History Film / Anjaam

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shivani tries to kill Vijay by pushing him off a cliff. But he pulls her with him and both are dangling from the cliff with Vijay clutching on to Shivani's leg. Shivani decides that Vijay's death is more important than her life and plunges to her death, [[TakingYouWithMe taking him with her]] and completing her revenge.]]

** Shah Rukh Khan had portrayed the BigBad before in ''Film/{{Baazigar}}'' and ''Film/{{Darr}}'' but both of them had a degree of sympathy associated with them. Meanwhile, his character here has no redeemable features whatsoever and even his dialogues are deliberately written in such a way that he is more self-absorbed and delusional than ever.

* KarmicDeath: Mohan Lal, Shivani's callous brother in-law who neglected her sister and daughter by making them live near-destitute lives because he'd seize whatever money they had to bet on horse races, is made to choke on money till he dies of asphyxiation.

* StalkingIsLove: Deconstructed. Stalking a girl like in 90s Bollywood movies will NOT get her to fall in love with you. Also, Shivani's stalker is not just going to give up his obsession and is likely to escalate.

** Shivani is also expecting her life to turn out similarly to the long-suffering mother in a typical Angry Young Man movie, expecting that the baby boy she is carrying will one day grow up and avenge her. It takes a brutal beating and [[spoiler:resulting miscarriage]] for her to understand that no one can avenge her but herself.

Shivani, played by actress Creator/MadhuriDixit is a flight attendant for Air India, working First Class on the Mumbai-Dubai route. She has a sister who is married to a greedy gambling addict, who won’t even pay for medicines for his sick wife. On one flight, Shivani meets Vijay Agnihotri played by Creator/ShahrukhKhan, a rich and spoiled young man who spends the entire flight harassing her and coming on to her. Although she rebuffs him twice and then moves on with her life, Agnihotri starts to obsess about marrying her, even going so far as to convince his doting mother that Shivani will marry him soon.

* BarefootCaptives: All female prisoners. In India, this is TruthInTelevision, as all prisoners male and female are kept barefoot for various reasons.

** Shivani’s gets pushed twice. The first time, she loses it in court when Vijay Agnihotri accuses her of fooling around while her husband is fighting for his life in the ICU. Her outburst gets her convicted and incarcerated for assault. She gets pushed again when [[spoiler: a brutal beating by the warden causes her to miscarry.]] She then goes on a revenge-fueled killing spree.

* BestServedCold: Played with. Shivani initially plans to just burst into Vijay’s house and stab him, but she finds him a helpless paraplegic. Not having it in her to kill him in this state, Shivani helps rehabilitate him back to full use of his limbs - and then tries to kill him.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shivani tries to kill Vijay by pushing him off a cliff. But he pulls her with him and both are hanging from the cliff with Vijay clutching on to Shivani's leg. Shivani decides that Vijay's death is more important than her life and plunges to her death, [[TakingYouWithMe taking him with her]] and completing her revenge.]]
* CorruptCop: Inspector Arjun Singh is on Vijay’s payroll and is implied to have covered up a lot of Vijay’s transgressions.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Shah Rukh Khan had portrayed the BigBad before in ''Film/{{Baazigar}}'' and ''Film/{{Darr}}'' but both of them had a degree of sympathy associated with them. On the other hand, his character here has no redeemable features whatsoever and even his dialogues are deliberately written in such a way that he is more self-absorbed and delusional than ever.

* DepravedBisexual: The prison warden. She sleeps with Inspector Singh, but also molests Shivani.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Vijay Agnihotri brutally bashes Shivani’s husband for slapping her once! Yet barely a few minutes later, he himself is similarly brutally beating Shivani for calling him out on his lust.

* StalkingIsLove: Deconstructed. Stalking a girl like in 90s Bollywood movies will NOT get her to fall in love with you. Also, the person stalking her is also not just going to give up his obsession and is likely to escalate.

* WifeBasherBasher: Agnihotri witnesses Shivani getting slapped by her husband. He then proceeds to beat that husband so brutally, that he is in an ICU clinging to life. He then uses this act to get Shivani to divorce her husband and be with him. Of course, Shivani doesn’t buy it, knowing that the whole scenario was setup by him.

** Shivani is also expecting her life to turn out similar to the long-suffering mother in a typical Angry Young Man movie, expecting that the baby boy she is carrying will one day grow up and avenge her. It takes a brutal beating and [[spoiler:resulting miscarriage]] for her to understand that no one can avenge her but herself.

* KarmicDeath: Mohan Lal, Shivani’s callous brother in-law who neglected her sister and daughter by making them live near destitute lives because he’d seize whatever money they had to bet on horse races, is made to choke on money till he dies of asphyxiation.

Shivani, played by actress Creator/MadhuriDixit is a flight attendant for Air India, working First Class on the Mumbai-Dubai route. She has a sister who is married to a greedy gambling addict, who won’t even pay for medicines for his sick wife. On one flight, Shivani meets Vijay Agnihotri played by Creator/ShahrukhKhan, a rich spoiled young man, who spends the entire flight harassing her and coming on to her. Although she rebuffs him twice and then moves on with her life, Agnihotri starts to obsess about marrying her, even going so far as to convince his doting mother that Shivani will marry him soon.

