Kismat (1995 film)
1995 film by Harmesh Malhotra
Kismat (transl. Destiny) is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Harmesh Malhotra. It stars Govinda and Mamta Kulkarni.
Plot
Rajan (Kabir Bedi) gets Geeta (Raakhee) pregnant and wants her to get an abortion, but Geeta refuses, and gives birth to a baby boy and leaves him in an orphanage. Fate plays a strange trick and the baby is adopted by Geeta and her new husband ACP Anand (Suresh Oberoi), who are led to believe that the child is Anand's. Rajan goes abroad and loses touch with Geeta. Things start to heat up when the baby, all grown up, starts working with Rajan, who has now returned from abroad, and taken to crime.
Cast
Govinda as Ajay
Mamta Kulkarni as Madhu
Rakhee Gulzar as Geeta
Kabir Bedi as Rajveer Singh aka Rajan
Suresh Oberoi as ACP Anand
Asrani as Banke
Kunickaa Sadanand as Banke's Wife
Aparajita (hindi actress)|Aparajita as Shanti, Anand's wife.
Bob Christo as Charlie Walcott
A. K. Hangal as Nanaji
Tej Sapru as Dara
Tiku Talsania as Seth Dhaniram
Yunus Parvez as Seth Jhunjhunwala
Viju Khote as Havaldar Talwar Singh
Anil Nagrath as John, Rajan's henchman
Vikas Anand as Anti-Corruption Bureau Official
Brownie Parasher as Rajan's henchman
Sanjeeva as Dara's henchman
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Anand–Milind.
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