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Sandhya dreams of a rich prince. Gopi pretends to be wealthy, they fall in love. Gopi dresses as an aunt for friends, attracting two suitors. The real aunt arrives. Gopi must resolve the confusion and win Sandhya.

Sandhya (Raveena Tandon) has always dreamt of meeting her prince charming, a wealthy man, handsome, debonair, and dashing. She meets with Gopi (Govinda), who likes her instantly, and pretends to be the man of her dreams. Sandhya's dreams are shattered when she comes to know that Gopi is poor. Nevertheless, she has given her heart to him, and both fall in love. Sandhya must return to her home, and Gopi is asked by a couple of his friends to become an aunt as a big favor, and he does so with hilarious results. Soon Aunty has two suitors for "herself", Colonel Sadanand Dhongre (Saeed Jaffrey), and Rai Bahadur Behl (Kader Khan)! How will Gopi eradicate himself from this mess? To make matters, the real aunt of his friends, Vijayalaxmi (Reema Lagoo) also shows up, with Secretary (Guddi Maruti) in tow!—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Gopi (Govinda) ekes out a living as an actor in small time plays. Gopi lives with Bhabhi (Bindu) and his brother Bharat (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) and their son. Bhabhi berates Gopi constantly for not being able to find a job and help around the house with money. Bhabhi gives Gopi exactly 6 months to start earning from his theatre career or warns him that he will have to get a job as welder in Albert's garage.

Bharat works in a company owned by Ram Nath (Raza Murad), who is a good man and a mute. Bharat gets paid Rs 2500 per month, but the house expenses are Rs 4000 per month.

Gopi uses his acting skills to frequently bail out his friends Raja and Abhyankar. He disguises himself as their grandfather and meets the college principal to convince him to give admission to both despite their lack of grades as both have been failing in the same class for 8 years.

Gopi's friends Abhyankar (Harish) and Raja (Rohit Kumar) love 2 girls Usha (Eva Grover) & Nisha (Mitra Joshi) who are granddaughters of Rai Bahabur Behl (Kader Khan). Behl objects to the match since Abhyankar and Raja are nobodies. But the duo claim that Abhyankar is the nephew of Maharani of Kandapur, and Raja is the nephew of Col. Dogra.

Ram Nath is marrying his daughter Sandhya (Raveena Tandon) to Gaurav (Mohnish Bahl) and seemingly doesn't know that Gaurav is a flirt and a womanizer. Sandhya's friend Guddi had told her the truth about Gaurav, but Ram Nath had secretly arranged the marriage within 2 days. Meanwhile Sandhya had met a Jyotish (Anupam Kher), who told her that her prince charming would be an artist by name of Ranjit Saigal and that she would run into him at a traffic intersection. Sandhya runs from the wedding. Ram Nath finds the note left by Sandhya and screams in anger, revealing that he is not a mute.

Gopi reaches Mumbai and meets Mr Pareshan (Satish Kaushik) who is a movie producer. Pareshan laments that he has no story, no finances, hero is not giving him dates and the heroine insists on wearing all clothes. Pareshan tells Gopi to start as a junior artist and pay Rs 10,000 as a member of the actor's association. Gopi breaks into a passionate tirade on the bias against poor, first-time actors. He says that every man, including Pareshan, went to ask for a job and was insulted by someone in the position of power. He says that the movies glorify the poor man, and the same poor man pays for the movie tickets which sustains the industry, and yet in real life, every poor man is ostracized and no opportunity to given to them.

Pareshan loves Gopi's passion and gives Gopi a small role in his film, where Gopi dresses like a rich prince. Gopi drives away with the car after giving his shot as he was too much into his character. Gopi runs into Sandhya, who is looking for Ranjit Saigal. When Gopi comes to know about this, he pretends to be a rich prince Ranjit and Sandhya starts dating him. They soon fall in love with each other. But soon she comes to know that Gopi is a poor man (when the costume designer of the movie tracks him down and asks Gopi to remove all clothes on the street itself) but nevertheless they start loving each other as Sandhya knows that Gopi is an honest man.

Sandhya tells Gopi about how her father arranged her marriage to Gaurav without consulting her. One Day Gopi sees Ram Nath and Gaurav killing another person by shooting him. Gopi realizes that Ram Nath appears mute publicly, but he can speak. Gopi doesn't know that Ram Nath is Sandhya's father. Gopi runs away.

Meanwhile, Gopi's friends Abhyankar (Harish) and Raja (Rohit Kumar) request Gopi to become an Aunty Maharani Kanaklakshmi of Kanda to convince Behl. They had to do this as the real Maharani of Kanda changed her travel plans at the last minute and the guys are in a jam, as they did not want Behl to doubt that the Maharani was fictitious.

Gopi does so with hilarious results, as two men Rai Bahadur Behl and Col. Dogra (Saeed Jaffrey) (Raja's uncle) start loving him. As Maharani Gopi, she gets Dogra and Behl to give her money when she claims that her luggage from London flight is lost, which she claims had $ 100,000, 200,000 pounds and legal property documents for 2 palaces.

Gopi goes to meet his Bhaiya and Bhabhi (to give them Rs 10,000 that he received from Col. Dogra) when Ram Nath's goons recognize him, but he escapes somehow. Meanwhile Behl and Dogra fight for Maharani's attentions. Both men propose to the Maharani, and she promises to marry Behl (as he was the first to propose), but promises to have an illegitimate relationship with Dogra, so that he is not heartbroken. Behl says that he is a lawyer and can help manage all of Maharani's estate.

That's when the real Maharani Vijayalaxmi (Reema Lagoo) arrives. Vijaya finds it amusing that there is another person posing as her, so she poses as the niece of Maharani of Kanda. Turns out Vijaya and Dogra used to date each other in college. Gopi disguises himself as a dance teacher to meet Sandhya and that's when he finds that Ram Nath is Sandhya's father. He tells Sandhya, but she doesn't believe him.

Gopi's brother calls him and says that the man running the company is a impersonator of Ram Nath. When he found out, the impersonator and Gaurav abduct his son. He asks for Gopi's help. Sandhya finds evidence supporting Gopi's claim. They track the location through the electronic dial tone of the number that the impersonator dialed.

Gopi attacks. Turns out that impersonator is Kamal Nath, a twin brother of Ram Nath. The man whom he killed was Ram Nath's manager who had found out the truth and was about to go to the police. Police arrives and arrests Kamal Nath and Gaurav.