To his chagrin, Shivani marries an airliner pilot, upon which Vijay concocts a diabolical plan to separate the couple. The plan ends with Shivani’s husband dead and Shivani in prison. Things go FromBadToWorse for Shivani as she is brutalized by the prison’s [[WardensAreEvil sadistic warden]], forced into sexual slavery and hits her breaking point upon suffering two horrific tragedies.

And then Shivani decides to take matters into her own hands and avenge herself.

* BerserkButton: Shivani’s gets pushed twice. The first time, she loses it in court when Vijay Agnihotri accuses her of fooling around while her husband is fighting for his life in the ICU. Her outburst gets her convicted and incarcerated for assault. She gets pushed again When [[spoiler: a brutal beating by the warden causes her to miscarry.]] She goes on a revenge fueled killing spree.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shivani tries to kill Vijay by pushing him off a cliff. But he pulls her with him and both are hanging from the cliff with Vijay clutching on to Shivani's leg. Shivani decides that Vijay's death is more important than her life and plunges to her death, [[TakingYouWithMe taking Vijay with her]].]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Shah Rukh Khan had portrayed two bad guys before in ''Baazigar'' and ''Darr'' but both of them had a degree of sympathy associated with them. His character, here, has no redeemable features whatsoever and even his dialogues are deliberately written in such a way that he is more self-absorbed and delusional than ever.

* DomesticAbuse: Shivani’s husband slaps her once to shut her up. This was instigated by her hysterically complaining about him going to work for Vijay Agnihotri’s new airline, as she guesses correctly that it is a ploy for her stalker to get at her again. However, this may have been a case of PoorCommunicationKills as Shivani most likely never told her husband about her being stalked.
* DeathOfAChild: Shivani’s daughter dies in a hit and run caused by Vijay Agnihotri.

* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Shivani and Vijay both plunge to their deaths when she tries to shove him off a cliff and when he pulls her with him, she decides to kill him even if it means she dies with him.]]

* ShamefulStrip: Shivani is forced to endure this at the hands of the (female) warden, as soon as she arrives at her prison.

* StalkingIsLove: Deconstructed. Stalking a girl like in 90s Bollywood movies, will NOT get her to fall in love with you. Also, the person stalking her is also not just going to give up his obsession and is likely to escalate.
* VillainsWantMercy: Mohan Lal, who was cruel and callous to Shivani, her sister and her daughter, now pleads for forgiveness on the basis that he is Shivani’s brother-in-law.

* WifeBasherBasher: Agnihotri witnessed Shivani getting slapped by her husband. He then proceeds to beat that husband so brutally, that he is in an ICU clinging to life. He then uses this act to get Shivani to divorce her husband and be with him. Of course, Shivani doesn’t buy it, knowing that the whole scenario was setup by him.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Vijay thinks he is the protagonist in a 90s Bollywood Romantic Comedy while he is actually the antagonist of a stalker thriller. You can see that in a song where he is "lovingly" stalking Shivani who is getting increasingly annoyed with this.
** Shivani is also expecting her life to turn out similar to the long suffering mother in a typical Angry Young Man movie; expecting that the baby boy she is carrying will one day grow up and avenge her. It takes a brutal beating and resulting miscarriage for her to understand that no one can avenge her, but herself.
* {{Xenafication}}: Shivani goes from a meek suffering in silence woman to an unstoppable rage filled killer.

* DarkestHour: Shivani’s [[spoiler: miscarriage]], which occurs shortly after daughter is killed in a car crash.

* DarkestHour: Shivani’s [[spoiler: miscarriage]].
* DeathOfAChild: Shivani’s daughter is killed in a car crash.

To his chagrin, Shivani marries an airliner pilot, upon which Vijay concocts a diabolical plan to separate the couple. The plan ends with Shivani’s husband dead and Shivani in prison. Things go FromBadToWorse for Shivani as she is brutalized by the prison’s [[WardensAreEvil sadistic warden]], Forces into sexual slavery and hits her breaking point upon suffering two horrific tragedies.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, no major character is alive.]]

* [[VillainsWantMercy Villain Wants Mercy]]: Mohan Lal, who was cruel and callous to Shivani, her sister and her daughter, now pleads for forgiveness on the basis that he is Shivani’s brother-in-law.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: See StalkingIsLove. This is one of the few Bollywood movies which portrays what would happen if a typical 90s Bollywood romantic hero was transported to the real world. He would be a creep and not adorable at all.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Shah Rukh Khan had portrayed two bad guys before in ''Baazigar'' and ''Darr'' but both of them had a degree of sympathy associated with them. His character, here, has [[CompleteMonster no redeemable features]] whatsoever and even his dialogues are deliberately written in such a way that he is more self-absorbed and delusional than ever.

* RealityEnsues: See StalkingIsLove. This is one of the few Bollywood movies which portrays what would happen if a typical 90s Bollywood romantic hero was transported to the real world. He would be a creep and not adorable at all.

* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Shivani and Vijay both plunge to their deaths when she tries to shove him off a cliff, but he drags her with him.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: See StalkingIsLove. This is one of the few Bollywood movies which portrays what would happen if a typical 90s Bollywood romantic hero was transported to the real world. He would be a creep and not adorable at all.

''Anjaam'' (''Result'') is a 1994 Hindi language Bollywood Film, that has several characteristics of a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek and a GirlsBehindBars movie.