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Aflatoon is a film of genre Drama with Akshay Kumar

Aflatoon (1997)

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Genres Drama,    Action,    Crime
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Aflatoon ('English': Maverick) is a Bollywood romance action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa. The film stars Akshay Kumar in a double role opposite Urmila Matondkar. It released on 19 December 1997, and did average business at the box office. The music cassettes were sold to T-Series.Akshay Kumar received best villain as well as best actor at IIFA award for this movie.

Synopsis

Raja (Akshay Kumar), a good for nothing trying to get rich, impersonates Parimal Chaturvedi, a school professor and involves into a school of beautiful rich woman. He falls for rich girl Pooja (Urmila Matondkar). Then he wins her heart. Trouble comes when Pooja's dad Prakash (Anupam Kher) mistakes Raja for Rocky (also Akshay Kumar), who is a lookalike of Raja and is a ruthless and merciless criminal who blackmails people for money or threatens to kill them. Prakash is also on Rocky's payroll. Prakash asks Raja for help, so Raja impersonates Rocky to get his secrets and Prakash's money. But tables are turned when Rocky finds out about Raja's game. Raja wakes up and finds himself kidnapped in Rocky's mansion. He then realizes he has been drugged for the past 7 days, and in these 7 days, Rocky has posed as Raja and is getting married to Pooja. Raja is tricked and arrested under the name of Rocky. Raja manages to escape and crashes the wedding where he tells the truth and Rocky escapes. Raja follows him to an multi-story building where the two fight brutally. Rocky is in the lead and knocks Raja out. Raja uses full power to get back up and pushes Rocky off the building, who falls to his death. Raja and Pooja then get married.

Actors

Akshay Kumar

(Rocky / Raja / Parimal Chaturvedi)
Urmila Matondkar

(Pooja)
Anupam Kher

(Vidya Prakash)
Farida Jalal

(Raja's Mother)
Harish Patel

(Police Commissioner)
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