Rohit and wealthy Kiran Dayal meet each other and fall in love. They intend to marry, but Kiran's parents will not permit her to marry beneath her class. Kiran is adamant, and the marriage goes through without the blessings of the Dayals. They live in harmony for months, even after Kiran gives birth to Sunil. Then they start to have differences, which are minor at present, and then snowball...
Acting
Aamir Khan's restrained desperation vs Manisha's operatic suffering.
Score
Anu Malik's title track still destroys people in karaoke bars.
Director
Mansoor Khan
Aamir Khan
Rohit Kumar
Manisha Koirala
Kiran Kumar
Tanvi Azmi
Farida
Deven Verma
Kanhaiya
Rakesh Roshan
Paresh Kapoor
Rohini Hattangadi
Mrs. Dayal
Satish Shah
Gulbadan Kumar
Shafi Inamdar
Kaushikji
Harish Patel
Amarji
Navneet Nishan
Sunita (Kiran's Friend)
Neeraj Vora
Moolchand (Grocer)
Mushtaq Khan
Mr. Bhatija (Rohit's Lawyer)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Loosely based on Kramer vs. Kramer but Mansoor Khan relocated the class tension to specifically Indian caste-adjacent dynamics.
The film's depiction of working-class male ego vs. wealthy female independence was controversial—feminist critics called Kiran unsympathetic, while others saw Rohit as emotionally manipulative.
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