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Ghar Ho To Aisa
Directed by Kalpataru
Produced by Firoz Nadiadwala
Starring Anil Kapoor
Meenakshi Seshadri
Raj Kiran
Deepti Naval
Music by Bappi Lahiri
Production
company

Base Industries Group

Release date

27 April 1990

Country India
Language Hindi

Ghar Ho To Aisa (transl. A house like this) is a 1990 Indian Hindi-language drama
film directed by Kalpataru and produced by Firoz Nadiadwala. It stars Anil Kapoor
and Meenakshi Seshadri in pivotal roles. The film was remade in Telugu as Attintlo
Adde Mogudu. The popular pairing of Anil Kapoor and Meenakshi Sheshadri, which was
featured in many films was much appreciated. Sheshadri's performance in particular
as the feisty daughter-in-law who teaches her cruel in-laws a lesson was loved by
audiences; providing a great contrast to Deepti Neval character; as the meek
oppressed daughter-in-law.[1] Bindu played her trade mark negative mother-in-law
character with great conviction. The film was a box office success.
Cast

Anil Kapoor as Amar Kumar

Meenakshi Seshadri as Seema
Raj Kiran as Vijay Kumar
Deepti Naval as Sharda Kumar
Bindu as Durga Kumar
Saeed Jaffrey as Ram Prasad Kumar
Kader Khan as Bajrangi
Om Prakash as Karamchand
Javed Rizvi Jarehavi as Bajrangi's son
Rita Bhaduri as Kanchan
Sonika Gill as Sona
Satyen Kappu as Dwarka Prasad
Urmila Bhatt as Neeta's Mother-in-law
Jayshree T. as Neeta
Sulbha Deshpande as Devki
Chandrashekar as Doctor
Mahesh Anand as Goon
Dinesh Hingoo as Charity Show Organizer
Mahavir Shah as Prince

Plot

The Kumar family consists of Ramprasad and his wife Durga. Their married son is
Vijay, his wife Sharda and daughter Pinky. They also have a married daughter
Kanchan whose husband Bajrangi is a gharjamai. Amar is their bachelor and
unemployed son.

The movie opens with the dysfunctional Kumar family, where most of its members are
highly greedy, lazy, selfish and abusive. Durga is a short-tempered, aggressive
woman who physically and verbally abuses her daughter in law, Sharada, for every
minor reason and belittles her for her poverty. Her elder son, Vijay follows her
footsteps and is insensitive and abusive towards his wife and daughter. Durga's
lazy daughter, Kanchan, is just like her mother and falsely accuses Sharada of
being lazy, which results in the latter getting beaten up. Kanchan is also highly
domineering over her husband, Bajrangi, who does the housework. Ramprasad is a
henpecked man. Sharada is a meek woman and respects her family, but nobody
appreciates her work. Bajrangi is a simple and innocent man from a rural area and
is not so intelligent, though he has sympathy for Sharada.

The only member in the family who is truly good at heart and who actually cares for
Sharada is Amar, Vijay's younger brother. Amar is an unemployed youth who is
honest, kind and helpful, going as far as to beat up pickpockets to help an old
woman. During his quest for a job, he runs into Seema, the only daughter of a rich
businessman who hates men and their domineering ways. Seema runs an NGO for the
welfare of women, though Amar criticizes her for her biased hatred towards men.

Seema's father, Karamchand forces her to get married or else he would commit
suicide. Seema tries to involve Amar in a false contract marriage and entices him
with money. Amar is outraged and flatly refuses her offer.

