Lastly: I'm going to be starting medical school next year and I'll definitely be taking this movie with me. Basically, if you're an ABCD or an NRI with little attachment to India, you won't enjoy this movie, probably because many immigrants adopt the ways of the denizens (just human nature to do so I suppose). It is aimed at Indians who have not forgotten that without the culture imparted by their motherland, they would never be as successful, nor have the extended families we take for granted. But guess what? This movie isn't aimed at that audience. They won't even visit it, much less want to stay there. I know for a fact that many NRIs look upon their homeland with disdain. However, let us put all the cards on the table at this point.
The movie has hyperbole like this throughout it. Rajiv: (While shaking his head) But I am bad, Paul! - In all candor, I don't know of any Americans who speak like this (or of any other human beings for that matter).
Rajiv: Why? Paul: We are not bad people Rajiv, we are good Indians. Granted, there are some lines that the American 'bad son' (Rajiv) says which are ridiculous and comical, such as: - Paul: We are going to India? To fight? Rajiv: Yes. The director shows the audience the best of India and the worst of America to make the viewer appreciate the Indian culture our parents try to impart to us. The exaggerations of Indian morals and of western vices are done for a reason, and a very good reason at that. This movie is nothing short of a masterpiece. As an NRI myself, I must greatly DISAGREE with conclusions like these. Many reviewers have said that this film is 'Anti-American' propaganda and 'stereotypes' NRIs. I was going to only see about the first 30 minutes of it but this movie was so good that I watched it all the way through. It was midnight and I had no wish to see a movie which was three hours long. Kusum Ganga: Ask yourself! The kind of love you give to people, that's the kind of love I want! You've all mistaken me for some innocent little painting that you've framed in gold, and now you want me to hang on these walls in silence and become a part of this false decor! This isn't the dream Ganga came to this foreign land with, is it Arjun? Kusum Ganga: No one loves me! Amd I don't want this kind of love!Īrjun Saagar: Then what kind of love do you want, huh? What kind of love are you asking for? Kusum Ganga: A smalll matter? This is a small matter? A small matter? THIS is what you call small! Look, I don't want wan't to live is some palace made of gold! I want the love of a human, a human!Īrjun Saagar: Everyone loves you, don't they? Kusum Ganga: THIS is what Rajeev is like!Īrjun Saagar: Now, Ganaga, you'll have to learn to adjust to these small matters. Kusum Ganga: Yes, you! Aren't you the one who told me Rajeev is like this, Rajeev is like that. Kusum Ganga: Everything that happened was wrong, everything! And you're the one responsible! It is just the beginning as Arjun falls in love with his would-have-been bhabhi while playing Cupid and leads to a love triangle. Don't conclude that it is the end of the Bollywood fairy tale. So, the heartbroken Kusum returns to India. Arjun is portrayed as an Indian at heart and the hero of the film! All is hunky-dory till the true Bharatiya Nari finds out that her future husband is not a teetotaler. The reverse does not fit into this movie. Arjun comes into the movie to get the American-boy to accept Indian values, and support the Indian-girl to accept American vices. Arjun plays Cupid and returns to America with Kusum and Rajiv. To finalize the marriage he sends his son along with his foster son Arjun to India. Mahima Chaudhary makes her debut as Ganga. He finds his daughter in law in Kusum Ganga (a pet Subhash Ghai name just as Chandni was Yash Chopra's favorite for a long time) in the house of his childhood friend Suraj Dev. Kishorilal hopes his soon-to-be daughter in law will instill some Indian values in his extremely westernized son. So the pardesi comes to India with his "American" son Rajiv to find a suitable '"Indian" girl for him. Kishorilal is a successful businessman settled in America but still emotionally attached to his motherland - India. This film takes a serious look at the lives of Westernized Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in North America (Whereas Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was about NRIs with Indian hearts, Pardes is about Westernized NRIs.) and hence the meaning of the title - "foreign land".
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