Ram Jaane (1995)

Original title

राम जाने

Directed by

Rajiv Mehra

Genre

drama film, action film, crime film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 52m

Rated

16

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An unnamed boy grows up on the streets and becomes a gangster. He gets his alias from a priest who tells him only God knows his real name. The story follows his criminal rise and turbulent life.

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What happens

Ram Jaane (lit. 'Ram Knows') is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Rajiv Mehra about an unnamed boy (portrayed by Shah Rukh Khan) who grows up to become a gangster. He uses the name Ram Jaane after meeting a priest who, in response to the boy asking what his real name was, said "Ram Jaane" (Ram knows). The film borrows its premise from the 1938 American film Angels with Dirty Faces and the 1992 Bengali film Purushottam. It is the fourth time Khan played a negative role after Baazigar, Darr and Anjaam. Ram Jaane was released to a positive reception from audiences and was a commercial success. Khan bought the rights to this film under his banner, Red Chillies Entertainment. This was the second Rajiv Mehra film to feature Shah Rukh Khan after Chamatkar, in 1992; that film was an average box office success, whereas Ram Jaane proved a hit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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