Armaan - Liebe ist nicht käuflich

Armaan - Liebe ist nicht käuflich (2003)

Armaan

Dr. Siddharth Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan) leitet ein kleines Hospital. Sein Traum ist es, daraus ein modernes Klinikum mit hohem technischem Standard zu entwickeln, das allen Bevölkerungsteilen offen steht. Sein Adoptivsohn Dr. Akosh Sinha (Anil Kapoor), der als Neurochirurg am Hospital arbeitet, hilft ihm, trotz Mangel an finanziellen Mitteln diesen Lebenstraum zu verwirklichen. Als Akosh sich in die neue Anästhesistin Dr. Neha Mathur (Gracy Singh) verliebt, ist die Freude der beiden nur von kurzer Dauer: Siddarth erleidet einen Herzinfarkt und stirbt. Für Akosh bleibt ein riesiger Schuldenberg zurück. Um das Hospital zu retten und den Traum seines Vaters zu verwirklichen, sieht er nur einen einzigen Ausweg: Er muss die verwöhnte Sonia (Preity Zinta) heiraten, die reiche Tochter des Industriemoguls Gulshan Kapoor (Randhir Kapoor). Hin- und hergerissen zwischen seiner Liebe zu Nehta und den finanziellen Vorteilen einer Ehe mit Sonia steht Akash vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung.

Erscheinungsdatum
2003-05-16
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (9)
Laufzeit
2 Std. 39 Min.
Genres
Drama, Liebesfilm
Regie
Honey Irani

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Armaan (transl. Desire) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language medical drama film co-written and directed by Honey Irani. It stars an ensemble cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh, and Randhir Kapoor. The film is set in a hospital and follows the travails of its principal, Dr. Akash, to sustain the institution financially. Meanwhile, a mentally unstable woman named Sonia (Zinta) comes into his life and offers to help by donating to the hospital on the condition that Akash marries her.

Production

In April 2002, the entertainment website Rediff.com reported that Honey Irani would make her debut as the director of a then-untitled film. Having written stories and screenplays for many films, she said she had long aspired for a project she could direct. She wanted to feel how directors executed their ideas by themselves with no intervention from others.

Irani's daughter, Zoya Akhtar, handled the casting for Armaan. When the screenplay was finished, it was announced that Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Singh, Zinta, and Randhir Kapoor had been chosen for the leads. This marked the first time Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor had been in a film with a female director. Playing the role of a doctor for the first time, Anil Kapoor admitted the film had given him chances to do many things.

Preity Zinta plays Sonia, the first time she has played an antagonist. Describing herself as an honest and outspoken person, Zinta liked the role, particularly for its "insane" character, because it allowed her to "vent ... all [of her] frustrations". Calling it the best role of her acting career, she commented: "If Sonia didn't like something, she would show it in a sneaky way.

Irani revealed her colleagues called her a "trendsetter" as she was the first female director at the time to direct a big-budget Bollywood film; the total production cost of Armaan was ₹100 million (equivalent to ₹400 million or US$4.2 million in 2026). Ravi Varman worked as the cinematographer, while Yunnus Pathan and Kiran Khanna completed the production design.

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