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Beta is a film of genre Drama directed by Indra Kumar with Anil Kapoor

Beta (1992)

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Beta (Hindi: बेटा translation: Son) is a 1992 Bollywood drama film, directed by Indra Kumar. It featured Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor and Aruna Irani in pivotal roles. The film is an official remake of the 1969 Kannada film Mallammana Pavada, directed by Puttanna Kanagal.

Beta was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 1992. It won five Filmfare Awards; both Kapoor and Dixit won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, respectively. Anuradha Paudwal won the Best Female Playback Singer Award for the item number Dhak Dhak Karne Laga, while Saroj Khan won the Filmfare Award for Best Choreography, and Irani won the Best Supporting Actress award.


The film became popular due to many reasons. Initially, actress Sridevi was first offered the role of Saraswati, but she refused, because she had collaborated with Kapoor numerous times before. The item number Dhak Dhak Karne Laga remains one of the most popular love songs of the 20th-century. Also, Kapoor and Dixit became one of the most popular on-screen couples of Bollywood.

Synopsis

Beta is the story of Raju (Anil Kapoor), the only child of a widowed multi-millionaire father who can provide his son with anything he wants except Raju's only desire—a mother's love. Raju's father believes he can please his son by marrying Laxmi (Aruna Irani), thinking that she will care for Raju as her natural son. Raju becomes devoted to his stepmother, does whatever she asks of him; she convinces her husband that Raju should remain naïve and uneducated otherwise he would work for others rather than be self-employed. Raju grows older his step-mother increasingly isolates his father from the family, is considered mentally incompetent and eventually locked within a room of the family home.

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