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+1992 171’ col/scope Hindi
+d/co-p Indra Kumar pc Maruti International
+co-p Vinod Doshi, Ashok Thakeria
+st K. Bhagyaraj sc Gyandev Agnihotri
+dial Kamlesh Pandey lyr Sameer c Baba Azmi
+m Anand-Milind, Vanraj Bhatia
+lp Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Aruna Irani,
+Laxmikant Berde, Akash Khurana, Ajitesh,
+Anupam Kher, Rita Bhaduri
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+
+A rich widower (Khurana) marries Laxmi
+(Irani) to provide a mother for his infant son
+Raju. However, she is an evil woman who
+schemes to appropriate her husband’s property
+by having him locked away, making her
+stepson emotionally dependent on her and
+moving in with her equally villainous brother
+(Kher). Raju (Kapoor) grows up an illiterate
+peasant, but when he marries Saraswati (Dixit),
+the new daughter-in-law sets things right. The
+major dramatic pivot constitutes the assembling
+of a new patriarchy around Raju and around
+the contradiction of ‘bad’ characters being
+positioned in positive roles: e.g. the daughterin-
+law must persecute the evil Laxmi without
+tarnishing Laxmi’s authority as her mother-inlaw,
+and Raju himself has to accede to new
+notions of morality - including economic
+independence from the joint family - while the
+narrative must sustain his symbolic regard for
+his stepmother. After his second success (Dil,
+in 1990, was his first) Indra Kumar went on to
+make it three-in-a-row with Raja (1995), all
+starring Madhuri Dixit. The film is notorious
+mainly for its erotic picturisation of the Dhak
+dhak number (Anand Patwardhan later refers
+to the song in Father Son and Holy War, 1994,
+as epitomising male fantasy).
+
+[[Film]]