Year of Production: 1994
Direction: C.P. Dixit
Cast: Govinda, Varsha Usgaonkar, Gulshan Grover, Sharat Saxena, Vikas Anand, Anuradha, G. Asrani, Savita Bajaj, Mohan Bhandari, Vijayendra Ghatge, Raza Murad, Anjana Mumtaz

Synopsis: The family of Officer Anand (Vijayendra Ghatge) is suddenly shaken when he is shot in an encounter with J.K. (Raza Murad). Earlier, he hid his servant Dinubhai and his son Raju. The rest of the family has to flee and during the escape Dinubhai dies as well. Laxmi (Anjana Mumtaz) has to raise her children and Raju on her own. Years later Laxmi finds out that her beloved Raju (Govinda) has become a thief. Meanwhile, he falls in love with Mini (Varsha Usgaonkar) who happens to be J.K.’s daughter. When his mother realizes what he has been doing for some time she takes her family and leaves Raju. But then she gets to know what a good person Raju really is and the circumstances of her husband’s death are being disclosed.

Review: From the mere synopsis it does not sound too bad but Beta Ho To Aisa wants to many things in too less time. There’s a main plot but also a couple of smaller stories besides this one and soon there’s nothing to concentrate on anymore. Some of the supporting actors ruin the whole thing and even Govinda is not in a good form – well as long as he still has his shirt, that is.

After about an hour all of sudden there’s this very nice video with Varsha and nearly naked Govinda at a riverside and with the start of this song the whole movie improves for about half an hour just to get back to the rather boring plot after this time. It should be an exciting movie but it isn’t. The past history takes too much time and (besides that one song) there’s no real chemistry between Varsha and Govinda. I don’t even think that the love story was necessary, the movie would have done pretty well without it.

The songs, for one thing, are nice. Good and catchy melodies and especially Raat Morandowali was a fine song.

Rating: 3/10 points

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