Aar Ya Paar

1997
3h

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Shekhar is an opportunist. He marries Veena, a multi-millionaire, while continuing his affair with her secretary, Anu. When Veena gets to know, she threatens him with dire consequences. Shek... Read allShekhar is an opportunist. He marries Veena, a multi-millionaire, while continuing his affair with her secretary, Anu. When Veena gets to know, she threatens him with dire consequences. Shekhar and Anu then kill her. Later, Shekhar finds out that Anu does not love him, but anothe... Read allShekhar is an opportunist. He marries Veena, a multi-millionaire, while continuing his affair with her secretary, Anu. When Veena gets to know, she threatens him with dire consequences. Shekhar and Anu then kill her. Later, Shekhar finds out that Anu does not love him, but another man. To make matters worse, the police have evidence linking him to the death of his for... Read all

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6.2/10

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Jackie Shroff

Shekhar Khosla

Deepa Sahi

Anu Chauhan

Ritu Shivpuri

Julie

Kamal Sidhu

Veena Sanghvi

Paresh Rawal

ACP Khan

Satish Shah

Jagdish

Harish Patel

Gupta

Ajit Vachani

Salim
(as Ajit Vachchani)

Ravi Khandelkar

Hargovind

Manoj Pahwa

Mamik Singh

Anu's lover, Anil
(as Marmik)

Vikas Desai

Maximiliano

Rodney Anoai

Yokozuna
(uncredited)

Chris Candido

Skip
(uncredited)

Bret Hart

Bret Hart
(uncredited)

Owen Hart

Owen Hart
(uncredited)

Paul Levesque

Hunter Hearst Hemsley
(uncredited)

Director
- Ketan Mehta
Writers
- Hriday Lani
- Ketan Mehta
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8afzala-15391

Based on the novel of james hadley chase "sucker puch" .

This movie based on the novel "sucker punch" james hadely chase. Its very good and ameazing thrill suspense.

10aravindnair-22971

A movie ahead of its time and audience

This movie was made ahead of its time and audience and so out of character for Indian cinema. Great Story (a rare commodity in Bollywood), good acting (again rare), solid thriller. Over all should have gotten a much higher rating it deserved.

This movie shows so many facets of Human emotions at one go. love, Lust, Betrayal, Corruption, Greed, Desperation and Salvation. It would have best suited if the movie was allowed without any cuts and editing, If cuts are so necessary then they could have done better with less songs. I don't know why but this movie's plot still seems to me as inspired from somewhere for the writers because of the over all bold theme and presentation of the movie which is a surprise to me. No offense, its just an opinion i have, i may be wrong. Over all a very good movie. Kudos to the makers.

9activatebhargav

Thriller fans would love to indulge in this Cracker of a movie!

Aar Ya Paar is not what you expect from a regular Bollywood movie. The plot was way ahead of its time. The movie is pacy with very minimum dull moments. Actually a remake as an OTT would be great option during these times.. Ketan Mehta has made this really well and direction is fast. Jackie was excellent in his role and performed the role to the T. A complete no nonsense role by him and has elevated the movie by his presence. Paresh Rawal is also fantastic in his role. Others do a decent job in their limited roles. Kamal Sidhu was bad and very loud in her role. Somebody else would have done a better job. All in all must watch Bollywood thriller. An ode to James Hadley Chase.

8mfhadm-07333

Hollywood style Jackie acting like Harrison Ford

It's a total Hollywood style thriller. Good work from all the actors. Paresh Rawal and Jackie stole the show. Their one on one conversation scenes are great. Bollywood was having all melodrama movies that time. This was way ahead of its time. Watch it.

4MindblowingMahiya

Not what you expect from Ketan Mehta

The director that made "Bhav Ni Bhavai", "Mirch Masala" or even "Mangal Panday" is not even close to being his best in "Aar ya Paar". It looks like a cheap and easy movie he was arm-twisted into making so he sleep-walked through it. Th story of "The Sucker Punch" has been made into a Gujarati Drama: Shrugal. Paresh Rawal who played the inspector in the movie actually played the crook husband in the Drama - a much more entertaining performance than Jackie Shroff. Ketan Mehta also once more used his then Girlfriend, now wife Deepa Sahi in the movie. She is not particularly talented and when she tries to be sexy, she becomes laughable. Ketan should have learned from V. Shantaram and Chetan Anand's disastrous pampering of their spouses/lovers. The other girl who plays Meena is not even able to read her lines convincingly.