Dulhe Raja

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{{short description|1998 Indian Hindi-language comedy film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Dulhe Raja
| image = Dulhe_Raja.jpg
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| director = [[Harmesh Malhotra]]
| producer = Harmesh Malhotra
| writer = Rajeev Kaul
| narrator =
| starring = [[Govinda (actor)|Govinda]]<br />[[Raveena Tandon]]<br />[[Kader Khan]]<br />[[Prem Chopra]]<br />[[Johnny Lever]]
| music = [[Anand-Milind]]
| cinematography = Shyam Rao Shiposkar
| editing = Govind Dalwadi
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|df=y|1998|7|10}}
| runtime = 155 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Standard Hindi|Hindi]]
| budget =
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'''''Dulhe Raja''''' (transl. '''''Groom King''''') is a [[Bollywood films of 1998|1998]] Indian Hindi-language comedy film starring [[Govinda (actor)|Govinda]], [[Raveena Tandon]], [[Kader Khan]], [[Johnny Lever]], [[Prem Chopra]] and [[Asrani]].

==Plot==
K. K. Singhania a business tycoon buys an expensive hotel "Maharaja International" from P. K. Diwani. Later on, Singhania finds that a [[dhaba]] inside the hotel complex run by a petty guy Raja acts as a hitch to the earnings of the hotel. The hilarity starts henceforth when every ploy used by Singhania to dislodge Raja's dhaba ends up in smoke.

Singhania's daughter Kiran is in love with a man named Rahul. Rahul is financially aided by a confederate, Bishambar Nath. At the same time, Raja develops a fascination for Kiran. Raja, who is already a thorn in Singhania's side, proclaims his love for Kiran before Singhania. He persistently begs Singhania for Kiran's hand only to be refused by Singhania. However, Singhania knows that Rahul is a rogue whose pursuit is to lure young women and later abandon them after exploiting their wealth. So he warns Kiran not to marry Rahul. After strife between Singhania and Kiran, the former says that Kiran is allowed to marry any man, be he a destitute or Singhania's enemy, without his refusal, except Rahul.

One day, Raja knocks down the top floor of Singhania's hotel after Singhania tries to demolish his dhaba using a [[municipality]] [[bulldozer]]. Enraged, Singhania vehemently declares Raja as his greatest enemy. Kiran overhears this and decides to thwart her father's decision that Kiran is allowed to marry any man, be he a destitute or Singhania's enemy, but Rahul. She starts a mendacious love affair with Raja, gaining the latter's affection.

Kiran's plan succeeds when Singhania objects to Raja. Raja thwarts Singhania at every juncture. Singhania decides to marry his daughter to the son of his friend and plans to announce their engagement at her birthday party. However, Raja gatecrashes the party and foils Singhania's plan.

The story takes a turn when Kiran dumps Raja and declares Rahul as her ultimate man. Raja warns her of Rahul's true intentions. He sides with Singhania and tries to convince of her father's reasons. Singhania changes his mind about Raja and announces that he would marry his daughter to him. Kiran departs for Rahul's home, and Rahul finds it a great opportunity to acquire Singhania's entire wealth as his daughter is now in his custody. He assaults Kiran, confines her in his home and demands Singhania by phone, of his entire wealth and property as a pay-off for his daughter's life.

Raja learns about Rahul's vicious plan and decides to rescue Kiran. He conspires with Singhania to dupe Bishambar of his wealth. He arrives at Rahul's house and hoodwinks him and his accomplices that they become hostile with one another. He beats up Rahul when Singhania arrives with some documents, apparently to transfer his entire wealth to Bishambar. Delighted at attaining Singhania's entire assets, Bishambar signs the papers without reading them but later finds that they are not the property papers as he expected, but his confession of kidnapping Kiran and threatening her life. The papers further state his desire for his clothes and other belongings to be seized by his men forcibly. His men snatch away his possessions when police arrive and arrest Rahul, Bishambar and their associates.

In the final scene, Singhania, Kiran, and Raja unite.

==Cast==
*[[Govinda (actor)|Govinda]] as Raja
*[[Raveena Tandon]] as Kiran Singhania
*[[Kader Khan]] as K.K. Singhania
*[[Prem Chopra]] as Bishambar Nath
*[[Mohnish Behl]] as Rahul Sinha
*[[Johnny Lever]] as Baankey
*[[Asrani]] as Inspector Azgar Singh
*[[Dinesh Hingoo]] as Diwani Seth
*[[Viju Khote]] as Municipal Commissioner Todnar
*[[Manmauji]] as Chhotu
*[[Guddi Maruti]] as Azgar Singh's Wife
*[[Sudhir]] as SSP Nissar Khan
*[[Veeru Krishnan]] as Dance Master ji
*[[Ghanashyam Rohera]] as Police Constable
*[[Anjana Mumtaz]] as Mrs. Singhania, Kiran's mother
*[[Rana Jung Bahadur]] as Pitambar Nath
*[[Anil Nagrath]] as Sukhiram

==Music==
Songs of the film were scored by [[Anand-Milind]] who presented some remarkably striking numbers for the album. The frisky "Suno Sasurjee Ab Zidd Chhodo" became significantly popular, followed by "Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare", picturised on Govinda and Raveena Tandon, which is pretty identical to the perky romantic songs sought-after at that period, like "Ole Ole" (''Yeh Dillagi'') and "Husn Hai Suhaana" (''Coolie No. 1''). In the few years that followed 1998, the film was relayed on some Indian TV channels on which a snippet of the song "Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare" was shown as a trailer of the film. Other songs of the film are pleasant to the ears, but the aforesaid two went on to become the most popular songs of the album. Mention may be made that an instrumental version of the song "Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare" synchronizes the credit display at the beginning of the film.<ref>{{citation|title=Dulhe Raja film songs review|url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/music/dulheraja.html|date=2014-12-11|accessdate=2014-12-11}}</ref> The lyrics were created by [[Sameer (lyricist)|Sameer]].

