Karobaar: The Business of Love is a 2000 Indian Hindi romantic thriller film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film stars Rishi Kapoor (in a dual role), Anil Kapoor and Juhi Chawla in leading roles. Inspired by Indecent Proposal, the film began production in 1992 and was plagued by production problems and was finally released in 2000.
Plot
Wealthy Rajiv Sinha and middle class Amar Saxena are childhood friends with similar likes. Coincidentally they fall in love with the same girl Seema. Rajiv tries to dissuade Amar from marrying Seema using a pretext but Amar is adamant and marries Seema. Soon he learns Rajiv's pretext was a way of separating him and Seema. They become bitter enemies. Soon Rajiv is charged with killing a girl. Amar, now a lawyer, decides to retaliate against Rajiv.
Cast
Rishi Kapoor as Advocate Amar Saxena/Rohit Sinha
Anil Kapoor as Rajiv Sinha
Juhi Chawla as Seema
Tisca Chopra as Neelam
Navin Nischol as Rajesh Puri
Tinu Anand as Ramlal
Asrani as Champak
Dinesh Hingoo as Bhojwani estate agent
Aasif Sheikh as Ramlal's son
Production
Rishi Kapoor completed his scenes for the film in May, 1998.
Soundtrack
The music is composed by Rajesh Roshan, while all the songs are written by Javed Akhtar.
Reception
Indu Mirani wrote for Sify that the film had "nothing even remotely attractive about it". In his review for The Tribune, Sanjeev Bariana wrote that the film's "storyline seems unconvincing and rather dragged". Joginder Tuteja described the film as a "mega disaster". It performed poorly at the box-office. According to the Indian film trade website Box Office India, it was produced at an estimated budget of and had a worldwide gross of , thus earning the label "Disaster".