Dushman Duniya Ka

Dushman Duniya Ka (transl. Enemy of the World) is a 1996 Hindi-language drama film, directed by Mehmood and produced by Ashok Mishra, Babubhai, Masoom Ali under the Canmore Cinema banner. It stars Jeetendra, Sumalatha, Manzoor Ali, Laila while Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan appeared in guest appearances. The music was composed by Anu Malik. The film is a debut to Laila and Manzoor Ali. The film was a box office failure.^[2]

Dushman Duniya Ka
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mehmood
Written by	Aziz Quaisi Ravindra Jain (lyrics)
Produced by	Ashok Mishra Babubhai Masoom Ali
Starring	Jeetendra Sumalatha Laila
Cinematography	S. Naidu
Edited by	S. Heera
Music by	Anu Malik
Production companies	Zee Music Company Canmore Cinema
Release date	20 September 1996 (1996-09-20)
Running time	162 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹1.25 crore[1]
Box office	₹1.13 crore[1]

Plot

The movie focuses on Mahesh (Jeetendra), an honest and diligent young man, who has no knowledge of his background as he was raised in an orphanage. One day, out with his friend Badru (Shahrukh Khan), he meets Reshma (Sumalatha), who is also an orphan. Badru advises Mahesh to make a move on her, though as he approaches her, the two fall in love and Badru decides to get them married. They then live a harmonious life and soon are proud parents of a healthy young boy who they name Lucky (Manzoor Ali). Lucky grows up to be as honest and diligent as his dad, and his future appears to be very bright. When Lucky sees his father smoking, he starts to as well, but when his father stops him, he explains that an old man around his school sells him cigarettes. When Badru and Mahesh approach the old man, he tries to run. Badru chases after him and is then run over by a truck. Badru tragically dies, leaving Mahesh, Reshma, and Lucky on their own.

Years later, when Lucky grows up, he falls in love with Lata (Laila), and both plan to marry soon with the blessings of their respective parents. Then Mahesh's world is turned upside down when he finds drugs in Lucky's pocket. He speaks to Lucky about this, and Lucky promises to give up drugs forever and does live up to his promise. While driving home one day, Mahesh witnesses a drug peddler selling drugs to a group of youths which also included Lucky. He notifies the police, and they arrest the youths, but the peddler manages to escape. All the other youth tested positive for drugs, except for Lucky. When he returns home, his parents refuse to believe him, this angers him and he and his father come close to fisticuffs.

Mahesh asks Lucky to leave, and he does so. Even Lata has left him as she doesn't want to upset his father, Mahesh. Lucky regresses to drugs and his friends until he runs out of money. Lucky and his friends decides to rob a jewellery shop for money and drugs, however sooner they are caught by police and the gang tries to evade them. Lucky is injured in the process from escaping the police and reaches home to his mother and asks for money, but she refuses to listen to any of his pleas. An enraged Lucky, desperate of drugs tries to snatch his mother's mangalsutra to sell it for money and amidst of this scuffle, he murders her. Mahesh, who is devastated by Lucky's predicament and his crime of killing his mother, decides to mercy kill him as he thinks that Lucky cannot recover from his drug addiction as he had turned into a criminal. Mahesh calls the police and surrenders himself and before going to jail, he wants to meet Lucky's friends (who were arrested while escaping) and pleads with them to be a better person and not a burden to their parents and requests them to say no to drugs. The final scene shows Mahesh and Lucky's friends cremating Lucky and his mother.

Cast

• Jeetendra as Mahesh Thakur
• Sumalatha as Reshma
• Manzoor Ali as Lucky, Mahesh's and Reshma's son.
• Laila as Lata, Lucky's love interest.
• Nasir Khan as Mushtaq
• Johnny Lever as Head Master / College Lecturer
• Farida Jalal as the Manager of women's shelter.
• Anjana Mumtaz as Asha, Lata's mother.
• Mehmood as Bakrewale Baba
• Ali Asgar as Raman, Lucky's friend.
• Jankidas Mehra as Jankidas
• Manmauji as Shop-Keeper
• Ashok Kumar as Doctor
• Lilliput as Professor Liliput
• Raza Murad Vikram Singh
• Jagdish Raj as Police Inspector
• Kailash Nath as Drug Dealer

Guest appearances

• Shahrukh Khan as Badru, Rickshaw driver
• Salman Khan as himself

Soundtrack

All songs were penned by Ravindra Jain.^[3]

#	Title	Singer(s)
1	"Mere Samne Gudian Japani Hain"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
2	"Hum Yuva Hain"	Abhijeet Bhattacharya
3	"Bakrewale Baba"	Mehmood
4	"Darwaza Kahi"	Asha Bhosle, Sudesh Bhosle
5	"Tanha Dil Sulagta Tha"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
6	"Tumko Rulhata Hi Raha"	Kumar Sanu
7	"Nasha Nasha"	Lucky Ali

Production

The film marked the debut of Mehmood Ali's son Manzoor Ali, who did not act in any film after this. Actors Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan both have special appearances in the film, although they were seen in every trailer and promo of the film. They are both also shown together in all the posters of the film. Shahrukh only has a 15-minute role at the beginning of the film and Salman has a five-minute role halfway through the film.^[4] Done as a favor to Mehmood, Salman and Shah Rukh Khan's star power was relatively safe however the roles have been mocked. This movie also featured a song from famous singer and Mehmood Ali's elder son Lucky Ali "Nasha Nasha", which was his comeback song in Bollywood as a playback singer after 22 years.