Young Chetan Prakash and beautiful Payal are in love and would like to marry each other. Their respective fathers, Daulatram and Retired Col. Bhagwant Singh, have other plans and want them to marry the spouses of their choice. So Chetan and Payal decide to elope, and marry on the run. Bhagwant Singh advertises in the newspapers for his missing daughter, and offers a handsome reward for her return. Chetan finds a job as a chauffeur, and Payal works as a maid in a house, and they become absorbed in their daily chores, not realizing that their employer, Geeta, is under the power and influence of a gangster named Shivlal, who operates a religious sect under the name of Mahayogi, and who has a gas chamber that he uses to kill people who disagree with him.
Acting
Rishi Kapoor's earnest charm against cartoonish evil
Production
Gleefully bonkers plot mashup of romance and cult thriller
Costume
Moushumi's maid disguise vs her actual glam
Director
Raj Khosla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raj Khosla was known for noir thrillers like 'Mera Saaya'—this late-career mashup shows him throwing every commercial element at the wall.
The gas chamber cult subplot was bizarrely topical in 1980s India when fake godmen scandals were erupting; audiences apparently accepted this tonal whiplash.
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