Poor Raja opens a fast foot restaurant right opposite a five star hotel run by its owner Singhania, earning his wrath. The wealthy hotel owner uses all his influence to remove Raja, but in vain. Things get worse for the wealthy man, when his daughter Kiran wants to marry the poor hotelier. The wealthy man refuses, leading to a confrontation and a condition - which Raja fulfills, he becomes rich virtually overnight, and proposes for the hand of Kiran. The wealthy hotelier reluctantly accepts him as his son-in-law, only to have Kiran elope with a man named Rahul.
Acting
Govinda's physical comedy is genuinely Olympic-level
Costume
Raveena's wardrobe screams 'rich girl cosplay'
Direction
Malhotra knows exactly what his audience wants
Director
Harmesh Malhotra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'dhaba vs. five-star' setup became a template for 2000s comedies like 'Welcome'. Govinda basically invented a subgenre.
This film captures peak '90s middle-class aspiration cinema—where wealth isn't villainous, just the snobs who gatekeep it.
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