Phool

About the film

Phool (transl. Flower) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao starring Kumar Gaurav, Madhuri Dixit in lead roles along with Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar in supporting roles. The film is produced by actor Rajendra Kumar who is the father of Kumar Gaurav, both in real life and in the film. This film marked Rajendra Kumar's final film appearance.

Plot

Dharamraaj (Rajendra Kumar) and Balram Choudhary (Sunil Dutt) are two friends who earn their living by farming. Dharamraaj lives with his mother and son, Raju (Kumar Gaurav) while Balram lives with his wife Savitri and daughter Guddi (Madhuri Dixit). To cement their friendship both fathers fix their children's wedding. This event is blessed by Mouni Baba from the local Shiv Mandir, whose predictions have never been proven wrong. Dharamraaj then goes to Bombay to be a businessman and Raju is sent to a hostel and then to America for further studies.

Years later Dharamraaj informs Balram that the marriage cannot take place. Balram returns home with this news and in shock, his wife Savitri passes away. Romance enters Guddi's life when she meets a journalist named Gopal. Balram disapproves of Gopal meeting Guddi secretly. Gopal promises that he will not meet Guddi again until they are married. When Gopal does not return, Guddi goes to Mouni Baba and is told that Gopal has not been true to her. Gopal then reveals that he is Raju. Guddi swears never to speak with or about Raju or his family again.

Guddi's father then arranges her marriage to a local troublemaker and Raju begins to drink, upset that he has been thrown out of Guddi's life. Balram then has Raju arrested and locked up to prevent him from interfering with the wedding. Dharamraaj turns up at Balram's house to try and save his son and finds out Balram is set to get his daughter married. Raju manages to escape from police custody and abducts Guddi on her wedding day.

Music

The music for the film is composed by Anand Milind while lyrics are penned by Anand Bakshi. The original CD was released on an EMI-RPG Enterprises CD with code, CD-PSLP 5552 and mas made in the UK.

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