Akele Hum Akele Tum

Akele Hum Akele Tum
Akele Hum Akele Tum
	Film poster
Directed by	Mansoor Khan
Written by	Mansoor Khan; Nasir Hussain (dialogue)
Based on	Kramer vs. Kramer
Produced by	Champak Jain; Ratan Jain
Starring	Aamir Khan; Manisha Koirala; Adil Rizvi
Cinematography	Baba Azmi
Edited by	Zafar Sultan
Music by	Anu Malik
Production; company	Venus Movies
Distributed by	United Seven Combines
Release date	30 November 1995;
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹4.50 crore
Box office	₹12.37 crore

Akele Hum Akele Tum (transl. I'm Alone, You're Alone) is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film starring Aamir Khan, Manisha Koirala, and Master Adil. It was directed by Mansoor Khan. The music is by Anu Malik and the lyrics are by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The film is loosely based on the 1979 American film Kramer vs. Kramer.^[2] Both Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala's performances were acclaimed; the latter also received a nomination in the Best Actress category at the 41st Filmfare Awards. Although the film was well received with critics, it did not connect with the audience.^[3]

Plot

Rohit Kumar (Aamir Khan) is an aspiring playback singer while Kiran (Manisha Koirala) is an ambitious classical singer-in-training. They meet, relate to each other's sentiments, fall in love and get married shortly. When Kiran's parents oppose their marriage, they decide to lead a separate life.

After marriage, Kiran's ambitions take a backseat to her household responsibilities and looking after their son. Time fails to abate Kiran's frustration until she decides to leave Rohit and start a new life all over again. Now single, Rohit is forced to look after both his son and his own failing career. After some obvious teething troubles, Rohit succeeds in creating a separate world for himself and his son, Sunil.

Meanwhile, Kiran becomes a huge film star. She tries to reconcile with Rohit but Rohit is a proud man and misinterprets her support as her pity and things become worse. A court case is eventually filed for the custody of Sunil.

Rohit faces a tough time preparing for the case as his financial position is not as sound as Kiran's. He sells his best songs at a very low price so that he can fight the custody battle. During the court battle, Kiran's lawyer Bhujbal (Paresh Rawal) uses every possible trick to show that Rohit does not deserve the custody of his child. He even uses the information that Rohit had told Kiran only because he felt that she had a right to know about her son's life against him. Rohit instructs his lawyer to fight the case honestly as he does not wish to hurt Kiran and her reputation. In the end, the court rules in favour of the mother and Kiran is given custody of the child. During this time, common friends of Rohit and Kiran try to explain to Kiran that Rohit had changed for the better and that he is now very attached to his son. Kiran also realises that their son would never find happiness only with her. She tells Rohit that she will not take Sunil away and that she wants him to stay at his home to which Rohit replies that this was Kiran's home as well. Kiran seemingly moves to get out of the house but then closes the door and smiles.

Rohit and Kiran hug each other and their son as the movie ends.

Cast

Aamir Khan as Rohit Kumar
Manisha Koirala as Kiran Kumar (Rohit's wife)
Adil Rizvi as Sunil "Sonu" Kumar (Rohit and Kiran's son)
Deven Verma as Kanhaiya
Tanvi Azmi as Farida
Rohini Hattangadi as Mrs. Dayal
Paresh Rawal as Advocate Bhujbal
Aanjjan Srivastav as Ram Dayal
Rakesh Roshan as Paresh Kapoor
Shafi Inamdar as Kaushik
Satish Shah as Gulbadan Kumar
Harish Patel as Amar
Navneet Nishan as Sunita (Kiran's Friend)
Neeraj Vora as Moolchand (Grocer)
Mushtaq Khan as Mr. Bhatija (Rohit's Lawyer)
Dinesh Hingoo as Jamshed, Hotel Owner
Shashi Kiran as Ravinder Kapoor
Suresh Bhagwat as Prakash (Tailor)
Razzak Khan as Babulal
Hiralal as Hira Lal
Viju Khote (actor playing role of an NRI)
Ayesha Jhulka as award presenter
Yunus Parvez as Mehra, Restaurant and Disco bar owner(uncredited)
Ghanshyam (actor playing role to insult an NRI)
Jennifer Winget as young girl

Music

The music is given by Anu Malik and the lyrics were penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri. Tracks like "Raja Ko Rani Se Pyaar Gaya", "Dil Mera Churaya Kyun", "Akele Hum Akele Tum" and "Dil Kehta Hai" became immensely popular. Anu Malik copied the song "Raja Ko Rani Se Pyaar Gaya" from the title track of Francis Ford Copolla's The Godfather. "Aisa Zakham Diya Hai" sampled the famous 70s psychedelic rock song "Child In Time", performed by the English rock band Deep Purple, while "Dil Mera Churaya Kyun" is inspired from "Last Christmas" by Wham!.^[4] In existence is an unreleased version of the soundtrack, 'Dil Mera Churaya Kyun', sung by Udit Narayan, but never made it to the original soundtrack nor motion picture.

#	Songs	Singer(s)
1.	"Raja Ko Rani Se Pyaar" (Version I)	Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik
2.	"Aisa Zakham Diya Hai"	Udit Narayan, Shankar Mahadevan & Aamir Khan
3.	"Dil Kehta Hai"	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik
4.	"Dil Mera Churaya Kyun"	Kumar Sanu & Anu Malik
5.	"Akele Hum Akele Tum"	Udit Narayan & Aditya Narayan
6.	"Raja Ko Rani Se Pyaar" (Version II)	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik