Heena

Heena (1997 - June 11, 2005) was a celebrated police dog of the Mumbai Police, India. Heena was a sniffer Labrador trained by the police to sniff out explosives. The high point of his career was the detection of RDX explosives in a BEST bus in the suburb of Andheri. He successfully identified hidden explosives in the bus which would have otherwise killed many in Mumbai's crowded streets. He was honoured for this act by the police who gave him a rank of one of their own.

His long hours with the Mumbai Police Force took a toll on him and he died due to kidney failure.

Heena is also a human name and means mehndi (the application of henna as a temporary form of skin decoration).

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Henna (film)

Heena is the name of a 1991 Bollywood film produced and directed by Randhir Kapoor and starring his brother Rishi Kapoor, Ashwini Bhave (both of India) and Zeba Bakhtiyar (of Pakistan) also renowned as Neha Seti. It was shot in Kashmir. This film's project was planned and started by legendary director Raj Kapoor but due to his demise during the filming stage, the remaining portions were directed by his son Randhir Kapoor. Hence, this film is considered as the last film of Raj Kapoor. The film was an Indo-Pak project, hence the dialogues of the film were written by the Pakistani legendary writer Haseena Moin on Raj Kapoor's personal request. The film was a critical and a commercial success and was also India's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot

The story revolves around the mistaken straying (due to a car accident which also caused him to suffer amnesia) of Rishi Kapoor into the Pakistani side of Kashmir from his own home in Srinagar . A native girl called Henna (Zeba Bakhtiar), falls in love with him , amidst the controversial Indian-Pakistani tension on Kashmir which leads him to be suspected by the Pakistani police of being an Indian spy.

Heena (TV series)

Heena is a Hindi TV serial that aired on Sony Entertainment Television, also known as SET Asia. The series began to air in 1998 and ran for five seasons, finishing in 2003.

Plot

The show is based on the trials and tribulations in the life of a woman. Heena, the protagonist in the serial is married to Sameer, but her marriage is doomed from the wedding night itself when Sameer proclaims his undying love for another woman, Ruby. Finally their unhappy marriage ends in a divorce. A while after the divorce Sameers best friend Akram decides to marry Heena. Heena is very happy with Akram and thinks that he is the one. But Ruby strikes again and enters Heena's life as Akram's second wife.

Heena finally manages to be free of Akram and gathers courage to rebuild her life and establish her own identity. Heena looks forward to her new life as a mother and dreams of a beautiful healthy child. But Heena's trials are not over yet . At the hospital Heena gives birth to twins . However one baby gets kidnapped, Heena is in a critical state. In order to save her further trauma, her father tells her that one baby is dead. Heena eventually finds out that her child was kidnapped and is alive. After a lot of struggle, she gets back her second child and lives a happy life thereafter with Sameer and her twin children. It was a Muslim community based serial.