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Badhaai Ho Badhaai is a film of genre Drama directed by Satish Kaushik released in USA on 14 june 2002 with Anil Kapoor

Badhaai Ho Badhaai (2002)

Badhaai Ho Badhaai
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Released in USA 14 june 2002
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Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Musical
Rating47% 2.363722.363722.363722.363722.36372

Badhaai Ho Badhaai is a 2002 Bollywood comedy, and Anil Kapoor's first production. It was a remake of well-known Tamil movie Poove Unakkaga and the second half of the film was inspired by the Tom Shadyac's, The Nutty Professor.

It was shot over 45 days mostly in Delhi and places like Salooni and Chamba in Himachal Pradesh.

Synopsis

The D'Souza and the Chaddha families are neighbors and have been good friends for as long as they can remember, and despite their differing religions and cultural beliefs, celebrate Diwali and Christmas with cheer and gusto. Then Anjali Chaddha and Anthony D'Souza fall in love, and this brings an end to the friendship. Anjali and Anthony elope, marry, and re-locate to another place, leaving the two families to live with bitterness the rest of their lives. Twenty-seven years later, a young man claiming to be the son of Anjali and Anthony comes to visit his paternal and maternal grandparents, and is cold-shouldered by both families. He persists and wins over the hearts of his grandparents on both sides, but before he can win over his Jassi mama and Moses chacha, they find out that Raja is not who he claims to be. In actuality, Shilpa Shetty's character is the granddaughter.

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