Bollywood suspense action thriller, Achanak, directed by Naresh Malhotra and written by Sachin Bhowmick was released on June 12, 1998. The movie starred Govinda and Manisha Koirala in lead roles while Farah Naaz, Navneet Nishan, Tinnu Anand, Rahul Roy, Johnny Lever, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Paresh Rawal, Dalip Tahil and Saeed Jaffrey also played important roles in the film. The music of the movie was directed by Sameer Sen, Sunil Kaushik and Dilip Sen in collaboartion while the songs were rendered by Kumar Sanu, Hariharan, Abhijeet, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik and Hema Sardesai.

The movie starts with Arjun Nanda ( Govinda ), who meets with a beautiful girl named Pooja ( Manisha Koirala ) and instantly falls in love with her. They both plans to get married soon. But soon they realise that there is someone who don’s want them to be together at all. A unknown person tries to kill the couple but somehow Arjun and Pooja manage to survive from the attempt. Arjun’s brother, Vijay Nanda ( Rahul Roy ) meets with an accident and dies.

The person blamed for Vijay’s death is none other than Pooja for an unknown reason. Tragic events starts happening in Pooja’s family as well and her father also meets with a tragic end. Situation becomes even worse when Arjun and Pooja learns that both Police and some criminals are after them. Now they have to expose the truth at any cost.

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Dil le ke gaya chor
2. Jaana jaana
3. Jhoom le jhoom