muvi-fan-73 Two people a real son and a foster son to a wealthy businessman are separated by their values as heaven and hell. One smoke's has had a lot of girlfriends and has every other bad habit. The other one stands as an ideal for every activity assigned to him. Both are NRI's and this is how stereotypical differences arise. The movie tries to glorify the local (Indian) culture. This is where it gets entertaining for locals.There are other loopholes as well. There is an incidence where female lead along with her fiancé spots a cobra. What happens then is utter foolishness. If Rajiv smokes there are tons of Indians have habit like eating Gutka.Tone, Script & Story: The story is how a successful business NRI gets his son engaged to an Indian girl. How she gets to know about his (fiancé's) true nature. How the story changes and movie ends. The movie is definitely entertaining especially for people living in India.Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: Despite the loopholes and stereotype shown the filming locations and screenplay great. Music: I would say it to be 'very good'. 'Yeh dil deewana' is my favorite track. Acting: Every actor associated has done justice to their role. What a treat!Final Verdict: I enjoyed the movie and if you respect our culture you will love it too, despite of the drawbacks.

nomanali77 In its essence, Subhash Ghai's intentions were decent. He wanted to make a sort of patriotic movie about family values in India, respecting one's parents, loving one's home, etc. To illustrate this point as easily and "over abused-ly" as possible, he needed to draw a contrast with something. He decided to pick on Americans since he knows so much about them because he has watched a lot of TV.What could have been a decent storyline with a truly meaningful message, turned out to be a self-patronizing, American-bashing exercise. Each and every negative stereotype was used against the Americans, and even for the Indians. Ghai refused to do any learning or research on the subject, got a budget approved to shoot in Hollywood and took the team there to act like Americans.In short, the thing that Pardes teaches us is that Indians are family-oriented, have their feet on the ground, are humble, and keep their virginity for their spouses. Americans, or even Indian-Americans are vicious creatures that lust for flesh, respect no one, practice adultery.. and smoke.I'm sorry Mr. Ghai, nice try, but the project could have been a classic had it not been put in your reckless hands.

Isa Fazli The character of Shah Rukh Khan in this movie, is the perfect son-in-law. I think every girl who sees him in this movie would fall in love with his character Arjun. This unselfish boy, who is brought up in a home where some of them treated him like dirt. The persons I truly disliked were the 2aunts. Looking like witches and being really arrogant about the money they owned and their dislikes of any one with less money (I call it the American syndrome). Mahima Choudrey was and is gorgeous, the role of Ganga was really a bit too much, but I could understand her point of view. The scene with the snake was quit weird, the director could have solved that in another way. Don't know what the point was of this particular scene. Also the last song of the movie was totally uncalled for. I won't spoil it by saying why, but that song could have been edited somewhere else in the movie.

ssa Mahima Choudhary acted very well considering that it was her first film. Overall a good family movie without violence and sex for a change.