Bollywood fantasy movie, Rajkumar, directed by Pankaj Prashar was released on March 22, 1996. The movie starred Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles while Naseeruddin Shah, Reena Roy, Vijayendra Ghatge, Pradeep Rawat, Girja Shankar, Farida Jalal, Danny Denzongpa and Aruna Irani also played important roles in the film. The music of the film was given by veteran music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal while the songs were rendered by Udit Narayan, Sukhwinder Singh, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Iqbal Afzai and Jayshree Shivram. However, the movie proved out to be a major box office failure.

Man Singh ( Naseeruddin Shah ) is an evil prime minister of a kingdom. He plays a dirty game and kills the neghbouring’s kingdom king on his own and blames the murder on his own king. Rani Maa ( Reena Roy ) swears to get the revenge from the neighboruing’s king for his husband death. But before her, Man Singh himself kills the king. Now Rani Maa seeks revenge from King’s daughter, Rajkumari Vishaka ( Madhuri Dixit ). She sends her son, Rajkumar ( Anil Kapoor ) away from the kingdom for his security reason.

Years later, both Rajkumar and Vishaka, who are adult now, meets with each other accidently and instantly falls in love with each other. Rani Maa get shocked to know this fact that her son is in love with the daughter of his father’s murderer. Rani Maa strictly opposes this marriage and ask her son to choose one from his mother and beloved. Now Rajkumar is in problem because he don‘t want to loose anyone of them as he loves a lot both his mother and Vishaka. What will he do now?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Payal meri tumko bulati hai oye oye oye main kya karoon chan chan chan
2. O mere rajkumar
3. Bechain hoon main
4. Yeh khoobsurat badan
5. Aankhon ke aage peeche