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Armaan (English: Desire) is an Indian Hindi drama film starring Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh, and Randhir Kapoor. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. This is the first time Preity Zinta played a negative role for which she received a Filmfare nomination for Best Villain. The film marked the first time Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor appeared together on screen. 21 years earlier they both appeared in Shakti but did not share any scenes together.
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Movie poster for Armaan | |
| Directed by | Honey Irani |
| Produced by | Dinesh Gandhi |
| Written by | Javed Akhtar Honey Irani |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan Anil Kapoor Preity Zinta Gracy Singh Randhir Kapoor |
| Music by | Songs: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Background Score: Raju Singh |
| Cinematography | Ravi Varman |
| Edited by | Shirish Kunder |
| Distributed by | Aarti Enterprises Eros Entertainment |
Release date | 16 May 2003 |
Running time | 159 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ?21.4 crore (equivalent to ?56 crore or US$7.8 million in 2017) |
| Box office | ?11.2 crore (equivalent to ?29 crore or US$4.1 million in 2017) |
Screenplay
The film is about Dr. Siddharth Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan) and his son Dr. Akash Sinha (Anil Kapoor). Both work in the same hospital founded by Siddharth. Siddharth wishes to run a state of the art hospital but his work and profession means he dedicates his time to his patients.
Soon enough Dr. Neha Mathur (Gracy Singh) walks into Akash's life and they eventually fall in love with each other. The arrival of Sonia Kapoor (Preity Zinta) changes everything between Neha and Akash. Sonia is a jealous and a spoilt woman who is used to having things her own way and it is not long before she wants Akash for herself. She decides that since Akash is the man for her, she can latch on to him by literally 'buying' his love through financial agreement. The agreement states that on marrying Sonia, her father Gulshan Kapoor (Randhir Kapoor) will help finance the hospital project.
As fate would have it, Siddharth Sinha dies in his attempt to bring a child injured in an accident to his hospital. His last wish is for the hospital to be properly completed. Akash, now burdened with the increasing debts to purchase equipment for the hospital, cannot arrange for further funds. Over a broken heart, he agrees to marry Sonia, in order to set up the hospital, and thus fulfilling his father's final wish. Neha understands this and agrees to break up with Akash, but offers to continue working in the same hospital because she is a professional and dedicated person.
After the marriage, Sonia starts suspecting Akash is having an affair with Neha, and starts annoying both of them. She cannot stand Neha, still working at the hospital, and keeps coming up with all kinds of reasons to get Neha out. In one such quest, she is involved in a fatal accident and has serious damage to her brain. Now Akash has to operate on her. For a moment he is in a dilemma, because curing Sonia would mean facing her problems again. But he decides that he is a doctor, and a doctor should never discriminate between patients, but his job is to simply save lives.
Akash operated Sonia and she fully recovers. Sonia comes to know that she was operated by Akash, even when she created all kinds of problems for him. Wisdom dawns on Sonia and she asks for Akash's forgiveness and gives him divorce and walks out of his life, freeing him to marry and settle down with Neha.
- Amitabh Bachchan as Dr. Siddharth Sinha
- Anil Kapoor as Dr. Akash Sinha
- Preity Zinta as Sonia Kapoor
- Gracy Singh as Dr. Neha Mathur
- Randhir Kapoor as Gulshan Kapoor
- Aamir Bashir as Dr. Sanjay
Rest of cast listed alphabetically
- Arun Bali
- Anjula Bedi
- Chandan Bisht
- Preeti Dayal
- Vallabh Gada
- Mangala Kenkre
- Ahmed Khan
- Rajiv Kumar
- Ram Bahadur Renu
- Suhita Thatte
- Zutshi
- Director: Honey Irani
- Screenplay: Javed Akhtar
- Story: Honey Irani
- Dialogue: Javed Akhtar
- Producer: Dinesh Gandhi
- Music: Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa and Ehsaan Noorani
- Cinematography: Ravi Varman
- Editor: Shrish Kunder
- Art Direction: Kiran Khanna and Yunas Pathan
- Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
- Costume Design: Arjun Bhasin
- Production Designer: Chetana Prabhu
Armaan was a highly anticipated 2003 release mainly due to its cast. The film upon release met with mixed critical reviews. The films production and performances were lavishly praised. Most of the praise was directed towards Zinta for her villainous turn. The film however received a fair share of bad reviews as well. The storyline was criticized of being derivative of the popular Star Plus serial Sanjeevani, also a love triangle set against the backdrop of a hospital. The film finally performed poorly at the box office.
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| Soundtrack album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | ||||
| Released | 4 April 2003 (India) | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | T-Series | |||
| Producer | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | |||
| Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy chronology | ||||
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The movie soundtrack contains 8 songs composed by the award-winning trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Lyrics by Javed Akhtar.
| Song | Singer(s) |
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| Aao Milke Gaayen Aisa Gaana | Mahalakshmi Iyer, Shankar Mahadevan, Udit Narayan, Amitabh Bachchan |
| Jaane Yeh Kya Ho Gaya | Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan |
| Jugal Bandi - Instrumental | |
| Main Gaoon Tum Gao | Mahalakshmi Iyer, Shaan, Udit Narayan |
| Mere Dil Ka Tumse Yeh Kehna | K. S. Chitra |
| Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye Ho | Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan |
| Tu Hi Bata Zindagi | Roop Kumar Rathod |
| Tu Hi Bata Zindagi | Shreya Ghosal |
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