Year of Production: 1991
Direction: Kishore Vyas
Cast: Govinda, Bhanu Priya, Gulshan Grover, Juhi Chawla, Anand Balraj, Shobha Pradhan, Ram Mohan, Dinesh Hingoo

Synopsis: Sita lives a middle-class lifestyle with her retired and widowed schoolmaster dad, Ramdas. One day she is molested by Prakash and slaps him. A few days later, wealthy Ghanshyamdas, a former pupil of Ramdas, approaches him to ask for Sita's hand in marriage for his son. The marriage takes place, Sita re-locates to Prakash's house and family, consisting of Prakash's mom, Shanti; his married sister, Shobha, whose husband is Police Inspector Sudhir; a cousin brother, Amar; and Shanti's brother, Rakesh, who had also attempted to molest Sita. Shanti and Shobha had wanted Prakash to get married to wealthy & gorgeous Sonia, are quite peeved with Sita, they abuse her both physically and verbally, while Prakash makes it clear that he only married her to get even for getting slapped. Things get worse after Ghanshyamdas passes away, and the rest of the family, save for Amar, attempt to burn Sita.

Review: The story of Bhabhi comes with a lot of changes but it needs time to come to the point. The first 40 minutes were more or less without much function, then – for quite some time – it gets much better. But the second half is pure non-sense. If they wrote David Dhawan’s name on the cover I wouldn’t have noticed that he’s not responsible for Bhabhi. And it’s no Govinda movie but rather a Gulshan Grover movie! He’s everywhere you look and this Rakesh guy is no nice person at all. The rest of the time is occupied by Bhanu Priya as Sita – the bhabhi in question. She’s very convicing, I have to admit this. To get some screen time for Govinda the director invented the character of Asha, Amar’s love interest. But only a few scenes and most of the videos are dedicated to Juhi and Govinda.

The soundtrack is a very classical one, the songs are good and the picturizations strange. Chandi Ki Cycle seemed legendary and I really enjoyed this song. Juhi and Govinda are a sweet couple but just part of the requisites in this movie. In my opinion neither of them is a real main character. They just exist to have something for the songs which are the highlights of this movie.

As I’ve already mentioned the second half is no good and the end likewise is not at all convincing but more a scene to get everybody into one frame. I had this “What the hell are they doing there?” feeling. The scenes between Juhi and Govinda are worth watching but the rest is a rather bad movie.

Rating: 4/10 points

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