Mujhse Dosti Karoge!
| Mujhse Dosti Karoge! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kunal Kohli |
| Written by | Aditya Chopra; Kunal Kohli; |
| Produced by | Aditya Chopra, Uday Chopra, Pamela Chopra, Yash Chopra, Mahen Vakil |
| Starring | Rani Mukherji, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor |
| Music by | Rahul Sharma; Babloo Chakravorty |
| Distributed by | Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd |
Running time | 149 min. |
| Budget | INR 170,000,000 (estimated) |
Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (translates as Will you be my friend?) is an Indian movie released on August 9 2002 directed by Kunal Kohli and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra. It is about the love triangle of three friends played by Rani Mukherji, Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor.
The movie features a medley of well-known Bollywood songs, among them the title song from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
Movie synopsis
Raj (Hrithik Roshan), Pooja (Rani Mukherji) and Tina (Kareena Kapoor) have been friends since childhood. While Raj has always been attracted to the beautiful Tina, he is completely unaware of Pooja`s feelings for him.
Raj`s father (Kiran Kumar) decides to move to England with his family because of his job, so Raj has to go away from his friends. He makes Tina promise to write to him via email. But Tina soon becomes occupied with other things, so it's really Pooja who is writing to Raj; but she always signs with Tina´s name. After several years, Raj returns to India in order to meet Pooja and Tina again. He is in love with the girl he has been writing to and thinks it`s Tina, when it really is Pooja.
When the three of them meet for the first time, Raj completely ignores Pooja and is besotted with Tina. However, during the two weeks of his vacation, he cannot help but notice that the real Tina is completely different from the Tina he knew from the emails. He starts to like Pooja, but does not realize that it is she he is really in love with.
He returns to London, where Pooja coincidentally arrives for an interview -- and finally, he finds out that it has been Pooja who wrote all the letters. They confess their love for each other and decide to get married. But Fate plays an unexpected trick on them. Back in India, Tina's father (Sachin Khedekar) has died, leaving Tina all alone in the world. By now, she is in love with Raj. Pooja now refuses to marry Raj, since she does not want to break Tina's heart. Raj is the only one Tina has left now. Raj's parents also agree that Raj will marry Tina -- but Raj really wants to tell them that he prefers Pooja. Pooja however still refuses to marry Raj and so he vows, driven by anger, that he will only marry Tina if Pooja marries someone else on the same day.
Enter a friend of Raj's, Rohan Verma (Uday Chopra). Rohan is greatly attracted to Pooja and the families are all for the match. Pooja bows to the inevitable and agrees to marry Rohan on the same day as Raj and Tina. That way, she hopes to satisfy Raj's condition and ensure Tina's happiness. Rohan realizes something is wrong and that Pooja does not love him, but keeps up the entire charade. On the day of the marriage, with a little help from the Gods, Tina realizes that Raj is really in love with Pooja -- and so she gives him up and finally Pooja and Raj can get married.
Cast
- Rani Mukherji ... Pooja Sahani
- Kareena Kapoor ... Tina Kapoor
- Hrithik Roshan ... Raj Khanna
- Uday Chopra ... Rohan Verma
- Satish Shah ... Mr. Sahani
- Kiran Kumar ... Mr. Khanna
- Sachin Khedekar ... Mr. Kapoor
- Smita Jaykar ... Mrs. Khanna
- Himani Shivpuri ... Mrs. Sahani
- Maya Alagh ... Mrs. Verma
- Parikshat Sahni ... Mr. Verma