Imtihaan

About the film

Imtihan (translation: Trial) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action romance film directed by Harry Baweja, starring Sunny Deol, Saif Ali Khan and Raveena Tandon. The film was remade in Telugu as Prema Prayanam (1996).

Plot

Vicky (Saif Ali Khan) is a popular singer, who meets and falls in love with Preeti (Raveena Tandon). He asks permission to marry her from her father, who instantly approves of him. Preeti is reluctant to get married but her father falls ill and agrees for her father's sake. Soon, her father falls He makes her promise that she will not tell Vicky about her past life.

A few years earlier, Preeti had fallen in love with and married Raja (Sunny Deol) against her father's wishes. Though the two were very happy together, they were cruelly separated when Raja is presumed dead after being captured by a gang in revenge for beating up Gulshan, but falls into a river below.

Preeti’s father falls ill again. He tells the reason he is ill is because he has been hiding a secret: Preeti gave birth to a daughter; however, her father lied to her and said the baby died. Instead he sent the baby to an orphanage and tells her where. He then passes away. A mysterious figure overhears this conversation.

Music and soundtrack

The film’s music was composed by Anu Malik and the lyrics of the songs were penned by Faaiz Anwar.

The soundtrack was very popular, most popular songs in album "Is Tarah Aashiqui Ka", "Do Baatein Ho Sakti Hai", "Chaaha Toh Bahut etc. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 2,800,000 units sold the soundtrack became the ninth highest-selling album of the year.

Vocals for Sunny Deol were performed by Amit Kumar, for Saif Ali Khan by Kumar Sanu and Vinod Rathod, and for Raveena Tandon by Alka Yagnik and Bela Sulakhe.

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