Jaanam Samjha Karo

About the film

Jaanam Samjha Karo (transl. Sweetheart, Try to Understand) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language romance film directed by Andaleb Sultanpuri who is the son of veteran lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri and made his directorial debut with this film. It remains the only film he has directed. It was released on 2 April 1999. The film stars Salman Khan and Urmila Matondkar in lead roles, with Shakti Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Jaspal Bhatti and Monica Bedi in supporting roles.

The movie was shot in many parts of West London including Heathrow, Hounslow and Hayes. It did average business at the box office.

Plot

Chandni (Urmila Matondkar), a lower-class, talented night club singer and dancer at Daniel's (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) club, who also happens to be religious, and well mannered, lives an unfortunate life with her three aunts (Bindu, Navneet Nishan, Kannu Gill), who dominate her life, and with a weak maternal grandmother. She dances for a living because it is the only way she can support her poor family and she hopes to give her nieces an education. Besides, she believes in her dream that a prince charming will come in her life and marry her.

On the other hand, Rahul (Salman Khan), a young wealthy womanizer makes plans to go to Paris with Monica (Monica Bedi) but learns that his 45-day break is over in London and has to fly to India to learn business with his secretary Tubby, who is managing his grandfather's business. At a temple, Chandni talks to a hermit girl (Deepshikha) who directs her to Rahul who appears to take his grandfather, a disguised Tubby, to the temple, only to woo the hermit girl. Rahul gives her a note asking her to leave all and elope with him. Rahul disappears, leaving Tubby to take a beating. One night while singing, Chandni meets Rahul and falls in love with him. Rahul feels attracted to her but he does not take her seriously. He intends to treat her just like any of his other girlfriends and only wants to have a short affair. However, after a mistaken impulse of kissing Chandni turns out bad for Rahul, he realizes she is not like the girls he had met and he tries to mend things sending a gift to Chandni, but it is rejected by her as she feels as if Rahul keeps following her.

After C. C. Patel, a show organizer with offers for Chandni is thrown out by Daniel, Rahul buys Daniel's club, resulting in Daniel kidnapping Chandni to avenge his ruin and is eventually beaten and taken by the police. Chandni argues with Rahul for making matters worse but her grandmother sensitizes her on thanking him instead. Chandni encounters one of his ex-girlfriends who confesses to her his exact nature with girls, just before meeting and fighting with Rahul. Also angry at her aunts for their attraction to luxury, Chandni meets her old friend Divya (Grusha Kapoor) who came to invite her to her wedding. At its musical evening, Chandni finds herself disgusted by Divya's mother (Rohini Hattangadi) due to her lower class and disreputable job. She, however, joins in to sing but her feelings take over in between and she runs out from there in tears. Chandni then accepts to perform for C. C. Patel without any other choice, but due to document issues, he can allow only Chandni to fly to London. Later on, she is stranded and alone in London, being chased by an old Indian pervert who tricked her into getting into his car since she was stuck outside the Indian embassy. She runs out of the car after the old man tries to molest her and is coincidentally saved by Rahul whose car was broken. After their safe survival that night in a nearby shelter, Rahul invites her to stay at his rathe…

Music

The soundtrack of the film contains eight songs. The music was composed by Anu Malik, except for one song composed by the duo Anand–Milind ("Kisi Ne Humse Kiya Hai Vaada"). Lyrics were authored by Majrooh Sultanpuri, except for "Main Ladki Akeli" whose lyrics were penned by Malik. The music was very popular at that time.

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