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At the 42nd National Film Awards, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! won two awards, including the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. At the 40th Filmfare Awards, the film received a leading 13 nominations, and won five awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Barjatya), Best Actress (Dixit) and Special Award (Lata Mangeshkar for "Didi Tera Devar Deewana"). It also won six awards at the newly-introduced Screen Awards.
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! is considered as one of the most influential films in the Indian film industry as well as in pop culture. It made a lasting impact on wedding celebrations in India, which often include songs and games from the film. It is credited as being a defining moment in Hindi cinema's box office history, and the beginning of a revolution in the Indian film distribution system.[12][13]
Orphaned brothers Prem and Rajesh live with their uncle Kailashnath. Rajesh manages the family business and his family is on the look-out for a suitable bride for him. One day, Kailashnath meets his college friend, Siddharth Chaudhary, who is now a professor, after several years. Siddharth and his wife Madhukala have two daughters named Pooja and Nisha. Siddharth and Kailashnath arrange marriage between Rajesh and Pooja. From their first meeting, Nisha and Prem start bickering lightheartedly with each other and the fun and mischief continue throughout Pooja and Rajesh's wedding.
Pooja is invited to stay at her parents' house and Prem takes her there. When they arrive, Pooja learns that Prem and Nisha are in love and gives Nisha a necklace as a token, promising to get them married. Shortly afterward, Pooja accidentally slips, falling down from the stairs, and eventually dies from a head injury. Everybody is shattered by the tragedy.
Nisha takes good care of Pooja and Rajesh's son. Hence, Siddharth and Kailashnath feel that Nisha will be a great mother to the baby. They decide to have Nisha marry Rajesh. Nisha overhears Siddharth and Madhukala talking about her marriage into Kailashnath's family and thinks that they are discussing her marriage to Prem, to which she agrees. Later, at a pre-nuptial ceremony, she finds out that she is actually going to marry Rajesh.
Prem and Nisha vow to sacrifice their love for Rajesh and the son. Moments before the wedding, Nisha asks Prem's dog Tuffy to give Prem the necklace that Pooja had given her, along with a letter. Tuffy exits Nisha's room and instead of taking the letter to Prem, delivers it to Rajesh. Rajesh reads the letter and realises that Prem and Nisha love each other. Subsequently, he confronts both Nisha and Prem. In the end, Nisha and Prem marry each other with the consent of their families.
The producers/distributors exercised a higher than normal level of control over their work. There was a limited release, a new form of television publicity, safeguards against video piracy, and a delay in the releasing of video tapes.[19][20]
The soundtrack for Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! was composed by Raamlaxman (original name Vijay Patil) who had earlier given music for Rajshri's Maine Pyar Kiya, with lyrics by Ravinder Rawal and Dev Kohli.[14][21] The soundtrack was highly successful upon release, becoming the highest-selling Bollywood soundtrack of the year, and one of the top sellers of the 1990s,[22] with 12 million units sold.[23] It was ranked at number 29 on the list of all-time best-selling Bollywood soundtracks by Planet Bollywood.[24]
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! premiered at Liberty Cinema in South Mumbai on 5 August 1994;[25] it eventually ran there for over 100 weeks.[26] The film initially saw a very limited release, also showing at the Regal and Eros theatres, with only 26 prints total.[12][27] Eventually, it started to appear in many more theatres.[13] When initial viewers complained about the film's length, 2 of the 14 song sequences were removed. These were later restored when film goers were found to enjoy all of the songs.[28] Early reviewers of Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! predicted that it would be a huge flop; hence the industry was stunned when it went on to become the most successful film of all time up to that point.[29]
India Abroad called it a "cloyingly familial and touchingly sad melodrama replete with typical Indian social situations".[16] Tripat Narayanan of New Straits Times criticised the plot as "paper-thin" and the climax scenes as clichd, but said Barajiya handled them so well that Shahane's "smiling bride face is immortalised as an epitome of goodness." He appreciated the performances of Dixit and Lagoo, concluding that "what really holds the film together is the editing."[40]
Redo, an Indian Spitz, received favourable recognition as Tuffy the dog. He was included in the "Best Pets in Hindi films" list compiled by Daily News and Analysis.[41] After the film, Redo was reportedly adopted by Dixit.[42]
