- A man lives a poor lifestyle in a small town with his older brothers. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler, but he has to promise to be celibate until he is 40 years old.
- Charandas lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in India along with his older brother, Bhajandas, and Bhabhi. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler with Ustad Mastram Pahelwan, who gets him to promise to be celibate until he is 40 years of age. But when Charandas meets with a school student, Chameli, the daughter of a low-caste Coal merchant, both fall head-over-heels in love with each other, go on dates, exchange love letters, much to the chagrin of Chameli's dad, Kallumal, who has plans to be the next Municipal Chairman, and mom, Champa, who decide to enlist the help of Champa's brother, Chaganlal, as well as arrange Chameli's marriage with Advocate Makhan, the son of Lachuram, who is of their caste. As events hilarious spiral out of control, Charandas must now decide whether he prefers to be known as the semi-senile lover, Majnu, or as Prithviraj Chauhan, who dared to abduct his future wife, amidst stiff all-round opposition.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
- Charandas lives with his brother and sister in law unable to find job he joins Pahelwan Mastram who takes promise for him that he won't marry until he is 40.Charandas meets Chameli girl from lower caste daughter of Kallumal Koylewala and both start seeing each other and exchange letters.Charandas is guided by his mentor advocate Harish and Chameli by her friend Anita.Nathilal one of Chameli's neighbor sees them together and informs her parents following which Chameli is locked in the house and her parents want to marry her soon.Charandas tries ways to rescue Chameli with help of his friends but her mother Champa calls her brother Chaddamlal for help.—alex.mjacko@gmil.com
- Charandas (Anil Kapoor) is a fledgling wrestler who lives with elder brother Bhajandas (Satyen Kappu) & Bhabhi (Tabassum). According to Bhajandas, Charandas should marry and start a family of his own. But Charan is hell bent on becoming a wrestler and is even ready to remain a bachelor until 40 as per the norms of Ustad Mastram Pahelwan (Om Prakash). Rules also include no drinking, no smoking and no dating.. However, one day (2 yrs after meeting Mastram), Charan's thoughts are challenged when he sees Chameli (Amrita Singh) at Kallumal "Koylewala" (Pankaj Kapur) Chameli's Father coal depot. Chameli is in school. The attraction is mutual and they start dating. Charan is 12th fail and Chamelie has failed 8th 4 times. He realizes that to marry her, he may have to leave Mastram's Akhara.
Charan does so and seeks help of Adv. Harish (Amjad Khan), a close friend of his brother. Charan wants Harish to help him out smart Mastram. Harish appreciates Charan's love and is ready to help latter. Charan dares to confess his love to Chameli (On Harish's advise, Charan sends Chameli a love letter). Chameli is super excited but her friend Anita is skeptical and wants Chameli to ask Charan about his income etc (Anita says that monthly income should be rs 2000, which Chameli argues and reduces to rs 700). Harish asks Charan to write a response saying that he has a plan to earn Rs 5000/month and asks for a meeting. Anita asks Chameli to invite Charan to the most expensive restaurant in town (and includes that Anita will be coming as well).
To prep Charan, Harish gives him some change and a bundle of rs 100 notes (to impress Anita).. Harish also tells Charan to be late by 30 mins and to impress Anita and ignore Chameli. The meeting goes as planned, Anita is totally floored by Charan's looks and personality. Charan also impresses her that his income potential from international wrestling can go upto rs 25000. Chameli is now jealous and decides to pay the entire bill for the meeting. The next day Anita runs into Chameli and Charan, who were on a date. she takes them to same Pinto restaurant, an Charan is caught without any money. Charan tells Chameli the truth that he has no money and no connections, but Chameli doesn't care and says she loves him regardless. Anita (Roopini), Chameli's best friend is also convinced of Chameli's true love. The lover duo start meeting secretly. One day, however, the love affair stands exposed when a relative of Chameli (Nathulaal (Ram Sethi), Chameli's uncle) spots the duo in the restaurant (Nathulaal works as a waiter there).
The respective families soon take up cudgels against their wards and make it clear that they won't allow inter-caste marriage. Chameli is kept under house arrest and her parents decide to get her married to one of their acquaintances (Son of Lachuram, Makhan. Makhan is a law grad, but his father is asking for Rs 50000 dowry).
Charan comes to know of this development and decides to ask Mastram for help. Mastram is surprisingly supportive of Charan's love. He explains that just as bachelorhood is a challenge for would be wrestlers, a lover should not back out from the challenge posed by the world. Mastram, along with Charan's friends back the lovers to overcome the obstacles.
Here, Champa (Bharati Achrekar) (Chameli's mom) calls in the help of her rogue brother Chhadam Lal aka Chhadmi (Annu Kapoor) against Charan. Champa confiscates Chameli's radio, so Charan gifts her a new transistor radio (which he wins by coming second in the wrestling match. First prize was a cycle) With help of Harish and all his friends, Charan chalks out a plan to rescue Chameli from her house (Since Makhan is a lawyer, Harish speaks to him and tells him that Chameli is not fit to be his wife). Makhan, under influence of Harish, duly refuses to marry Chameli. His father goes to Kallumal and breaks the engagement. Then Charan incites Chhadmi for a fight and Chhadmi attacks him with a knife (while he is drunk). Chhadi cant hurt Charan, but ends up stabbing an innocent bystander (planted by Charan) and ends up being arrested by the police. As per the plan, Charan abducts Chameli from her own house (He manages to lock Kallumal inside Chameli's room and takes the key away with him), while Harish sees to it that the duo legally get married (Harish visits Champa and takes rs 50,000 from her by promising that he will get Chhadmi out of jail). Charan and Chameli are initially frightened, but Harish convinces them by telling them that as long as people do not dare to marry outside the caste like them, Indians will never be truly united.
Meanwhile, on learning that Chameli is missing, her parents lodge a complaint against Charan. They proceed to the place where Charan and Chameli are going to get married. Meanwhile, Bhajandas also comes with his men to disrupt the marriage. Both the parties have arrived late (and are stopped by Mastram and his troops), as Charandas and Chameli are legally husband and wife now. They vent their ire on Harish, who according to them is responsible for corrupting the duo. Harish takes Kallumal aside and explains that if the marriage is permitted by him, he will garner votes of both the castes in the election because his son in law is the leader of all the young people and also has support from the local gyms.
Convinced by the argument of Harish, Kallumal relents because of being enticed by the illusion of winning the local election. Similarly, Harish tells Bhajandas that an influential Kallumal is sure to win the elections. If Bhajandas accepts the marriage, he will get special perks for his coal business thanks to Kallumal. Besides, he will get coal and cement at a subsidized rate from Kallumal. Bhajandas goes greedy and relents. In the end, Chameli and Charandas are united with the blessing from both the parties.
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