# Re-post Sleeping with the enemy

Trivia : 

Revival of an article I had written last year.. due to S.Ps song of Yaarana.

This has to do with same story many films 😀

Sleeping with the Enemy the 1991 blockbuster starring Julia Roberts..

Had in 1995/96 a total of three adaptions and Remakes.. and one later.

Yaarana *( Madhuri Dixit) Directed by David Dhawan

Daraar * ( Juhi Chawla) Directed by Abbass Mastan

AgniSakshi * (Manisha Koirala) Directed by Partho Ghosh 

Surprising that in the first two the hero was the same Rishi Kapoor..( wonder how he agreed unless he didn't read the scripts). He did his part well in both the adaptations. Genuine as always.

Agnisakshi had Jackie Shroff.

The negative/ Gray  character stole the show in Daraar ( Arbaaz Khan ) & Agnisakshi (Nana Patekar who won a National award for this characterisation) however Raj Babbar in Yaarana was totally miscast.

However it was only AgniSakshi that did well commercialy and proved to be successful the other two remakes tonked at the box office.

These movies released in quick succession . Oct 95 March 96 and July 96

Which shows the lack of coordination in the industry and the wild race to adapt successful scripts.

The top heroines * of that period did the lead role of Laura Burney (Julia Roberts). All three did a commendable job of it.

Technically all 3 movies were having good music ( again Anu Malik did music if both Daraar and Yaarana ) and Nadeem Shravan for AgniSakshi.

The real reason for AgniSakshi being successful was it was more faithful to the original script.

Hard to believe this was 24-25 years ago..

Later came Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche in 2002  with Aftab Shivdasani  Esha Deol , Sanjay Kapoor and Jaya Bachchan

Another Flop

These are some bollywood trivia I felt like sharing.