Maine Pyar Kiya


Maine Pyar Kiya is an Indian 1989 Hindi-language musical romance film directed by Sooraj Barjatya who made his directorial debut and also co-wrote the film starring Salman Khan in his first leading role and Bhagyashree in her debut. It also features Alok Nath, Mohnish Bahl, Reema Lagoo, Rajeev Verma, Ajit Vachani, and Laxmikant Berde in pivotal roles. The story revolves around Prem and Suman. Suman is the daughter of a poor mechanic Karan who leaves her with his rich friend Kishan before going abroad. Suman is befriended by Kishan's son Prem and they fall in love.
The film released on 29 December 1989. Produced by Rajshri Productions on a budget of, Maine Pyar Kiya emerged as a major critical and commercial success, with a lifetime worldwide gross of at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year and the highest-grossing Indian film of the 1980s. It was declared an All Time Blockbuster by Box Office India catapulating the leads to fame. The film garnered positive reviews from critics upon its release, with Barjatya's direction, the story, and the performances earning critical praise. It is still counted among the top 10 most successful Bollywood films.
Maine Pyar Kiya received a leading 12 nominations at the 35th Filmfare Awards ceremony including Best Director for Barjatya, Best Actress for Bhagyashree, Best Actor for Khan, Best Supporting Actress for Lagoo and Best Comic Actor for Berde. It won in six categories including Best Film for the banner, Best Male Debut for Khan and Lux New Face of the Year for Bhagyashree.
The film is said to be the inspiration of 2005 Telugu blockbuster Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana directed by Prabhu Deva. Later that film led to remakes in seven other languages including Tamil, Hindi and Kannada. And another Salman Khan's film Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya was partially inspired from this movie.

Plot

Karan is a poor mechanic who lives in the countryside with his one and only daughter, the beautiful Suman. He decides to venture out and try his luck in business and travel to Dubai so that he can accumulate enough wealth to get his daughter married. Thus, he decides to leave his daughter with his family friend Kishan. Kishan, a wealthy businessman, lets Suman stay at his house while her father is away as he cannot turn down his old friend's request. Suman is befriended by Kishan's son Prem, who assures her that a boy and a girl can be platonic friends.
Prem takes Suman to a party organised by Seema, who is the only daughter of Kishan's business partner, Ranjeet.
Jeevan, nephew of Ranjeet, is proud and arrogant and humiliates Suman and Prem. This is the turning point in the story. Suman leaves the party in tears and distances herself from Prem. At that point, Prem and Suman both realise that they have fallen in love with each other.
Prem's mother Kaushalya probes deeper into Prem and Suman's relationship and approves of Suman as her daughter-in-law, but Kishan is unhappy with the relationship and asks her to leave his house. He feels that she has taken advantage of his hospitality. Karan returns from abroad and is enraged at Kishan's behaviour and Kishan accuses him of plotting to set up Prem and Suman. Karan and Kishan quarrel, and eventually Karan and Suman return to their village, deeply humiliated.
Prem refuses to accept the separation, goes to Suman's village and begs to be allowed to marry her. Karan, angered by Kishan's accusations, says that he will allow the marriage on one condition: Prem must prove that he can support his wife by his own effort and live separately. Prem begins to work as a truck driver and laborer in the nearby quarry. At the end of the month, Prem has earned the required money. On the way to Karan's house, he is ambushed by Jeevan and a group of ruffians who attempt to kill him. He survives, but his wages are ruined in the fight.
Karan harshly dismisses Prem's effort and cannot believe Prem's story about the ruffians' attack, Prem begs for another chance to prove himself. His sincere determination melts Karan's heart and he agrees to allow his daughter Suman marry Prem. Meanwhile, Ranjeet goes to Kishan and tells him that Karan has killed his son. Unable to believe this, Kishan goes to Karan's to verify and arrives at Karan's village, only to find Prem alive.
When Prem confronts Jeevan, Ranjeet and his supporters bash up both Kishan and Karan, while Jeevan abducts Suman. In the end, Prem, Karan, and Kishan join hands to defeat a common enemy—Ranjeet, his nephew Jeevan and Ranjeet's supporters, and then save Suman. The estrangement between Karan and Kishan come to an end and Prem and Suman marry.

