Baghban (2003) on Netflix
Raj Malhotra's retirement leaves him without the means to keep himself and his wife Pooja. Their four sons, unwilling to take in both parents, offer to split the couple, six months each.
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Plot summary
Raj Malhotra and Pooja have been married for forty years and raised four sons, Ajay, Sanjay, Rohit and Karan, plus an adopted son, Alok, whom Raj put through school after the boy lost his parents. Alok has since done well and looks up to Raj, and he loves Arpita. Raj's working life ends and his income with it, so he and Pooja plan to move in with their children. Not one of the four sons is willing to house both of them. The sons offer a split, each parent with a different son for six months at a stretch, sure that the pair will turn it down. Raj and Pooja agree.
Cast
- Saahil Chadhaas Rohit Malhotra
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Baghban (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- B. R. Chopra got the idea for Baghban in Copenhagen in the 1960s, while staying at a hotel next to a retirement home, where a couple he met told him they felt abandoned by their children and grandchildren.
- Baghban was the last unofficial partnership of the Salim–Javed writing duo: Amitabh Bachchan asked Javed Akhtar to write his final speech and Salman Khan asked his father Salim Khan to write his, and neither writer was credited.
- Ravi Chopra had wanted Dilip Kumar for the role of Raj Malhotra, but the part went to Amitabh Bachchan because Kumar was too old to play a 60-year-old man.
- During a 1973 holiday in Lonavala, B. R. Chopra began writing the Baghban screenplay one afternoon and kept going for fourteen hours, finishing it the next morning.
- Uttam Singh composed two songs for Baghban before Aadesh Shrivastava replaced him, and Singh went uncredited on the film's soundtrack.
- The Chopras originally wanted a much-younger actress to play Pooja opposite Amitabh Bachchan, but chose Hema Malini instead to avoid the make-up a younger actress would have required.
