It stars Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Kareena Kapoor and Bipasha Basu in her debut, with Johnny Lever, Dalip Tahil, Narendra Bedi and Sharat Saxena in supporting roles.

The film was released on 21 September 2001 and received mixed reviews from critics with praise for the performances of Kumar and Basu.

The next day Raj wakes up to find a partially clothed woman in bed with him and realizes he was tricked and is in Vicky's house.

Raj confronts Vikram, who finally explains the devious plan – the woman he kissed in Mauritius was his actual wife, Sonia Bajaj.

Vikram, a struggling musician, married wealthy heiress Sonia and convinced her to take out an insurance plan of $100 million on herself.

Raj says that he had guessed the password, "Everything is planned", something that Vikram used to say a lot, and used it to transfer the money back to the insurance company.

The climax of the film was shot in Muscat, Dubai and Bahrain on the Indian-owned cruise liner Ocean Majesty.

[8] Initially Shah Rukh Khan was offered the role of Vikram Bajaj, but he was not keen on playing a negative character.

[12] According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 2.2 million units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's sixth highest-selling.

[13] "Meri Zindagi Mein Ajnabee" marked the first slow romantic song rendered by Sunidhi Chauhan who later thanked Anu Malik who convinced the producers to use her voice for the title track.

[14] Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, writing, ″On the whole, AJNABEE tackles an audacious theme that the Indian audience will find hard to absorb and identify with.

The film, which boasts of impressive names on and off the screen, will attract the audiences for the first few days, but its fall is imminent after the initial euphoria settles.

A heavy price tag will also prove a deterrent for its investors.″[6] Sarita Tanwar of Rediff.com wrote, ″It has been shot at exotic locations, but the film has a shoddy feel to it.

[15] In a retrospective review on film's 20th anniversary, Sampada Sharma of The Indian Express wrote, ″Ajnabee's world has people doing net banking in a way that makes you go 'What!?'

and characters planning schemes that are half-witted to begin with, yet it makes you stick around for its performative dialogues, over-the-top acting and a plot so dramatic that you continue to watch just to see what bizarre thing will happen next.