Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Kunal Kohli

Writers:

Aditya Chopra (writer)
Kunal Kohli (writer)

Release Date:

8 August 2002 (South Africa)

Genre:

Musical | Romance | Drama | Family

Plot:

Raj, Pooja and Tina are childhood friends. While Raj has always been attracted to the vivacious Tina...

Plot Keywords:

E Mail | Friendship | Childhood Friend | Best Friend | Wedding

Cast

Rani Mukherjee	...	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
Parikshat Sahni	...	Mr. Verma

Also Known As:

Let's Be Friends! (informal literal English title)

Runtime:

149 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:U | UK:U

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Yash Raj Films

Trivia:

Rani Mukherjee plays a character named Pooja while Kareena Kapoor plays a character named Tina. Rani's played a character named Tina in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) while Kareena played a character named Pooja in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), both incidentally directed by Karan Johar and also produced by the same production company as this movie, 'Yashraj Films'.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The movie, set in 2002 shows that Raj and his family left India 10 years ago in 1992, a time when the World Wide Web was not available in India, but right away from that moment, Pooja promises Raj on contacting through e-mail and starts doing it right away.

Movie Connections:

References Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001)

Chef Kunal Kohli's recipe prepared exclusively for CANDYFLOSS, the Chopra chain of restaurants, is recommended only for the sweet-film toothed

Here's presenting the recipe of MUJHSE DOSTI KAROGE prepared by Chef KUNAL KOHLI exclusively for CANDYFLOSS, the CHOPRA chain of restaurants: Borrow the basic story idea from DTPH (or any triangular love story). Use a dash of KKHH in the first half and SAAJAN in the second. Some glimpses of DDLJ as per taste. Take Kareena's entry and her father's death sequences from K3G. Add the MAINE PYAR KIYA inspired song parody sequence and end it hurriedly, inspired from K2H2 again. Add the regular YASH CHOPRA sauces i.e. melodious music and cool choreography. Garnish it with foreign locales, jazzy costumes and grandeur sets. MDK is ready. The CHOPRA restaurant also gives you an extra papad (Uday Chopra) free of cost.

So the story is about 3 friends, who are separated in their childhood. Raj (Hrithik) shifts to London and from there mails regularly to Tina (Kareena), who isn't much interested in replying. All those emails are replied by Pooja (Rani) but under the name of Tina (Well I suppose the net wasn't introduced in India about 15 years from now). Raj comes to India and gradually falls in love with Tina, but when he realizes that all those letters were written by Pooja his heart suddenly flips over towards her in less than a second (like they say, Hrithik Ki Tarah, o sorry, girgit Ki Tarah rang badal na). Then starts the triangle. Finally friends become lovers and lovers become friends. And when it comes to Hindi cinema, there isn't much difference between the two terms.

Film-critic-turned-director Kunal Kohli handles many sequences with sensitivity but relies too heavily on the tried and tested stuff. Like the climax that shows a pinch full of sindoor falling on Rani's forehead appears way too clichéd. Moreover Words like farz, vaada, saccha pyar, qurbani are bandied about so many times that they lose their significance.

Finally the movie clearly belongs to Rani Mukherjee who has the meatiest role comparatively and does full justice to it. Hrithik is good but suffers from Shahrukh hangover at times. Kareena's role is just an extension of what she did in K3G.

Recommended only for the sweet-film toothed.