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{{infobox film
| name = Karobaar
| image = Karobaar, The Business of Love.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Rakesh Roshan]]
| producer = Gava<ref>{{cite book|title=Rashtriya Sahara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-iRuAAAAMAAJ|volume=8|year=2000|publisher=Sahara India Mass Communication|page=89}}</ref>
| writer = Sagar Sarhadi (dialogues)
| screenplay = [[Sachin Bhowmick]] Ravi Kapoor
| starring = [[Rishi Kapoor]] [[Anil Kapoor]] [[Juhi Chawla]]
| music = '''Songs:''' [[Rajesh Roshan]] '''Background Score:''' [[Surinder Sodhi]]
| cinematography = Sameer Arya
| editing = [[Sanjay Verma]]
|studio = TVM International
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2000|09|15|df=y}}
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{Estimation}} {{INR|6 [[crore]]}}
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|2.84 [[crore]]}}
}}

'''''Karobaar: The Business of Love''''', shortly called '''''Karobaar''''' is a 2000 Indian [[Bollywood|Hindi]] [[romantic thriller]] film directed by [[Rakesh Roshan]]. The film stars [[Rishi Kapoor]] (in a Double Role), along with [[Anil Kapoor]], [[Juhi Chawla]] in the lead roles. Inspired by ''[[Indecent Proposal]]'', the film began production in 1992 and was plagued by production problems and was finally released in 2000.<ref name="Rediff">{{cite web |last1=Tuteja |first1=Joginder |title=The Top 10 Flops from 20 Years Ago |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/special/the-top-10-flops-from-20-years-ago/20200415.htm |work=[[Rediff.com]] |access-date=1 May 2020 |date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=15 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415141024/https://www.rediff.com/movies/special/the-top-10-flops-from-20-years-ago/20200415.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

==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==
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* [[Rishi Kapoor]] as Advocate Amar Saxena / Rohit Saxena (Double Role)
* [[Anil Kapoor]] as Rajiv Sinha
* [[Juhi Chawla]] as Seema Saxena
* [[Tisca Chopra]] as Neelam
* [[Navin Nischol]] as Rajesh Puri
* [[Tinu Anand]] as Ramlal Shyamlal
* [[Asrani]] as Champak
* [[Dinesh Hingoo]] as Bhojwani
* [[Aasif Sheikh]] as Ramlal's Son
{{div col end}}

==Production==
The film started production in 1993 but faced delays for several years. Rishi Kapoor completed his scenes for the film in May, 1998.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Srinivasan |first1=V S |title='I will be back! But goodbye for now' |url=https://www.rediff.com/entertai/1998/may/20sh.htm |work=[[Rediff.com]] |access-date=1 May 2020 |date=20 May 1998 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820162736/https://www.rediff.com/entertai/1998/may/20sh.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
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| name = Karobaar
| type = [[Soundtrack album]]
| artist = [[Rajesh Roshan]]
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| released = 17 June 2000
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The music is composed by [[Rajesh Roshan]], while the lyrics are written by [[Javed Akhtar]].

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
! Song !! Singer
|-
| "Aao Aur Na Socho"
| [[Kumar Sanu]]
|-
| "Suno Na Suno Na"
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Alka Yagnik]]
|-
| "Chahiye Milne Ka"
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Alka Yagnik]]
|-
| "Aarzoo Ki Rahon"
| [[Udit Narayan]], [[Alka Yagnik]]
|-
| "Duniya Mein Sabse Jo Gehra"
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Udit Narayan]], [[Asha Bhosle]]
|-
| "Moujo Mein Ae Sanam"
| [[Alisha Chinoy]]
|-
|}

==Reception==
Indu Mirani wrote for [[Sify]] that the film had "nothing even remotely attractive about it".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mirani |first1=Indu |title=Karobaar |url=https://www.sify.com/movies/karobaar-review--pcluaLhbgehfa.html |website=[[Sify]] |access-date=2 May 2020 |date=17 April 2003}}{{dead link|date=September 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} {{Rating|3|5}}</ref> In his review for ''[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]'', Sanjeev Bariana wrote that the film's "storyline seems unconvincing and rather dragged".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bariana |first1=Sanjeev |title=Film Review : "Indecent" Borrowing |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000917/cth2.htm |access-date=2 May 2020 |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |date=16 September 2000 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820193902/https://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000917/cth2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Joginder Tuteja described the film as a "mega disaster".<ref name="Rediff" /> Rishita Roy Chowdhury of [[India Today]] in a retrospective review in 2021, wrote that "the film tried to add desi twists to the Hollywood hit, Indecent Proposal, and failed miserably."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/anil-kapoor-s-karobaar-was-an-indecent-desi-version-of-indecent-proposal-on-wahiyat-wednesday-1853147-2021-09-15|title=Anil Kapoor's Karobaar was an indecent desi version of Indecent Proposal. On Wahiyat Wednesday|website=India Today}}</ref>

It performed poorly at the box-office.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anil Kapoor |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/jan/05slid8.htm |work=[[Rediff.com]] |access-date=1 May 2020 |date=5 January 2001 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820162737/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/jan/05slid8.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the Indian film trade website [[Box Office India]], it was produced at an estimated budget of {{INRConvert|6.00|c}} and had a worldwide gross of {{INRConvert|2.84|c}}.<ref name="BOI">{{cite web |title=Karobaar |url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=746 |publisher=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=1 May 2020 |archive-date=16 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616222744/https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=746 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0116748}}
*[http://www.indicine.com/bollywood/karobaar/ Karobaar Details] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823191830/http://www.indicine.com/bollywood/karobaar/ |date=23 August 2011 }}

{{Rakesh Roshan}}

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[[Category:2000 films]]
[[Category:2000 Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic thriller films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Rakesh Roshan]]
[[Category:Films scored by Rajesh Roshan]]
[[Category:Films scored by Surinder Sodhi]]
[[Category:2000s romantic thriller films]]

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