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{{Infobox film
| name = Karan Arjun
| image = Karan Arjun.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Rakesh Roshan]]
| producer = Rakesh Roshan
| writer = [[Sachin Bhowmick]] Ravi Kapoor Anwar Khan
| starring = [[Rakhee Gulzar]] [[Salman Khan]] [[Shah Rukh Khan]] [[Kajol]] [[Mamta Kulkarni]] [[Amrish Puri]]
| music = [[Rajesh Roshan]]
| cinematography = Kaka Thakur
| editing = Sanjay Verma
| studio = Film Kraft
| distributor = Digital Entertainment (DEI) [[Eros Entertainment]] Rapid Eye Movies
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1995|01|13|}}
| runtime = 175 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR|5.50 crores}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Karan Arjun - Movie |url=https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=3032 |website=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=21 June 2020}}</ref>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|45 crores}}<ref name="boi95"/> 
}}

'''''Karan Arjun''''' is a 1995 [[India]]n [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller film]] directed and produced by [[Rakesh Roshan]], starring [[Rakhee Gulzar]], [[Shah Rukh Khan]], [[Salman Khan]], [[Kajol]] and [[Mamta Kulkarni]] in lead roles, with [[Amrish Puri]] portraying the main antagonist and [[Johnny Lever]], [[Arjun (Firoz Khan)|Arjun]], [[Jack Gaud]], [[Ranjeet]] and [[Aasif Sheikh]] in supporting roles. It tells the story of the titular two brothers who seek revenge from their greedy uncle for murdering their father, but are killed by him and are reincarnated to complete the revenge.

''Karan Arjun'' was theatrically released in India on 13 January 1995. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed {{INR|450 million|link=yes}}<ref name="boi95"/> ({{US$|{{#expr:640/32.418074 round 0}} million|long=no}}),<ref name="exchange95"/> emerging as a "blockbuster" and the second highest-grossing Bollywood film of 1995, behind ''[[Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge]]'', which also featured Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Amrish Puri.

== Plot ==
In a village in [[Rajasthan]], Durga Singh ([[Rakhee Gulzar]]) is a poor woman raising her two beloved sons Karan ([[Salman Khan]]) and Arjun ([[Shah Rukh Khan]]). When Munshiji ([[Ashok Saraf]]) of Thakur Sangram Singh, comes to talk to Durga, Durga reveals that their father was the Thakur's son, who had married her against his father's wishes. Durjan Singh ([[Amrish Puri]]), a relative of Thakur, killed Durga's husband to prevent him or his family from inheriting the Thakur's estate.

Durjan kills Thakur and when he learns of his plans to sign over the estate to Karan and Arjun, he brutally murders both with the help of his brothers-in-law, Nahar ([[Arjun (Firoz Khan)|Arjun]]) and Shamsher ([[Jack Gaud]]). Durga prays to Goddess Kali to bring her sons back. Miraculously, her prayers are heard and her sons are reincarnated, but are separated and grown into different families with no knowledge of their past lives – Durga is unaware of this miracle.

20 years pass. Arjun is grown up as Vijay. He falls in love with the wealthy Sonia ([[Kajol]]), but doesn't know that Sonia will be married with Durjan Singh's son, Suraj ([[Aashif Sheikh]]). Meanwhile, Karan is grown up as Ajay. He is chased upon by tomboy Bindiya ([[Mamta Kulkarni]]) who loves him. He soon works for Saxena ([[Ranjeet]]), Sonia's father and Durjan's partner in his illegal arms trading business. Knowing that Sonia loves Vijay, Suraj attempts to kill him but ends up burning the farm of Vijay's Uncle. At Sonia and Suraj's engagement party, Vijay arrives and attacks Suraj. Ajay is sent to kill Vijay and the two start to fight, which is suddenly interrupted after a bolt of lightning strikes in between them. Saxena tries to shoot Vijay, but Ajay stops him whilst shouting for Arjun to run. This is something that Ajay had said to Vijay in their previous life when he was being attacked. Ajay is sent to prison while Vijay escapes. Sonia is forcibly taken to Durjan's house to marry Suraj.

Vijay and his friend Linghaiyya ([[Johnny Lever]]) travel to save Sonia. Everybody in the village who sees him is stunned and calls him Arjun. He finally remembers his past life and reunites with Durga, where he gets to know about his brother Karan, who is now Ajay. Vijay saves Ajay and explains the whole situation that they were brothers named Karan and Arjun. Meanwhile, Bindiya joins them. Durjan hears about Karan and Arjun's return but refuses to believe it, so his brothers-in-law attempted to bring them before him but instead they were killed by Karan and Arjun in a similar way as they killed the two brothers.

