Jeet (1996 film)

Jeet
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Directed by	Raj Kanwar
Written by	Raj Kanwar
Produced by	Sajid Nadiadwala
Starring	Sunny Deol Salman Khan Karisma Kapoor
Cinematography	A. Muthu
Edited by	Harmeet Singh
Music by	Songs: Nadeem-Shravan Score: Koti
Production company	Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment
Distributed by	Tips Industries Shemaroo Entertainment Sony Pictures
Release date	23 August 1996 (1996-08-23)
Running time	164 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹5.60 crore[1]
Box office	₹30.5 crore (equivalent to ₹347 crore or US$42 million in 2023)[1]

Jeet (transl. Victory) is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film written and directed by Raj Kanwar and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The film stars Sunny Deol, Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Amrish Puri and Tabu.^[2][3]

Released on 23 August 1996, Jeet was extremely successful at the box office.^[4] With a production budget of ₹5.6 crore, it earned ₹30.5 crore worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of 1996.^[5] The film was remade in Dhallywood as Laal Badshah (1999) featuring Manna, Sadika Parvin Popy and Rachana Banerjee and in Odia as Munna-A Love Story (2008) starring Anubhav Mohanty and Naina Das.

Kajal Sharma (Karishma Kapoor) is the daughter of Professor Sidhant Sharma (Alok Nath). On the other end of the spectrum, Karan (Sunny Deol) is a criminal working for Gajraj Chaudhry (Amrish Puri). The film starts with Gajraj ordering Karan to kill a journalist for writing negative things about him, which Karan dutifully does - by chasing him outside and catches him inside a marketplace full of people (including Kajal and her father). Kajal's father reports the crime. Karan finds out and breaks into Kajal and Sidhant's home - presumably to kill Sidhant - and starts beating him up. In a desperate attempt to get him to stop, Kajal slaps Karan. They make eye contact, visibly entrancing him, and he leaves their home.

Karan goes to Tulsi (Tabu), a courtesan who is in love with Karan. There, it is shown that he is unable to forget Kajal, or more specifically, her eyes. Karan starts stalking Kajal, and she starts getting creeped out. One day, as Kajal is leaving the temple, he corners her. Kajal feels disgraced and lashes out at him, criticizing his behavior, and saying that he feels simply lust for her. Karan feels disgusted by this and leaves.

Karan is then shown to have a soft side when he saves a child - named Timepass - from being mistreated by customers at a bar. Being reminded of himself (in a flashback it is revealed Karan was an orphan and was forced into becoming a criminal), Karan decides to take the kid in, introducing himself to Timepass' friends and one of said friends give him food to eat.

The next time we see Kajal, she and some other women are travelling by a Bus (including Karan and Timepass). They get harassed, and Karan gets off from the seat to save them in the nick of time. Kajal, after seeing his courage and helpful nature, starts to fall for Karan. She befriends Timepass, from whom she gets to know more about Karan. She approaches him with the help of Timepass, and starts to meet him regularly. She realizes that he's had a tough life and had gone down the wrong path. With encouragement from Kajal, Karan leaves his criminal lifestyle behind to be with Kajal. When he tells Tulsi about him and Kajal, she is heartbroken but decides to remain his friend.

Raju (Salman Khan) is then introduced as the son of Sidhant's childhood friend Ramakant Sahay. He is portrayed as a happy-go-lucky person with a flirtatious nature. It's revealed that Ramakant and Sidhant had had a pact, wherein Kajal and Raju would get married when they come of age. Kajal finds out about this through her father. She promptly confesses her love for Karan and refuses to marry Raju. Sidhant suffers a major heart attack when he learns this. Kajal is compelled to marry Raju because of her father's health. Karan finds out about this and goes to Kajal's house to beg for her love, but Kajal rejects him and asks him to forget her.

Kajal marries Raju and lived happily with him (But Karan only knows that she is married to someone that he does not know all about.) Karan fails to prevent the marriage and continues his criminal lifestyle, crying in sadness.

Some time later, Kajal falls in love with Raju. They return to India after the honeymoon in the USA, where Kajal finds out that she is pregnant after fainting when she overhears Raju and his father's argument about the illegal affairs of their business. She is unhappy that their child will grow up in a criminal environment. Raju admits that he did not know about his father's deeds, and he and Kajal decide to leave Ramakant's house to provide their child a safe environment to grow up in.

Gajraj then worries that Raju might become a danger to his business, and orders Karan to kill Raju. Karan travels to Raju's house to kill him. There he comes across Kajal and learns the truth, he decides to protect Raju at all costs for Kajal's sake.

One fateful day, Raju is attacked by some hitmen and is rescued by Karan, who takes Raju home. Raju wakes up from his unconscious state in the nick of time to overhear Kajal apologizing to Karan for how she treated him. Raju is understanding of their situation and respects Kajal's past love for Karan. He promises Karan that if their child turns out to be a boy, they'll name him after Karan.

Raju, Kajal and Karan are attacked by Gajraj's goons and Kajal goes into labour. Karan, noticing this, takes Raju and Kajal to Tulsi's place, asking for Tulsi's help in delivering the baby safely. The goons, with Gajraj in tow, chase them, forcing Karan and Raju to engage them in a fight with them. Towards the end of the fight, Gajraj is just about to shoot Raju when Karan steps in and takes the bullets himself. Timepass then gives Karan a gun, and he shoots Gajraj, killing him. Karan dies at the exact moment that Kajal gives birth to a boy. The film ends with Raju holding their son, whom Kajal calls out with the name 'Karan'.

• Sunny Deol as Karan
• Salman Khan as Rajnath "Raju" Sahay, Kajal's husband.
• Karishma Kapoor as Kajal Sharma Sahay, Raju's wife.
• Tabu as Tulsibai
• Amrish Puri as Gajraj, Rajnath’s maternal uncle.
• Dalip Tahil as Ramakant "Rama" Sahay, Rajnath’s father.
• Alok Nath as Prof. Sidhant Sharma, Kajal's father.
• Ashish Vidyarthi as Inspector Pratap Vidyarthi
• Master Mohsin as Timepass
• Johnny Lever as Piajee
• Mohan Joshi as Pitambar
• Arun Khedwal as Prateek
• Mahavir Bhullar as Gajjan
• Deepak Shirke as Govardhan

The film score was composed by Koti, while the songs featured in the film were composed by Nadeem-Shravan. Singers Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Vinod Rathod, Sonu Nigam and Sadhna Sargam lent their voices. According to Box Office India, with around 2,500,000 units sold the soundtrack became the fourth highest-grossing album of the year.^{[citation needed]}

Made on a budget of ₹5.90 crore, Jeet earned a net collection of ₹16.13 crore. The worldwide gross of the film was ₹30.5 crore. It was declared a Super Hit and became the 3rd highest grossing Bollywood film of 1996.

42nd Filmfare Awards

• Best Supporting Actress - Tabu (Nominated)

• Best Supporting Actor - Salman Khan (Nominated)

Star Screen Awards

• Best Actor - Sunny Deol (Nominated)

• Jeet at IMDb