Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein | |
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Directed by | Gautham Menon |
Produced by | Vashu Bhagnani |
Written by |
Gautham Menon Vipul D Shah |
Starring |
Madhavan Diya Mirza Saif Ali Khan |
Music by | Harris Jayaraj |
Cinematography | Johny Lal |
Edited by | Sanjay Verma |
Release date
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19 October 2001 |
Running time
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168 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
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Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj | ||||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Harris Jayaraj chronology | ||||
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Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (English: I Want to Stay in Your Heart) is a 2001 Indian film written and directed by Gautham Menon starring Madhavan, Diya Mirza and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles. A remake of the popular Tamil film Minnale (2001), the film was not so successful during the time of its release, but has since developed a cult following among Indian youth.
The story starts with narration by Maddy (R. Madhavan) himself. Maddy is the son of a music shop owner (Anupam Kher) who hopes that Maddy will someday take over his shop. Instead, Maddy is a total brat, not serious about studies and notorious in his college. He harasses the girls in his college. In contrast to him is his arch rival Sam (Saif Ali Khan), a model student, with whom Maddy is at constant loggerheads. The enmity goes so far that Maddy even tries to frame Sam. Sam challenged Maddy for one-on-one fight, to which Maddy happily agreed. But the fight was interrupted in between by the professors. Later at Sam's graduation party, Maddy again tries to challenge Sam, but this time, Sam denies. Sam graduates and leaves the college, but promises Maddy that one fine day, he will complete what was started (i.e., the fight).
Two years later, Maddy has taken a job as software instructor at a private company. His attitude has mellowed a lot, but not changed. He and his college cronies attend a wedding of another classmate, where Maddy spots Reena (Dia Mirza). Maddy is smitten and tries to learn more about her, but in vain. However, destiny makes them meet again. Soon he learns that Reena plans to marry Rajeev Samra, an old friend who is now an NRI. Maddy also learns that Reena doesn't know how Rajeev looks like now.
On persuasion of his friends and specifically by his father (aka DD), Maddy decides to pretend to be Rajeev. Reena, who previously liked him only as a friend, falls in love with him too. Everything goes well until Rajeev's parents call and tell them that the real Rajeev is coming to meet them. On learning this, everyone is shocked and Maddy's secret is revealed. Reena decides to call off her relationship with Maddy. Maddy tries to convince Reena about his true intentions but she refuses to talk to him. Frustrated , Maddy decides to threaten the real Rajeev to back off from the marriage.