Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India!
| Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India ओ डार्लिंग यह है इण्डिया او ڈارلنْگ یہ ہے انْڈِیا | |
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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 Sanjai Mishra |
| Music by | Ranjit Barot |
| Distributed by | Ketan Metha Productions |
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| Language | Hindi |
Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India (Hindi: ओ डार्लिंग यह है इण्डिया, Urdu: او ڈارلنْگ یہ ہے انْڈِیا, 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 an important supporting role.
The film was a social parody of movies which feature scenes remade as comedies from romance movies. The film was a flop at the box-office, but was highly regarded by critics as a smart and evocative satire of Bollywood cinema conventions.
Plot summary
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 busy living it up the night she meets Hero. They meet and 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 all his overtures. 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.
Quixote is killed and Prince takes his throne. Prince decides to continue his father's plan. Some people previously rescued by Hero and Miss India kill the fake president, pushing a hose in his mouth, causing to inflate his stomach and explode. Prince suddenly makes an entry with his henchmen. Hero, Miss India and their friends successfully overpower the cronies while Hero kills Prince briefly. When Prince attacks Hero and Miss India, causing to smash and breaks the glass, Hero and Miss India creates a parachute, taken from Prince's body. During the jump, Prince falls to his death. At the time they land over a bus' ceiling, 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.
Cast
- Shahrukh Khan as Hero
- Deepa Sahi as Miss India
- Amrish Puri as Don Quixote
- Jaaved Jaffrey as Prince Don
- Anupam Kher as President of India/Nathuram
- Prashant Narayanan as Sumer
- Kader Khan as Bidder1
- Paresh Rawal as Bidder2
- Sanjai Mishra
- Ashish Vidyarthi
Soundtrack
| # | 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 |
Critical reception
Box office
The Film didn't do well at the box office, but liked by the upper strata. It was a cult satire.