Badhaai Ho Badhaai is a Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 comedy, and Anil Kapoor

Anil Kapoor

Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who mainly appears in Bollywood films. He won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Yash Chopra's film Mashaal ....

's first production. It was a remake of well known Tamil movie Poove Unakkaga

Poove Unakkaga

Poove Unakkaga is a Tamil romance movie starring Joseph Vijay.-Plot:Nagesh and Nambiar have been best friends since college and so have their children, Jaiganesh and Vasudevan. Jaiganesh's family members are Christians while Malaysia Vasudevan's are Hindu. Jaiganesh's son is Lawrence and Malaysia...

 and the second half of the film was inspired by the English Nutty Professor.

Plot

The D'Souza and the Chaddha families are neighbors and have been good friends for as long as they can remember, and despite their diverse religion and cultural beliefs, celebrate Diwali and Christmas with cheer and gusto. Then Anjali Chaddha and Steven D'Souza fall in love, and this brings an end to the friendship. Anjali and Steven elope, marry, and re-locate to another place, leaving the two families to live with bitterness the rest of their lives. Twenty seven years later, a young man claiming to be the son of Anjali and Steven comes to visit his paternal and maternal grandparents, and is cold-shouldered by both the families'. He persists and wins over the hearts of his grandparents on both sides, but before he could win over his Jassi mama and Moses chacha, they find out that Raja is not who he claims to be. In actuality, Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty is an Indian film actress and model. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar , she has appeared in nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading role being in the 1994 Aag. Although she has been through years of decline during her career, Shetty has been...

's character is the grand daughter.

Cast

• Anil Kapoor
  Anil Kapoor
  Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who mainly appears in Bollywood films. He won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Yash Chopra's film Mashaal ....
  
  : Raja
• Shilpa Shetty
  Shilpa Shetty
  Shilpa Shetty is an Indian film actress and model. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar , she has appeared in nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading role being in the 1994 Aag. Although she has been through years of decline during her career, Shetty has been...
  
  : Banto Betty / Tina
• Trishen kesharie: D'souza
• Amrish Puri
  Amrish Puri
  Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
  
  : Mr Chaddha
• Farida Jalal
  Farida Jalal
  - Career :Farida Jalal, a native of New Delhi, started her career in the 1960s, when she won the United Film Producers Talent Hunt sponsored by Filmfare. She usually played the sister or rejected fiancée of the male lead, but almost never the female lead...
  
  : Mrs Chaddha
• Kader Khan
  Kader Khan
  Kader Khan is an Indian film actor, comedian, script and dialogue writer. He graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Mumbai University .-Early life:...
  
  : Ghuman Singh Rathod
• Anang Desai: Moses D'souza
• Rohini Hattangadi
  Rohini Hattangadi
  Rohini Hattangadi is an Indian actress of film, theatre and television. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in Gandhi...
  
  : Rosy D'souza
• Vinay Jain: Ranjit Chaddha
• Dinesh Kaushik
  Dinesh Kaushik
  Dinesh Kaushik is an Indian actor born on May 27th . He is a post graduate in Indian theatre from the Punjab University, Chandigarh. He has worked with professional theatre groups in Mumbai. He has appeared in many Advertisements, Television shows and Movies. Currently playing Narsinghrao ...
  
  : banto betty's father
• Mushtaq Khan
  Mushtaq Khan
  Mushtaq Khan is an Indian Bollywood versatile actor and comedian, who has worked in several films. His work is very appreciated in many films.-Filmography:*"Rascals" - Usman*Shagird - Jailor*Hello Darling - Patel...
  
  : Bali
• Suresh Menon
  Suresh Menon
  -Career:Menon has appeared in movies including Phir Hera Pheri, Partner, Fool N Final, Krazzy 4, Deewane Huye Pagal, Chalte Chalte, God Only Knows, Dil To Pagal Hai and Hello. Additionally, he has made an appearance on the television show Comedy Circus...
  
  : Lucky Iyer
• Govind Namdeo
  Govind Namdeo
  Govind Namdeo is an Indian film actor. Govind made his debut as a corrupt cop in David Dhawan's Shola Aur Shabnam . He has acted in numerous A grade movies...
  
  : Jassi Chaddha
• Hemant Pandey: Writer
• K. Vishwanath: Mr D'souza