Deewangee

Deewangee
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnees Bazmee
Written by
  • Anees Bazmee
  • Neeraj Pathak
  • Humayum Mirza
Produced byNitin Manmohan
StarringAjay Devgn
Akshaye Khanna
Urmila Matondkar
CinematographyPushan Kripalani
Edited byAshfaq-Sarvar
Music byIsmail Darbar
Production
company
Neha Arts
Release date
  • 25 October 2002 (2002-10-25)
Running time
169 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹ 90 million[1]
Box office₹ 220 million[1]

Deewangee (transl. Madness) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film directed by Anees Bazmee and produced by Nitin Manmohan. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, and Urmila Matondkar. The music was composed by Ismail Darbar, with lyrics by Salim Bijnori and Nusrat Badr. This was Devgn's first negative role for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Villain.[2][3][4][5][6]

It is inspired[7] and has its first half adapted from Primal Fear (1996) by Gregory Hoblit[8] which was itself based on William Diehl's novel of the same name.[9] Released on 25 October 2002, the film was a below-average performer at the box office.[10] It was remade in Tamil as Kadhal Kirukkan in 2003.

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  2. ^ "Bollywood review: Deewangee". The Times of India. 26 October 2002.
  3. ^ "Deewangee - movie review by Mandeep Bahra - Planet Bollywood".
  4. ^ "Deewangee Review 2.5/5 | Deewangee Movie Review | Deewangee 2002 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama. 25 October 2002.
  5. ^ "rediff.com: Movies: The Rediff Review: Deewangee". www.rediff.com.
  6. ^ "Deewangee review: Deewangee (Hindi) Movie Review - fullhyd.com".
  7. ^ "Movies: The Anees Bazmee Interview". Rediff.com. Retrieved 21 October 2002. Is Deewangee adapted from Primal Fear? No, it is not. I was inspired by Primal Fear.
  8. ^ "Movies: Hollywood's Hindi Clones". Rediff.com. The first half of Deewangee was a frame-by-frame remake of Primal Fear featuring Devgan as a schizophrenic murder suspect and Akshaye Khanna as his shrewd lawyer.
  9. ^ "India Today". India Today International. Vol. 1, no. 26–34. Living Media International Limited. 2002. p. 42.
  10. ^ "Deewangee - Movie". Box Office India.