Cheeni Kum

Producer : Sunil Manchanda
Director : R. Balakrishnan
Starring : Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Zohra Sehgal
Music : Illyaraja
Lyrics : Sameer, Manoj Tapadia

The boy is actually a 64 year-old man – Amitabh Bachchan as Buddhadev Gupta. The girl is a 34 year-old woman – Tabu as Nina Verma.

Buddhadev is the chef-cum-owner of London’s top Indian restaurant. He lives with his 85 year-old mother. His only confidante is his nine year-old neighbour.

Buddhadev is an arrogant, egotistic, pompous man with a single passion – cooking. He is a confirmed bachelor, who has never been in love ‘ until ‘ Nina Verma walks into his restaurant and into his life.

Nina Verma is a beautiful, charming, Indian woman. She is cool, calm, quiet and always smiling, but independent and strong willed.

Two extremes, in age, character and attitude meet and against all odds, fall in love. They decide to get married, so like any Indian man would do, Buddhadev respectfully goes to ask Nina’s father, a true Gandhi an, living in Delhi for her hand.

Sweet … There’s just one problem’ Mr. Omprakash Verma, Nina’s father is 58 years-old, six years younger than Buddhadev, his would-be son-in-law.