Badhaai Ho Badhaai

About the film

Badhaai Ho Badhaai (transl. Lots of congratulations) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Satish Kaushik. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Keerthi Reddy, and Shilpa Shetty. It is a Hindi remake of the 1996 Tamil film Poove Unakkaga. It is inspired in part by the 1996 Eddie Murphy film, The Nutty Professor.

Plot

Chaddha and D'Souza were family friends for generations until the time when Mr. Chaddha's daughter Anjali falls in love with Steven D'Souza's son Anthony. Both families oppose since they belong to different religions. The couple elopes and gets married, which leads to the families abandoning them. Thus, enmity is created between the two families, and they start hating each other.

After 27 years, both families receive a letter from Raja, who is born to Anthony and Anjali and who is also visiting the families. Both families get furious seeing the letter and they decide not to permit him to stay in their homes. Raja comes to the town along with his friend but is shocked that he is not allowed inside both houses. Also, Moses D'Souza and Ranjeet Chaddha ask the entire street to not let any house for rent to Raja and Gopi. Ghuman Singh Rathod lives along with his wife, and he permits Raja to stay in his house.

Though Chaddha and Steven do not welcome Raja, they long to see their grandson from far. The Same is the case with their wives Mrs. Chaddha and Rosy D'Souza. Raja understands that only Vasudevan and Moses are still angry, while the other family members just pretend to be angry. So he decides to unite the family. He gets close with his grandparents slowly. Both of his grandmothers want to get Raja married. To escape, Raja lies that he is already married to a girl named Banto Betty.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Anu Malik with the lyrics are by Javed Akhtar.

Reception

Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film one out of five stars, writing, "On the whole, BADHAAI HO BADHAAI is saddled by a weak script and despite publicising the 'different' look of Anil in its promotion, will not find many takers. Watch it only if you're a die-hard Anil Kapoor fan!" Priya Ganapati of Rediff.com wrote, "Badhaai Ho Badhaai is marred by a poor script, loud acting and slapstick packaged as humor. And despite its attempt to piggyback on one of Hollywood's successful comedy films, it fails to redeem itself."

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