Jodi No.1

<p>Veeru and Jai are good friends and also partners in crime; thus, their friendship is named Jodi No. 1. They first gain the confidence of people and later con them. But soon they have to run from after an encounter with a local Bhai because they end up having a brawl with his younger brother, and they by accident kill him in a nightclub. While on the run, Jai and Veeru meet Vikramjeet Singh, an who is on his way to work as a manager in , for Rai Bahadur, a wealthy businessman who owns a beer factory. Jai pretends to be Vikramjeet Singh, and both he and Veeru move into Rai Bahadur’s house, intending to befriend and then rob him. However, they fall in love with Rai Bahadur’s daughters and, in a series of hilarious scenes, save the family from Sir John. In the end, while Jai is stealing money from Rai to release Veeru from Sir John, the entire Rai clan is watching the news and finds out that Jai and Veeru are not who they claim to be, but con men. In the end, Rai then lets Jai go with the money to save Veeru, and all goes well, and they marry the daughters of Rai. The music is composed by and , the lyrics were written by Dev Kohli and Sudhakar Sharma. Writing for , Nidhi Taparia called the film “as humorous as canned laughter” and opined that both Khanna and Bedi “up the glam factor” but “might as well not have acted in the film”. She felt that Ashish Vidyarthi, Sayaji Shinde, Shakti Kapoor and Anupam Kher are “wasted” in the film. wrote in his 2-star review for , that the film “will settle to the average category” and if it belonged to anybody it was Govinda. He added that Khanna “oozes oomph” and Bedi added “glamour to the proceedings.” According to the film had an excellent opening. Altogether it made Rs.28 Crores and was declared a “Hit” by Box Office India. It was also the fifth highest-grossing film of the year. ( ).</p>