Kartavya (1995 film)

Kartavya
Kartavya
Directed by	Raj Kanwar
Written by	Kamlesh Pandey (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Ranbir Pushp
Produced by	Rahul Gupta
Starring	Sanjay Kapoor ; Juhi Chawla ; Amrish Puri ; Aruna Irani
Cinematography	Harmeet Singh
Edited by	A. Muthu
Music by	Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen
Production; company	Prime International
Release date	29 July 1995 (India);
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Kartavya (transl. Duty) is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Raj Kanwar, starring Sanjay Kapoor and Juhi Chawla. Divya Bharti was initially chosen as the female lead; she has completed around 30 percent of the movie before her sudden death following a fall from her fifth-floor apartment. She was replaced by Juhi. Rediff.com found the film "embarrassing".^[1]

Plot

Karan and Kajal are in love and ready to settle down and lead a happy life. But tragedy strikes as Karan's mother has a heart attack and before she dies, Karan discovers that she was not his real mother. He is told that his actual mother is an heiress, Gayatri Singh, who lives in Sundernagar. Karan sets out for Sundernagar to confront her and on reaching there, discovers the tragic story of his mother's life. Her stepbrother, Ugranarayan Singh had killed her husband and had her confined in a mental asylum so that he can inherit all the wealth. Karan must now punish the people responsible for his mother's morbid state.

Cast

Sanjay Kapoor - Karan Verma (actually Gayatri Devi's son, brought up by Sharada Varma)
Moushumi Chatterjee - Sharada Verma, Karan's foster mother
Aruna Irani - Gayatri Devi Singh, Karan's real mother
Raj Kiran - Suraj Singh (Karan's late father and Gayatri's husband; special cameo appearance)
Juhi Chawla - Kajal Sahay (Karan's love interest and Ramakant Sahay's daughter)
Saeed Jaffrey - Ramakant Sahay (Kajal's father)
Jagdeep - P.K. Dhoot (Kajal's maternal uncle, thus brother-in-law of Ramakant)
Amrish Puri - Thakur Ugranarayan Singh (Gayatri's evil step-brother, who kept her in a mental asylum for 22 years)
Asha Sachdev - Roop Sundari (Ugranarayan's wife)
Mohnish Bahl - Balbir (Ugranarayan's son)
Ashwin Kaushal - Bhanu (Ugranarayan's son)
Om Puri - Ghulam Rasul
Gulshan Grover - Inspector Tribhuvan
Pramod Moutho - Mayor
Aasif Sheikh - Vicky (Mayor's son)
Alok Nath - Doctor Neelkanth

Music


#	Songs	Singer
1.	"Dhadakta Tha Pehle Dil Mera"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
2.	"Pardesiyo Se Puch Puch"	Sukhwinder Singh & Sadhana Sargam
3.	"Hame Kya Khabar Thi"	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik
4.	"Pyar Me Dil Ka Murga Bole"	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik
5.	"Ye Dil Ki Dhadkan"	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik
6.	"Paradesiyon Se Puch"	Pankaj Udhas, Sukhwinder Singh
7.	"Adi Tappa Yeh Desi Mem Hai	Vinod Rathod & Kavita Krishnamurthy
8.	"Roop Nagar Ki Rani Hoon"	Poornima
9.	"Ek Baar Beta Mujhe"	Udit Narayan & Sadhana Sargam

Divya Bharti's death

Divya Bharti was selected to play the role of Kaajal, and completed 30% of her shooting, but due to her sudden death in April 1993, she was replaced by Chawla. Shah Rukh Khan was supposed to play the hero opposite Bharti but rejected it. Dimple Kapadia was initially supposed to play the female lead’s mother-in-law, but walked out of the film midway during the shooting due to Bharti’s death, stating that her 10-year age gap with Chawla could sabotage her career prospects.^[2] The Film Makers’ Combine banned her from taking up new projects, which was later withdrawn in 1994.^[3]