Kusum Ganga: No one loves me! Amd I don't want this kind of love!Īrjun Saagar: Then what kind of love do you want, huh? What kind of love are you asking for? Kusum Ganga: A smalll matter? This is a small matter? A small matter? THIS is what you call small! Look, I don't want wan't to live is some palace made of gold! I want the love of a human, a human!Īrjun Saagar: Everyone loves you, don't they? Kusum Ganga: THIS is what Rajeev is like!Īrjun Saagar: Now, Ganaga, you'll have to learn to adjust to these small matters. Kusum Ganga: Yes, you! Aren't you the one who told me Rajeev is like this, Rajeev is like that. Kusum Ganga: Everything that happened was wrong, everything! And you're the one responsible! It is just the beginning as Arjun falls in love with his would-have-been bhabhi while playing Cupid and leads to a love triangle. Don't conclude that it is the end of the Bollywood fairy tale. So, the heartbroken Kusum returns to India. Arjun is portrayed as an Indian at heart and the hero of the film! All is hunky-dory till the true Bharatiya Nari finds out that her future husband is not a teetotaler. The reverse does not fit into this movie. Arjun comes into the movie to get the American-boy to accept Indian values, and support the Indian-girl to accept American vices. Arjun plays Cupid and returns to America with Kusum and Rajiv. To finalize the marriage he sends his son along with his foster son Arjun to India.

Mahima Chaudhary makes her debut as Ganga. He finds his daughter in law in Kusum Ganga (a pet Subhash Ghai name just as Chandni was Yash Chopra's favorite for a long time) in the house of his childhood friend Suraj Dev. Kishorilal hopes his soon-to-be daughter in law will instill some Indian values in his extremely westernized son.

So the pardesi comes to India with his 'American' son Rajiv to find a suitable ''Indian' girl for him. Kishorilal is a successful businessman settled in America but still emotionally attached to his motherland - India. This film takes a serious look at the lives of Westernized Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in North America (Whereas Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was about NRIs with Indian hearts, Pardes is about Westernized NRIs.) and hence the meaning of the title - 'foreign land'.

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