Did you people see the same film I saw?

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I saw this movie after 25 year of the released. thus is old classic bollywood movie. with decant drama,song,dance.with average direction. this movie is about mother and her son. Anil kapoor has no mother . so his father marry to another women . his step mom his very bad she want only his property. hole movie is about this. what happen when madhuri comes. you can watch. good: this movie has good drama . good story . some good song also such as dhak dhak karane laga .you can enjoy heroin hot body in this song. bad: bad thing is length of this movie.this movie is very long length almost 3 hr . I got boar by watching such long movie. Final: this is classy entertains movie. can be watch with family. and also free available on you tube.

Indra Kumar is known for weird sense of cinema, he gave blockbusters like DIL, BETA but if you see his comedy in his films there are really stupid surprisingly nowdays he is doing only comedy. His films in 1990s had comedy in first half and emotional in second half. The film is a remake of Kannada film, Mallammana Pavada (1969), starring Rajkumar, and B. Saroja Devi. It was remade to Telugu as Abbaigaru, and again to Kannada as Annayya. The entire track of Aruna torturing her husband and keeping Anil's character illiterate may sound hard to believe but is well handled, Anil's romance with Madhuri is well handled though melodramatic a bit The entire Madhuri vs Aruna track is well handled, but there are some stupid comedy scenes involving Anupam Kher, Bharti Achrekar Also some scenes are hard to digest like the entire track where Adi Irani and his wife Kunika are made to work in the field The end is even more melodramatic, Anil after having poison suddenly gets up and bashes the goonsDirection is decent Music is good, Dhak Dhak was the biggest hit though which is a copy of Ilayaraja's super hit song "Abbanee teeyani debba" of the 1990 Telugu movie Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari starring Sridevi and Chiranjeevi which in 1991 was dubbed into Hindi as Aadmi Aur Apsara. The song "Koyal Se Teri Boli" is a copy of the Tamil song "Kondai Seval Koovum Neram" from the movie Enga Chinna Rasa by K. Bhagyaraj, with a similar storyline.Anil Kapoor handles his role perfectly, Madhuri Dixit is superb in her role, Aruna Irani is exceptional despite being few years older to Anil, Adi Irani(brother of Aruna in real life) is as usual,Kunika is as usual, Laxmikant Berde does have some funny moments, Anupam Kher and Bharti Achrekar irritate, while Akash khurana is good as usual, Satyen Kapoo and rest are decent

Some of the comments I couldn't disagree more. Yes the comedy was dodgy, but in which Hindi movie in that era has the comedy not been dodgy?! 9/10 Hindi movies are far-fetched and this is why we watch them. Beta could have been better written, but as it is, it isn't written badly. Acting from Anil and Madhuri is A-class, as well as Aruna Irani and Anupam Kher. Without the class side actors, this movie would have been nothing. One of my best Anil movies of all time..!Indra Kumar's other movies I really enjoyed was Raja and Ishq, I disliked the others. Mann had potential but still really disappointing from a creative maker like Mr Kumar.

I totally agree with the reviewer who said that this is Madhuri's film. I only wish she could have had even more scenes, a better script, and been more involved in the climax. Her performance and the performances of all the dramatic stars caused me to give the film a 7 instead of a 5. Anil Kapoor did his best in a thankless role where, at times, he is extremely immature and a big momma's boy. His character was frequently tedious. The comedy(?) was grating and frequently brought the tension and story to a complete halt. Do the masses really like this kind of stuff? INDIRECT SPOILER. The ending was both implausible and unoriginal and left me shaking my head wondering what really happened.Music and photography were all top notch, especially some great shots of Madhuri by herself and with Anil.