Foreign land) is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Subhash Ghai.

At the 43rd Filmfare Awards, Pardes received 12 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Ghai) and Best Actress (Chaudhry), and won 3 awards – Best Female Debut (Chaudhry), Best Female Playback Singer (Alka Yagnik for "Meri Mehbooba") and Best Screenplay (Ghai).

The film was remade in Telugu as Pelli Kanuka (1998) starring Jagapati Babu, Lakshmi & Banumathi Ramakrishna.

Kishorilal spends time at Suraj's house in his village, and is impressed by the values of his daughter, Ganga.

He demands an explanation from Arjun, whom he raised as his own son but thinks he has seemingly betrayed him by "eloping" with Ganga.

After Arjun leaves, Ganga then corroborates his story by showing them the marks on her body from Rajiv's assault.

The film earned a total of ₹22.83 crore nett, and was declared a "super-hit" by Box Office India.

[3] Overseas, it is the 2nd highest-grossing film of 1997 after Dil To Pagal Hai, which grossed $3.3 million (₹12.04 crore in 1997).

Praise was given to the music and the cast's performances; however the story and screenplay of the film received criticism.

[10] In their book, New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the US, Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma view the film as a dichotomous depiction of the good NRI versus bad NRI, with Khan depicting the good immigrant, who assists the rowdy Indian American playboy Rajiv (Apurva Agnihotri), the bad.

Khan's character of Arjun is perceived as a metaphor for cosmopolitanism or Indian cultural nationalism in the wider sense, in direct contrast to Rajiv who represents wealthy Westernization and all its negative vices and connotations.