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Businessman Manav falls for aspiring singer Mansi, but their romance faces an uphill climb when Manav must depart and Mansi's suave manager moves in.

Manav, the son of a wealthy NRI falls in love with Mansi, the daughter of a poor but respected music teacher. Their relationship is mocked by Manav's family, humiliating Mansi due to her social status. Enters Vikrant Kapoor, a record producer who not only discover Mansi's knack for singing and dancing but helps Mansi climb the ladder of success, eventually becoming a singing sensation throughout India and globally. Manav discovering the ill treatment his family gave to Mansi tries to make amends but is met with two obstacles. One being Mansi ignoring him, and two being Vikrant, who has also developed feelings for her and wants to marry her.

On a sight-seeing road trip of India, U.K. based Manav Mehta meets Mansi, the daughter of a singer, Tarababu. He is attracted to her, and makes his attraction known. She also is attracted to him eventually. Her dad approves of Manav, and both go to Bombay to meet his family. On their arrival itself, they are shunned and treated as second class citizens, and this lasts throughout the day.

On a sight-seeing road trip of India, U.K. based Manav Mehta meets Mansi, the daughter of a singer, Tarababu. He is attracted to her, and makes his attraction known. She also is attracted to him eventually. Her dad approves of Manav, and both go to Bombay to meet his family. On their arrival itself, they are shunned and treated as second class citizens, and this lasts throughout the day, with the treatment getting worst at every point. Both decide to leave. Mansi decides to improve her career, leaving the past behind, and meets with Vikrant Kapoor, who helps her get started. Both see each other regularly, and soon decide to get married. In the meantime, Manav has not given up hope to marry Mansi, despite opposition from his and her families. Manav relentlessly purses his dream of marrying Mansi, even on the day of her marriage to Vikrant.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Manav (Akshaye Khanna) comes to visit Chamba, India with his wealthy father Jagmohan Mehta (Amrish Puri), his aunt and uncle, and his father's employees. As the owner of the Mehta & Mehta Group of Companies, Jagmohan is looking to invest in Chamba.

Jagmohan has invested Rs 60 Crores already and has invested lined for Rs 1000 Crores of capital. If the project fails, Jagmohan stands to lose over Rs 600 Crores. Jagmohan has brother Deepmohan (Prithvi Zutshi) and his wife Shakuntala/Shakku (Supriya Karnik). Santram (Manoj Pahwa) is married to Jagmohan's sister Janki. Jagmohan's other brother is Brijmohan (Rajesh Khera) and his wife Dolly (Asha Bachani).

In Chamba Manav meets Mansi (Aishwarya Rai), the beautiful daughter of a spiritual singer named Tara Babu (Alok Nath). Tara Babu is impoverished and performs shows for the All India Radio and manages a public school with Mansi. Manav sees Mansi dancing in the rain in the beautiful backdrop of the hills, the river streams and the valley and takes some pictures. Tara finds out and barges in Jagmohan's estate to complain, where the whole family apologizes to him with a lot of politeness. Tara Babu being a nice person at heart, easily forgives them and let's go of the matter.

Tara Babu is an influential person in the region and has many official government contacts. Jagmohan has a 100 Acre land in Chamba, but he still does not have possession of the same. The agent Rambhajan (Mithilesh Chaturvedi) tells Jagmohan to befriend Tara Babu to get his land issue resolved.

Their families meet, and Jagmohan and Tara Babu become acquainted and friendly toward each other. All of this was Jagmohan's strategy to get Tara Babu's approval on the land dispute case that Jagmohan is involved in. Jagmohan invites Tara Babu and Mansi to a party where he introduces Tara Babu to several high-profile dignitaries, including owners of TV channels and requests them to feature Tara Babu on their show. Manav asks Mansi to teach him yoga and uses that to get physically close to her. Dolly and Shakku observe that Manav is falling in love with Mansi. Meanwhile, Tara Babu invites the Himanchal Minister to Chamba and gets Jagmohan's land issue resolved by allocating the required land for his mega-project.

Manav and Mansi fall in love, but when Jagmohan learns of this (Shakku informs Jagmohan of the developments) he packs the family up and moves them to their house in Mumbai, with the excuse that Mansi and her father are of low social status.

However, Jagmohan is nice to Tara Babu's face and invites him to come and stay with him and Mumbai if he, Tara Babu, ever happens to be travelling there. Mansi is distressed by Manav's departure, but he assures her that he will not abandon her and that everything will be fine. Manav kisses Mansi before he leaves. She gives Manav his scarf which she modified, making it say "Manavsi", a mixture of their names.

When Tara Babu learns of Manav and Mansi's affair he is at first angry. Manav finds from Mansi's friend that Tara found out about them and calls Tara. Manav invites Tara to visit the family in Mumbai to discuss the marriage between him and Mansi. Soon Tara agrees to travel to Mumbai to visit his younger sister Prabha (Mita Vashisht) and to meet Manav's family. Instead, they are insulted by Jagmohan's sister-in-law, brother, and the employees and endure hostile treatment. They are forced to sit and wait outside for 9 hours before being invited into the house.

When Jagmohan finally arrives at the scene, he too insults Tara Babu, which results in Tara Babu's slapping him across the face. Manav also arrives, and he rudely reprimands Tara Babu as well. Meanwhile Mansi, after witnessing Manav shout at her father, makes it clear to Manav that she wants nothing to do with him anymore. She and her father then leave the Mehta household deeply hurt.

Mansi soon meets Vikrant Kapoor (Anil Kapoor), a successful and famous music producer/director, who happens to be a fan of Tara Babu's work. With the encouragement of Prabha, she arranges a three-year contract with Vikrant, and Mansi performs dance numbers and remixes of Tara Babu's songs as well as some of Vikrant's productions. She wins awards and becomes a sensation in India.

In the meantime, Vikrant starts to fall in love with Mansi. Matters are further complicated when Manav arrives to apologize to Mansi for what he and his family did, as she rejects him out of grief for how he treated her father. However, he tells her that he knows she still loves him, and that he will wait for her. Vikrant learns of what happened between Manav and Mansi, but he chooses to ignore it. He has a few encounters with Manav but takes them lightly.

Vikrant proposes to Mansi soon afterwards, and her father and aunt encourage her to accept it, with the hope that it will help her forget Manav. She accepts the proposal even though she is not in love with Vikrant. After winning an International MTV Award in Canada, she comes back to India to prepare for the marriage. In the meantime, Jagmohan and Tara Babu patch things up after Jagmohan realizes his mistake.

On the day of the marriage Manav arrives and tells Mansi that by marrying Vikrant when she loves Manav she is deceiving both him and her, and that marriage is not a contract but a union of two souls; he reminds her that he loves her and will never stop waiting for her. Jagmohan also comes to the wedding with Manav and Tara Babu. Vikrant soon realizes, after seeing Mansi's reaction to seeing Manav, that she loves Manav. He assures her that the three of them can still be friends and urges her to run to Manav. Jagmohan and Tara Babu give their blessings, and Manav and Mansi embrace. Everyone takes a family picture at the Mehta household after the wedding.