Many family films were made in Bollywood, seeing which the audience became emotional as well as happy, but when it comes to top family movies, Sooraj Barjatya’s ‘Hum Apke Hain Koun’ (Hum Apke Hain Koun) is at the forefront. It comes, which brought a new revolution in Indian cinema. This film is still counted among the best and top films of Indian cinema, there are many reasons behind this.
Mumbai: Although Sooraj Barjatya Movie gave many excellent and superhit films to Hindi cinema, but Salman Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Renuka Shahane starrer film ‘Hum Apke Hain Koun’ (Hum Apke Hain Koun) is the best of Hindi cinema world. And is counted among the beautiful films. When this film was released, Salman Khan-Madhuri Dixit Movie got a lot of praise. Along with this, other stars of the film were also appreciated. It was successful in touching the hearts of the audience and even today the film is liked as much as it was appreciated at the time of its release. When ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’ released, it broke many records. One of these records was related to the box office collection.
In the first week itself, the collection of this film had crossed 68 lakhs. In the first 20 weeks, the film earned more than 70 crores, which was a big deal in those days.
The craze of this Salman-Madhuri film was such that it remained in theaters for weeks and weeks, which is very difficult in today’s time. As soon as Sooraj Barjatya’s ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’ crossed the 100 crore mark, Hindi cinema got a new hope. Nayi Umeed earned over 100 crores and received a lot of love from the audience.
According to media reports, Hum Aapke Hain Koun got more than 7 crore 52 lakh viewers, which is a record in itself. People liked this family drama very much, people started feeling connected to it.
Apart from Salman Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Renuka Shahane, actors like Anupam Kher, Reema Lagoo, Mohnish Behl, Alok Nath, Bindu and Satish Shah were also seen in this film. It was also a big success for Sooraj Barjatya, because it was his first film as a director and from the debut film itself, he did that feat which takes years and years for people to do.
Yes, when ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’, made in a budget of 6 crores, was released, no one thought that it was going to make a big record. The film got so much love from the audience that people from far-flung areas reached the cinema hall by filling it in tractor trolleys.
This film of Salman-Madhuri had tremendous magic to see on the audience. Everyone wanted to see Hum Aapke Hain Koun and as a result, this film made in a budget of 6 crores got 7 crore viewers and it became the first film of Indian cinema to join the 100 crore club.