
Prem’s performance troupe collects donations for it and he travels to a nearby fiefdom in the hope of meeting her in person.

She’s from a royal family and runs a charity. Prem is a small-town stage actor who has a distant crush on Maithili Devi (Sonam Kapoor). He returns here to play another incarnation of the character in a movie that is, itself, an unoriginal rehash of familiar themes. While this is the name of every male lead in director Sooraj Barjatya’s films, Salman Khan became a Bollywood superstar when he played the original Prem in 1989. The hype surrounding the Diwali weekend release of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo promised the return of “Prem”.
