Star Cast :
- Super Star
Rajesh Khanna as Balraj Khanna
- Akshaye Khanna
as Rohan Khanna
- Aishwarya Rai as
Pooja Walia
- Moushumi
Chatterjee as Rohan’s mother
- Navin Nischol as
Dr. Ashwin Khurana
- Suman
Ranganathan as Loveleen
- Kader Khan as
Sardar Khan
- Paresh Rawal as
PC Jack Patel
- Satish Kaushik
as Chaurasia
- Jaspal Bhatti as
Iqbal Singh
- Vivek Vaswani as
Vaswani
- Himani Shivpuri
as Chaurasia'a wife
- Alok Nath as
Rohan’s grandfather
- Aditya Hitkari
as Karan Khanna
- Sulabha Arya as
Ranjit’s mother
- Achyut Potdar as
Ranjit’s father
- Vishwajeet
Pradhan as Drug Dealer
Other Film Crew's :
- Directed by
Rishi Kapoor
- Produced by
Rajiv Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor
- Story by Sachin
Bhowmick, Rumi Jaffrey and Raju Saigal
- Cinematography
by Sameer Arya
- Edited by Rajiv
Kapoor
- Distributed by
R.K. Films
- Release date :
22 January 1999
- Language : Hindi
- Country : India
Introduction :
Aa Ab Laut Chalen
(translation: Come, Let’s Go Back) is a 1999 Bollywood romantic
drama musical directed by Rishi Kapoor and written by Sachin
Bhowmick. The film premiered in India and the United States on 22
January 1999. It starred Rajesh Khanna, Akshaye Khanna and Aishwarya
Rai and was the last production of R. K. Films. Box Office India
declared it a below-average performer at the box office.
Summary :
Rohan Khanna
(Akshaye Khanna) is a jobless graduate living with his grandfather
(Alok Nath) and his mother (Moushumi Chatterjee). Rohan has been
tirelessly looking for a decent job without success. One day, Rohan’s
neighbour, Ranjit arrives. He lives in America, owns a motel, a
perfect living and is married to an American woman. He wishes to keep
his parents in America to live in peace. After listening to Rohan’s
desire for a job, he suggests that Rohan should also move to America.
Looking at Ranjit’s overnight success, Rohan is immediately
persuaded. He tells his mother and grandfather of his wish and they
are abruptly reminded of Rohan’s late father, Balraj Khanna (Rajesh
Khanna) who left his wife and son for America after a bitter argument
with his father. In a bus accident, Balraj had died leaving Rohan
orphaned and his mother widowed. To avoid the same fate for Rohan as
his father’s, Rohan’s grandfather prepares Rohan’s visa for
America.
Rohan arrives in
America and immediately meets Sardar Khan (Kader Khan), a Pakistani
man who drives a taxi. Rohan’s good manners and friendly
personality wins Sardar over as he drives Rohan to Ranjit’s motel.
Rohan did not have any spare cash to pay Sardar so he asked Sardar to
wait while he asked Ranjit for the taxi fare. He is shocked when
Ranjit does not pay his fare or give him a place to stay saying that
Rohan should help himself. Rohan finds out that Ranjit’s parents
are working at the motel and facing verbal abuse from his wife.
Sardar offers Rohan a place to stay much to the dismay of his
roommate, Iqbal Singh (Jaspal Bhatti), a Punjabi man from India.
Rohan is allowed to stay with Iqbal and Sardar with the persuasion of
Chaurasia (Satish Kaushik. Chaurasia runs an Indian restaurant and
betel leaf shop. Rohan is given a job as a taxi driver. One day,
while making routes near the airport, he picks up a young Indian
woman named Pooja (Aishwarya Rai). Pooja has just arrived in America
to live with her older brother and his wife. To her shock, her
brother only brought her because his boss had seen a picture her and
had fallen for her. Pooja’s brother insists that she should marry
his boss. In anger, she leaves his house without money and nowhere to
go. Rohan sees Pooja crying and offers her a place to stay with Iqbal
and Sardar.
Iqbal and Sardar
discover that Pooja and Rohan have brought happiness into their
house. They pitched in to provide jobs for the newcomers. They are
also acquainted with PC Jack Patel (Paresh Rawal) who is a police
inspector and a Hindu priest, and observes both jobs faithfully by
preserving American law and Hindu values. Pooja and Rohan begin to
work at the Dunkin’ Donuts but, after a tussle with some customers
who tried to harass Pooja, they are fired. This protective
relationship between Rohan and Pooja causes Pooja to fall in love
with him deeply. Rohan then finds a job at a gas station. One day at
Chaurasia’s restaurant, Rohan becomes frustrated with his lack of
progress and Chaurasia advises Rohan to get a Green Card by marrying
an NRI girl. Rohan and Pooja go to an Indian dance to search for an
NRI girl disapproved by Pooja. There, he met the seductive Loveleen
(Suman Ranganathan) and he falls for her immediately. Pooja, Iqbal,
and Sardar do everything to keep Loveleen away from Rohan until he
gets aggravated and tells the three to stay away from him. Sardar
advises Pooja to follow Rohan and Loveleen to Seaside Heights and
declare her love for him. She is rejected by Rohan and he later tells
her to stay away from him. Iqbal and Sardar accuse him of being
consumed by money. Rohan tells them that they are envious of his
progress. Iqbal tells Rohan that one day he will regret his decision
and come back to Pooja. Rohan leaves the house for Loveleen in rage.
