Khal-Naaikaa (transl. "Lady Villain" or "The Vamp") is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language thriller film, produced and directed by Saawan Kumar under the Saawan Kumar Productions banner. It stars Jeetendra, Jaya Prada, Anu Aggarwal and music composed by Mahesh - Kishore.[1] It is based on the 1992 Hollywood film The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.[2]
| Khal-Naaikaa | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Saawan Kumar Tak |
| Written by | Kamleshwar (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Sachin Bhowmick |
| Story by | Bharat B. Bhalla |
| Produced by | Saawan Kumar Tak |
| Starring | Jeetendra Jaya Prada Anu Aggarwal |
| Cinematography | Nadeem Khan |
| Edited by | Jawahar Razdan |
| Music by | Mahesh - Kishore |
Production company | Saawan Kumar Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 147 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Plot edit
Homemaker Jaya Kapoor (Jayaprada) is happily married and lives with her husband Ravi Kapoor (Jeetendra) and two children, a girl Sahiba, and a baby boy Munna. While being examined at a check-up, she becomes a target of Dr. Rajan Bakshi (Puneet Issar) who molested four more ladies previously. Traumatized, she tells Ravi, who encourages her to report Dr. Bakshi to the medical board. Her initial accusation and with the help of their journalist friend Varsha Sharma (Varsha Usgaonkar), the four women come forward about Dr. Bakshi assaulting them, and multiple charges are prepared against him. Dr. Bakshi commits suicide to avoid being arrested. Bakshi's pregnant widow Anuradha (Anu Aggarwal) stressed about her husband's suicide, falls unconscious, goes into pre-term labor, and loses her baby. While recovering in the hospital, she sees a news story identifying Jaya as the one who reported her husband. Unaware of her husband's misdemeanor, she blames Jaya for wrecking their happy married life and swears revenge.
Months later, Jaya looks for a nanny and she unknowingly hires Anuradha, who is going under the alias "Kiran". Anuradha wages a campaign to undermine Jaya in her household. She frequently breastfeeds Munna in secret; this causes him to reject Jaya, as he stops taking her milk. Anuradha encourages Jaya's daughter Sahiba to keep secrets from her mother and tries to turn her against Jaya. Anuradha also suggests to Ravi that he arrange a surprise party for Jaya, leading Varsha and Ravi to meet in secret. Jaya accuses Ravi of having an affair with Varsha and this leads to tension between the couple.
Gangaram (Mehmood), an intellectually disabled gardener who has been assisting the Kapoors and is friendly with Sahiba, discovers Anuradha breastfeeding Munna. To prevent him from exposing her, Anuradha plants nude pictures of Jaya in Gangaram's living quarters which leads Ravi into beating him up and firing him. Unknown to the family, except for Sahiba, Gangaram keeps a watchful eye over them.
A now wary Jaya begins to suspect "Kiran's" hand in all of the recent incidents and suggests to Ravi that they should get rid of her. Anuradha overhears their conversation, and the next morning she boobytraps the greenhouse for Jaya. Varsha discovers Anuradha's identity, but before she can get in touch with Jaya, Anuradha tricks her into going into the greenhouse, where she is killed by the falling glass ceiling. Knowing that Jaya suffers from asthma, Anuradha empties all of Jaya's inhalers and takes Munna out for a walk. When Jaya arrives back home and finds Varsha's bloodied, glass-covered body, she has an asthma attack and is briefly hospitalized. Ravi is left distraught over both Varsha's death and his wife's condition. Seeing Ravi leave, Gangaram tries to prove his innocence and even tells what Anuradha did. Anuradha attempts to seduce him, but he imagines Jaya and tells her feelings to Anuradha (as thought by Ravi). It is stopped when Sahiba calls her father and he gets up, she thinks her plan worked (but it fails).
Jaya eventually uncovers the truth about Anuradha, confronts her, and reveals the truth to Ravi just as Anuradha claims that she and Ravi are having an affair. Ravi denies this claim and kicks her out. Jaya tells Ravi to call the police when she realizes that Anuradha was behind Varsha's death and that she was the intended target. Ravi calls the cops and the Kapoor house is placed under protection.
Anuradha breaks into the house, killing the guard, and their friend Sethia, and lures Ravi down to the basement where she hits him on the head, knocking him down the stairs and breaking his legs. Anuradha attempts to take Sahiba and Munna, but after seeing Anuradha assault her mother, Sahiba locks Anuradha in the nursery. Anuradha escapes by breaking the door with a gardening pole and hears Munna in the treehouse. She enters and sees Gangaram aiding the kids' escape. When Jaya enters, Anuradha attempts to kill her but stops after Jaya appears to be having another asthma attack, prompting Anuradha to mock her. As Anuradha tries to take Munna, Jaya gets back up, having faked her asthma attack, and pushes Anuradha out of the treehouse, killing her. Touched at how Gangaram risked his life to protect her family, Jaya welcomes him back into their lives. Jaya, Ravi, and their children lived happily ever after.
Cast edit
- Jeetendra as Ravi Kapoor
- Jayapradha as Jaya Ravi Kapoor
- Anu Aggarwal as Anuradha Rajan Bakshi / Kiran[3]
- Mehmood as Gangaram
- Puneet Issar as Dr. Rajan Bakshi
- Varsha Usgaonkar as Varsha Sharma[4]
- Sahebzadi Kohli as Sahiba Kapoor, Ravi, and Jaya's daughter
- Zain Ansari as Munna Kapoor, Ravi, and Jaya's son
- Bharat Bhalla as Hanuman Sethia
Soundtrack edit
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Kisi Ki Premika Banke" | Sadhana Sargam, Kavita Krishnamurthy |
| 2 | "Dost Bewafaa Hai" | Sadhana Sargam |
| 3 | "Choli Ke Andar Kya Hai"[4] | Vipin Sachdeva, Poornima |
| 4 | "Mere Mehboob Se Militi Hai" | Kavita Krishnamurthy |
| 5 | "Mere Achchhe Chandamama" | Sadhana Sargam |
| 6 | "Doosron Ki Burai" | Sadhana Sargam, Vipin Sachdeva |
Release edit
The film was released on the day when Subhash Ghai's Jackie Shroff, Sanjay Dutt starter Khal Nayak (1993) was released. Before Khal-Naaikaa's release when Ghai became aware that a film which had a nearly identical title to his film was going to be released Khal Nayak, he agitated Khal-Naaikaa's release in front of the film producers' association but his effort ended futile, and the guild gave the verdict that Khal-Naaikaa's release date will not move if Ghai wants he can change his movie's release date.[5]
References edit
- ^ "6 अगस्त 1993 को... 'खलनायक' को टक्कर देने आई थी 'खलनायिका', दोनों फिल्मों की रिलीज से पहले हुआ था बड़ा बवाल" [On August 6, 1993... 'Khalnayaka' had come to compete with 'Khalnayaka', there was a big uproar before the release of both the films]. News18 (in Hindi). 21 June 2023. Archived from the original on 24 June 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ "Anu Aggarwal Remembers Sawan Kumar Tak From 'Khal Naaika' Days". Outlook. 26 August 2022. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ "Anu Agarwal emerges as the new female villain of Bollywood". India Today. 31 July 1993. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Choli, Hindi cinema's favourite garment becomes tinseltown's audio talisman". India Today. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ "Ghai on..." Times of India. 6 August 2023. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
External links edit
- Khal-Naaikaa at IMDb
