Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani

The story revolves around a big group of friends consisting of Atul (Akshay Kumar), Vijay (Sunil Shetty), Divya (Manisha Koirala), Vivek (Sonu Nigam), Prem (Aftab Shivdasani), Sadhu Maharaj (Amrish Puri),Abdul (Arshad Warsi) and Rajesh (Rajat Bedi) amongst others. Divya is a reincarnated soul who herself is unaware of this. When Rajesh (whose second attempt of raping Divya is successful) raped Divya, she commits suicide thinking that all of his friends were involved in the rape. The rest of the friends are completely unaware of anything and are innocent. When Kapil (Armaan Kohli), the lover of Divyas previous life finds out about her death, he comes back to life to get revenge from all of the group.

As a punishment, Rajesh is strangled to death first. This is followed by Abdul being electrocuted. Although Atul & his other friends dont have a chance to tell Divya that theyre truly innocent, theyre not going to forgive Divya & Kapil because two innocent people including Abdul are already dead. Rajesh was the only guilty person. It wouldve been better for Divya & Kapil to ask them if Abdul was guilty or not? A principal (Raj Babbar) gives the group of friends a necklace and assures them that they cannot be harmed when they are wearing the necklace.

Atul doesnt believe in any of this. However, when he is attacked by Kapil, he realizes he survived because the necklace was stuck on his hand.Some more of their friends get killed unfortunately. Prem is possessed to commit murder but he ends up in jail. Vijay is pushed off the gyms roof.

Vivek, afraid hes next, calls his big brother Karan (Sunny Deol). Karan arrives to rescue Vivek. Atul gets stabbed by Kapil while trying to save Vivek. Kapil chases Vivek. Atul, unable to destroy Kapil or save Viveks life, goes to the same priest, who gave the lockets.

Atul asks the priest to save Viveks life. Atul dies due to blood loss from his injuries. Karan shows up to stop Kapil from killing Vivek. Karan gets killed by Kapil. The Priest resurrects Karan with outerworld powers, granting him supernatural powers like Kapil.

Karan kills Kapil. Vivek turns out to be alive. Somehow.Ronjita Kulkarni of Rediff.com rated the film 1.

5/10 saying The performances are half-hearted and the characters half-baked. He also called the film unoriginal and disappointing.