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.[43] The film received a leading 13 nominations at the 40th Filmfare Awards, and won 5 awards including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress, making it one of the biggest winners of the year.[44][45] Lata Mangeshkar, who sang more than 10 songs in the film, had long retired from accepting awards, but the public demand for the song "Didi Tera Devar Deewana" was such that she received the Filmfare Special Award that year.[46] The film also won major awards at the newly-introduced Screen Awards, where it won six awards.[47]
Author Kovid Gupta classified Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! as a film that bridges the gap between traditionalism and modernity. He discussed the songs of the films in particular, and the "manifestation of romance under the acceptance and blessings of the family, in specific, the elder sister-in-law".[49] Patricia Uberoi called the film a family film in two ways; it is about family relationships, and it is suitable for the entire family to watch. She said that the film is not about the two leads, but about the family, an ideal family.[50] Tejaswini Ganti has called the film a "paean to filial duty" for how the children are willing to sacrifice their love for the good of their families.[51] The family relationships are also noted for being different from the normal cinematic families of the time due to their mutual civility.[29]
Rediff.com noted that "Though the film was initially dismissed as a wedding video, its success indicated that post-liberalisation, Indian audiences still clung to the comfort of the familiar."[52]Jigna Desai said that the film's popularity was due to interactions of the families around the traditional folk wedding practices.[53] In his study on the response to the film, academic Vamsee Juluri concluded that the celebration of the family is HAHK's "most useful contribution to history".[54]
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! is credited as being a defining moment in Hindi cinema's box office history, and the beginning of a revolution in the Indian film distribution system.[12][13] When it was released, cinema was in decline in India due to improved cable television, home video, and film piracy.[17] The film was originally released in only a small number of theatres that agreed to upgrade their facilities. Due to widespread demand for the film, many other theatres upgraded in order to get the film. Although ticket prices were raised, the upgraded theatres brought people back who had been lost to television.[26][13] Also, the film's lack of vulgarity was a sign to middle-class family patrons that they could return to the theatre.[53] This film, in addition to the following year's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, contributed to an increase in Indian cinema attendance of 40% in just two years.[55]
The film was so successful that it literally gave the term blockbuster new meaning in India. Box Office India said, "Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! [...] took business for films released afterwards to another level. To put into perspective how business changed [...] before Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! an all India share of 10 crore for a big film was regarded as blockbuster business but after Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! the blockbuster business figure went to 20 crore."[13]
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! influenced many subsequent Hindi films. The film was also a trendsetter for glamorous family dramas and NRI-related films,[56][57] and started Bollywood's "big-fat-wedding-film" trend.[28] In 1998 a theatre company in London, where the film had played for a year, staged a production based on the film titled Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral.[58] Planet Bollywood has noted that no wedding is complete without some songs from this film,[24] and it has been used as a script to design wedding plans.[17] For years afterwards, women wanted to wear a purple sari like the one worn by Madhuri Dixit in the song "Didi Tera Devar Deewana".[59]
On April 24, 2021, production house, Rashmi Sharma Telefilms, announced that they would be remaking the film version into a show version which will air on StarPlus and Hotstar soon. She announced that the storyline will be the same as the film version.[62]
Har kisi ke mann mein kyun, yeh khayal aa gaya,
Kaun apna hai yaha, yeh sawaal chaa gaya..
Bereham Dunya itni ho gayi hai kyun?
Be-Dili hi Be-Dili har jagah hai kyun?
Har kisi ke mann mein kyun, yeh khayal aa gaya,
Kaun apna hai yaha, yeh sawaal chaa gaya..
(music)
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Har kisi se puch lo, unke haal chaal tum,
Gham ki sadiyo me bano khushiyo ka ek saal tum
khushiyo ka ek saal tum...
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Be-Dili hi Be-Dili har jagah hai kyun?
Har kisi ke mann mein kyun, yeh khayal aa gaya
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Har kisi ke mann mein kyun, yeh sawaal chaa gaya
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