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Mohabbat (1997 film)
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Reema Rakesh Nath
| producer =Rakesh Nath
| writer = Reema Rakesh Nath
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| cinematography =Rajan Kinagi
| editing =Waman Bhonsle
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| runtime = 180 mins
| country = India
| language = Hindi
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'Mohabbat' (translation: 'Love/Romance') is an Indian Hindi romantic film directed by Reema Nath and starring Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Kapoor, and Akshay Khanna. The film was released on 19 September 1997.
Plot
The wealthy Kapoor family consists of Madanlal, his wife Geeta, daughter Roshni, and son Gaurav. One day while Gaurav is returning home from a bank, he is attacked by a group of men led by Shiva, but a young man named Rohit Malhotra comes to his rescue. Gaurav hires Rohit in his firm, and both become fast and inseparable friends. Both unknowingly fall in love with the same woman, Shweta Sharma, but Gaurav finds out and decides to step away.
Shweta and Rohit are in love and want to get married. Then Shiva attacks Rohit and throws him off a cliff. Believing him to be dead, a shocked and devastated Shweta loses her voice. The Kapoors find out that Gaurav loves Shweta and they approach her brother, Shekhar, and arrange their marriage. They get engaged but Gaurav finds that hes a brain tumour and he wants to bring back the long-lost happiness of Shweta. He finds a lookalike of Rohit who is Tony Braganza.
What Gaurav doesn't know is whether or not Tony is Rohit. Thus begins a merry-go-round of love, emotions, and sacrifice, all of which is 'Mohabbat'. In last scene, it is being revealed that Rohit has planned his murder after knowing the fact that the secret admirer of Shweta is none other than Gaurav and hes in love with her. So, he decided to sacrifice his love for friendship. However, Gaurav finally gets to know that Tony is actually Rohit and Gaurav asks him to go back to Shweta. Lastly Gaurav dies due to his tumour and Shweta gets her voice back due to shock
Cast
*Sanjay Kapoor as Gaurav M. Kapoor
*Madhuri Dixit as Shweta Sharma
*Akshaye Khanna as Rohit Malhotra / Tony Braganza
*Farooq Sheikh as Shekhar Sharma, elder brother of Shweta
*Tej Sapru as Dr. R.C. Goyal
*Shiva Rindani as Shiva
*M.F. Husain as himself (special appearance)
*Arjun
*Saeed Jaffrey as Madanlal "Madan" Kapoor
*Farida Jalal as Geetarani M.Kapoor
*Kishore Bhanushali as Mechanic
*Guddi Maruti as Khalajaan, Lady in black burqah
*Sulabha Arya as Mrs.Malhotra
*Ashwin Kaushal as Virendra "Viren" Gupta
*Bob Brahmbhatt as Aslam
*Babbanlal Yadav as Mr.Ramaswamy, Madrasi clerk
*Raj Kamal as Doctor
*Ghanshyam Rohera as Malhotra's landlord
*Gurmeet as Office Clerk
*Parnav Chowdhary as Staffer
*Praveen Kumar as Mr.Sabharwal
*Ranjan Kaushal as Kidnapper
*Dinesh Hingoo as Shweta's Fan
*Beena Banerjee
Music
"Mohabbat (1997)" music was composed by music duo "Nadeem-Shravan", and penned by Sameer and Reema Rakesh Nath.
References
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