Rajaji (film)

Rajaji is a 1999 Bollywood comedy film produced and directed by Vimal Kumar and starring Govinda and Raveena Tandon. The film is the number 38 grosser of the year amongst Hindi films.[2] The film is a rough remake of the 1982 Rakesh Roshan film Kaamchor.

Rajaji
Directed by	Vimal Kumar[1][2]
Produced by	Vimal Kumar[1][2]
Written by	Satish Jain[1][2]
Screenplay by	Satish Jain[1][2]
Story by	Satish Jain[1][2]
Starring	Govinda Raveena Tandon Shakti Kapoor Ranjeet Aruna Irani Kader Khan Guddi Maruti[1][2]
Music by	Anand-Milind & Vishwajeet Mukherjee.[1][2]
Cinematography	Anil Dhanda[1]
Edited by	Prakash Dave[1]
Release date	21 May 1999 (India) [2]
Country	India[1][2]
Language	Hindi[1][2]

Plot

Shivnath (Kadar Khan), his wife Parvati (Aruna Irani) and son Rajaji (Govinda) live in a village. Parvati favoured her son a lot, against the wishes of her husband. Raja is lazy and wants to have an easy life. He thinks that if he marries a rich woman, then he will not have to work. Rajaji hence goes with his uncle Shadilal (Satish Kaushik) to Mumbai to find a rich girl.

In Mumbai, Rajaji sees Payal (Raveena Tandon) in a fancy car that drives into a large estate. He assumes that Payal must be very rich and gets into a relationship with her. After wedding, Rajaji realises that Payal was not rich and that she is the daughter of the estate's loyal gardener Singh (Mohan Joshi). Rajaji angrily denounces his wife and father-in-law and runs away from Mumbai, back to his home where his parents including his mother reject him. He then returns to his wife and tries to apologise but his father in law forces him to leave after ridiculing him by offering him money as he has won the lottery and is now wealthy. Dejected, Rajaji begins working in the factory of Dhanpat Rai the previous employer of Singh and learns the value of hard work and becomes an honest and hardworking man. Eventually he wins back both his wife and father in law and earns the respect of his parents once again by becoming a better man.[2][3]

Cast

The following is the main cast list of the movie.[1][2]

Actor	Role
Govinda	Rajaji
Raveena Tandon	Payal
Shakti Kapoor	Dhanpat Rai
Ranjeet	Makhanlal
Mohan Joshi	Pratap Singh
Divya Dutta	Sonia
Mushtaq Khan	Kalicharan aka Kadwa
Razak Khan	Bulldozer
Satish Kaushik	Shaadilal
Dinesh Hingoo	Seth Karodimal
Kader Khan	Shivnath
Aruna Irani	Parvati (Mrs. Shivnath)

Soundtrack

The movie featured 8 songs. Music was by Anand-Milind & Vishwajeet Mukherjee and lyrics were by Sameer.[2]

Rajaji
Soundtrack album by Anand-Milind
Released	21 May 1999
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	41:07 Min
Label	HMV RPG/SAREGAMA

Tracklist

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Raja Chalo Akele Mein"	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik	4:58
2.	"Sunday Ki Raat Thi"	Kumar Sanu & Sapna Mukherjee	5:04
3.	"Tere Pyar Ne (female)"	Alka Yagnik	5:10
4.	"Rajaji Rajaji"	Vinod Rathod	5:35
5.	"Resham Wale Kurte Pe"	Udit Narayan	4:56
6.	"Rut Naii Naii"	Udit Narayan & Anuradha Paudwal	5:47
7.	"Tere Pyar Ne (male)"	Udit Narayan	5:16
8.	"Saansuji"	Poornima	4:55

References

1. "Cast & Crew IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
2. "Movie details on GA Website". Govinda Website. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
3. "Story on IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

External links

• Rajaji at IMDb