RAJA HINDUSTANI=1996







Raja Hindustani (Hindi: राजा हिंदुस्तानी, Urdu: راجا ہندوستانی, English: Indian King) is a 1996 Bollywood film directed by Dharmesh Darshan. It is a tale of cab driver from a small town who falls in love with a rich girl. Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor play the lead roles. The film became a box office hit.

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Raja Hindustani is a story about two people from opposite socio-economic backgrounds who fall in love. The title character, Raja Hindustani (Aamir Khan), is a taxi-driver / tourist guide. He lives by his own simple code and is prone to violence when that code is violated. Aarti Sehgal is a wealthy debutante who is seeking to connect with her past. Standing in the way of their love are a disapproving father and a stepmother bent on obtaining total control of the family assets.

Wealthy Mr Sehgal (Suresh Oberoi) lives with his daughter, Aarti (Karishma Kapoor), and her stepmother Shalini (Archana Puran Singh) in a palatial home. Aarti decides to go for a vacation to a small hill station named Palankhet to discover the memories of her dead mother. Upon arrival, she finds out she has no transportation from the airport to Palankhet. As a result, she hires the services of the only available driver, Raja Hindustani (Aamir Khan). During her stay in Palankhet, Aarti and Raja fall in love. One day, to Aarti's surprise, her father arrives in Palankhet and intends to bring her home with him. Her father will accept the marriage on the condition that Raja come to Mumbai and learn to become a respectable member of society. Raja refuses and forces Aarti to make a decision. Aarti chooses Raja, but begs for her father's blessings. Her father refuses to offer his blessings and leaves for Mumbai.

After some time, Mr Sehgal forgives his daughter, and visits her in Palankhet. While there, he gifts his daughter and son-in-law with a new house. Raja refuses to live in the house, because he does not see the house as a gift, but rather as alms , since he is poor and Mr. Sehgal is rich. Shalini, her brother, Swaraj (Pramod Moutho), and her nephew Jai (Mohnish Behl) seek to exploit this conflict in order to gain total control of Mr. Sehgal's assets. Under the pretext of a birthday party, they bring Raja and Aarti to Mumbai and set in motion events that will change all their lives forever. As a result Aarti and Raja separate. Aarti was pregnant but due to her health problem the doctor forbid her to go to Palankhet and instead her mother had to go to Palankhet to inform Raja about his baby and to request him to come to Mumbai. However, instead Aarti's mother chooses to tell Raja that Aarti wants divorce but raja refuses to give divorce and back in mumbai even aarti refuses to give raja divorce. After sometime raja comes to know that aarti has a baby so he goes to aarti's house and steals the baby. But aarti cannot live without her baby so she comes to Raja's house begging for her baby where they all learn the truth that aarti's mother is the culprit. When raja returns home with the baby he sees aarti and starts to run away but in the road there is a fighting between aarti's mama and raja for the capture of the baby as aarti 's mama wanted to kill the baby but mama loses at the last, aarti and raja again reunites. Raja and Aarti with all their family member of palankhet is singing and dancing and the film comes to an end.

Directed by - Dharmesh Darshan

Produced by - Aly Morani,Karim Morani,Bunty Soorma

Written by - Robin Bhatt,Dharmesh Darshan,Javed Siddiqui

Starring - Aamir Khan,Karisma Kapoor

Music by - Nadeem-Shravan

Cinematography - W.B. Rao

Editing by - Bharat Singh

Distributed by - Cineyugg Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

Tips Films Pvt. Ltd.

Release date(s) - 8 November 1996

Running time - 174 mins

CAST

Aamir Khan - Raja Hindustani
Karisma Kapoor - Aarti Sehgal
Suresh Oberoi - Mr. Sehgal (Aarti's father)
Johnny Lever - Balvant Singh
Navneet Nishan - Kamal Singh / Kammo
Veeru Krishnan - Gulab Singh
Kunal Khemu - Rajnikant (as Master Kunal Khemu)
Pramod Muthu - Swaraj (Shalu's brother) (as Pramod Moutho)
Mohnish Behl - Jai (as Mohnish Behl)
Tiku Talsania - Chacha (Raja's uncle)
Farida Jalal - Chachi (Raja's aunt)
Archana Puran Singh - Shalini Sehgal / Shalu (Aarti's stepmother)
Kalpana Iyer - Guest appearance in the song "Pardesi Pardesi"
Pratibha Sinha - Guest appearance in the song "Pardesi Pardesi"

SINGERS

Kumar Sanu
Udit Narayan
Suresh Wadkar
Alka Yagnik
Alisha Chinoy
Sapna Awasthi

OTHER FACT

As well as the movie the songs of Raja Hindustani was also a huge success back in the 1996s and were acclamied super hit, the songs were playing loud and clear everywhere in India. The Cinemas were packed housefull for over a month, movie tickets had sold out tremendously, hoardings and posters of the movie were spread out all over India in train stations, streets, markets, studios, outside cinemas etc. The heroine of the movie Karishma Kapoor was hugely complimented for her beautiful looks and outstanding unique versatile performance for her magical role as Aarti a rich beautiful sensetive young naive girl full of dreams and desires. She delivered a superb performance in the movie. This all led her the national filmare best actress award and also an offer from famous A-list Director Yash Chopra for the role of bubbly "nisha" in his movie Dil to pagal hai which was also a dramatic musical hit. Also one of its songs "Pucho zara pucho" was remixed and used in Need for Speed: Undercover.

1996 FILMFARE AWARDS

Filmfare Best Actor Award — Aamir Khan
Filmfare Best Actress Award — Karisma Kapoor
Filmfare Best Movie Award — Dharmesh Darshan
Filmfare Best Music Director Award — Nadeem-Shravan
Filmfare Best Male Playback Award — Udit Narayan

STAR SCREEN AWARDS

Best Actor - Aamir Khan
Best Director - Dharmesh Darshan
Best Film
Best Comedian - Johnny Lever

SEE ALSO

List of highest - grossing Bollywood films
Aina (film)