Aar Ya Paar
Aar Ya Paar (English: Now or never) is a 1997 Bollywood mystery crime thriller film produced and directed by Ketan Mehta. The film stars Jackie Shroff, Deepa Sahi, Ritu Shivpuri, Paresh Rawal and Kamal Sidhu. The music is by Viju Shah. The movie is adapted from James Hadley Chase's novel The Sucker Punch and was partly shot in Italy.
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| Directed by | Ketan Mehta |
| Written by | Ketan Mehta |
| Starring | Jackie Shroff Deepa Sahi Paresh Rawal |
| Music by | Viju Shah |
| Cinematography | Dharam Gulati |
| Edited by | Aseem Sinha |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Story
Shekhar Khosla (Jackie Shroff) is an accounts executive, an alcoholic and a penniless playboy. He has an on-and-off romance with cabaret dancer Julie (Ritu Shivpuri).
One day his boss tells him to improve himself and hands him a multi-million rupee client, Veena Sanghvi (Kamal Sidhu) and asks him to maintain and strengthen the relationship with this client. Shekhar meets with Veena, seduces her and marries her, while having an affair with her personal secretary, Anu Chauhan (Deepa Sahi). When Veena finds out about this affair, she threatens to separate from him. Shekhar doesn't know about the will. Then Shekhar and Anu plan to kill her. They carry out their plan successfully, with the police concluding that her death was accidental. Shekhar finds out that Anu does not love him. To make matters worse, the police have evidence linking him to the death of his wife.
Cast
- Jackie Shroff as Shekhar Khosla
- Paresh Rawal as Inspector Khan
- Deepa Sahi as Anu Chauhan
- Kamal Sidhu as Veena Sanghvi
- Ritu Shivpuri as Julie
- Satish Shah as Jagdish
- Mamik Singh as Anu's Boyfriend
- Harish Patel as Gupta
- Ajit Vachani as Salim
- Ravi Khanvilkar as Hargovind
- Triple H as Gigilo
- Doink the Clown as Joker
- Yokozuna as himself
- Bret Hart as himself
- Savio Vega as himself
- Chris Candido as himself
- Owen Hart as himself
- Kevin Nash as himself
Critical Reception
The movie features in Avijit Ghosh's book, 40 Retakes: Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Viju Shah. The lyrics were penned by Maya Govind, Indivar, Nitin Raikwar and Rani Malik. The soundtrack was released on Venus Records & Tapes Pvt. Ltd.
| # | Song | Singer |
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| 1 | "Dil Diya Pyar Kiya" | Asha Bhosle, Sudesh Bhosle |
| 2 | "Aar Ya Paar" (Female) | Asha Bhosle |
| 3 | "Aar Ya Paar" (Male) | Jolly Mukherjee |
| 4 | "Hulle Hulle" | Udit Narayan, Hema Sardesai |
| 5 | "Mann Chahe Sanam" | Abhijeet, Sadhana Sargam |
| 6 | "Tamma Ele Tamma Ele" | Shankar Mahadevan |
| 7 | "Suna Hai Phool Kaliyon Se" | Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy |
| 8 | "Jo Hoga Hone Do" | Babul Supriyo, Jolly Mukherjee, Nayan Rathod, Sanjay, Hema Sardesai, Sonali Vajpayee, Jaspinder Narula, Meera |