Badhaai Ho Badhaai

Badhaai Ho Badhaai is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Satish Kaushik. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Keerthi Reddy, and Shilpa Shetty. It is a Hindi remake of the 1996 Tamil film Poove Unakkaga.

Plot

The D'Souza and the Chaddha families are neighbors and have been good friends for as long as they can remember, and despite their differing religions and cultural beliefs, they celebrate Diwali and Christmas with cheer and gusto. Then Anjali Chaddha and Anthony D'Souza fall in love, and this brings an end to the friendship. Anjali and Anthony elope, marry, and relocate to another place, leaving the two families to live with bitterness for the rest of their lives. Twenty-seven years later, a young man claiming to be the son of Anjali and Anthony comes to visit his paternal and maternal grandparents and is cold-shouldered by both families. He persists and wins over the hearts of his grandparents on both sides, but before he can win over his Jassi Mamaji and Moses Chacha, they find out that Raja is not who he claims to be.

Cast

Anil Kapoor as Raja Saxena / Fatty
Shilpa Shetty as Banto Betty / Tina D'Souza
Keerthi Reddy as Florence D'Souza
Amrish Puri as Mr. Chaddha
Farida Jalal as Mrs. Chaddha
Kader Khan as Ghuman Singh Rathod
Anang Desai as Moses D'Souza
Rohini Hattangadi as Rosy D'Souza
Vinay Jain as Ranjeet Chaddha
Dinesh Kaushik as Anthany D'Souza
Mushtaq Khan as Bali
Suresh Menon as Lucky Iyer
Govind Namdeo as Jassi Chaddha
Hemant Pandey as Writer
K. Vishwanath as Steven D'Souza
Aavin Ashta as Ravi son of Mr. Chaddha
Rana Jung Bahadur as Khan

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Anu Malik with the lyrics are by Javed Akhtar.

#	Title	Singer
1	"Raag Banke"	Shaan, Alka Yagnik
2	"Teri Zindagi Mein Pyar Hai"	KK, Alka Yagnik
3	"Dil Bata Mere Dil Bata"	Sonu Nigam
4	"Badhaai Ho Badhaai"	Udit Narayan, Zubeen Garg & Ila Arun
5	"Jogan Jogan"	Kunal Ganjawala, Preeti, Pinky
6	"Tehro Zaraa"	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik

Reception

Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film one out of five stars, writing, "On the whole, BADHAAI HO BADHAAI is saddled by a weak script and despite publicising the 'different' look of Anil in its promotion, will not find many takers. Watch it only if you're a die-hard Anil Kapoor fan!" Priya Ganapati of Rediff.com wrote, "Badhaai Ho Badhaai is marred by a poor script, loud acting and slapstick packaged as humor. And despite its attempt to piggyback on one of Hollywood's successful comedy films, it fails to redeem itself."