Aashik Awara is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Umesh Mehra. It stars débutante actor Saif Ali Khan and Mamta Kulkarni in pivotal roles. The film brought Khan and Kulkarni the Filmfare Award for best Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut and Filmfare Award for Lux New Face of the Year, respectively.
Plot
At the hands of bandits, a young taxi driver and his wife, a music teacher, are dying. Their son, Jai (Saif Ali Khan), after contacting the scammers, lives clumsily due to deception. But trying to raid a cargo of gold belonging to a large smuggler, Jai is forced to flee from the police and from the bandits. Hiding, he gets into the house of a man, rescuing his father. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Jai impersonates a fiancé of the daughter of the owner of the house who came from the USA...
Cast
- Saif Ali Khan as Jaidev "Jai" Singh/Jimmy/Rakesh Rajpal
- Mamta Kulkarni as Jyoti
- Mohnish Bahl as Vikram Mehra
- Navin Nischol as Dilip Singh, taxi driver (in a cameo).
- Sharmila Tagore as Mrs. Singh, Dilip's wife (in a cameo).
- Saeed Jaffrey as Kedarnath Tripathi, grandfather of Jyoti
- Pankaj Dheer as Ranvir Tripathi, father of Jyoti
- Rita Bhaduri as Gayatri Deshmukh Tripathi, mother ofJyoti
- Kader Khan as Jaggu, father of Tunnu
- Rakesh Bedi as Tunnu, son of Jaggu
- Sharat Saxena as Garga
- Satish Shah as Police Inspector Jagannath
- Amritpal as Deva Singh
- Archana Puran Singh as Sheela, mother of Vikram and wife of Deva Singh
- Ghanashyam Nayak as Police Constable, under Police Inspector Jagannath
- Viju Khote as Kasturi, Garga's right-hand man
- Malay Chakrabarty as Kasturi Lal, Sheela's brother
- Guddi Maruti as Batwoman in club
- Ravi Patwardhan as Judge at Court
- Vivek Vaswani as Real Rakesh Rajpal
- Amarnath Mukherjee as Minister Deshmukh
- Suhas Khandke as Defence lawyer of Ranvir
Awards
39th Filmfare Awards:
Won
Soundtrack
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
References
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