1997; COL; Hindustani; 35mm; 4536.84 Mtrs; 14886 Fts; 165 Mins; 16 Reels; CC.No.MU-25 Dated: 10/07/97; Catg: U

BANNER
United Seven B-43,
Azad Nagar, New Link Road,
Oshiwara, Mumbai - 400 053

CREDIT TITLES
Production: Ratan Jain
Direction & Story: Aziz Mirza
Screenplay: Sanjay Chhel, Mangesh Kulkarni
Dialogue: Sanjay Chhel
Cinematography: Harmeet Singh, Thomas A. Xavier, Sanjay Malwankar
Audiography: Manohar Bangera
Song Recording: A.N. Tagore, Daman Sood, Alok De
Editing: Javed Siddiqui
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
Art Direction: Gautam Sen
Music: Jatin-Lalit
Costumes: Anna Singh (Aditya Pancholi), Masculine & Naresh Malhotra (Shah Rukh Khan), Neeta Lulla & Manish Malhotra (Juhi Chawla), Manish Malhotra (Kashmira Shah) Make-Up: Anil Gire, Nagesh Gaikwad
Action: Akbar Bakshi
Choreography: Saroj Khan, Farah Khan, Ahmed Khan
Stills: K.K. Das
Rerecording: B.K. Chaturvedi
Dubbed at: Ketnav
Processed At: Ad Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Studio: Filmistan Studio, Filmcity, Filmalaya
Records: Venus Records & Tapes Pvt. Ltd.

PLAYBACK SINGERS
Abhijeet, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan

CAST
Aditya Pancholi ("Boss" