Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge (2000)

Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge (transl. I will take the bride) is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by David Dhawan, starring Salman Khan and Karisma Kapoor with Anupam Kher, Paresh Rawal, Kader Khan, Johnny Lever, and Om Puri in supporting roles. The film was one of the top-grossing commercially successful films of 2000.

Plot

Sapna has been brought up by her three doting, but eccentric uncles. Prabhu is a very religious Hindu, while Bhola is a former wrestler who is very into fitness and makes Sapna do intense workout routines daily. Vicky is into fashion and western music. The uncles all wish for her to marry, but their differences clash, as each of them wants the boy to have the same interests as them. Sapna is tired of dancing to her uncle's tunes all her life and wishes to take a group trip to Europe. However, when she expresses her wishes to her nanny, Mary, her uncles fire the nanny for giving Sapna such foolish ideas. However, Mary works for another family and tells them of Sapna's plight. She shares Sapna's photo with Raja, who is now determined to make her his bride. Meanwhile, Sapna looks to the last resort and tries to run away, but Vicky catches her and volunteers to take her to the airport himself. On her travels through Europe, Raja creates nothing but trouble for her, but circumstances separate them from the rest of the tour group, and Raja saves Sapna's life. They fall in love and wish to marry once they return to India, but Raja must first impress all three of her uncles. Through a series of comic events, Raja wins their hearts. He and Sapna happily marry in the end.

The story is loosely based on the old Sunil Dutt/Waheeda Rehman movie Ek Phool Char Kante

Cast

Salman Khan as Raja Oberoi: Sapna's love-interest

Karisma Kapoor as Sapna

Kader Khan as Mr. Oberoi

Satish Kaushik as Laughing Police Inspector Abhay

Johnny Lever as Tour Manager Chirkund / Chirkunda

Om Puri as Bhola Nath

Paresh Rawal as Prabhu Nath

Anupam Kher as Vicky Nath

Deepak Tijori as Smuggler Daaga

Kashmera Shah as Lovely

Farida Jalal as Mrs. Oberoi

Himani Shivpuri as Mary

Dara Singh as Sapna's grandfather

Rakesh Bedi as Secretary / Photographer Kaushik

Usha Bachani as Anita, Smuggler's girlfriend

Mayur Verma as Rahul (Raja's Friend)

Soundtrack

The music for Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge was composed by Himesh Reshammiya (in his first full-length Bollywood album) with lyrics written by Sudhakar Sharma. It was released on Tips Music. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 1.8 milliom units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's eighth highest-selling.

Reception

K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote that "The comedy and foreign locales save the film". Aparajita Saha of Rediff.com wrote, "Director David Dhawan definitely knows what will work and what won't. He's all for commercial cinema and proud of it too! All in all, Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge is worth a watch. Here's a movie that will take some of the attention away from Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai".

References

External links

Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge at IMDb