Beta
Beta is the story of Raju (Anil Kapoor), the only child of a widowed multi-millionaire Prem Chaudhary (Akash Khuranna). Raju's father can provide him anything he wants but Raju's only desire is to get…
Beta
Beta is the story of Raju (Anil Kapoor), the only child of a widowed multi-millionaire Prem Chaudhary (Akash Khuranna). Raju's father can provide him anything he wants but Raju's only desire is to get mother's love. Raju had lost his mother at birth and feels deeply deprived of a mother's love. On Raju's 5th birthday party, to please him, his father gets married to Laxmi (Aruna Irani), thinking that she will take care of Raju more than his real mother would. However, Lakshmi Devi turns out to be greedy, shrewd and cunning. She married Raju's father only for his vast fortune, money and property. Together with her brother Totaram (Anupam Kher) and his wife Mynavati (Bharati Achrekar), they conspire on how to transfer all property to Lakshmi Devi's name. However, Lakshmi Devi and Totaram are enraged when they find out that Prem's first wife had prepared a will before her death transferring all property to Raju, and that Prem is only a trustee to all the wealth. In the will, it has been written that Raju will have full control of his property only after marriage and unless his wife jointly consents with him, he will not be able to transfer his wealth and property to another name. Raju becomes completely devoted to his stepmother, doing whatever she wishes. He showers Lakshmi Devi with love and respect, ever-ready to obey her every word. Raju refuses education for his mother as she explains that despite education, man can only achieve a job for others, but he should work for his own self. When his father finds out that Raju stopped going to school at Lakshmi Devi's instructions, he calls out to her to question her. Lakshmi Devi and Totaram, hearing Prem, pours oil on the steps causing him to fall down the flight of stairs and hurting his head severely. Using this opportunity, they prove that Prem has become mentally unstable, and they lock him up in a corner room of the house. Raju being naive and uneducated, believes every word of his step-mother and her brother. Over the years, Lakshmi Devi increasingly isolates his aging father from the family and mainly Raju. Raju, meanwhile, meets Saraswati (Madhuri Dixit) and the two fall in love after Raju sees her being abducted, slapped and assaulted at a fair. After Raju saves her from being assaulted, the two fall in love and Raju marries Saraswati after everyone in the village believes that she is no longer chaste. In the meantime, Lakshmi Devi fixes an alliance for Raju with an equally uneducated girl from their own village, so that she too can be manipulated and can finally succeed in transferring the property in Lakshmi Devi and her son, Ramesh (Adi Irani), Raju's step brother's name. Lakshmi Devi is shocked to learn about Raju and Saraswati's marriage as Lakshmi Devi knows that Saraswati was not only educated but also a very intelligent girl. As usual, Lakshmi Devi puts on an act of a doting mother in front of Saraswati. Saraswati discovers that Laxmi's motherly love for Raju is fake and all what Laxmi is interested in, is capturing Raju's wealth. She is horrified to find Raju's father being treated as a mentally ill patient. Only after speaking to him does, she realizes that the reason for Raju's naive nature and uneducated status is because his stepmother manipulated him into being uneducated so that she can take advantage of him. Laxmi already has another son who is being educated but also seeks Raju's wealth which his mother Laxmi intends for him to inherit. And thus begins a battle within the household between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law which involves Saraswati trying to outdo Laxmi. Initially, Saraswati allows Raju's father to come out of his prison and insists that there is nothing wrong with him. She voices her concerns to Raju about his mother, resulting in Saraswati being slapped repeatedly around the courtyard of the house in front of all the family members. Saraswati is ready to leave the house at this point but wisely decides to apologize to her mother-in-law, only to take an oath to protect her husband and her house from Laxmi's immoral intentions. This humiliation does not deter Saraswati who cleverly starts exposing Laxmi's every step in a dignified manner for the sake of her husband. She publicly exposes the fact that Raju's younger step-brother has not received a degree in Medicine, rather that he has bought a fake one. In one incident, Saraswati, along with Prem and their faithful servants Pandu (Lakshmi Devikant Berde) and Champa (Priya Arun), planned for Lakshmi Devi to slip and fall, forcing her to be bedridden. Promptly, the responsibility of the entire household is handed over to Saraswati. Upon discovering that Saraswati is pregnant, Laxmi finally decides that enough is enough and tries to poison Saraswati by mixing poison with saffron which she knows that Saraswati will mix with her milk before she drinks it. Champa, who witnessed Lakshmi Devi mixing the poison, runs to Saraswati's rescue, narrating everything that happened and warns her against drinking the poisoned milk. Saraswati approaches Raju and tells him the truth once again. Raju refuses to believe Saraswati, even when she takes an oath upon her unborn child's life and decides to prove Saraswati wrong by offering to drink the poisoned milk himself. Only when Raju begins to cough up blood, does he realize that Saraswati was telling the truth after all. He confronts his mother in his usual innocent manner and asks her why she had forsaken him and tells her that had she simply asked him for his wealth, he would have happily agreed to give her all he had. He tells Laxmi that his last dying wish will be that he would request his mother to at least once with a clean her to call him 'her son', so that he may now die in peace. His words touch Laxmi deeply and she realizes the cruelty that she has shown her son who has only ever loved her. There is a brief altercation between Laxmi and her real son who still wishes to procure Raju's wealth. Raju, in his deteriorating state still manages to save his mother from his stepbrother. Raju recovers following treatment and agreeing to give up his worldly possessions to his mother and leaving home with his wife and father. However, at the last moment, Laxmi begs him not to leave, claiming to have learned the error of her ways; she tears up all the property papers and tells him that she does not want his wealth, all she wants is 'her son' and nothing more.
