Pardesi Babu

About the film

Pardesi Babu is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Manoj Agrawal, starring Govinda, Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty.

Plot summary

Raju Pardesi (Govinda), a poor villager, relocates to Mumbai for a better life. He falls in love with a rich man's daughter, Chinni (Shilpa Shetty). Chinni's father opposes their love and challenges Raju to acquire INR one crore within a year if he wants to marry Chinni.

Raju has no idea how he will obtain that amount of money. After trying a few places, he is about to give up and go home. He goes to pray at a temple at a railway station and finds a suitcase full of money. Believing this to be the answer to his prayers, he uses the money to invest in a tea plantation.

Raju reaches the tea plantation in Darjeeling, where he meets Karuna (Raveena Tandon), the maid and caretaker of the estate house. Karuna begins to fall in love with the kind-hearted Raju.

Soundtrack

The music of all the tracks of Pardesi Babu was composed by Anand Raj Anand. Tracks like "It Happens Only In India", "Jave Sajna Main Nahin Karna", and "Kuch Khona Hai Kuch Pana Hai" gained a lot of popularity, although all the tracks of the movie were popular. Mohammad Ali Ikram of PlanetBollywood.com quoted about the album-"Give Pardesi Babu a few listenings; it is an album which, as promised, comes Straight from the Heart."

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