Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002)

Raj, Pooja and Tina are childhood friends. While Raj has always been attracted to the vivacious Tina, he is completely unaware of the quiet Pooja's feelings for him. When Raj's family move ... See full summary »

Director:

Kunal Kohli

Writers:

Aditya Chopra, Kunal Kohli

Stars:

Rani Mukerji, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Rani Mukerji	...	Pooja Sahani
Hrithik Roshan	...	Raj Khanna
Kareena Kapoor	...	Tina Kapoor
Uday Chopra	...	Rohan Verma
Satish Shah	...	Mr. Sahani
Kiran Kumar	...	Mr. Khanna
Sachin Khedekar	...	Mr. Kapoor
Smita Jaykar	...	Mrs. Khanna
Himani Shivpuri	...	Mrs. Sahani
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maya Alagh	...	Mrs. Verma
Athit Naik	...	Young Raj Khanna (as Atit Naik)
Parikshat Sahni	...	Mr. Verma (as P. Sahani)
Nandini Seth	...	Young Tina Kapoor
Barkha Singh	...	Young Pooja Sahani
Raja Vaid	...	Ronnie

Storyline

Raj, Pooja and Tina are childhood friends. While Raj has always been attracted to the vivacious Tina, he is completely unaware of the quiet Pooja's feelings for him. When Raj's family move to England to get involved in an internet business, Raj promises Tina that he will keep in touch with her and that their friendship will always be forever. However Tina disregards him and chooses not to respond to his first e-mail, in turn Pooja decides to keep in touch with him but signs under Tina's name. Fifteen years later, and their friendship has blossomed via e-mail, Raj believing that he's getting to know Tina when it's really Pooja. His family decides to go back on a holiday to India for 2 weeks, when Tina discovers the truth about Pooja's e-mails, they decide together that Tina will play along with the charade. When Raj arrives in India, he is struck by Tina's beauty but equally as struck to Pooja's personality. On a coincidence Raj eventually realizes that he had been corresponding with ...

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Plot Keywords:

e mail | friendship | childhood friend | best friend | love triangle | 

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Genres:

Musical | Romance | Drama | Family

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

9 August 2002 (India)

Also Known As:

Let's Be Friends!

Filming Locations:

Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, Kensington, London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

INR 170,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£204,490 (UK) (9 August 2002)

Gross:

£611,164 (UK) (23 August 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Yash Raj Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

149 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the song "The Medley", Hrithik Roshan sings 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai' , the same movie his father directed and he was playing lead role in.

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Goofs

When shopping, Raj tells Rohan that Pooja would never wear a particular color. Actually, she has worn that color (pale yellow) at least once in the movie, and possibly twice.

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Connections

References Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000)

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Soundtracks

"Jaane Dil Mein - II"
Written by Anand Bakshi
Composed by Rahul Sharma
Performed by Lata Mangeshkar and Sonu Nigam
Courtesy of Saregama HMV

User Reviews

same old same old

MUJHSE DOSTI KAROGE -

And once again after a decent gap of a couple of months we are taken back into the magical world of yash chopra movies.....the alps, the women in chiffon, the wonderful bonds of family and friendship and the same story repeated over and over again...

Mujhse Dosti Karoge tries to be different.....honestly it does. It focusses on the friendship and subsequent love triangle of three childhood pals.....Raj, Tina and Pooja. As one of them pithily puts it......pyar dosti hai....oh wait sorry that was dil to pagal hai. Moving on....so mdk has this cool triangle between the scantily clad - nisha, the chopra version of the bharatiya nari - pooja and the gap clad - rahul.....oops that was also dil to pagal hai but you get the drift. Since the plot is redundant let's talk exciting stuff like this wonderful pseudo antakshari routine between sridevi, anil kapoor and anupam kher......my bad that was lamhe. Okay song picturisations then.....shot beautifully atop snow-clad mountains ( like every yash chopra movie since 1988), around the red telephone boxes and escalators of london ( see ddlj and k3g for more details) and an exciting on stage number (see kkhh for a slight but better variation on the same). Since nothing else is particularly new.....let's talk climax which features this awesome concept of the big man on top......yes God himself dropping in to sort matters out.....and there's this cute family dog....no no that's hahk....ok well mdk climax is hahk without the dog. Well atleast kunal kohli moved on to steal ideas from another banner instead of sticking with yash raj traditions.

MDK is not a bad movie but it's a movie we've all seen over and over again in some form or the other. The fact that it liberally borrows ideas from other famous yash raj produced movies does not help since all of the other movies are close to classics with characters, songs and sequences that still resonate with movie-goers. Even the English original, The Truth about Cats and Dogs which itself is inspired from Cyrano de Bergerac was no Oscar contender....but it was a well made romantic comedy exuding warmth and goodness which is something one cannot say for MDK.

The story is nothing to write home about, neither are the songs, the direction, the cinematography or even the acting. Kareena plays a watered down version of Poo, Rani plays a longer version of the saintly but soon dead Tina and Hrithik, well he does what he's being paid pots of money to do

• exude charisma, shake a shapely leg or two and twinkle at the ladies.

The biggest pity is these are all actors who are capable of much more, yet they settle for poor copies of roles they themselves have played before. And that's perhaps is the final word on MDK itself. It's a poor copy of movies made before by the same production house and that's a huge pity because the banner itself is capable of so much more.

So do you watch it.......i wouldn't reccomend it.....go rent ddlj, kkhh, hahk even qsqt and mpk and see what romance is truly about.....why settle for a cheap copy when the original is just a movie rental away