Ajnabee

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6.3/10

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Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, and Akshay Kumar in Ajnabee (2001)

Bobby Deol and Kareena Kapoor play a new couple who get married and move to Switzerland. They make friends with their new neighbours Akshay Kumar and Bipasha Basu. Life seems perfect until one day when Bobby Deol wakes up in Akshay's house and finds out that Akshay's wife has been murdered. Bobby Deol is accussed of the murder but flees from the authorities in order to prove himself innocent.

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Conspiracy Thriller Action Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller

A newlywed couple, Raj and Priya, move to Switzerland and become friends with their new neighbors, Vicky and Sonia. But one day, Raj is accused of Sonia's murder and goes on the run in order... Read allA newlywed couple, Raj and Priya, move to Switzerland and become friends with their new neighbors, Vicky and Sonia. But one day, Raj is accused of Sonia's murder and goes on the run in order to prove his innocence.A newlywed couple, Raj and Priya, move to Switzerland and become friends with their new neighbors, Vicky and Sonia. But one day, Raj is accused of Sonia's murder and goes on the run in order to prove his innocence.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

9.5K

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Awards
- 5 wins & 12 nominations total

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2rags18

Poor copy of Hollywood flick 'Consenting Adults' (1992) staring Kevin Spacey and Kevin Kline

Abbas-Mastan's movies are known to make suspense thrillers. Although the topic of wife swapping was a new theme for Indian Cinema.

Ajnabi too is a copy of Hollywood flick 'Consenting Adults' (1992) staring Kevin Spacey, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Kevin Kline.

Abbas-Mastan are known to lift stories from Hollywood movies.

Right from 'Bazzigar' (1993) to 'Race' (2007) are all copies. They try very hard though to add some Bollywood tinge, and get away very easily.

And in the process have won quite few awards successfully. There is nothing wrong to draw inspiration, but making straight copies frame to frame is not good.

9milindgaikwad-33192

Hollywood level thriller. Wasn't expected twist

Way ahead of his time.

Might be copied from some Hollywood flick but it takes courage to make such movie in that era in Bollywood when SRK's so called love story crap bandwagon was in hype

Mind blown when saw first time . What a twist !

5Pedro-37

Average film, but great fun for someone who lives in Switzerland :)

Of all the Bollywood-films I've seen, "Ajnabi" is one of the mediocre ones. The songs didn't work for me, the tension was flat and the actors were average. Bipashu Basu made a gorgeous debut, but that's about it. Oh and the comic relief was bad. Really.

But, as many Bollywood films do, this one has some scenes in Switzerland. Actually about 50% of the movie takes place somewhere in the country. I don't want to blame the film because many movies treat geography rather loose, but "Ajnabi" is a hoot on that level. I'll start with the policemen. They swap languages in every scene - from English to German to French. Trust me, I know that Switzerland has a French part, but then the Police-cars should be labeled "Police" not "Polizei" - the film does it vice versa: In Luzern (German speaking part. With many *bad* extras!), no police car would be labeled "Police".

The funniest stuff is in the court room sequence. This doesn't look like a Swiss court room at all, but I didn't mind. Then, Raj jumps out of the window and runs. He runs through streets with many Asian looking people. Tourists perhaps? Well, even some Chinese signs. And what's that? A subway? There aren't any subways in Switzerland! Wow! It's Singapore! He ran around the world in a couple of seconds, hunted by Swiss policemen. Well, what shall I say ... I had great fun with stuff like this.

But the film itself is mediocre, so I give it a

5/10

8anjshaik

creative

this was one of the most planned scripts written in all of time good direction as usual from the Abbas-Mustan duo and a script that's written by all of the known sweet writers into an ultimate story songs are pretty average and the acting by Akshay Kumar is great he delivers his dialogues with lots of fun and passion Shyam Goel dialogue writer delivers dialogues with passion and writes with wit screenplay is average but good story by Neeraj Vora us good being Bipasha Basu's debut is good overall average film with great acting story every element a movie needs this has songs need a little work and the screenplay could do with that as well but overall good movie by creative directors and highly enjoyable action direction

8pawanpunjabithewriter

Akshay Kumar's appearance makes it Awe-inspiring

No Spoilers! First of all, the main reason I added this movie to the watchlist is the Akshay Kumar's great meme. You know if you know. Anyways, it's the first picture added in the image list in the IMDb, so you can see it there. The movie started slow. Very slow. I hated the songs. 4 songs, some seemed highly unnecessary. Akshay Kumar enters late. But the movie takes pace since, takes meaning. Akshay Kumar was so sensational, he made his chemistry even with Bobby great along with the other two. Bobby was average. Bipasha was super hot. There were few exotic scenes in the movie, too much considering it was the very early 2000s. But not much at all in this era of web series n tv series. Akshay Kumar and Johnny lever added so much fun in the movie, they made it quite Entertaining. Yes, it was a thriller with comedy. Excellent last 60 minutes and the climax. Apart of the songs, and the initial romance, the movie was great. Enjoyed it. Recommended if a Bollywood fan.

Pawan P

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Trivia
Akshay won Filmfare Award for Best Villain for his role, his first Filmfare award.

Goofs
After the court scene, Bobby runs on a road and enters the subway, but Switzerland has no subway services. At the end, the characters cross the Swiss border by sea, but Switzerland is landlocked.

Quotes
Raj Malhotra: [Upon grabbing Sharat Saxena's gun at Mink Brar's Zurich residence] Who the hell are you ?
Detective from insurance company: I should ask you the same. Who're you ?
Raj Malhotra: [In concealed anger] Don't waste my time. Just answer me or I'll shoot you.
Detective from insurance company: [Complying] I am an investigator for the insurance company which indemnified Sonia Bajaj. The payout of her policy to her husband Vikram, due today, is US$ 100 million.
Raj Malhotra: [Shocked realising Akshay Kumar's plot was about money] US$ 100 million ?
Detective from insurance company: [Explaining further] Yes, and as I mentioned today is the payout. I was suspicious of Vikram Bajaj from the very beginning of this case and thought I could try one last time to prohibit him from gaining the money. Unfortunately, I still don't have any concrete evidence to present to my company.
Raj Malhotra: [Believing there's still a chance] I can provide you with a clue.
[Hands over Mink Brar's boarding pass retrieved earlier]
Detective from insurance company: [Further suspicious of Kumar after seeing the boarding pass] Sonia Bajaj ? How can this be ? This is the same date she was murdered as per official police reports and she was in the city rather than coming in from anywhere as this ticket suggests.
Raj Malhotra: [Now more confident of Kumar's role in the crime] For this very reason I escaped to Zurich and came to this house. If I can get more evidence, your company will be saved from paying him this money and I can prove my innocence to the law enforcement.
Detective from insurance company: [Agreeing with Deol] Exactly, but first we'll have to ensure his payout is declined. Come with me to the insurance company office right now.

Connections
Featured in 47th Filmfare Awards (2002)

Soundtracks
Mehbooba Mehbooba
Written by Sameer
Composed by Anu Malik
Performed by Adnan Sami and Sunidhi Chauhan
Courtesy of Tips Cassettes & Records Co.