 CAUTION: This is going to take a few minutes, cause you will not be able to stop before you've reached the very end! You will have to watch a vast amount of pictures and in the end, you may very well want to watch even more. Don't say I didn't warn you!
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Film Tips - Juhi Chawla at her very bestToday, even after having done more than 50 films in about 8 years, she's still able to draw India's movie-going millions into the cinema. Her acting skills have increased even further, she's able to do the village beauty as well as the cabaret dancer or the vamp, and her looks ... breath taking, whatever character she is portraying. Plus, as some guy on the streets of India once put it in a TV interview, she is good at heart...
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Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988), a Romeo and Juliet like love tale,
launched Juhi and also her male co-star Aamir Khan the big way.
And even if the movie itself will not get you, the songs will do. All of them
are something special. Once you've heard them, you'll want to listen to them
again and again and again.
The movie, also known as QSQT, as been declared a cult movie and there's no
doubt, it deserves it's place in Indian filmi history!
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 Surprising moments are the usual in Daulat Ki Jung (1992). The Aamir and Juhi combo does still work very well. It starts as the normal family drama but very soon develops to an Indiana Jones kind of adventure movie. In this movie there are a whole lot of examples of what Juhi has learnd from her favorite Hindi film actress, Sridevi. The total control over facial expressions, smile on command, tears whenever necessary. Can you imagine what a life with that woman would be like? She has some talent to make you understand her wishes, that's for sure. |
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It is Juhi vs. Amrita Singh in Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992).
Raju (Shah Rukh Khan), a Darjeeling born engineer, comes to Bombay
to work in his profession. But there are no vacancies and so Juhi,
living in the same Basti as Shah Rukh, finds a job for him in the
company she's working for.
The daughter of the boss, Sapna (Amrita), of course falls in love with
Raju as well ... and the fight is on. Not actually between Juhi
and Amrita but between Raju and Sapna's former boyfriend.
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 Definitly a must watch movie for all Juhi and Shah Rukh Khan fans and also for all the Nana Patekar admirers - his part is supposed to be a little supporting role, but he of course manages to do something with it! Juhi is the ugly duckling, Amrita is the beauty - hey, that's the story of Aaina (1993), believe it or not! And Juhi is trying hard, but did not quite manage to look ugly - oh what a relief! If you have intentions to become a Jackie Shroff fan, then go out and watch this movie. His way of treating Juhi in this film really should be taken as an example for all of us (males). Females simply follow Juhi ... |
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Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993) of course is a love story. And could there
be anyone to do it more convincingly than Juhi and Aamir?
Aamir is trying to run a business and to care for his sister's
three kids at the same time. Resulting problems are obvious. So Juhi
is hired to look after the kids - and she's hired by the kids!
Trouble starts, when Aamir, who's supposed to marry a client's daughter, falls in love with Juhi. No problem you might think, but fact is, that Aamir needs this client's support to keep in charge of his little branch.
No doubt, there has to be a "Happy End"!
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 Don't panic! It's only a movie: Darr (1993). And what a movie it is. A thriller, with a psycho called Rahul (Shah Rukh) stalking behind Kiran (Juhi), and her husband Sunny Deol for that matter. Not the kind of movie you want to watch alone at home, late at night ... the moment the phone rings, your night is well over: I love you, K-K-K-Kiran! Great, great songs, great acting by Shah Rukh especially, and very nice pictorization of the songs. |
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Talking of songs, here's one. It is called Tu mere samne and is from
the movie above. If you've never seen Hindi written down in Devanagri before,
try to read the latin lines as if it would be english text.
So now you know what Hindi sounds like - at least roughly.
For the movie, Lata Mangeshkar sings Juhi's part and
Udit Narayan does it for Shah Rukh. That way it sounds
even better than your version!!
In addition to the tool above there also is PC-HINDI, a.k.a. KYAA, available. A vocabulary practice drill software, teaching you English-Hindi or German-Hindi. Again freeware, no commercial background! |
From the saddest movie ever made, Saajan Ka Ghar (1993), the
most beautiful shots. Her mother dies while giving birth to her, her father
therefore hates her, her step-mother hates her, her mother-in-law
hates her ... only her brother Deepak Tijori and her husband
Rishi Kapoor do care for her. But if the odds are so strongly
against you, what can you do?
No, sorry, no "Happy End" this time! If you are prepared to go thru
a lot of pain and sad moments, watch the film. It's worth it a hundred times!
Yes it's true! This movie Ghar Ki Izzat (1993) only is in here to allow Juhi to show off her beautiful body. Forget about watching the movie, at least if you are not a Jeetendra fan. Apart from his performance, there's nothing worth mentioning. Even the songs are pathetic, to say the least. And still nobody is complaining. 1993 was the year of Darr, Aaina and Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, so Juhi has well earned herself a little break in '94.
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Of course there also are numerous movies where she gives a brilliant performance: Pratibandh marvelous piece of film, very patriotic in the ending, The Gentleman with Juhi as the traditional woman and Heera Rajagopal as the modern counterpart, Andaz with her teaming up with Anil Kapoor and Karishma Kapoor. Those are highly recommended, and not olny to Juhi fans! 
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What in your opinion is the most weird pairing of lead actors in Bollywood?
