Sunder (Govinda) is an artist who moves to Delhi from the country and his friends make fun of him for being naive and uneducated. He gets a job painting billboards and meets Payal (Rani Mukherjee) who’s visiting from the US. There’s a misunderstanding, she thinks he’s mute, and he keeps up the charade so he can keep seeing her.
And who can blame him? I really liked Payal. She does classical dance, she climbs up scaffolding to meet a sign painter, she drives herself to Agra in the middle of the night. When she’s struck with pity for a beggar, she sets him up with a telephone stand, and when she finds out he’s faked his disability, she has him tossed in jail. She’s the one who decides that what she feels for Sunder is love, not sympathy, and calmly tells her family of her decision to marry him.
Plus, Rani is peppy and gorgeous and has great chemistry with Govinda.
This review just descends into self-indulgent screencapping from here.
