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Raja Hindustani

Raja Hindustani is a story of a young man (Aamir Khan) living in a small beautiful hill station called Palanket. By profession, he is a taxi driver and tourist guide. Being an orphan he calls himself Raja Hindustani and lives by his own standards and values of life.

Inspite of her wealth, beauty and fame, Aarti (Karisma Kapoor) is a lonely girl. Aarti's family consists of a doting father, Mr Sehgal (Suresh Oberoi) and a step mother, Shalu (Archana Puran Singh). Unknown to Aarti, Shalu and her brother Swaraj (Pramod Moutho) are planning to marry her to Swaraj's son Jai (Mohnish Behl) in order to control her wealth.

Aarti decides to visit Palanket, along with her servants Kammo (Navneet Nishan) and Gulabo (Veeru Krishnan). Here she encounters Raja Hindustani. Raja is instantly smitten with the beautiful girl. A deep bond of friendship grows between Aarti and him. Gradually, Aarti falls in love with the ideal world in which Raja lives along with his tiny friend Rajnikant (Kunal Khemu), Chacha (Tikku Talsania), Chachi (Farida Jalal) and his best friend Balwant Singh (Johny Lever). Aarti realises that Raja is the man of her dreams and despite class differences they get married.

Shalu and Swaraj now realise that the only way to achieve their goal is to wreck havoc in Raja's life. They weave a deadly web of deception and pain between the couple which succeeds in driving a wedge in their relationship. Can Aarti and Raja overcome the conflicts between them? Can they come out of the web of deceit to find the ideal love that was once theirs?