Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai

About the film

Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai (My Heart is with You) is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language romantic action drama film directed by Satish Kaushik, produced by Boney Kapoor, released on 25 August 2000. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, and Sonali Bendre in the lead roles. It is a remake of the 1999 Bengali film Shudhu Ekbar Bolo. and it was one of the highest-grossing movies of the year 2000.

Plot

Preeti Vyas is a young woman who bravely comes forward as a witness to a heinous assault carried out by Bhavani Choudhry and his men on a poor teacher whose land they wanted. The injured man is helped to the hospital by Preeti and a courteous and brave man called Avinash, who holds strong morals and values.

Preeti's testimony angers the Choudhry family and, as a result, Choudhry's younger brother, Babloo Choudhry rapes her. Subsequently, she is disowned by her family and ostracised by society.

She finds shelter with Avinash, who welcomes her to his home. Avinash lives alone with two young children. He later tells Preeti that the children are the result of a clandestine affair his father had with his secretary. The latter contacted Avinash on her deathbed to beg him to take care of the children. His father flat-out refuses to acknowledge the children. Avinash takes them in and moves out of his parents' house. Preeti works at Avinash's office and helps him take care of the children at home. The two live well together as friends, but this union invites a social opprobrium and strong uproar, and there is no other solution but marriage. They soon fall in love, and Avinash decides to ask Preeti for her hand in marriage. She refuses as she sees that as another favour and kind act, and Avinash respects her decision. Both of them attend a wedding where Preeti sees that her friend is marrying Babloo, the man who had raped her, so Avinash beats him up, and the police arrest Babloo and take him away.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film contains eight songs. The music is conducted by the duo Sanjeev–Darshan and the songs are written by Javed Akhtar. The song "Gham Hai Kyun" is a remake of the song "Kadhala Kadhala" with a slight change in instrumentation from the Tamil movie Avvai Shanmughi.

Reception

Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM rated the film four out of five stars and wrote, "On the whole, HAMARA DIL AAPKE PAAS HAI has all it takes to emerge a rewarding experience for its producers, distributors and everyone associated with it. A film that is targeted at the family audience, this one is a must-see!" On the contrary, a critic from Sify wrote that "Unfortunately the film neither entertains nor thrills nor moves you. Sanjeev Darshan's music score is uninspiring and so is everything else". K. N. Vijiyan of the New Straits Times wrote that "In the end, the humour in the film does not come through and becomes irrelevant to the main story. This leaves us with only Anil and Aishwarya".

Awards

Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress - Sonali Bendre

Star Screen Award Best Actress - Aishwarya Rai

Filmfare Best Actress Award - Aishwarya Rai

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