Beta
Drama,Romance
Film Details
Beta is the story of Raju (Anil Kapoor), the only child of a widowed multi-millionaire Prem Chaudhary (Akash Khuranna). Raju's father can provide him anything he wants but Raju's only desire is to get mother's love. Raju had lost his mother at birth and feels deeply deprived of a mother's love.
On Raju's 5th birthday party, to please him, his father gets married to Laxmi (Aruna Irani), thinking that she will take care of Raju more than his real mother would. However, Lakshmi Devi turns out to be greedy, shrewd and cunning. She married Raju's father only for his vast fortune, money and property.
Together with her brother Totaram (Anupam Kher) and his wife Mynavati (Bharati Achrekar), they conspire on how to transfer all property to Lakshmi Devi's name. However, Lakshmi Devi and Totaram are enraged when they find out that Prem's first wife had prepared a will before her death transferring all property to Raju, and that Prem is only a trustee to all the wealth. In the will, it has been written that Raju will have full control of his property only after marriage and unless his wife jointly consents with him, he will not be able to transfer his wealth and property to another name.
Raju becomes completely devoted to his stepmother, doing whatever she wishes. He showers Lakshmi Devi with love and respect, ever-ready to obey her every word. Raju refuses education for his mother as she explains that despite education, man can only achieve a job for others, but he should work for his own self.
When his father finds out that Raju stopped going to school at Lakshmi Devi's instructions, he calls out to her to question her. Lakshmi Devi and Totaram, hearing Prem, pours oil on the steps causing him to fall down the flight of stairs and hurting his head severely. Using this opportunity, they prove that Prem has become mentally unstable, and they lock him up in a corner room of the house.
Raju being naive and uneducated, believes every word of his step-mother and her brother. Over the years, Lakshmi Devi increasingly isolates his aging father from the family and mainly Raju. Raju, meanwhile, meets Saraswati (Madhuri Dixit) and the two fall in love after Raju sees her being abducted, slapped and assaulted at a fair.
After Raju saves her from being assaulted, the two fall in love and Raju marries Saraswati after everyone in the village believes that she is no longer chaste. In the meantime, Lakshmi Devi fixes an alliance for Raju with an equally uneducated girl from their own village, so that she too can be manipulated and can finally succeed in transferring the property in Lakshmi Devi and her son, Ramesh (Adi Irani), Raju's step brother's name. Lakshmi Devi is shocked to learn about Raju and Saraswati's marriage as Lakshmi Devi knows that Saraswati was not only educated but also a very intelligent girl.
As usual, Lakshmi Devi puts on an act of a doting mother in front of Saraswati. Saraswati discovers that Laxmi's motherly love for Raju is fake and all what Laxmi is interested in, is capturing Raju's wealth. She is horrified to find Raju's father being treated as a mentally ill patient.
Only after speaking to him does, she realizes that the reason for Raju's naive nature and uneducated status is because his stepmother manipulated him into being uneducated so that she can take advantage of him. Laxmi already has another son who is being educated but also seeks Raju's wealth which his mother Laxmi intends for him to inherit. And thus begins a battle within the household between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law which involves Saraswati trying to outdo Laxmi.
Initially, Saraswati allows Raju's father to come out of his prison and insists that there is nothing wrong with him. She voices her concerns to Raju about his mother, resulting in Saraswati being slapped repeatedly around the courtyard of the house in front of all the family members. Saraswati is ready to leave the house at this point but wisely decides to apologize to her mother-in-law, only to take an oath to protect her husband and her house from Laxmi's immoral intentions.
This humiliation does not deter Saraswati who cleverly starts exposing Laxmi's every step in a dignified manner for the sake of her husband. She publicly exposes the fact that Raju's younger step-brother has not received a degree in Medicine, rather that he has bought a fake one. In one incident, Saraswati, along with Prem and their faithful servants Pandu (Lakshmi Devikant Berde) and Champa (Priya Arun), planned for Lakshmi Devi to slip and fall, forcing her to be bedridden.
Promptly, the responsibility of the entire household is handed over to Saraswati. Upon discovering that Saraswati is pregnant, Laxmi finally decides that enough is enough and tries to poison Saraswati by mixing poison with saffron which she knows that Saraswati will mix with her milk before she drinks it. Champa, who witnessed Lakshmi Devi mixing the poison, runs to Saraswati's rescue, narrating everything that happened and warns her against drinking the poisoned milk.
Saraswati approaches Raju and tells him the truth once again. Raju refuses to believe Saraswati, even when she takes an oath upon her unborn child's life and decides to prove Saraswati wrong by offering to drink the poisoned milk himself. Only when Raju begins to cough up blood, does he realize that Saraswati was telling the truth after all.
He confronts his mother in his usual innocent manner and asks her why she had forsaken him and tells her that had she simply asked him for his wealth, he would have happily agreed to give her all he had. He tells Laxmi that his last dying wish will be that he would request his mother to at least once with a clean her to call him 'her son', so that he may now die in peace. His words touch Laxmi deeply and she realizes the cruelty that she has shown her son who has only ever loved her.
There is a brief altercation between Laxmi and her real son who still wishes to procure Raju's wealth. Raju, in his deteriorating state still manages to save his mother from his stepbrother. Raju recovers following treatment and agreeing to give up his worldly possessions to his mother and leaving home with his wife and father.
However, at the last moment, Laxmi begs him not to leave, claiming to have learned the error of her ways; she tears up all the property papers and tells him that she does not want his wealth, all she wants is 'her son' and nothing more..