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Anjali and Dev are in love and plan to marry, but her family gets her married to Ram. Years later, Dev shows up to reunite with Anjali, who has managed to fall in love with her husband.
Wealthy Anjali falls in love with poor Dev. Both want to get married, but her family objects and gets her married to the equally-wealthy Ram, who lives with his uncaring stepmother and siblings. Anjali finds out that Ram is not respected, but does not care as she does not love him. Ram continues to be affectionate toward her and her family, but Anjali cannot get Dev out of her mind. Then things change, when Ram decides to assert himself and asks his family to leave him and his wife alone. Anjali starts warming up to Ram when Dev shows up. He's different now: he's a scheming multimillionaire who will win Anjail over by hook or by crook.—Calista
Dev, from a poor background, and Anjali, a rich man's daughter, are in love. Anjali's father disapproves of Dev and arranges for her to marry wealthy Ram. Ram is an affectionate husband, but Anjali is too haunted by memories of her past love to respond to her husband. Ram lives with his uncaring stepfamily; when they don't undergo the change of heart he had hoped for, he asks them to move out. Just when Ram seems to have won Anjali over, Dev returns, now a millionaire. Wanting to win Anjali back, Dev creates a financial crisis in Ram's life. Anjali is now torn between two men who love her equally .—Soumitra
Wealthy Anjali (Shilpa Shetty), is passionately in love with poor Dev (Sunil Shetty). They want to marry, but Anjali's family objects and marries her off to equally-wealthy Ram (Akshay Kumar), who lives with his uncaring stepmother and siblings. But Ram believes that one day his family will surely undergo a change of heart. However, Anjali finds out that Ram is not respected, but does not care as she does not love him, because she is still haunted by memories of her past love. Ram continues to be affectionate towards her and his family, then Ram decides to assert himself and asks his family to leave him and his wife alone. Anjali starts warming up to Ram, when Dev shows up, now a millionaire who wants her back. Which will she choose?—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
Anjali and Dev are in love, but her father rejects Dev as he is poor. Anjali is married to a wealthy Ram against her wishes and is unhappy about it. Anjali finds that Ram lives with his stepmother and stepsiblings who don't care for him. She decides to stand by Ram and falls in love with him, until they're forced to leave because of Ram's stepsiblings' machinations. Ram and Anjali live separately and things are going well until Dev arrives in their lives.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Synopsis

Anjali (Shilpa Shetty) is a young woman. Her rich and influential father Narendra (Kiran Kumar) is a renowned businessman. Anjali is dating the poor Dev (Suniel Shetty) who cannot even afford to clothe himself properly. He loves Anjali too. Dev's mom Jhanvi dotes on Dev and is ecstatic to meet Anjali. Dev is a illegal son of his unwed mother, so he has no father. Jhanvi trusts Anjali to take care of Dev, and never hurt him as society has. When Anjali puts forward the proposal of marrying Dev to Narendra (when Narendra informs Anjali that he has fixed her wedding, she begs him to meet Dev once), he decides to meet Dev. After meeting him, Narendra doesn't like his attitude (Dev is unshaven, in ordinary clothes and sandals. Dev says if Narendra doesn't give his consent to the wedding, he will take away Anjali forcefully) and rejects him. Dev wants Anjali to leave with him, but Anjali refuses and promises to meet him later.

Anjali leaves Dev to not upset Narendra and her mother, Veena (Anjana Mumtaz). Anjali wanted to leave her house, but her dad threatens to commit suicide if she takes this step. Narendra agrees to let Anjali keep her promise to meet Dev, where she tells him that she has come to leave him. Dev is shocked and promises to destroy everything he holds dear, if he cant get Anjali. Heartbroken, Dev tells this to his mother, Jhanvi (Sharmila Tagore) who dies in shock as she liked Anjali a lot. Anjali marries Ram (Akshay Kumar), whom Narendra believes will be perfect match for her. Ram is a man of great ideals, who believes in giving a rightful place to Anjali and respects her sensibilities. He wont touch Anjali as she is not ready for a physical relationship with Ram.

Ram lives in Delhi with his step mom Vibha (Sushma Seth), step brother Bobby (Parmeet Sethi) and Step sister Nikki (Manjeet Kullar). Ram is 75% owner of the business and the rest of the family owns 25%. Bobby and Nikki resent him for this. Vibha wants to turn Ram against Anjali, and thus needles Anjali to hand over her jewels to her. Anjali refuses. Ram advises her to listen to Vibha. Anjali prepares to leave the house when her maid shows her how Vibha and Nikki are plotting against Ram and ANjali. Ram tells Anjali that he knows everything and wants to win everyone over with unconditional love. When Ram is away on work, Bobby tries to seduce Anjali, but he refutes his advances. Ram catches them live and the matter escalates to Vibha. Vibha blames Anjali, but Ram defends her saying Vibha and Bobby are lying. Vibha decides to leave the house with Bobby and Nikki and Ram doesn't stop them.

After seeing the magnanimity of Ram's heart in accepting her, Anjali realizes she has fallen in love with him. Ram too falls in love with her. They confess their love, and consummate their marriage. Often the two go on holidays and spend romantic moments.

3 years later Ram and Anjali celebrate their 3rd wedding anniversary. Dev returns and is now a wealthy businessman (wealth of rs 500 crores). Anjali is stuck at a crossroad on where she would stand - for Ram or Dev. Dev makes it clear that he wants to get back together with Anjali and pursues her through all available means (invites her to parties, befriends Ram etc).. Sheetal is Dev's business partner and adores him. Anjali stands for Ram (whom she deeply loves) and refuses to return to Dev (who still wants to unite with her), even though it pains her to know how hurt Dev is and will be in his future.

Dev cannot stand rejection for a second time and sets out to ruin Ram's life. Dev partners with Vibha, Nikki and Bobby. Dev finds out that Ram had taken heavy loans from the market for his new project. Dev buys all the debt from the market. Dev also buys Ram's house in auction. Ram is pushed out of his own company by Bobby. They are forced to live with their servants, who are happy to provide them shelter.. Meanwhile, Nikki and Bobby start withdrawing money from the company, without telling Vibha. Sheetal finds out and objects. Bobby and Nikki yell at Vibha when she also scolds them.. Vibha now remembers Ram. Narendra finds out and confronts Dev. He tells Dev that his attitude sucked 3 yrs ago and it sucks ago and he is glad that he chose Ram for his daughter.

Anjali gets pregnant. Anjali meets Dev and begs Dev to leave her alone. Ram also meets Dev (as he found out about the affair between Dev and Anjali).. Ram explains to Dev that he has not lost, and Ram has not won.. they both love Anjali.. He shows unconditional love to Dev.. Dev turns good and decides to marry his business partner Sheetal (Mahima Chaudhry), his new companion who secretly loved him for a long time. He departs with her to London as Anjali and Ram look on.