Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001)

Director:

Gautham Menon

Release Date:

19 October 2001 (India)

Genre:

Musical

Plot:

Cupid's arrow and a lot more strike at Madhav Shastri's (R. Madhavan) when he first has a glimpse of beautiful Reena Malhotra (Diya Mirza). Thereafter he meets her again and finds out that she the bethrothed of one Rajiv, and so he impersonates Rajiv and enters Reena's life. And they both fall in love. Then American-settled Rajiv Shyamrao (Saif Ali Khan), who used to know Madhav from college, comes to India to marry Reena. Reena is shocked to find out that the one she has given her heart out to is a fraud and a fake. Accordingly, she decides not to do anything with him, and let her parents (Maya Alagh and Navin Nischal) go ahead with the arranged marriage with Rajiv (or Sam). This devastates Madhav (or Maddy) and he plans to go to America, and start life anew. He also confronts Reena, but Reena refuses to have anything to do with him.

Plot Keywords:

Telephone Booth | College Campus | Marriage | Remake Of Tamil Film | Arrogance

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Madhavan	...	Maddy (as R. Madhavan)
Saif Ali Khan	...	Rajiv Shyamrao ("Sam")
Diya Mirza	...	Reena Malhotra
Vrajesh Hirjee	...	Maddy's friend
Tanaaz Currim	...	Shruti
Anupam Kher	...	Maddy's dad
Navin Nischol	...	Mr. Malhotra (Reena's dad)
Smita Jaykar
Hemant Pandey
Kabir Sadana	...	Maddy's Friend 2
Reshma Modi
Maya Alagh	...	Mrs. Malhotra (Reena's mom)

Runtime:

160 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Trivia:

Original movie was named "Minnale", in Tamil

Movie Connections:

Remake of Minnale (2001)

A Story with a twist

This movie was rather different in style and approach. The story was simple, thus adding to the charm of the movie. There where no "goodies" or "baddies", and the characters show some depth time and again. The rivalry between Sam and Maddy being the premise of the movie, made it a lot more interesting than your regular love drama.

I initially took this movie out as I'm a Saif Ali-Khan fan, but at the end of the movie I was a Mahdhavn fan. He is a good actor, and the character "Maddy" was so colorful that you can't help but fall for him. This movie had the best acting Diya Mirza has done to date, bar her performance in Tehzeeb. Unfortunately an actor of Saif's caliber was under-used, but Saif still manages to inject some life to the character Sam which is rather flat in comparison to the character Maddy. The surprising sensitivity that Sam shows at the end of the film was well written.

The only criticism I would have is that the character Rina seemed unable to make up her mind at the end and needs Sam to intervene, but this may be something to be expected as her family's expectations are huge weight on her shoulders. This ad's to the realism of the film.

Another reason I like this film is that it was shot on location in New Zealand, and at one point I see Diya Mirza running down a street I used to live on! They also dance in the Octogen in Duedin which is where I lived during Univesity. So to me this movie holds a special place because of the locations it was shot in, as well as being a thorough entertainer!