| Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India | |
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| Directed by | Ketan Mehta |
| Produced by | Ketan Mehta |
| Written by | Parvati Balagopalan |
| Starring | Shahrukh Khan Deepa Sahi Jaaved Jaffrey Anupam Kher Amrish Puri |
| Music by | Ranjit Barot |
| Distributed by | Ketan Metha Productions |
| Release date(s) | August 11, 1995 |
| Language | Hindi |
Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India! (English: Oh Darling! This is India!) is an 1995 Indian musical spoof film directed by Ketan Mehta, and starring Shahrukh Khan, Deepa Sahi, Jaaved Jaffrey and Amrish Puri. It also stars Anupam Kher in a important supporting role.
The film was a social spoof of movies which feature scenes remade as comedies from romance-movies, such as songs-in-the-rain remade into funny-fights in the rain.
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Don Quixote (Amrish Puri) is a don who plans on selling India in a widely publicized auction. His plan is simple — kidnap the president (Anupam Kher), replace him with a lookalike (also Anupam Kher), throw a scare and "force" the fake president to sell India. Hero (Shahrukh Khan) is new to Mumbai and broke. Miss India (Deepa Sahi) is living the night in full youth. They meet while deciding what to do with this exciting night. They decide to spend the night entertaining each other in any way possible — joking, dancing or doing anything they can think of.
Meanwhile, Don Quixote's son Prince (Javed Jaffrey) has set his eyes on Miss India, who thwarts his every overture. The night turns out to be an adventurous one for Hero and Miss India. Hero discovers that Miss India's father is a drunkard who wants her to enter prostitution, while Miss India discovers that Hero has brain tumor. When they find out Quixote's plans, they decide to save the president.
Then Quixote gets killed and Prince takes his throne. Prince decides to continue his fathers plan. Some people previously rescued by Hero and Miss India kill the fake president. Prince suddenly makes an entry with his henchmen. Hero, Miss India and their friends successfully overpower the cronies while Hero kills Prince. Finally, Hero makes a makeshift parachute and jumps from the building with Miss India. During the jump, Hero declares that he is glad to be alive. When Miss India reminds him that he has brain tumor, Hero tells her that the X-ray she saw was taken eight years ago.
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
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| 1 | "Tujh Pe Marta Hoon" | Ranjit Barot, Alisha Chinai |
| 2 | "Par Mila" | Shankar Mahadevan |
| 3 | "Aaja Aaja" | Hema Sardesai, Antara Choudhary, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan |
| 4 | "Raat Hai Qayamat" | Shweta Shetty |
| 5 | "Khullam Khulla" | Shankar Mahadevan, Hema Sardesai |
| 6 | "Choo Le Ne De" | Shankar Mahadevan, Hema Sardesai |
| 7 | "Oh Darling Yeh Hai India" | Shankar Mahadevan, Hema Sardesai, Raghuveer Yadav |
| 8 | "Main Hoon Kaun" | Vinod Rathod |
| 9 | "Public Ko Hasao" | Shankar Mahadevan, Sudesh Bhosle |
| 10 | "Baap Re Baap" | Javed Jaffrey, Shankar Mahadevan |
| 11 | "Pyar Bechti Hoon" | Hema Sardesai |
The film didn't do as well as expected at the box-office. It created a circuit of 5 crores in its opening week. The full-gross nett was 9 crores' worldwide. Its ratings were 2/5. Box office India declared it a flop.
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