Tag Archives: 1997

Pardes

Synopsis: Kishorilal (Amrish Puri) is a successful businessman settled in America but still emotionally attached to his motherland – India. So the he comes to India with his “American” son Rajiv (Apurva Agnihotri) to find a suitable ‘”Indian” girl for him. Kishorilal hopes that she will instill some Indian values in his extremely westernized son. He finds Ganga (Mahima Chaudhry) in the house of his childhood friend Suraj Dev (Alok Nath). To finalize the marriage he sends his son along with his foster son Arjun (Shahrukh Khan) to India. Arjun plays Cupid and returns to America with Ganga and Rajiv.

Virasat

After completing his studies in London, England, Shakti Thakur returns home to India in a small town where his family resides. Accompanying him is his girlfriend, Anita, who he is in love with and wants to marry, much to the disapproval of his family. After a few days, Shakti starts to feel that nothing much has changed in this part of India and longs to return, as he is unable to bear the animosity between the townspeople, in general, and in particular between his Zamindar dad, Raja Thakur, and rival Zamindar Birju, none other than Raja’s crippled brother. When Anita leaves the town to meet her parents elsewhere in India, Shakti too wants to follow her, but his plans change suddenly when his father passes away, and the region is ravaged by unprecedented natural calamities. Following the funeral he decides to stay on to look after the family estate and business temporarily, and that is when he meets local town belle, Gehna, who has given her heart to him years ago, hopes to marry him, with approval from his very own family. Anita returns to find that nothing is the same anymore, and that her role may be reduced to that of a mistress, she must now make a choice to either return back home, or fight and win back Shakti’s love.