Karamchand secretly overhears the entire exchange. Though disappointed with Seema,
he is impressed with Amar's honest conduct and appoints him as the manager of his
cycle factory. He also asks Amar to convince his daughter that not all men are
domineering. Amar begins his successful career as a factory manager, earning
Karamchand's trust and Seema's irritation.
Meanwhile, Durga asks Amar to enter in an engagement with and eventually marry
Sona, the only daughter of an industrialist, as he offers a dowry of Rs 1 million.
Amar belittles his mother's greed and dismisses her idea. Durga demands Rs 10,000
from Sharada. Sharada pleads with her hard, but Durga is relentless and has her
thrown out of the house. Sharada's mother, living in poverty finds out about her
daughter's situation and succumbs to pressure. Sharada protests to Durga, but Durga
kicks her and Pinky out of the house.

A few days later, Amar is devastated when he finds out that Sharada and Pinky died
in a roadside accident. Nevertheless, the family is apathetic towards these deaths
and nonchalantly ask Vijay to enter into an engagement with Sona. Vijay complies,
much to Amar's disgust.

One day, Seema asks Amar to come to her house, so that she can explain her hatred
for men. She shows Amar a mother and daughter and tells him how they were kicked
out of the house by their greedy family. They are revealed to be Sharada and Pinky
and Amar is overjoyed upon seeing them.

Sharada tells Amar that two mentally challenged women wearing their clothes had
actually died in the accident. Seema was Sharada's childhood friend and had rescued
her and her daughter. Amar is enraged and vows revenge against his toxic family.
Karamchand suggests Amar and Seema pretend as a married couple and exact revenge on
the Kumars, to which both agree.

Amar and Seema enter the Kumar household as a married couple. Durga tries to slap
Seema, but the latter grabs her hand and overpowers her, causing everyone to fear
her. Seema gradually brings order to the house by forcing and blackmailing Kanchan,
Durga, and Ramprasad to perform all household tasks. Amar appoints Bajrangi in his
office and gives him a good salary. Durga tries to put Seema's hand in boiling
water, but it backfires on her. Kanchan gives up her ego and learns to respect
Bajrangi and they live happily.

Meanwhile, Vijay is disgusted with Sona's gallivanting with so many men and her
arrogance. She makes him remove her shoes, reminding Vijay of the way he treated
Sharada and feels humiliated. Sona compares his loyalty to that of a dog, which
causes Vijay to break the engagement. Vijay is deeply remorseful for being abusive
towards his wife and daughter. He is overjoyed when he discovers Sharada and Pinky
are alive and begs Sharada for forgiveness. Learning the whole story from Sharada,
Vijay returns home and declares that he is leaving his parents forever to live with
his wife and daughter. He thanks Amar for opening his eyes.

Bajrangi decides to leave home, to start a new life and his wife and son follow him
as well. Durga begs Amar to stay, but Amar also tells his intent to leave. He
further harshly criticises his mother of her toxic behavior and how much harm she
had caused to the family.

Filled with guilt, Durga decides to immolate herself, but her sons prevent her from
doing so. Durga weeps and begs Sharada for forgiveness and asks her children to not
to desert her. Karamchand arrives and reveals the Kumars about Amar's ploy.

Karamchand asks Seema to leave. Seema, who has fallen in love with Amar, becomes
angry with his lack of action and drags him to his room, locking it. Seema angrily
asks Amar why he was not stopping her from going with her father. She further
starts hurling things at Amar and bursts into tears. Amar tells Seema about his
love and reconciles with her.
Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

Song Singer
"January February March April May Aur June July" Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Aziz
"Tu Mera Navra, Main Teri Navri, Le Chal Mujhe Tu" Kavita Krishnamurthy,
Mohammed Aziz
"Aage Aage Chhallewali" Sudesh Bhosle
"Dil Laga Ke Dekho, Arey Dil Lagake Dekho" Sudesh Bhosle, Alka Yagnik
References

Thombare, Suparna. "5 memorable roles of Meenakshi Seshadri – Birthday

special". Cinestaan. Retrieved 26 June 2019.

External links

Ghar Ho To Aisa at IMDb

Categories:

1990 films1990s Hindi-language filmsFilms scored by Bappi LahiriHindi films

remade in other languagesFilms directed by Kalpataru

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