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+'''Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!'''''''''
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+1994 206’ col/scope Hindi
+d/sc/dial Sooraj Barjatya pc Rajshri Prod.
+p Kamal Kumar Barjatya st Keshav Prasad
+Mishra, S.H. Athavale lyr Ravinder Rawal, Dev
+Kohli c Rajan Kinagi m Raamlaxman
+lp Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Anupam
+Kher, Renuka Shahane, Reema Lagoo, Alok
+Nath, Satish Shah, Bindu, Mohnish Bahl,
+Laxmikant Berde, Ajit Vachani
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+
+Promoted as the most successful Indian film
+ever, the plot concerns the arranged marriage
+between Rajesh (Bahl), nephew and heir to the
+industrial empire of Kailashnath (Nath), and
+Pooja (Shahane), daughter of the equally rich
+Professor Choudhury (Kher). Most of the 3-
+hour film is devoted to a series of festivities
+with parties in the Ram temple and at the
+homes of the two families, one chronicling the
+marriage itself and another when Pooja is
+pregnant. Prem (Khan), Rajesh’s younger
+brother, falls in love with Pooja’s sister Nisha
+(Dixit). The elaborate entertainment of an
+ostentatious North Indian wedding with its
+enormous consumption of food is also the
+scene of the mandatory pranks played upon
+each other by the ‘younger generation’ led by
+Prem and Nisha, their sexual and voyeuristic
+overtones sanctioned, even at times replicated
+(e.g. in the song Saamne samdhan hai) by the
+older generation. Both families, including
+Kailashnath’s cook (Berde), are free of any
+traces of class or gender conflict in the film’s
+celebration of a fantasy in which unbridled
+consumerism and religiosity combine without
+problems. The especially dominant food motif
+is stressed by the song ‘Ice Cream Chocolate’,
+sung by Lata Mangeshkar, and illustrated by
+large advertising posters in Nisha’s room. The
+only exception to the general religioconsumerist
+bliss is a fussy and generally
+disliked aunt (Bindu), who insists on
+mentioning issues such as the dowry and class
+differences, for which she gets slapped by her
+husband (Vachani). Pooja’s moving into
+Kailashnath’s home leads to utopia itself,
+blessed by her religiosity (she prays to the gods
+Krishna and Rama, both of whom actively
+intervene into the story). However, all this is
+interrupted when Pooja falls down a flight of
+stairs and dies. To restore the situation, the
+families decide that Nisha will marry the
+widowed Rajesh, but the happy ending, and a
+second marriage, arrives only when the dog
+Tuffy, an incarnation of Krishna, becomes the
+instrument for revealing that Nisha loves the
+younger brother, Prem. This remake of Rajshri’s
+far from successful earlier Nadiya Ke Paar
+(1982) proved to be an astonishing success as
+has the effectiveness of its marketing as a
+‘clean’ family film. It is arguable that the fantasy
+of a feudal elite that has successfully negotiated
+its transition to capitalism while retaining its
+allegedly ‘traditional’ religiosity underpins an
+appeal to the audience’s voyeurism as well as
+to a devotional fervour hitherto reserved for
+explicitly religiously themes.
+
+[[Film]]