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Directed by | Manoj Agrawal |
Written by | Aadesh K. Arjun (dialogues) |
Story by | Satish Jain |
Produced by | Kulbhushan Gupta |
Starring | Govinda Raveena Tandon Shilpa Shetty |
Cinematography | Rajan Kinagi |
Edited by | R. Rajendran |
Music by | Anand Raj Anand |
Distributed by | K. B. Pictures |
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Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹5.50 crore [1] |
Box office | ₹9.44 crore [1] |
Pardesi Babu is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Manoj Agrawal, starring Govinda, Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty.
Raju Pardesi (Govinda), a poor villager, relocates to Mumbai for a better life. He falls in love with a rich guy's daughter, Chinni (Shilpa Shetty). Chinni's father opposes their love and challenges Raju to acquire INR one crore within a year if he wants to marry Chinni.
Raju has no idea how he will obtain that amount of money. After trying a few places, he is about to give up and go home. He goes to pray at a temple at a rail station and finds a suitcase full of money. Believing this to be the answer to his prayers he uses the money to invest in a tea plantation.
Raju reaches to the tea plantation in Darjeeling, where he meets Karuna (Raveena Tandon), the maid and caretaker of the estate house. Karuna begins to fall in love with the kind hearted Raju.
He almost acquired the money he needs to marry Chinni, when he learns Karuna’s backstory. Raju learns that Karuna’s father used to own the tea plantation. He put the plantation up as collateral to pay the dowry for Karuna’s wedding. However her father lost the suitcase full of money at a rail station. Karuna’s wedding was called off, her father lost his sanity, and the plantation was foreclosed.
Raju realizes that the suitcase that changed his fortune belonged to Karuna’s father. Feeling guilty, he decides to marry Karuna and cuts ties with Chinni.
Chinni, worried about Raju, comes to the plantation to figure out what is going on. She finds out that Raju is about to marry another woman and is heartbroken. Raju explains why he is marrying Karuna, and Chinni reluctantly respects Raju’s decision. However Karuna finds out Raju’s true motivations right before the wedding. She tells Raju that he should marry Chinni. The story ends with Pardesi and Chinni's marriage.
Pardesi Babu | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Label | T-Series |
The music of all the tracks of Pardesi Babu were composed by Anand Raj Anand. Tracks like "It Happens Only In India", "Jave Sajna Main Nahin Karna" and "Kuch Khona Hai Kuch Pana Hai" gained a lot of popularity, although all tracks of the movie were popular. Mohammad Ali Ikram of Planet Bollywood quoted about the album-"Give Pardesi Babu a few listenings; it is an album which, as promised, comes Straight from the Heart." [2]
# | Title | Singer(s) |
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1 | "Kuch Khona Hai Kuch Pana Hai" | Udit Narayan |
2 | "Kya Hai Pyar Bataao Naa" | Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy |
3 | "It Happens Only In India" | Anand Raj Anand |
4 | "Hai Nazuk Nazuk Halki Phulk" | Anand Raj Anand, Alka Yagnik, Aditya Narayan |
5 | "Jave Sajna Main Nahin Karna Tera Aitbaar" | Udit Narayan, Altaf Raja, Priti Uttam Singh, Ramkishan, Jeetendra, Poonam Bhatia, Bhavdeep Jaipurwale |
6 | "Pada Jeena Tere Bin Meri Jaany" | Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Seema Anil Sehgal |
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