Ajay Devgan vs. Naseeruddin Shah you think? Oh well, they've
done it for Naajayaz (1994).
The resulting movie is brilliant. A good plot, perfectly done cinematography, marvelous songs and last but not least, police wali Juhi. A modern Hindi film to be rated very high! 
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Bandish (1996) is directed and produced by Prakash Jha. And as far as the technical aspect of filmmaking goes, it is a masterpiece. The weak plot is the only problem. The songs aren't that great either, but with Juhi in the starcast, the movie sells. One might get the impression, that Jha wanted to make a Juhi movie and hasn't spent too much thoughts on anything else but on her looks - that way the movie's just fine. 
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| Altogether that was a little trip to Juhi's movie world called
Bollywood. If you want to see more photographs of her, please check
out the Photo
Gallery of the Bollywood Movie
Database.
1986 SULTANAT Dharmendra, Sunny Deol,Sridevi
1987 PREMALOKA Ravichandran, Vishnuvardhan
1988 QAYAMAT SE QAYAMAT TAK intr. Aamir Khan
1989 CHANDNI Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor
GOONJ Kumar Gaurav, Binjoo Ali
LOVE LOVE LOVE Aamir Khan
TUM MERE HO Aamir Khan Ajit Vachhani
VICKY DADA Nagarjuna
1990 BHABHI Govinda, Bhanupriya
CID Vinod Khanna, Amrita Singh
KARZ CHUKANA HAI Govinda, Kader Khan
PRATIBANDH intr. Chiranjeevi
SHANDAAR
SWARG Govinda, Rajesh Khanna, Madhavi
1991 BENAAM BADSHAH
SHANTI KRANTI Rajnikanth
1992 BEWAFA SE WAFAA Viveck Mushran, Nagma
BOL RADHA BOL Rishi Kapoor
DAULAT KI JUNG Aamir Khan, Kiran Kumar
MERE SAJNA SAATH NIBHA Mithun Chakraborty, Shanti Priya
RADHA KA SANGAM Govinda, Kirti Kumar
RAJU BAN GAYA GENTLEMAN Shah Rukh Khan, Amrita Singh
TADIPAAR Mithun Chakraborty, Pooja Bhatt
1993 AAINA Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh
DARR Sunny Deol, Shah Rukh Khan
HUM HAIN RAHI PYAR KE Aamir Khan, Master Sharokh
IZZAT KI ROTI Sunny Deol, Farha, Rishi Kapoor
JAAN PE KHEL KAR Aditya Panscholi, Shekhar Suman
KABHI HAAN KABHI NAA Shah Rukh Khan, Depak Tijori
LOOTERE Sunny Deol, Naseeruddin Shah
PEHLA NASHA Deepak Tijori, Pooja Bhatt
SAAJAN KA GHAR Rishi Kapoor, Deepak Tijori
SHATRANJ Jackie Shroff
THE GENTLEMAN Chiranjeevi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
1994 ANDAZ Anil Kapoor, Karishma Kapoor
ANDAZ APNA APNA Aamir Khan, Salman Khan
BHAGAYWAN Govinda, Kirti Kumar
EENA MEENA DEEKA Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna
GHAR KI IZZAT Jeetendra, Rishi Kapoor
NAAJAYAZ Naseeruddin Shah, Ajay Devgan
PARAMAATMA Mithun Chakraborty, Amrish Puri
1995 AATANK HI AATANK Rajnikanth, Aamir Khan, Dalip Tahil
KARTAVYA Sanjay Kapoor, Aruna Irani, Om Puri
RAM-JAANE Shah Rukh Khan, Viveck Mushran
1996 BANDISH Jackie Shroff, Shilpa Shirodkar
LOAFER Anil Kapoor, Shakti Kapoor
DARAAR Rishi Kapoor, intr. Arbaaz Khan
1997 DEEWANA MASTANA Anil Kapoor, Govinda
ISHQ Aamir Khan, Ajay Devgan, Kajol
MR. AND MRS. KHILADI Akshay Kumar
YES BOSS Shah Rukh Khan, Aditya Panscholi
1998 DUPLICATE Shah Rukh Khan
JHOOTH BOLE KAUWA KAATE Anil Kapoor
SAAT RANG KE SAPNE Arvind Swamy
1999 ARJUN PANDIT Sunny Deol, Shabaz Khan
SAFARI Sunjay Dutt
SHAHEED UDHAM SINGH Raj Babbar
2000 KAROBAR Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor
PHIR BHI DIL HAI HINDUSTANI Shah Rukh Khan
To be released in 2001 or even later:
BILLA NO. 302 Nana Patekar
DIL SACHA CHERA JOOTHA Shah Rukh, Jackie Shroff
TALAASHI Jackie Shroff
DO BHAI Rishi Kapoor
GANG Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar
SAZAA Mithun, Raj Babbar
RISHTE Amitabh, Lolo
RAASHQ Aishwaryy, Shah Rukh
ONE TWO KA FOUR Anil, Jackie
Confusion of release- and production-date is quite likely. If you discover any typos, missing movies, mistakes, please contact Volker Schuermann of the Bollywood Movie Database, the place where all the data on this page comes from.
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