Karan Arjun

<p>In a village in , Durga Singh, a poor woman raises her two beloved sons Karan and Arjun. When Munshiji of Thakur Sangram Singh, comes to talk to Durga, she tells her husband was the Thakur’s son who married her against his father’s wishes. Durjan Singh, a relative of Thakur killed Durga’s husband to prevent him or his family from inheriting Thakur’s estate. After learning that Thakur plans to sign over the estate to Karan and Arjun, Durjan kills Thakur, before brutally murdering Karan and Arjun with his brothers-in-law Nahar and Shamsher. Durga worships to bring her sons back. Miraculously, Durga’s prayers are heard and the two are reincarnated but are separated and grown into different families unaware of their past lives. Durga is unaware of this miracle, but she still believes that her sons will return. 20 years later, Arjun, reincarnated as Vijay, falls in love with the wealthy Sonia Saxena. She also loves him but her wedding is fixed to Durjan’s son Suraj. Karan, reborn as Ajay, starts working for Govind—Sonia’s father and Durjan’s partner in his business. A tomboyish girl, Bindiya, who is in love with him, follows him around. Knowing that Sonia loves Vijay, Suraj attempts to kill him, but Vijay attacks him. Ajay is sent to kill Vijay; they start to fight, which is suddenly interrupted after a bolt of lightning strikes between them. Govind tries to shoot Vijay, but Ajay stops him whilst shouting for Vijay to run, which leads to something that Ajay said to Vijay in their past when he was attacked. Ajay is imprisoned, while Vijay escapes. Sonia is forcibly taken to Durjan’s house to marry Suraj. Vijay and his friend Linghaiyya travel to save Sonia, where everybody is stunned and calls him Arjun. He finally remembers his past life and reunites with Durga, where he gets to know about his brother Karan, who is now Ajay. Vijay saves Ajay and explains the whole situation, stating that they were brothers named Karan and Arjun. Meanwhile, Bindiya joins them, and Durjan hears about Karan and Arjun’s return but refuses to believe it. Nahar and Shamsher attempt to bring them before him but instead get killed by Ajay and Vijay in a similar way as they killed the two brothers. Karan (Ajay) and Arjun (Vijay) frighten Durjan by convincing him that they’re back. Govind and Durjan have a falling out, and Govind tells Sonia to run away with Vijay, but it’s actually a trap. Ajay succeeds in creating chaos, letting Vijay and Sonia escape from the trap. Vijay shoots Suraj to death, and Durjan kills Govind in a fit of rage. He attempts to shoot Ajay and Vijay but instead, they beat him up. He begs forgiveness from Durga, but Ajay and Vijay take their revenge by killing him on her order. Later, Vijay marries Sonia, Ajay marries Bindiya, and the whole family is united. originally wanted to make the film with and as the titular characters. However, both wanted to play different roles from the ones offered to them; Khan wanted to play Karan, while Devgn wanted to play Arjun. Roshan did not agree, and, as a result, both backed out of the film. Roshan’s next choices for the leads were and . While Salman agreed to do the film, Aamir could not do it. Shah Rukh then told Roshan that he wanted to return to the project. Thus, the casting of the film brought together Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan for the first time onscreen, two prominent actors of that time. assisted his father during this film, having assisted him in his previous movies. The whole film was shot in . More specifically, the village which is portrayed in the film is one of the villages of District of Rajasthan, named . The Durga temple where Karan Arjun pray in the song is located at near . was used as Thakur Durjan Singh’s house. was the , only surpassed by , which also starred , and . Worldwide, grossed . Overseas, the film grossed $500,000 ( ). The film has also been released on VHD, VCD, and DVD formats for home media. It has not seen a release on Blu-ray Disc or subsequent media formats, apart from YouTube. The music and background score were composed by and lyrics for all the songs were penned by . The music rights were originally bought by Time Magnetics (now ). The song “Bhangra Paale” was remade for the 2020 film .</p>