During the 1990s, many films were released in theatres. At that time Govinda’s career was also on cloud nine. He was giving back to back hit films with Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon and Divya Bharti. There were many such films of his which made great money at the box office. Among these, there was also a 33 year old one, which has been re-released in theatres. But when it was released for the first time, it broke records and the makers also became rich. Let us tell about it.

Film re-released after 33 years

Actually, the film we are talking about was none other than Govinda and Chunky Pandey starrer ‘Aankhen’. It was released in the year 1993 and now after 33 years it has been released again in theaters, Chunky Pandey himself came to see it and while talking to Instant Bollywood he said, ‘Aankhen had not been premiered at that time, so it feels like I have come to its premiere.’ He also looked quite excited for this.

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‘Aankhen’ had earned 842% profit

Govinda and Chunky Pandey starrer film ‘Aankhen’ broke records at the box office. This was the number 1 highest grossing film of 1993. According to Sacknilk, the budget of the film was only Rs 2 crore. Whereas its India net collection was Rs 13.50 crore and overseas business was Rs 53 lakh. Not only this, the film had earned Rs 18.84 crore worldwide. In this sense, it had given the makers a profit of 842% of the budget.

#AamirKhan once called #Govinda‘s 1993 highest-grossing film Ankhein VULGUR, TOO CRUEL and Utpatang.

I still don’t know what was “vulgar” in Ankhein…. There wasn’t even a kissing scene in the movie.
While in Raja Hindustani had one of the longest kissing scenes and its… pic.twitter.com/3QVtEBMKf3

— KRANKUL (@FilmoriaHub) May 22, 2026

Aamir Khan had said ‘vulgar’

Aamir Khan had called Govinda and Chunky Pandey’s film ‘Aankhen’ vulgar. In an old interview, he was asked about the success of the film, what was the story in ‘Aankhen’, which became so successful? A video clip of this interview is also going viral on social media, in which he says, ‘Look, even I don’t know why it became such a big hit. This film was quite crude for me. For me it was a bit vulgar, so I didn’t like it. According to me, some scenes in this film were obscene. But maybe the audience liked this film, I don’t know.

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The monkey had become the hero of the film!

However, if we talk about the film ‘Aankhen’, there was a monkey in it along with Chunky Pandey and Govinda, which people liked a lot in the film. Not only this, Chunky Pandey himself had told in Kajol and Twinkle Khanna’s show that the monkey got more fees than the actors. Not only this, he also drank alcohol. He had called it an expensive monkey. Its IMDb rating is also 6.8 out of 10.