Dhadkan

<p>Anjali Chauhan Verma ( ) is a young woman. Her rich and influential father Narendra Chauhan ( ) is a renowned businessman. Anjali is dating the poor Dev Chopra ( ) 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 an illegitimate son of his unwed mother, so he has no father. Jhanvi trusts Anjali to take care of Dev Chopra, 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 Chauhan ( ). 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 can’t get Anjali. Heartbroken, Dev tells this to his mother, Jhanvi Chopra ( ) who dies in shock as she liked Anjali a lot. Anjali marries Ram Verma ( ), whom Narendra believes will be the 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 won’t touch Anjali as she is not ready for a physical relationship with Ram. Ram Verma lives in with his step mom Vibha Verma ( ), step brother Bobby Verma ( ) and Step sister Nikki ( ). Ram is 75% owner of the business and the rest of the family owns 25%. Bobby Verma 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 don’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 ₹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 Verma ( ) 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 the 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 years ago and it sucks now too, 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 Verma, his new companion who secretly loved him for a long time. He departs with her to as Anjali and Ram look on. The music of the album has been composed by duo in the span of three years. sung by was composed in 1997, while other songs were recorded in 1997-1998, with the exception of , which was recorded in 2000 at . The song was copied from singer ‘s song , which was sung in 1995; The song was copied from song , which was sung by in 1999. Both and became legendary love tracks and achieved a status as one of popular wedding song till date. The other successful songs are and . The album was listed at second position in the yearly music charts. According to the Indian trade website , around 4.5 million units were sold making it the second highest-selling album of the year after . The soundtrack was #73 on the list of of All Time, as compiled by . All lyrics are written by ; all music is composed by . wrote of the film: is an intense love story and director Dharmesh Darshan has handled it with the sensitivity it deserves … Despite the flaws, one has to acknowledge the fact that Dharmesh Darshan succeeds in melting the heart at several places. The entire marriage song-sequence in the initial reels, prior to it the scenes involving Sharmila Tagore, Sunil’s portions in the second half, clearly indicate that the director knows his job well. He relies more on close-ups to capture expressions, which is the hallmark of a seasoned technician. Adarsh described Shilpa Shetty as the “life of the enterprise”, adding that she “looks good, delivers her lines effectively and emotes with utmost conviction.”He said Sunil Shetty’s performance is one of his best, especially the scenes between Sunil and Shilpa are fabulous.” He also remarked “Akshay Kumar shows vast improvement as an actor. He is very controlled and handles this difficult role with sincerity.” Padmaraj Nair of felt the film had a “nostalgic feel to it, what with the effect of watching social drama from the good ol’ 60s.” He added that the film was “fairly interesting in the first half, with its slick screenplay, But the director does seem to lose his grip towards the end, as the film climaxes rather tamely. It seems as if he developed cold feet as far as justifying the grey role of Sunil Shetty is concerned, and ends up portraying him on a positive note.” He felt, performance-wise, Shetty “scores over the rest”, while adding, “Shilpa gets the best role of her career and doesn’t disappoint. Akshay Kumar, in the role of the cool-headed husband, is impressive.” On other departments of the film, he concluded writing, “Nadeem-Shravan’s music is the very lifeline of the film, and all the tracks are melodious and situational. Cinematography by W. B. Rao is outstanding.” The film was released on 11 August 2000 at 250 screens. had a worldwide theatrical release on August 11, 2000 during the weekend and garnered predominantly positive reviews. It emerged as a commercial success grossing 26 crore in global markets.The film’s music, composed by Nadeem – Shravan, went on to break records. This film was unofficially remade in Bangladesh in 2001, as , in the Maldives as also in 2001 and in Telugu as in 2010.</p>