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Ganga, now alone, goes on a trip to Las Vegas with Rajiv. Rajiv's family member notices the closeness between Ganga and Arjun and warns Kishorilal. She confronts Arjun about why he lied to her, and he realises that he has fallen in love with her. She faces many culture shocks when she sees Rajiv smoking, drinking and also finds out that he has had affairs and sexual relations in the past and is still seeing his former girlfriend. At first everything seems ok but as time goes on she realises that Rajiv really isn't the person Arjun portrayed to her while they were in India. In her new surroundings, her only friend and confidant is Arjun who she begins to form a special bond with. Ganga leaves for America with her new family and is very excited about going 'Pardes'. The engagement is set in India with the wedding in America. Eventually Rajiv and Ganga both agree to the wedding. Arjun spends many days trying to get Ganga and Rajiv to like each other and in the process becomes a close friend of Ganga. Rajiv joins him in a few days and initially does not like the idea. Arjun arrives at Dev's house and makes changes and arrangements to make the place suitable for Rajiv. He sends his foster son, Arjun ( Shahrukh Khan) - 'Little Master' to play cupid and convince Rajiv to visit India and meet and approve of Ganga. But he knows he will have a tough time trying to convince his son Rajiv who has never even visited India.īut Kishorilal has a plan. He offers a marriage proposal between Ganga and Rajiv and Dev's family accept. He hopes to find an Indian girl for his westernized, American son, Rajiv (Agnihotri) and feels that Ganga is just right. During his stay he gets to know Suraj Dev's family and becomes very attached to Ganga, Dev's eldest daughter who is the epitome of Indian culture. On a visit to India, he meets his old friend Suraj Dev ( Alok Nath) and stays at their house. Kishorilal ( Amrish Puri) is a wealthy and successful businessman who lives in America but is still deeply attached to his motherland India and adores the values and culture of India. Pardes, meaning "foreign land", is a story that revolves around Ganga ( Mahima Chaudhary) who is a young Indian girl living in a rural village, and brought up by her conservative Indian family.

The film stars Shahrukh Khan, Amrish Puri, Alok Nath and newcomers Mahima Chaudhry and Apoorva Agnihotri.
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Music = Nadeem Shravan | Running time: 190 Minutes "Pardes" ( Devanagari: परदेस, Nastaliq: پردیس English: "Foreign Land") is a Bollywood movie directed by Subhash Ghai, it was released on 8 August 1997. Mahima Chaudhry | director = Subhash Ghai