To forget Rohan,
Pooja finds a job as a caretaker for a rich Indian man who is ill. He
is Balraj Khanna, Rohan’s estranged father who has not died. Balraj
has been living in New York with his son, Karan. Karan’s mother
left Balraj when Karan was very young. Karan has grown to be a
spoiled and arrogant young man who is friends with Loveleen. He
consistently asks his father for money to spend for his enjoyment. He
even took a loan from Marko, a dangerous drug dealer. To pay back his
debts, he is assigned to transport drugs around the country. Balraj
takes a liking to Pooja and considers her as a daughter. He wants to
keep her in his home so he asks her to consider marrying Karan. Karan
and Pooja are against the idea. Meanwhile, Rohan begins to realise
that Loveleen’s American culture deeply goes against his. He gets
fed up with her ways and realises he is really in love with Pooja. He
leaves Loveleen with no where to go because of his poor decisions.
Jack Patel forces Iqbal, Sardar, and Rohan to reconcile and they
forgive Rohan for his mistakes.
Rohan sets out to
ask Pooja for forgiveness. She is in Springfield with Balraj, and
Rohan arrives there to meet her. After a confrontation between Rohan
and Pooja, Rohan tells her that they will go back home to India
together: “Aa Ab Laut Chalen” (Come, Let’s Go Back). Pooja
forgives Rohan and Rohan gives her a locket with a picture of his
mother inside saying that it is a promise that he will marry her.
Pooja tells Balraj that she has fallen in love with a man named Rohan
and he encourages her love for him. Meanwhile, Karan becomes
desperate for the money so he decides to marry Pooja. After violently
urging her to marry him, her locket falls on the ground and Balraj
picks it up. When handing it to her, he sees Rohan’s mother and his
wife. He realises that Rohan is his son but did not tell Pooja. After
hearing that he is unemployed, he tells Pooja that he will give Rohan
a job in his company. But he fears that his son will not accept him
as a father because he left him and his mother back in India.
Rohan accepts the
job and is deeply grateful to Balraj. He wishes for a chance to meet
him. Balraj continues his generosity from afar by giving Rohan a
$5000 bonus. Rohan returns to Ranjit’s motel and frees Ranjit’s
parents by paying for their tickets to India. Ranjit is arrested by
Jack Patel for keeping his parents’ passports. His mother is happy
to know that Rohan has found the love of his life and a decent job.
One day, Rohan is invited to a party which Balraj would attend. When
Rohan meets Balraj, he is stunned to realise that Balraj is his
father and very much alive. He reacts in anger. Balraj openly
confesses to everyone that he has left his wife and son in India and
does not deserve everyone’s respect. Balraj reveals that after he
arrived in America, he went back to India to find his family but he
could not. Hence, he remarried. Rohan cannot bring himself to forgive
his father because he has caused his mother’s suffering. Balraj
insists to speak to his wife to ask for forgiveness. She immediately
forgives him and asks them to come back to India. Karan emerges
saying that if Balraj leaves for India, he has to leave his fortunes
to Karan in America After a tough debate and on Rohan’s consent
Balraj agrees but on the condition that he will disown him as a son.
Balraj, Rohan, and
Pooja all leave for India. Suddenly, PC Jack Patel arrives with
Karan. PC Patel relates that Karan has got Marko arrested by the
American police along with the entire gang. So, even the American
police services and government agencies have forgiven his mistakes.
Balraj and Rohan are very happy to hear that. Karan tells Balraj that
he does not want the wealth but a family he never had. They accept
Karan and the family leaves for India. We later see Rohan’s mother
welcoming them home and they finally live happily together.
Music Sound Track :
- Music by
Nadeem-Shravan
- Lyrics by Sameer
- Play Singer's :
Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet, Shabbir Kumar, Sonu
Nigam,
- Saud
Khan,Vijeta, Kumar Sanu and Jaspinder Narula.
Songs :
S.No. Song Title
Playback Singer(s)
- “Aa Ab Laut
Chalen” - by Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik
- “O Yaaro Maaf
Karna” - by Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet, Shabbir Kumar, Alka Yagnik, Sonu
Nigam, Saud Khan and Vijeta
- “Yeh Kaisi
Mulaqat Hai” - by Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik
- “Mera Dil Tera
Deewana” - by Alka Yagnik
- “Yehi Hai
Pyar” - by Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik and Jaspinder Narula
- “Tere Bin Ek
Pal” - by Udit Narayan and Jaspinder Narula
- “Pyar Hua Pyar
Hua’” - by Jaspinder Narula
- “O Yaaro Marf
Karna (part II)” - by Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik
Reception :
The film performed
reasonably well at the box office. It is R.K. Films last movie to
date.
