Karobaar

Karobaar
Karobaar
Soundtrack album by Rajesh Roshan
Released	17 June 2000
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Venus Records & Tapes

Karobaar
Karobaar
	Film poster
Directed by	Rakesh Roshan
Written by	Sagar Sarhadi (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Sachin Bhowmick; Ravi Kapoor
Produced by	Gava
Starring	Rishi Kapoor; Anil Kapoor; Juhi Chawla
Cinematography	Sameer Arya
Edited by	Sanjay Verma
Music by	Songs:; Rajesh Roshan; Background Score:; Surinder Sodhi
Production; company	TVM International
Release date	15 September 2000;
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	est. ₹6 crore (US$720,000)
Box office	est. ₹2.84 crore (US$340,000)

Karobaar: The Business of Love, shortly called Karobaar is a 2000 Indian Hindi romantic thriller film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film stars Rishi Kapoor (in a double role), with Anil Kapoor, and Juhi Chawla in leading roles. Inspired by Indecent Proposal, the film began production in 1992 and was plagued by production problems and was finally released in 2000.^[2]

Plot

Wealthy Rajiv Sinha and middle class Amar Saxena are childhood friends with similar likes. Coincidentally they fall in love with the same girl Seema. Rajiv tries to dissuade Amar from marrying Seema using a pretext but Amar is adamant and marries Seema. Soon he learns Rajiv's pretext was a way of separating him and Seema. They become bitter enemies. Soon Rajiv is charged with killing a girl. Amar, now a lawyer, decides to retaliate against Rajiv.

Cast

Rishi Kapoor as Advocate Amar Saxena / Rohit Sinha (Double Role)
Anil Kapoor as Rajiv Sinha
Juhi Chawla as Seema
Tisca Chopra as Neelam
Navin Nischol as Rajesh Puri
Tinu Anand as Ramlal
Asrani as Champak
Dinesh Hingoo as Bhojwani
Aasif Sheikh as Ramlal's Son

Production

Rishi Kapoor completed his scenes for the film in May, 1998.^[3]

Soundtrack

The music is composed by Rajesh Roshan, while the lyrics are written by Javed Akhtar.

Song	Singer
"Aao Aur Na Socho"	Kumar Sanu
"Suno Na Suno Na"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
"Chahiye Milne Ka"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
"Aarzoo Ki Rahon"	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
"Duniya Mein Sabse Jo Gehra"	Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Asha Bhosle
"Aao Na Aao Na"	Alisha Chinoy

Reception

Indu Mirani wrote for Sify that the film had "nothing even remotely attractive about it".^[4] In his review for The Tribune, Sanjeev Bariana wrote that the film's "storyline seems unconvincing and rather dragged".^[5] Joginder Tuteja described the film as a "mega disaster".^[2] Rishita Roy Chowdhury of India Today in a retrospective review in 2021, wrote that "the film tried to add desi twists to the Hollywood hit, Indecent Proposal, and failed miserably."^[6]

It performed poorly at the box-office.^[7] According to the Indian film trade website Box Office India, it was produced at an estimated budget of ₹6.00 crore (US$720,000) and had a worldwide gross of ₹2.84 crore (US$340,000), thus earning the label "Disaster".^[8]

References

^ Rashtriya Sahara. Vol. 8. Sahara India Mass Communication. 2000. p. 89.
^ ^a ^b Tuteja, Joginder (15 April 2020). "The Top 10 Flops from 20 Years Ago". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ Srinivasan, V S (20 May 1998). "'I will be back! But goodbye for now'". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ Mirani, Indu (17 April 2003). "Karobaar". Sify. Retrieved 2 May 2020.^{[dead link‍]}
^ Bariana, Sanjeev (16 September 2000). "Film Review : "Indecent" Borrowing". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
^ "Anil Kapoor's Karobaar was an indecent desi version of Indecent Proposal. On Wahiyat Wednesday". India Today.
^ "Anil Kapoor". Rediff.com. 5 January 2001. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ "Karobaar". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.