===Soundtrack===
{{Track listing
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| all_lyrics = [[Sameer (lyricist)|Sameer]]
| all_music = [[Anand-Milind]]

| title1 = Aayi Ban Ke Root
| extra1 = Sonu Nigam, Anuradha Paudwal
| length1 = 5:35

| title2 = Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare
| extra2 = [[Sonu Nigam]], [[Jaspinder Narula]]
| length2 = 5:12

| title3 = Dulhan To Jayegi
| note3 = Dulhe Raja
| extra3 = [[Vinod Rathod]], [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
| length3 = 5:17

| title4 = Kahan Raja Bhoj
| extra4 = Sonu Nigam, Vinod Rathod
| length4 = 8:09

| title5 = Kya Lagti Hai Hai Rabba
| extra5 = Vinod Rathod
| length5 = 5:35

| title6 = Ladka Deewana Lage
| extra6 = Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal
| length6 = 6:00

| title7 = Nighahen Kyon Churaati Hai
| extra7 = [[Udit Narayan]], Ram Shankar
| length7 = 6:16
}}

==Award==
{{awards table}}
|-
| 1999
| [[Johnny Lever]]
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role]]
| {{won}}
|}

==Reception==
One song from the movie, ''Kahan Raja Bhoj, Kahan Gangu Teli'', provoked protests from a [[Nagpur]]-based organisation, the Vidarbha Teli Samaj Mahasangh, on the grounds that it offended the members of their community; they wrote a letter of protest to then-Chief Minister [[Manohar Joshi]], condemning the approval given by the state government to the song and calling for it to be banned.<ref name="IE">{{citation|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980919/26250284.html|periodical=Indian Express|date=19 September 1998|accessdate=18 July 2019|title=Another ditty draws flak |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426181858/http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980919/26250284.html |archive-date=26 April 2010}}</ref> Another song, ''Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare'', would later become the inspiration for [[Akhiyon Se Goli Maare|a film of the same name]] by director Harmesh Maholtra, starring an almost identical cast.<ref>{{citation|title=Songs and Titles|url=http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2522209,prtpage-1.cms|periodical=Times of India|date=2007-11-06|accessdate=2008-02-28}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Trivia==
1. During the 90s, the Govinda—director [[David Dhawan]] collaboration yielded many superhit comedy movies. Contrary to the customary notion, ''Dulhe Raja'' — an entirely comedy film released in 1998, was directed by Harmesh Malhotra, who had to his credit movies like ''[[Nagina (1986 film)|Nagina]]'' (1986), ''[[Paappi Devataa]]'' (1995), ''[[Kismat (1995 film)|Kismat]]'' (1995) etc.

2. Johnny Lever received the [[Filmfare Best Comedian Award]] in 1999 for the movie.

3. A song from the movie - "Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare", would later become the inspiration for a film of the same name by director Harmesh Maholtra.

4. The movie was remade in Kannada as ''Shukradeshe'' in 2001.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0210659}}

[[Category:1998 films]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1990s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Anand–Milind]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Films directed by Harmesh Malhotra]]
[[Category:1998 comedy films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language comedy films]]

Hadoti

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{{short description|Region of Rajasthan, India}}
{{For|the language|Hadoti language}}
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[[File:India Hadoti locator map.svg|thumb|Hadoti region in India.]]

'''Hadoti ''' is a [[List of regions in India|region]] of [[Rajasthan]] state in western [[India]], which was once called the Bundi Kingdom. The biggest cities are Jhalawar and Kota. It includes the districts of [[Bundi district|Bundi]], [[Baran district|Baran]], [[Jhalawar district|Jhalawar]] and [[Kota district|Kota]] and is bounded on the west by the [[Mewar]], on the northwest by [[Ajmer region]]s of Rajasthan, and on the south by the [[Malwa]], on the east by the [[Gird, India|Gird regions]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]] state.

==Geography==
The region of south eastern Rajasthan lies between Malwa Plateau in the east, Aravali range in the west and Marwar plateau in the west south side, on the border with Madhya Pradesh. The major river is the Chambal River, with its tributaries Kaalisindh, Parvati, Parwan and Chapi. The soil is alluvial.

==History ==
* Palaitha - [[Hada Chauhan]] Maharaja's
* [[Moondli]] - [[Hada (clan)|Hada]] Maharaja's
* [[Kunadi]] -
* [[Bamulia]] - Hada Maharaja's
* [[Kachnoada]] - Hada
* [[Rajgarh, Rajasthan|Rajgarh]] - Hada
* [[Ghati]] - Hada
* [[Kherli]] - [[Tanwar]]
* [[Srinal]] - Tanwar
* [[Koela]] - Hada Chauhan
* [[Dabri]] - Hada
* [[Kherli]] - Hada Maharaja's
* [[Karwar]] - Hada
* [[Phasud]] - Hada
* [[Pipalda]] - Hada
* [[Antarda]] - Hada
* [[Nimola]] - Hada
* [[Sarola]] - [[Pandit Brahmins]]
*[[Harnawada]] - Sirohiya Rao Raja

==References==
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{{Historical regions of North India|state=expanded}}

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[[Category:Regions of Rajasthan]]

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