30 years of HAHK EXCLUSIVE: Madhuri Dixit says, “People started having shaadis for 4-5 days after this film”

Rajshri Productions’ all-time classic Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! completes 30 years today. Directed by Sooraj Barjatya, the film was a complete family entertainer starring Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit Nene in the lead. The movie gave a tremendous boost to the careers of both the actors.

During an exclusive interview with Bollywood Hungama, Madhuri went down memory lane thinking about the film. When asked how important this movie is in her filmography, she said, “Very important because it is one of the biggest hits of its time. The way my character was portrayed, I became like a family member to everyone. I was a bahu, beti, girlfriend, wife, etc. So, they accepted me in very different ways. That’s the importance of what Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! did to everybody’s career at that time, be it Salman or me or all the actors.”

She added, “Even today, people tell me that whenever it comes on OTT or wherever, they just sit and watch. It talks about our culture; it talks about the emotions. After a very long time, they had got such a film.”

Madhuri pointed out how Hum Aapne Hain Koun..! impacted the marriage scene in India, “It influenced marriages in those days. After that, everyone started having shaadis for 2, 3, 4 or 5 days. So, it also started a kind of cultural moment also.”

The veteran actress also reminisced how the film was celebrated back then. “I remember for the first time in the theatres whenever ‘Didi Tera Dewar Deewana’ used to come, they used to have these lights on the screen that would go up. Theatres were all lit up. People were going with their families of 14 people and watching the film together. It was a film where the whole family could go together and enjoy,” she said.

Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! also starred Renuka Shahane, Mohnish Bahl, Reema Lagoo, Anupam Kher, Alok Nath, Laxmikant Berde, Satish Shah among others. The film completed as many as 100 weeks in a few cinemas in India.

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