Aankhen (1993 film)

This article is about the 1993 film. For other uses, see Aankhen (disambiguation).

Aankhen
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Dhawan
Written byAnees Bazmee
Produced byPahlaj Nihalani
StarringGovinda
Chunky Pandey
Raj Babbar
CinematographySiba Mishra
Edited byNand Kumar
Music byBappi Lahiri
Distributed byChiragdeep International
Release date
  • 9 April 1993 (1993-04-09)
Running time
170 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹25 crore (US$7.95 million)[1]

Aankhen (transl. Eyes) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by David Dhawan and written by Anees Bazmee. It stars Govinda in a dual role and Chunky Pandey. It was a blockbuster at the box office and the highest-grossing Indian film of 1993.[2] It was remade in Telugu as Pokiri Raja (1995).

The movie was reported to have been inspired by the 1977 Kannada movie Kittu Puttu [3] which itself was inspired by the 1967 Tamil movie Anubavi Raja Anubavi which had earlier been remade in Hindi in 1973 as Do Phool. It is also adapted from Marathi film Changu Mangu released in 1990.

At the 39th Filmfare Awards, the film received 4 nominations - Best Film, Best Director (Dhawan), Best Actor (Govinda) and Best Comedian (Khan), but failed to win in any category.

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  2. ^ "Box Office 1993". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "rediff.com: David Dhawan's blue-eyed boys". www.rediff.com.