Maine Pyar Kiya

When her father goes abroad for work, a girl named Suman comes to stay at Prem's house. The two become friends, then it becomes love, and Prem's wealthy father objects while the girl's father defends his own pride. Prem eventually leaves his father's house and takes work on a building site to earn his own money. Sooraj Barjatya built his first film on family values and difference of class and kept the romance entirely chaste; the pigeon carrying the word friendship and the cap everyone wore that year became its emblems. Salman Khan leads and his career began here. The songs made the best-selling album of the year in India. It was the most watched release of 1989 and set the line of Rajshri's family pictures. Who it is for: viewers who like classic Hindi romance and late-eighties Bollywood music. Who it is not for: anyone wanting a fast narrative.