Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (transl. Will You Be My Friend!) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Kunal Kohli and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films.
Plot
Young Pooja Sahani (Rani Mukerji), Raj Khanna (Hrithik Roshan) and Tina Kapoor (Kareena Kapoor) are childhood friends. While Raj has always been attracted to the vivacious and beautiful Tina, he is completely unaware of the quiet Pooja’s love for him.
Raj’s father (Kiran Kumar) decides to move to England with his family to take up a new job. Before leaving, Raj makes Tina promise to write to him via e-mail. Tina, a fun-loving and popular girl, soon becomes occupied with other things. Meanwhile Pooja writes to Raj asking about his days in London but instead of her name she signs as Tina, thinking that a letter from Tina will surely bring his reply and also to help Tina keep her promise. While exchanging e-mails, Raj and Pooja realize they have many things in common, and their e-mails bring them close to each other. A decade and a half later, Raj returns to India for a short vacation. By now, he’s in love with the girl he has been writing to and believes he can recognize her at first sight. He states that his love for Tina is enough for him to pick her from any crowd so they never exchange any photographs whatsoever.
When the three of them finally meet, Raj, to simple girl-next-door Pooja’s disappointment, completely ignores her and is smitten by the typically beautiful Tina, who is initially unsure but slowly becomes attracted to him. However, during the two weeks of his vacation, he cannot help but notice that the real Tina is completely different from the Tina he knew from the e-mails. He also starts a friendship with Pooja and is impressed by their common interests, without realizing she is the one he is really in love with. Tina, despite of being well aware of the fact that she is not the one who Raj has been talking to over the last 15 years, cannot resist herself from reciprocating Raj’s continuous flirt and ends up falling in love with him. By the end of Raj’s 2 weeks trip to India, their parents see their blooming love and gladly announces the engagement of Raj and Tina. Heartbroken, yet happy for her best friends, Pooja decides to never disclose the secret.
Raj returns to London, where Pooja coincidentally arrives for an interview. Raj takes Pooja to a church that he frequently visits and finds her accidentally humming the tune of a song he wrote to her about years ago. He realises that Pooja is the one who had been writing to him all those years since he shared the information about the church and the song in the e-mails. They discover their love for each other and decide to get married. Back in India, Tina’s father (Sachin Khedekar) suddenly dies, leaving Tina alone in the world as an orphan. His last wish was that Tina would marry Raj, and Pooja’s parents say that they will perform all the rituals as Tina’s parents.
Knowing that Tina also has feelings for Raj and she is now alone, Pooja refuses to marry Raj, as she does not want to break Tina’s heart. Raj’s parents also agree to the marriage, unaware of the relationship between Raj and Pooja that developed in London. Raj insists on telling his parents the truth but Pooja stops him. He angrily vows to her that he will only marry Tina if Pooja marries someone else on the same day. Everyone comes to London for the wedding ceremony of Tina and Raj.
In London, Rohan Verma (Uday Chopra) is a friend of Raj’s who has always been attracted to Pooja. After constant flirting of Rohan and ultimatum from Raj, Pooja bows to the inevitable and agrees to marry Rohan on the same day as Raj and Tina. That way, she hopes to satisfy Raj’s condition and ensure Tina’s happiness. Rohan realises that Pooja does not love him, but keeps up the charade nevertheless. On the day of the marriage, Tina realises that Raj is really in love with Pooja, as she sees Raj’s ancestral bracelet with Pooja, she changes from her wedding attire to simple clothes. At the altar, Raj knocks over the pot of wedding vermilion by mistake, some of which falls into Pooja’s hair, which is traditionally a sign of marriage. Just as Pooja is about to wipe it off, Tina stops her, saying that she is not alone and is glad to have such great friends willing to sacrifice their love for her. Pooja approaches Rohan to apologise, but he is not at all angry. He is glad to have made new friends. The movie ends with Pooja and Raj getting married.
Cast
Rani Mukerji as Pooja Sahani
Hrithik Roshan as Raj Khanna
Kareena Kapoor as Tina Kapoor
Uday Chopra as Rohan Verma
Barkha Singh as young Tina Kapoor
Satish Shah as Mr. Sahani, Pooja’s father
Himani Shivpuri as Mrs. Sahani, Pooja’s mother
Kiran Kumar as Mr. Khanna, Raj’s father
Smita Jaykar as Mrs. Khanna, Raj’s mother
Sachin Khedekar as Mr. Kapoor, Tina’s father
Parikshat Sahni as Mr. Verma, Rohan’s father
Maya Alagh as Mrs. Verma, Rohan’s mother
Namuna Nembang as Piya Kapoor
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