rating|7.5|10}}<ref name="pb">{{cite web|title=Darr Music Review|url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=042106034653|access-date=30 March 2018}}</ref>
}}
{{Track listing
| all_writing =
| all_lyrics = Anand Bakshi
| all_music =
| collapsed =
| headline =
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Jaadu Teri Nazar
| length1 = 4:41
| extra1 = [[Udit Narayan]]
| title2 = Darwaaza Band Karlo
| length2 = 6:05
| extra2 = [[Lata Mangeshkar]], [[Abhijeet Bhattacharya|Abhijeet]]
| title3 = Tu Mere Saamne
| length3 = 6:07
| extra3 = Lata Mangeshkar, Udit Narayan
| title4 = Ishq Da Bura Rog
| length4 = 5:43
| extra4 = Lata Mangeshkar, [[Vinod Rathod]]
| title5 = Solah Button
| length5 = 7:35
| extra5 = Lata Mangeshkar, [[Kavita Krishnamurthy]], [[Pamela Chopra]]
| title6 = Likha Hai Ye In Hawaaon Pe
| length6 = 5:12
| extra6 = Lata Mangeshkar, [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]]
| title7 = Ang Se Ang Lagana
| length7 = 6:49
| extra7 = [[Alka Yagnik]], Vinod Rathod, [[Sudesh Bhosale]], Devki Pandit
}}

== Box office ==
At the domestic Indian box office, ''Darr'' became the third highest-grossing film of 1993, after ''[[Aankhen (1993 film)|Aankhen]]'' and ''[[Khalnayak]]'', and was declared a blockbuster.<ref name="boxofficeindia2">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=199&catName= |title=Box Office 1993 |publisher=Boxofficeindia.com |access-date=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814154929/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=199&catName= |archive-date=14 August 2013 }}</ref> In India, it was released on 190 screens, with 19.96{{nbsp}}million tickets sold. Its domestic gross was {{INR|link=yes}}15.73{{nbsp}}[[crore]], including a [[net income]] of {{INR}}10.74{{nbsp}}crore, which is equivalent to {{INRConvert|184.4|c}} when adjusted for inflation.<ref name="boxofficeindia1"/> Its domestic gross is equivalent to {{INRConvert|339|c}} when adjusted for inflation.{{efn|name=Inflation|Inflation rate of 17.17 times: {{INR}}10.74{{nbsp}}crore domestic net equivalent to {{INRConvert|184.4|c}}.<ref name="boxofficeindia1"/>}}

At the overseas box office, ''Darr'' was the year's highest-grossing Indian film of 1993, grossing {{INR}}5.58{{nbsp}}crore.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top Overseas Grossers 1993|url=https://www.boxofficeindia.com/overseas-total-gross.php?year=1993|website=[[Box Office India]]|access-date=3 December 2017}}</ref> Worldwide, it grossed {{INR}}21.31{{nbsp}}crore,<ref name="boxofficeindia1"/> equivalent to {{INRConvert|366|c}} when adjusted for inflation.{{efn|name=Inflation}}

== Remakes ==
''Darr'' was remade in Kannada as ''[[Preethse]]'', starring [[Upendra (actor)|Upendra]] as Chandu (Rahul) [[Shiva Rajkumar]] as Surya (Sunil) and Bollywood actress [[Sonali Bendre]] playing Kiran.<ref>[http://m.rediff.com/movies/1999/dec/08spice.htm ''He Ram!'' What's going on?] rediff.com</ref> The film also partially inspired the 2005 Tamil ''[[Chinna (2005 film)|Chinna]]'', starring [[Arjun Sarja]] and [[Sneha (actress)|Sneha]] in lead roles. The Telugu film ''Tapassu'' also borrowed some scenes from ''Darr''.

The teaser trailer for an intended five-part web series ''Darr 2.0'' was released on [[YouTube]] on August 30, 2016. It was set to be a retelling of the film in a contemporary setting, portraying cyber-stalking and digital crimes. The web series was set to be produced by Ashish Chopra under the banner of [[Y-Films]] and directed by Vikash Chandra. Screenplay and dialogues are by Nikhil Taneja and Shubham Yogi.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dixit|first1=Mini|title=Shah Rukh's Darr is getting a creepy, stalker-ish, web series makeover|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/darr-reboot-yashraj-shah-rukh-khan-juhi-chawla-internet-stalker-lifest/1/753009.html|website=India Today|access-date=12 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Ramachandran|first1=Naman|author-link1=Naman Ramachandran|title=Early Shah Rukh Khan Film 'Darr' Revived as Indian Web Series|url=https://variety.com/2016/digital/asia/shah-rukh-khan-film-darr-indian-web-series-1201847582/|access-date=21 August 2017|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=30 August 2016}}</ref> The series was later postponed.

== Awards ==
{{Anchor|Awards|Accolades}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Award !! Category !! Nominee !! Result !! References
|-
|[[41st National Film Awards|National Film Awards 1993]] || [[National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment]] || [[Yash Chopra]] || {{won}} || <ref>{{cite book|last1=Gopalakrishnan|first1=K.|last2=Aggarwal|first2=Semugha|title=41st National Film Festival|publisher=Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|pages=18–19|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/41st_nff_1994.pdf}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=10|[[39th Filmfare Awards]] || [[Filmfare Best Comedian Award|Best Comedian]] || [[Anupam Kher]] || {{won}} ||rowspan=10|<ref>{{cite web|website=IMDb|title=Filmfare Awards (1994)|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000245/1994/|access-date=12 September 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award|Best Cinematographer]] || [[Manmohan Singh (film director)|Manmohan Singh]] || {{won}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Film|Best Film]] || [[Yash Chopra]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Best Director Award|Best Director]] || [[Yash Chopra]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Best Actress Award|Best Actress]] || [[Juhi Chawla]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Best Actor Award|Best Actor]] || [[Sunny Deol]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Best Villain Award|Best Villain]] || [[Shah Rukh Khan|Shahrukh Khan]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Best Music Director Award|Best Music Director]] || [[Shiv-Hari]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist|Best Lyrics]] || [[Anand Bakshi]] for "Jaadu Teri Nazar" || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer|Best Male Playback Singer]] || [[Udit Narayan]] for "Jaadu Teri Nazar" || {{nom}}
|}

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==
*{{cite book |last=Chowdhury |first=Purna |editor1-last=Mehta |editor1-first=Rini Bhattacharya |editor2-last=Pandharipande |editor2-first=Rajeshwari V. |title=Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora |year=2010 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=978-1843318330 |pages=56–60 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3OqmW_tQYIC&pg=PA56 |chapter=Bollywood Babes: Body and Female Desire in the Bombay Films Since the Nineties and ''Darr'', ''Mohra'' and ''Aitraaz'': A Tropic Discourse}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0109555}}

{{National Film Award Wholesome Entertainment}}
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