At the village temple of Goddess Kali, rituals are held for Sonia and Suraj's wedding. Karan/Ajay and Arjun/Vijay frighten Durjan by convincing him that they are back. Soon, Saxena and Durjan have a falling out, in which Saxena tells Sonia to run away with Arjun, but it's revealed to be a trap. Karan succeeds in creating chaos, letting Arjun and Sonia escape from the trap. Arjun managed to kill Suraj in a closed-range shot, upon which Durjan kills Saxena in a fit of rage.

After all his henchmen were killed, Durjan attempted to kill Karan and Arjun but instead they overpowered him and beat him up. He runs to Durga and asks for forgiveness but she declines it and orders her sons to complete their revenge by killing him. Later, Arjun marries Sonia and Karan marries Bindiya with the whole family reunited.

==Cast==
Credits adapted from [[IMDb]]
{{div col begin}}
* [[Rakhee Gulzar]] as Durga Parag Pratap Singh
*[[Salman Khan]] as Karan Singh and Ajay Singhania
*[[Shah Rukh Khan]] as Arjun Singh and Vijay Singh Sharma
* [[Kajol]] as Sonia Saxena Singh, Vijay's love-interest
* [[Mamta Kulkarni]] as Bindiya Singh, Ajay's love-interest
* [[Amrish Puri]] as Thakur Durjan Singh
* [[Johnny Lever]] as Linghaiyya
* [[Ranjeet]] as Soojam Saxena, Sonia's father
* [[Aasif Sheikh]] as Suraj Singh, Durjan's son
* [[Ashok Saraf]] as Bhaktish Munshi
* [[Jack Gaud]] as Shamsher Singh
* [[Arjun (Firoz Khan)|Arjun]] as Nahar Singh
* [[Gavin Packard]] as the fighter with red pants
*[[Ila Arun]] as Rajasthani Dancer (segment Gup Chup)
*[[Kishore Bhanushali]] as Ranjesh
*[[Suresh Chatwal]] as Girdhari Singh
*Salim Khan Ding-Dong as Fight Organiser
*John Gabriel as Peter
*[[Dinesh Hingoo]] as Peston
*Raj Kishore as Jugal
*Anil Nagrath as Fight Organiser
*Ghanshyam Rohera as Ashuveer Bakshi
*Babbanlal Yadav as Manjesh
{{div col end}}

==Production==
===Casting===
[[Rakesh Roshan]] originally wanted to make the film with [[Shah Rukh Khan]] and [[Ajay Devgn]] as the titular characters. However, both wanted to play different roles to the ones offered to them; Khan wanted to play Karan, while Devgn wanted to play Arjun. Roshan did not agree, and, as a result, both backed out of the film. Roshan's next choices for the leads were [[Aamir Khan]] and [[Salman Khan]]. While Salman agreed to do the film, Aamir could not do it. Shah Rukh then told Roshan that he wanted to do the film.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Seta|first=Fenil|publisher=Bollywood Hungama|title=25 Years Of Karan Arjun EXCLUSIVE: "Shah Rukh came back to me when he found out that Salman and Aamir Khan have shown interest" – Rakesh Roshan|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/25-years-karan-arjun-exclusive-shah-rukh-came-back-found-salman-aamir-khan-shown-interest-rakesh-roshan/|access-date=2020-07-23|website=Republic World}}</ref> Thus, the casting of the film brought together Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan for the first time onscreen, two prominent actors of that time.

[[Hrithik Roshan]] assisted his father during this film, having assisted him in his previous movies .<ref name="production2">{{cite web|title=Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan & Hrithik Roshan on the sets of Karan Arjun in 1995|url=http://www.oneshotoneplace.com/2011/09/13/shah-rukh-khansalman-khan-and-hrithik-roshan-in-1995/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102005032/http://www.oneshotoneplace.com/2011/09/13/shah-rukh-khansalman-khan-and-hrithik-roshan-in-1995/|archive-date=2 January 2012|work=One Shot One Place|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===Filming===
The whole film was shot in [[Rajasthan]]. More specifically, the village which is portrayed in the film is one of the villages of [[Alwar]] District of Rajasthan, named [[Bhangarh]].<ref name="production">{{cite web|title=Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan & Hrithik Roshan on the sets of Karan Arjun in 1995|url=http://www.oneshotoneplace.com/2011/09/13/shah-rukh-khansalman-khan-and-hrithik-roshan-in-1995/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102005032/http://www.oneshotoneplace.com/2011/09/13/shah-rukh-khansalman-khan-and-hrithik-roshan-in-1995/|archive-date=2 January 2012|work=One Shot One Place|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The Durga temple where Karan Arjun pray in the song is located at [[Pushkar]] near [[Ajmer]].<ref name=production/> Sariska Palace was used as Thakur Durjan Singh's house.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bollylocations.com/movies/Karan-Arjun|title=Bollywood Movie Karan Arjun Shooting Location|website=www.bollylocations.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-05-25}}</ref>

