We don’t need the unbelievably thin script to tell us that the pauper will provide life lessons to said `bhai’( Neil Nitin), `behens’(Swara Bhaskar and Bhatia).
Faithful factotum(Anupam Kher), and toss out pro-tips to his look-alike to win over the ‘rajkumari’(Sonam Kapoor). Barjatya’s canvas has been the unhurried interplay between families and their zillion ‘rishtedaars’, and the gentle, chaperoned, approved ‘nonk-jhonk’ between lovers. And even though I sometimes still find it difficult to believe that a ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’ swept the nation in 1994( yeah.
We know, we know it came at the right time and captured an audience heartily sick of the vulgarity and violence that Hindi cinema of the time had fallen prey to), Sooraj Barjatya rescued his films from becoming maudlin messes with his gift of creating unexpected flashes of sweetness and emotional hooks.