Animal) is an Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed and produced by Suneel Darshan from a story written by Robin Bhatt and K.K.

The film stars Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor and Shilpa Shetty in the lead roles.

[1] Jaanwar was released on 24 December 1999 and received mixed reviews from critics, where it became the 13th highest-grossing Hindi film of the year.

The next day Badshah sees Sapna (Karisma Kapoor), a poor street performer, singing and dancing for money.

Abdul visits Badshah and updates him about the heightened police presence in the city, advising him to remain with Sapna temporarily.

Badshah confesses his criminal life to Sapna and says that he is willing to leave the city and his past behind in order to marry her and live peacefully, but he intends to do one more job so that they will have enough money for the future.

After having made a deal with an undercover police informant, Abdul is arrested and Badshah is cornered on a building rooftop, but he escapes.

Inspector Pradhan refuses to close Badshah's file, promising that he will neither accept any promotions or transfers until he is caught.

Abdul tries to persuade Sapna to kill Badshah to avenge her humiliation, but she is unable to do so after she overhears Mamta pleading with Babu to return her son.

Desperate for the return of his son, Aditya takes Babu to court and wins the right to have Raju in his and Mamta's full custody.

Realising that their son is unhappy with his new life, Aditya and Mamta take Raju to visit Babu but he is kidnapped by Sultan's men during the trip.

Babu reunites with Sapna, and they decide to live with Aditya and Mamta, in order to collectively raise Raju.

[5] Even after Jaanwar's box office success, as he had with his previous works, Darshan refused to sell the film's television rights.

[7] The movie was remade in the Bengali language twice, once in Bangladesh in 2001 as Mukho Mukhi,[citation needed], and in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2004 as Mastan.