English Babu Desi Mem
(1996)
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Vikram Mayur, a wealthy Indian, born and raised in England, returns to his ancestral home in Bombay, India to look up his late brother's eight-year-old son Nandu raised by his caring aunt Bijuriya in which Vikram is torn between choosing to take Nandu back to England to learn his family's business, or risk throwing it all way by staying in India to be with Bijuriya whom he slowly falls in love with. |
Closely resembling Melville Shavelson's 1960 film, It Started in Naples, which starred Clark Gable and Sophia Loren, Praveen Nischol's competent romantic comedy provided Sonali Bendre with one of her first starring roles. She proves more than equal to the demands of her character (doting foster mother by day and exotic dancer by night), while Shah Rukh Khan is also convincing as the wealthy businessman who discovers that there are some things money can't buy.