Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman
1992; COL; Hindustani; 35mm; 4410.15 Mtrs; 14470 Fts; 161 Mins; 16 Reels;
CC.No.B-17474 Dated: 05/11/92 Catg: U
BANNER
Sippy Films Pvt Ltd.
3-G, Naaz Building
Lamington Road
Bombay - 400 004
CREDIT TITLES
Production: G.P.Sippy, Vivek
Vaswani
Direction: Aziz Mirza
Story & Screenplay: Manoj Lalwani, Aziz Mirza
Dialogue: Charandas Shokh
Cinematography: Binod Pradhan
Audiography: Subhash Aggarwal
Editing: Javed Sayyed
Lyrics: Dev Kohli, Mahendra Dehlavi, Madan Pal, Manoj Darpan, Vinoo Mahendra,
Minoo
Art Direction: Gautam Sen
Music: Jatin-Lalit
Dance: P.L. Raj, Saroj Khan
Action: Ravi Dewan
Costumes: Neeta Lulla, Kala Pushp, Anna Singh, Abu Jani, Madhav's Mens Mode,
Rajesh Dave
Stills: K.K. Das (Studio R.B.)
Make Up: Ravi Indulkar
Rerecording: Hitendra Ghosh
Records: Tips Cassettes & Records Company
PLAYBACK SINGERS
Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, Jolly Mukherjee, Sudesh Bhonsale
CAST
Shah Rukh Khan (Raj Mathur)
Juhi Chawla (Renu)
Amrita Singh (Sapna Chabriya)
Nana Patekar
Navin Nischol (Mr Chabriya)
Ajit Vachani
Anjan Srivastava
Lalit Tiwari
Viveck Vaswani
Achyut Potdar
SYNOPSIS
Raj Mathur (Shah Rukh Khan) is a young engineering graduate from Darjeeling
who comes to Bombay with only one ambition - to become a big engineer. In
Bombay, he arrives in a lower middle-class locality in search of a distant
relative, only to discover he has left years before. He spends the night
at a temple, where he meets a philosophical streetside performer Jai (Nana
Patekar), who becomes a close friend and gives him a place to stay in the
basti. With no connections and no experience, he finds it hard to get a
job in the city until a beautiful girl from the basti, Renu, finds him a
job as a trainee with the construction company where she works as a secretary
to Chabbria (Navin Nischol).
At a board meeting Raj Mathur impresses Chabbria with a useful suggestion
for cost efficiency in the company, to the discomfort of the corrupt senior
executive Malhotra (Ajit Vachani). Also impressed with Raj Mathur is Chabbria's
daughter Sapna (Amrita Singh) who begins to fall in love with him.
Raj Mathur's career starts to rise meteorically and Sapna introduces him
to a new lifestyle, giving him the keys to a new car and a new house. As
Raju's involvement with Sapna increases Renu begin to feel neglected and
insecure and warns him about Sapna's intentions.
To frame Raj Mathur, Malhotra tampers with the cement in a bridge project,
which is being overseen by Raju. When the bridge collapses and people, some
of whom belong to Raju's former basti, die because of the adulterated cement,
Raju is held responsible as the chief engineer. To save face, even Chabbria
and Sapna, who know Raju is innocent, condemn him publicly.
A court case is filed against him and only a last minute volte face by Sapna,
who testifies in his favour, saves Raj Mathur from conviction. A chastised
Raju returns to claim his love Renu and the couple walk away into a new
life together.