Mere Baap Pehle Aap (translation: My father, You first) is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Akshaye Khanna, Genelia D'Souza, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Manoj Joshi, Archana Puran Singh, Shobana, and Rajpal Yadav. The film is a remake of the 2001 Malayalam film Ishtam, directed by Sibi Malayil.[2]
Janaradhan Wishvanbhar Rane is a widower who has spent his life bringing up his two kids, Chirag and Gaurav. Janaradhan has done everything to bring them up in the best possible manner ever since they were toddlers.
Now the duo has grown up, and Gaurav has taken up the responsibility for his father. They manage the household chores and their business to the best of their abilities. He treats his father as his son. Gaurav is on his guard with the vigilance of a disciplined parent. He shouts, threatens, fights, and even locks up his father occasionally so that Rane's best friend, Madhav Mathur, who is a divorcee and desperate to marry, does not spoil him. Madhav and Janaradhan, who are always in search of a bride for Madhav forever, land up in trouble, and Gaurav always has to bail them out and face embarrassment.
Gaurav, busy managing his business, starts getting prank calls from a girl who turns out to be his old college classmate he once bullied, Sheekha Kapoor. Sheekha is currently staying with her guardian Anuradha who turns out to be Janardhan's first love. Gaurav and Sheekha notice changes in the behaviour of Janaradhan and Anuradha when they come face-to-face after many years. They learn about their past relationship. Now Gaurav wants his father to marry his lost love. Gaurav and Sheekha embark upon a rib-tickling journey to arrange his father's and her guardian's love marriage and, in the process, find soul mates in each other. However, the path is not so smooth; with obstacles, Madhav's desperate desire for a bride comes in handy.
However, Sheekha's father Nirmal, seemingly not pleased with the fact that his daughter will be marrying into a family where her would-be father-in-law is arranging his own honeymoon's, threatens to terminate Gaurav and Sheekha's relationship. In addition, Chirag's wife Rupali (Preity Pundir), as well as her family, show anger at such a relationship. Despite all these, after a chain of events, Gaurav gets Rane married to Anuradha, against the wishes of many. However, at the end, Nirmal reveals that in fact, if Gaurav had decided not to conduct his father's remarriage and courted Sheekha instead, he would actually have been very disappointed. The film ends with Sheekha's father giving Sheekha's hand to Gaurav.
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