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Sooraj R. Barjatya's romantic family drama "Maine Pyar Kiya" (1989) is one of India's highest grossing films, that made business across continents. It earned Salman Khan a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, as well as his first nomination for a Best Actor at Filmfare. Later, the film was dubbed in English as "When Love Calls", a 125-minute version, was the biggest hit in the Caribbean market at Guyana and also dominated the box-office collections at Trinidad and Tobago. "Maine Pyar Kiya" had also been dubbed in Spanish as "Te Amo", the first experiment of its kind. This film also proved its universal appeal with a glorious 10-week premiere run at Lima, capital of Peru. In Telugu as "Prema Paavuraalu", it crossed the 25 weeks at Visakhapatnam and had 100 plus day run at six centres in Andhra Pradesh. It was also dubbed in Tamil as "Kaadhal Oru Kavithai" and in Malayalam as "Ina Praavukal".