Raja (1995 film)

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Raja
Starring	Madhuri Dixit Sanjay Kapoor
Country	India
Language	Hindi
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Raja is an Indian Bollywood movie starring Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Mukesh Khanna and Dalip Tahil. The film marked Sanjay Kapoor's debut in Bollywood, and was appreciated by critics as well as audiences, becoming one of the biggest hits of the year. Madhuri Dixit received a Filmfare Best Actress Award nomination, and won the Star Screen Award Best Actress.

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Rana Mahendra Pratap Garewal (Mukesh Khanna) is a wealthy businessman along with his brother Vishwa (Dalip Tahil). They are both good friends with Brijnath (Birju) (Paresh Rawal) who is not as wealthy. Rana's younger sister Madhu (Madhuri Dixit) is a good friend of Brijnath's younger brother Raja (Sanjay Kapoor) (both are very young at the time whereas their brothers are all adults already). Seeing this Rana and Birju both arrange for Raja and Madhu to marry when they are older but Rana quickly backs out and insults Birju because of his lower social status. Shocked and saddened at his rejection by his best friends, Birju scoops up Raja and moves out of the city. Later on however, an accident causes Birju to become mentally handicapped leaving Raja to fend for both of them.

Many years pass and Raja and Madhu soon meet each other again and fall in love. Rana and Vishwa soon find out about this and are determined to keep Madhu away from Raja. They continually humiliate and insult Raja, beating him up and forcing him to walk on broken glass in order to prove his love for Madhu. Eventually, Rana pretends to give in and accept Raja into the family. When Raja leaves the city for a few days however, Rana invites Birju to stay at the Garewal mansion. While he is there, they have one of their assistants dress up like Birju and break into Madhu's room at night and pretend to attempt to rape her. Madhu duly screams that Birju is trying to rape her. The assistant quickly escapes while the room is only dimly lit before Madhu can see his face. Rana and Vishwa then call a mental hospital and force Birju into it as a prisoner in all but name. Raja is now forced to choose between believing Madhu's and Birju's words. He chooses to believe his brother's protestations of innocence and breaks up with Madhu. However, he still deeply loves her, and it is now up to him to dig for the truth and figure out what happned to Madhu on that fateful night.

In the end, Raja manages to get a hold of the assistant who dressed up as Birju and extract a confession out of him. Madhu is so shocked to hear that her own brothers set up her rape that she leaves them and goes over to Raja's house. In the mean time, Raja manages to get Birju released from the hospital and brings him home. In the final scene, Rana and Vishwa come over to Raja's house and beg the trio for forgiveness. They decide to forgive the brothers on the condition that they bless the marriage of Raja and Madhu. The brothers agree, and the movie ends with Raja and Madhu planning to get married.