Rajaji (film)

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Rajaji
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Directed by Vimal Kumar [1] [2]
Written bySatish Jain [1] [2]
Screenplay bySatish Jain [1] [2]
Story bySatish Jain [1] [2]
Produced by Vimal Kumar [1] [2]
Starring Govinda
Raveena Tandon
Shakti Kapoor
Ranjeet
Aruna Irani
Kader Khan
Guddi Maruti [1] [2]
Cinematography Anil Dhanda [1]
Edited by Prakash Dave [1]
Music by Anand–Milind & Vishwajeet Mukherjee. [1] [2]
Release date
  • 21 May 1999 (1999-05-21)(India)
[2]
CountryIndia [1] [2]
LanguageHindi [1] [2]

Rajaji is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language comedy film produced and directed by Vimal Kumar and starring Govinda and Raveena Tandon. The film is the number 38 grosser of the year amongst Hindi films. [2] The film is a rough remake of the 1982 Rakesh Roshan film Kaamchor .

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Plot

Shivnath (Kadar Khan), his wife Parvati (Aruna Irani) and son Rajaji (Govinda) live in a village. Parvati favoured her son a lot, against the wishes of her husband. Raja is lazy and wants to have an easy life. He thinks that if he marries a rich woman, then he will not have to work. Rajaji hence goes with his uncle Shadilal (Satish Kaushik) to Mumbai to find a rich girl.

In Mumbai, Rajaji sees Payal (Raveena Tandon) in a fancy car that drives into a large estate. He assumes that Payal must be very rich and gets into a relationship with her. After wedding, Rajaji realises that Payal was not rich and that she is the daughter of the estate's loyal gardener Pratap Singh (Mohan Joshi). Rajaji angrily denounces his wife and father-in-law and runs away from Mumbai, back to his home where his parents including his mother reject him. He then returns to his wife and tries to apologise but his father in law forces him to leave after ridiculing him by offering him money as he has won the lottery and is now wealthy. Dejected, Rajaji begins working in the factory of Dhanpat Rai the previous employer of Singh and learns the value of hard work and becomes an honest and hardworking man. Eventually he wins back both his wife and father in law and earns the respect of his parents once again by becoming a better man. [2] [3]

Cast

The following is the main cast list of the movie. [1] [2]

ActorRole
Govinda Rajaji
Raveena Tandon Payal
Shakti Kapoor Dhanpat Rai
Ranjeet Makhanlal
Mohan Joshi Pratap Singh
Divya Dutta Sonia
Mushtaq Khan Kalicharan aka Kadwa
Guddi Maruti Kalicharan's Wife
Razak Khan Bulldozer
Satish Kaushik Shaadilal
Dinesh Hingoo Seth Karodimal
Kader Khan Shivnath
Aruna Irani Parvati (Mrs. Shivnath)
Yunus Parvez Factory Manager
Laxmikant Berde Babaji

Soundtrack

The movie featured 8 songs. Music was by Anand–Milind & Vishwajeet Mukherjee and lyrics were by Sameer. [2]

Rajaji
Soundtrack album by
Anand–Milind
Released1999
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length41:07 Min
Label HMV RPG/SAREGAMA
Tracklist
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Raja Chalo Akele Mein" Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik 4:58
2."Sunday Ki Raat Thi"Kumar Sanu & Sapna Mukherjee 5:04
3."Tere Pyar Ne (female)"Alka Yagnik5:10
4."Rajaji Rajaji" Vinod Rathod 5:35
5."Resham Wale Kurte Pe" Udit Narayan 4:56
6."Rut Naii Naii"Udit Narayan & Anuradha Paudwal 5:47
7."Tere Pyar Ne (male)"Udit Narayan5:16
8."Saansuji" Poornima 4:55

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