Cast

Prior to the film's production, Rajshri Productions was struggling financially, and was on the verge of closing down. Director/writer Sooraj Barjatya's father Rajkumar Barjatya suggested the story of Maine Pyar Kiya. Barjatya devoted ten months to write Maine Pyar Kiya screenplay. He took six months to write the first half and four months to write the second half.
The casting of the lead actor became complex. Barjatya tested Shabina Dutt for the lead actress role. Dutt failed the screen test and Barjatya asked her if she could suggest any actor for the lead. She suggested Salman Khan, with whom she had done an ad film. Salman Khan was not really interested because of the soft nature of the film. Barjatya eventually convinced him to do it, and Khan has since then expressed his gratitude to Barjatya for making him a star. Barjatya then cast Bhagyashree to star opposite Salman Khan. Barjatya picked Perveen from the English stage to play the negative role.
The first sequence filmed was of the office scene where Rajiv Verma tells Salman that he has to go. Barjatya had huge sets in film city, Mumbai where filming took place continuously over 5 to 6 months. Outdoor session of the film was done in Ooty. Additional production credits include: Jay Borade—dance choreographer, Art—Bijon Das Gupta, Action—Shamim Azim and Editor—Mukhtar Ahmed.
The film had a production budget of. Salman Khan was paid for the film. In addition to the production budget, another was spent on the soundtrack's radio publicity.

Release

Maine Pyar Kiya premiered on 29 December 1989 across India. The film initially saw a very limited release, with only 29 prints, before later going on to add a thousand more as the film picked up.
Maine Pyar Kiya was dubbed in English as When Love Calls. A 125-minute version was the biggest hit in the Caribbean market at Guyana and also dominated the box-office collections at Trinidad and Tobago. The Telugu version Prema Paavuraalu ran for 25 weeks at Visakhapatnam and had 100 plus day run at six centres in Andhra Pradesh. It was dubbed in Tamil language as Kaadhal Oru Kavithai and in Malayalam as Ina Praavukal. Maine Pyar Kiya had also been dubbed in Spanish as Te Amo. The film also proved its universal appeal with a glorious 10-week premiere run at Lima.

Box office

The film was the biggest grosser of 1989 and one of India's highest-grossing films. Made on a budget of around 2crore, it went on to earn a profit of over by 1990, saving Rajshri from closing down.
Maine Pyar Kiya grossed 28crore, equivalent to adjusted for inflation in 2017. It became the highest-grossing Indian film of the 1980s. In terms of footfalls, the film is estimated to have sold at least 30million tickets in India.
Box Office India described it as an "all-time blockbuster". The film's success drew comparisons to Sholay, with Manmohan Desai even calling Maine Pyar Kiya "the biggest hit since Alam Ara". Maine Pyar Kiya was immensely popular, becoming one of the highest-earning films made up to that point and is considered to be a film of global significance and a trendsetter and one of the most successful film of Indian cinema.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album and musical score were composed by Raamlaxman, while the lyrics were written by Dev Kohli and Asad Bhopali. It was produced under the Sa Re Ga Ma label and featured eminent singers such as Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Sharda Sinha. The soundtrack consists of 11 songs including the "Antakshri", that was used when the characters play a game. The soundtrack was very successful upon release, becoming the best-selling Bollywood soundtrack of the decade. The film's soundtrack album sold over 10million units. It was listed by Planet Bollywood as number 5 on their list of 100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks.
Priyankee Saikia of MensXP.com described several songs as "heavily influenced by western hits", noting that "Aate Jaate Hanste Gaate" was derivative of Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" and "Aaya Mausam Dosti Ka" featured parts similar to "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora, specifically the latter's millennial whoop. The song "Mere Rang Mein Rangne Wali" is based on "The Final Countdown" by the Swedish band Europe and "Theme from Love Story".

Telugu soundtrack (dubbed)

The film was dubbed into Telugu with the title Prema Paavuraalu which ran successfully. The soundtrack was also released in Telugu, which received positive reviews. The track list featured eminent singers of the Telugu film industry like S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra and Mano. The music was composed by Raamlaxman. The track list featured nine songs from the original; two songs were cut off. All the lyrics were penned by Rajashri.

Tamil soundtrack (dubbed)

The film was dubbed into Tamil with the title Kadhal Oru Kavithai, which ran successfully. The soundtrack was also released in Tamil. The track list, like that of the Telugu soundtrack, featured singers S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra and Mano. The music was composed by Raamlaxman. The track list featured 9 songs from the original; 2 songs were cut off. All the lyrics were penned by Vaali.

Awards and nominations

AwardCategoryNomineeResult
35th Filmfare AwardsBest FilmRajshri Productions
35th Filmfare AwardsBest Music DirectorRaamlaxman
35th Filmfare AwardsBest LyricistAsad Bhopali for "Dil Deewana"
35th Filmfare AwardsBest Male Playback SingerS. P. Balasubrahmanyam for "Dil Deewana"
35th Filmfare AwardsBest Male DebutSalman Khan
35th Filmfare AwardsBest Female DebutBhagyashree
35th Filmfare AwardsBest DirectorSooraj R. Barjatya
35th Filmfare AwardsBest ActorSalman Khan
35th Filmfare AwardsBest ActressBhagyashree
35th Filmfare AwardsBest Supporting ActressReema Lagoo
35th Filmfare AwardsBest Performance in a Comic RoleLaxmikant Berde
35th Filmfare AwardsBest LyricistDev Kholi for "Aate Jaate Hanste Gaate"

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