==Box office==
''Karan Arjun'' was the [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|second-highest-grossing Indian film of 1995]], before ''[[Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge]]'', which also starred [[Shah Rukh Khan]], [[Kajol]] and [[Amrish Puri]].<ref name="boi95">{{cite web|url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=201&catName=MTk5NQ==|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130220613/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=201&catName=MTk5NQ==|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 January 2009|title=Box Office 1995|website=[[Box Office India]]|access-date=26 August 2018}}</ref> Worldwide ''Karan Arjun'' grossed {{INR|450 million}}<ref name="boi95"/>.<ref name="exchange95">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/ |title=32.418074 INR per USD in 1995 |access-date=3 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713183556/https://www.ofx.com/en-gb/forex-news/historical-exchange-rates/yearly-average-rates/ |archive-date=13 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Overseas, the film grossed $500,000 ({{INR|15.8 million}}).<ref>{{cite web|title=TOP OVERSEAS GROSSERS 1995|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/overseas-total-gross.php?year=1995|website=[[Box Office India]]|access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref>

==Awards==
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;[[Filmfare Awards]]
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Action|Best Action]] – Bhiku Varma
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]] – Sanjay Varma
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Movie|Best Movie]] - [[Rakesh Roshan]]
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]] – Rakesh Roshan
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] – [[Salman Khan]]
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Music Director|Best Music Director]] – [[Rajesh Roshan]]
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role|Best Performance in a Comic Role]] – [[Johnny Lever]]
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role]] – [[Ashok Saraf]]
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] – [[Rakhee Gulzar|Rakhee]]
* Nominated—[[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role|Best Performance in a Negative Role]] – [[Amrish Puri]]

;[[Screen Awards]]
* [[Screen Award for Best Music Director|Best Music Director]] – Rajesh Roshan
* Nominated—[[Star Screen Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] – Salman Khan

==Music==
The music and background score were composed by [[Rajesh Roshan]] and lyrics for all the songs were penned by [[Indeevar]]. The music rights were originally bought by Time Magnetics (now [[Tips Industries|Tips Music]]). Song "Bhangra Paale" remake 2020's movie [[Bhangra Paa Le]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Singer(s) !! Featuring !! Length
|-
| "Yeh Bandhan Toh"
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Udit Narayan]] & [[Alka Yagnik]]
|[[Rakhee Gulzar]], [[Salman Khan]] & [[Shah Rukh Khan]]
| 05:40
|-
| "Yeh Bandhan Toh" (2)
| [[Udit Narayan]]
| [[Rakhee Gulzar]], [[Salman Khan]], [[Shah Rukh Khan]] & [[Mamta Kulkarni]]
| 01:38
|-
| "Bhangra Paale"
| [[Sadhana Sargam]], [[Mohammed Aziz]] & [[Sudesh Bhosle]]
| [[Rakhee Gulzar]], [[Salman Khan]], [[Shah Rukh Khan]], [[Mamta Kulkarni]] & [[Johnny Lever]]
| 07:07
|-
| "Ek Munda"
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| [[Salman Khan]] & [[Mamta Kulkarni]]
| 07:38
|-

| "Jai Maa Kaali"
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Alka Yagnik]] & [[Amrish Puri]]
| [[Salman Khan]], [[Shah Rukh Khan]], [[Mamta Kulkarni]], [[Kajol]] & [[Amrish Puri]]
| 07:07
|-
| "Gup Chup Gup Chup" For [[Mink Singh]]
| [[Alka Yagnik]] & [[Ila Arun]]
| [[Mamta Kulkarni]] & Sheela R.
| 06:02
|-
| "Jaati Hoon Main"
| [[Kumar Sanu]] & [[Alka Yagnik]]
| [[Shah Rukh Khan]] & [[Kajol]]
| 06:24
|}

Additionally, the themes from ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day|The Terminator 2]]'' and ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' were featured throughout the film, especially during fight & jail scenes.

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0113526}}

{{Rakesh Roshan}}

[[Category:1995 films]]
[[Category:1990s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films about reincarnation]]
[[Category:Films directed by Rakesh Roshan]]
[[Category:Films scored by Rajesh Roshan]]
[[Category:Indian action drama films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1990s action drama films]]
[[Category:Masala films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Sachin Bhowmick]]
[[Category:1995 drama films]]

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