Itihaas

Wealthy, powerful, and influential Thakur Digvijay Singh ( ) visits a village and falls in love with beautiful Naina ( ). They are betrothed and are to be married soon. But Naina has fallen in love with the son, Karan ( ), of Thakur’s employee, Balwant ( ). When Thakur finds out about this, he instructs his men to bring in Naina alive, and Karan dead. Karan and Naina run from this community all the way to . The Thakur announces a hefty reward, and soon bounty hunters are all over Bombay looking for the hapless couple. When Balwant hears about this, he too goes to Bombay and does locate Karan and Naina. Karan is relieved to see his dad, but his relief soon turns to disbelief, as Balwant instructs him to let go of Naina, as he himself has come as an agent of the Thakur, not as his father. was the first attempt of Kanwar at producing a film and was highly publicised. He repeated the pairing of Devgn and Khanna who had previously starred in his 1996 film . noted that the film had been “lavishly produced”. Xavier Marquis also helped in the film’s finances. Music by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen. All lyrics are written by . The audio cassette of the film was released at the Sun & Sand Hotel in . Supran Verma of wrote that the film had “turned to be just a rehash of [ ] and other Kanwar films” which was why maybe it didn’t catch the audience’s attention. The film performed poorly at the box office, becoming the first flop of Raj Kanwar. Devgn took the Bombay territory as fees. However the film was the 21st highest grossing Bollywood film of 1997. Also the songs such as ‘Chori Chori’ and ‘Achko Machko’ were popular.