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The 1993 blockbuster “Aankhen” was the first time the famous duo of director David Dhawan and actor Govinda came together in a movie. Producer Pahlaj Nihalani roped in stars like Chunky Pandey, Raj Babbar, Shilpa Shirodkar, Raageshwari and Kader Khan while the reins for music direction were in the hands of the ever popular Bappi Lahiri.

The movie has three actors playing double roles (Govinda, Kader Khan and Raj Babbar). Govinda and Chunky are two good for nothing slackers who play practical jokes on everyone, their most common victim being their father Kader Khan. Having tried all possible means to impress upon them the values and morals he firmly believes in, Kader Khan finds no alternative but to throw them out of his house when they are caught lying about their results in the college exams. Their lives take random course when Chunky is alleged to be involved in a conspiracy to kill the Chief Minister of the state and replace him with a look alike. As Govinda goes missing, suspicions arise about him being alive or dead. Govinda’s look alike cousin enters the script now leading to a series of mistakes, confusions, misunderstanding and errors which finally gets solved as all the missing characters resurface. The criminals are taken under custody or killed with the happily ever after ending soon following.

The movie was uncharacteristically unique when it came out and won the hearts of Indian viewers straight away who have always delighted in plots involving double roles or Siamese twins. The movie was inspired from a Kannada movie but still did good business in all parts of India. None of the actors might have delivered a once in a lifetime role on the movie but the movie was surely a Box-office topper.