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Producer: Ganesh Jain
Director: Sameer Malkan
Staring: Akshay Kumar, Sonali Bendre, Saif Ali Khan, Raveena Tandon, Anupam Kher, Shakti Kapoor
Music: Rajesh Roshan
Released on: April 10, 1998
Keemat. Sounds ordinary. Akshay. Fighting and head-jerking, with big white dentures. Saif. Typical Aashiq Awara with bad hair. Raveena. Typical modern girl, equipped with too much attitude, too less clothes. Sonali. Giggles and ditzy, clothing is a must (as in lackthereof). WOW! I can’t wait.
I am excited. This must be a thriller, I think. I sit on the edge of my seat, eager for the movie to begin. The movie opens with Ajay (Saif), the gambler, and Dev (Akshay), the police officer. Tu Chor Main Sipahi? Main Khiladi Tu Anari?
Wrong. Dev is also a fraud. Two loafers, no money. Dev and Ajay are brother and sister….uhhmm but I think the movie producers had intended for both to be brothers. Quick scheme. Find a rich girl, shaadi, and sing "Saade naal rahoge, to aish karoge."
Next step. Go to a club, see Sharmili in clearance rack clothes for the extremely short and petite, wear generic Texas ranger clothes, and do a ridiculous song with an annoying country twang. Okay, found heroine number one. She ends up being a female version of Dev and Ajay, picking pockets and losing clothes as the movie progresses.
Serious note enters, plot begins. In a lil’ gaon, a big bad villian, Bhanu, wants to take all of the land and make it a "shehar". (Originality prevails.) A good bachu, Mohan, son of headmaster Anupam Kher, comes to the city to file yet another complaint against Bhanu. Naturally, he is killed, and Dev and Ajay feel responsible, due to obsession with pickpocketing and being chased. They decide to go to Mohan’s gaon out of guilt, act as if he is still alive and they are his friends, and live there. There enters Lala (Shakti Kapoor), the annoyingly funny money lender, who only speaks of things "Thol thol ke." He seems to have been sifting through Govinda’s stylish wardrobe and found the cute red and blue vest that Govinda sported in Saajan Chale Sasural…hemmed, of course.
Dev and Ajay basically become the gaon’s two "launde" who are also, in turn, Bhanu’s biggest challenge. Ajay wishes to see the “gaon ki ladkiyan” bathe, sees…guess who?? Heroine number 2, Mansi (Sonali) and sings some songs: the standard. Glad the heroine’s roles are so challenging and diverse. Sharmili also comes later, sporting the loose-girl look (I guess it’s uhhhmm modern), shocks the gaon, and converts Mansi to "modernism".
Scene where Mansi and Sharmili are watching their majnus bathe (who wow! thrill us by wearing only underwear…yeck!) from behind a rock: Sharmili: You wear so much clothes! You should try making eight of my outfits out of your one. Mansi: Do you not have any shame? Sharmili: I have style and a man. I am also the President of the Conservation of Clothes Organization. I will slap you if you do not join. Mansi: No, I cannot. Sharmili: Think of it this way. When you bathe, you will not have to remove any clothes. Mansi: WOW really????? (and they change to more stylish *READ CLEARANCE RACK REJECT CLOTHES*, modern clothes, jump in the water, and do a ridiculous dance with random girls and their majnus. Have we heard of dance choreography?)
The dance choreography needed a bit of aid, the clothing was a lil’ off (that’s quite surprising in Hindi movies, of course), the songs themselves were, overall, nice, and the scenes were ordinary. Again, as most heroines are, Raveena and Sonali were a time pass, one twirl here, one jerk there, one smile here, one giggle there, and, of course, the helpless attempted rape scene. Saif was a natural in his role…the standard anari, funny and entertaining (provided he isn’t the only hero). Akshay did well as the more serious bhai, the protector and compassionate one.
From my review, it perhaps seems as though I did not like the movie. Actually, the movie idea, though not original, was "remixed" well, and each character, however versatile or limited, did justice to their role (though I am still wondering why the directors chose to have Shakti Kapoor resemble a pregnant woman…???).
Perhaps this may not be as serious and compelling as Yugpurush, or as lovey-dovey as Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, but it had a good mix of action and romance with just the right amount of humor, which is very important in movies (when appropriate), in order to keep the story interesting and flow well. I am sure that is exactly what you are looking for in a movie…. Uhhmmm ….right… I look at Keemat and say "Vah! Script mein kya flow tha! Vah!" Not quite. It was a good entertainer, and for once, I wasn’t pondering about the meaning of life by the end, tears streaming down my face, my heart feeling deep pain. Rather….I laugh.
Dev (Akshay Kumar) And Ajay (Saif Khan) are two 'good for nothing' boys in the city of Mumbai. Both are orphans brought up by a chronic alcoholic (Avtaar Gill), they are small timers dreaming of big times trying different ways to make money.
One such idea by Ajay is to find a rich girl - make her fall in love and then marry her. After the marriage he intends to become an in-house husband and live off his wife's riches and then enjoy life forever. Dev & Ajay zero down on a girl who they think is very rich, Sharmilee (Raveena Tandon), but in reality she is a two bit con woman. A cat & mouse game ensues where in Sharmilee looses her heart to Dev. One day Ajay picks a young mans pocket. The man Mohan (Ravi Kissan) realizes it and tries to catch Ajay. During the course of the chase a truck knocks Mohan down. It is a hit and run case. Mohan dies on the spot. On opening the wallet that Ajay had picked, Dev and Ajay find a letter through which they realize how important that money was for Mohan's family. So they decide to go to Mohan's house which is in a remote village of Badlapur and return the money to his family.
On researching Badlapur they met Mohan's father Dinanath Tripathi (Anupam Kher) who is a schoolmaster and Mohan's mother a loving lady (Moushami Chatterjee). They lie to the family about Mohan's death. Further they also prove that they are Mohan's friends, and that they have come there on Mohan's behest, as Mohan is busy studying for his medical exams. The family accepts them as their own. One lie leads to another, but in course of time they become the entire family's beloved. Ajay finds his love in the same village; a girl named Mansi (Sonali Bendre).
Does the family ever come to know about Mohan's death? If they do what happens to Den and Ajay? On top of all this the village zamindar Lala Wajanlal (Shakti Kapor) wants to secure master Dinanath's house and land in return of the loan he had advanced to Dinanath. Behind Lala is the awesome power of Bhanupratap Singhania (Dalip Tahil) a powerful businessman. Singhania's mind is set not only on the master's land, but also on the whole village. Dev and Ajay become faithful guardians of not only master J's house and land but of the entire village taking on the might and wrath of Singhania. The price "KEEMAT" Dev and Ajay pay to protect the village is what the film is about.
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