TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Manthast Absolutely amazing

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

lushangmodi Awesome movie. Nice music. Amir khan acted beautifully.. Karishma is OK OK... All over good movie..

blushingpeony I watched this because of its status as a Bollywood nostalgia film. However, there really is much more bad than good in this movie. I'll start with the pros. The last hour or so the plot gets more interesting as the family manipulation really kicks in and the climax and resolution arrive, the rest of the movie just kind of feels like slap-stick time-wasting nonsense. There are a few good songs thrown in, the classic being "Pardesi Pardesi." Thats where the good ends. Some spoilers may be ahead. Yikes! Where do I begin? The first thing is Karisma Kapoor's acting in the whole first half of the movie- its painful. She often does this laugh that sounds so fake and simply weird... the same laugh is usually reserved for villains in cheesy American movies. The laugh is also really out of place as she laughs at things Raja does that aren't even remotely funny. Most of the characters are painfully stupid and are really just there for slap-stick, like the servants and Raja's best friend. Some scenes with them are just bizarre. However, the part of this movie that leaves me the most baffled is Raja and why everyone treats his behavior as not that far out of the ordinary... if a little shameful in some circumstances. Besides being not that smart to begin with, he is a very violent person with an extremely short temper and very inflexible notions of pride that are really just founded in insecurity. He almost beats like 6 guys to death and has to be pulled off of a guy he's about to stab with a broken bottle...just because they catcalled the Karisma Kapoor's character (Aarti). Any normal woman would have ran for the hills if some guy did that, especially since they weren't even in a relationship. When they get married he freaks out at any notion of compromise and refuses to accept any gift from his wife's father. He doesn't even want to go to Mumbai to see her family until she convinces him to go for her birthday. This is the point that the movie starts to get interesting, but Raja's behavior is still grotesquely out of line. He creates a giant,drunken, violent scene at the birthday party because he believes his wife asked him to wear a suit because she's "ashamed of him" even though shes demonstrated a thousand times before throughout the rest of the movie that she doesn't see him being a "lowly cab driver" shameful at all and has defended him before at fairly high personal stakes. Yet, his own insecurity gets in the way and he ruins everyones night and becomes a publicly embarrassing spectacle over a trivial matter that could have been easily resolved if the situation involved a man with a temper thats not like a pile of dynamite about to explode. After that, most of their miscommunication and misfortune comes from Raja's pride and unfortunate circumstances on Aarti's end, as well as familial manipulation. Raja's baffling behavior progresses to kidnapping as he steps over the unconscious body of his wife, whom he is supposedly heart broken over, to steal his baby and run all the way back to his village, which is 3 hours away by car, with no clothes, blankets, or food for the baby. At this point, he really acts like a crazed animal more than a person, with wide crazy eyes, no speech, and roughly clutching the baby when his well-meaning family try to reason with him. After other events happen and the "miscommunications" are sorted out, everybody is happy like nothing happened. I was stunned... like... hey Aarti! You're still married to a crazy, ultra-violent, super-insecure guy who kidnapped and endangered your baby and you're just cool with that? Cause the rest of it was a misunderstanding? Very bizarre. Aarti often blames herself as well for her husband's over-reactions... like I said- bizarre. I have to say I feel very confused as to why this is a "classic." I would say if you're still dying to watch it, read a summary and then skip to an hour and ten minutes or so before the end. It will be more worth it that way.

CriticGirl91 I can't believe the stupidity of this film. So, the extremely rich heroine falls in love with and actually marries a taxi driver!!! a.k.a. tourist guide. I seriously have nothing against the poor, I'm poor myself but how realistic is this plot. Not only that, she settles with him in a village!! Karishma Kapoor hams through the film. I wanted to shut my ears every time she laughed. I couldn't believe that the ever lovable and chirpy girl had such an arrogant expression on her face throughout the film. Archana Puran Singh was no less annoying.The plot is too dumb to even speak of. And the cheesy dialogs like "haye main mar gayi" made me want to run away. It was pathetic even for the nineties. The jokes are lame and mostly in bad taste. I wonder what audience this film wished to cater to.Yet, I am giving this painful three hour film two stars. One for the excellent acting by Aamir Khan and Suresh Oberoi. Aamir deserved the filmfare for his earnestness, no matter what people say. After all, it takes courage to work in a chaos of a story such as this. Suresh Oberoi is a lovable father, despite his 'eccentricities' (who would want their heiress daughter to marry a taxi driver?) as always.The other star is for the exceptional music that has stayed with me till date. Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan really made the music come alive despite the bad presentation on screen. A memorable score by Nadeem Shravan, and the film's only saving grace.Give it a skip, hear the audio though.

S20WAR I remember watching this film in the theatres and coming out confused whether I liked the film or not.There were good points and bad points in the film.Good: Finally Karishma Kapoor has transformed from a childish and annoying girl from prem qaidi (debut film) to Sapoot (last film before Raja Hindustani) to a very beautiful and mature women. She moved away from those pink flowery frocks to stylish dresses and sari's.The songs were fantastic and very catchy, especially "Pardesi, Pardesi".The kiss – Although the kiss has been tried before in Vardi (Madhuri and Jackie) and Dayavan (Madhuri and Vinod), this one is something special.Bad: The story is the same old rich boy/girl falls in love with poor girl/boy and rich family is against and conspire to separate them, etc, etc, etc.I didn't feel any chemistry between Raja and Aarti and the story moved quickly to them getting married. It was obvious to see that Raja adored Aarti, but she thought of him as a very close friend and there was no indication that she loves him until they kiss.I'm a huge fan of Aamir Khan, however, I don't believe this film did anything for him, like his earlier films such as Baazi, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander and Rangeela.All in all I will have to say you watch this film for the music and Karishma Kapoor only, nothing else.5/10.