Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega (English: Every Heart That Loves) is a 2000 Indian Hindi romance film directed by Raj Kanwar. The film stars Salman Khan, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji with a special appearance by Shah Rukh Khan. It was highly praised by the critics and was the third hit in a row by Salman Khan-Sajid Nadiadwala (producer) collaboration It became the fourth highest grosser of the year. The film is a remake of 1997 Malayalam film Chandralekha starring Mohanlal and the plot also has some minor elements loosely based on the film While You Were Sleeping.
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Movie poster for Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega | |
Directed by | Raj Kanwar |
Produced by | Sajid Nadiadwala |
Written by | Rumi Jaffrey |
Starring | Salman Khan Preity Zinta Rani Mukerji |
Music by | Songs: Anu Malik Background Score: Surinder Sodhi |
Cinematography | W.B. Rao |
Edited by | Sanjay Verma |
Distributed by | Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 150 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Box office | ?28.5 crore (equivalent to ?84 crore or US$12 million in 2017) |
Screenplay
Raj (Salman Khan) is a singer trying to make his way in the big city of Mumbai. He rescues a young woman who has fallen in front of a train and stays with her when she is rushed to a hospital. Pooja Oberoi (Rani Mukerji), the daughter of a wealthy family, survives but falls into a coma. Her family rushes to the hospital and, finding Raj there, assumes that he is Pooja's husband, Romi, with whom she had eloped with to marry and whom they had never met. Since Pooja's father has a higher chance of a heart attack, Raj lies and says he is Romi.
As the family gets to know the pretend Romi, Pooja's best friend, Jahnvi (Preity Zinta) starts spending a lot of time with him. They both fall in love with each other , who is regarded as a second daughter by Pooja's family. Then Pooja revives from her coma and complicates matters by falling for Raj. In a conversatation, Pooja and Jahnvi both reveal that they both love Raj using signs (Hand up) but Jahnvi realises that Pooja loves Raj resulting in her putting her hand down. Raj and Jahnvi put their relationship to an end. On the day of their engagement, Jahnvi unknowingly takes Pooja's cell phone (Her's and Pooja's cellphone look the same). Knowing that Raj will never get married to Pooja if she's there, she decides to leave. When Jahnvi cell's phone rings, Pooja picks it up and it ends up being Raj's best friend who pleads Jahnvi to break this wedding and come back to Raj. Pooja then reveals to everyone about Raj and Jahnvi and Raj and Jahnvi are once reunited. Pooja Choose Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) comes to marry Pooja.
- Salman Khan as Raj (Raju)/ aka Romi
- Preity Zinta as Jahnvi
- Rani Mukerji as Pooja Oberoi
- Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul (Special Appearance)
- Sana Saeed as Anjali (Special Appearance)
- Rajeev Verma as Bharat Oberoi
- Paresh Rawal as Goverdhan
- Neeraj Vora as Abdul
- Shakti Kapoor as Abdul's uncle
- Satish Shah as Mahesh Hirwani
- Kamini Kaushal as Biji
- Vinay Pathak as Monty
- Razak Khan as Dance Master
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Soundtrack album by Anu Malik | ||||
Released | 9 June 2000 | |||
Recorded | 2000 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Length | 44:22 | |||
Label | T-Series | |||
Producer | Anu Malik | |||
Anu Malik chronology | ||||
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Music of the album has been composed by Anu Malik. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 22,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fifth highest-selling. 'Har Dil jo Pyar Karega', 'Piya Piya' and 'Ek garam chai ki pyali ho'(Indian version of the Egyptian song "Al Lilla Doob" ) garnered special popularity, although the whole album was received positively. Screen rated the soundtrack album number one for the third week of August 2000.
All tracks written by Sameer.
Track-List | |||
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No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
1. | "Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega" | Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan | 6:04 |
2. | "Dil Dil Deewana" | Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan | 5:55 |
3. | "Aisa Pehli Baar Hua Hai" | Sonu Nigam | 6:47 |
4. | "Piya Piya" | Preeti & Pinky, Prashant | 5:40 |
5. | "Ek Garam Chai Ki Pyali Ho" | Anu Malik | 5:40 |
6. | "Sahiba Sahiba" | KK | 2:42 |
7. | "Sahiba Sahiba" (Version 2) | KK | 1:33 |
8. | "Aate Jaate Jo Milta Hai" | Alka Yagnik, Sonu Nigam | 6:12 |
9. | "Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega" (Sad) | Alka Yagnik | 3:49 |
Total length: | 44:22 |
Aashirwad Awards
- Won - Best Actress - Rani Mukerji
Filmfare Awards
- Nominated - Supporting Actress – Rani Mukerji
- Nominated - Female Playback Singer – Preeti and Pinky – "Piya Piya"
The film was generally well received by the critics, especially the performances of the three leads were appreciated. Film journal Screen praised the performances of Khan and Zinta and wrote, "The director deserves to be commended for his efforts to spring a few surprises in the film and extract better performances from the lead players."