Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) on Netflix
NR19943h 26mComedyDramaMusical
Prem and Nisha fall for each other during the wedding of their elder siblings, Rajesh and Pooja. After Pooja dies leaving a baby, the families want Nisha to marry the widowed Rajesh.
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Prem and Rajesh are orphaned brothers living with their uncle Kailashnath, a wealthy industrialist, and Rajesh runs the family business. Kailashnath arranges Rajesh's marriage to Pooja, the daughter of his old friend Siddharth Choudhury, a professor. Pooja's younger sister Nisha and Prem first meet while both families prepare for the wedding, and their teasing and pranks turn into affection that neither admits. Pooja settles into her new household and becomes pregnant. Because her parents cannot travel for the traditional function before the birth, they send Nisha to stay with her sister, and she remains through the arrival of Pooja and Rajesh's son. During that long stay Prem and Nisha grow certain of their love but keep it hidden from everyone. Pooja later dies after a fall on the stairs.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994)
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- Lata Mangeshkar, who sang more than 10 songs for Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, had long stopped accepting awards, but public demand for the song "Didi Tera Devar Deewana" was such that she accepted the Filmfare Special Award that year.
- Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! was the first film to gross over ₹1 billion in India, reaching an estimated ₹1.75 billion there.
- Much of Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!'s success came from repeat viewing: the painter M. F. Husain was reported to have seen the film more than 60 times.
- In 1998, a theatre company in London, where the film had played for a year, staged a production based on Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! titled Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral.
- Initial audiences complained that Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! was too long, so 2 of its 14 song sequences were removed; both were restored once viewers were found to enjoy all the songs.
- Sooraj Barjatya spent one year and nine months writing the screenplay of Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!; after five months trying to write another Maine Pyar Kiya, he began again when his father Rajkumar Barjatya suggested reworking an earlier Rajshri Productions film.
- Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! and the following year's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge helped raise Indian cinema attendance by 40% in just two years.
