Beta (film)

Beta Hindi translation Son is a 1992 Bollywood drama film, directed by Indra Kumar. It featured Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor and Aruna Irani in pivotal roles. The film is an official remake of the 1969 Kannada film Mallammana Pavada, directed by Puttanna Kanagal. This is a second Hindi remake of the film with the first released in 1981 as Jyothi starring Jeetendra.

Beta is the story of Raju Anil Kapoor, the only child of a widowed multimillionaire father who can provide his son with anything he wants except Rajus only desirea mothers love. Rajus father believes he can please his son by marrying Laxmi Aruna Irani, thinking that she will care for Raju as her natural son. Raju becomes devoted to his stepmother, does whatever she asks of him she convinces her husband that Raju should remain nave and uneducated otherwise he would work for others rather than be selfemployed. Raju grows older his stepmother increasingly isolates his father from the family, is considered mentally incompetent and eventually locked within a room of the family home.Raju meets Saraswati Madhuri Dixit and following she being abducted and assaulted at a fair, he rescues her. The two fall in love and despite the villagers believing she is no longer chaste he marries her. Saraswati discovers that her stepmotherinlaws motherly love for Raju is a rouse in an attempt to discredit the sanity of Rajus father and thus unable to interfere with the plan Laxmi has for the family fortune to be diverted to Rajus step brother, the natural result of the marriage between his father and stepmother. He also shares in the greed for the family fortune. A battle of wills between the stepmother and the stepdaughterinlaw ensues. ........

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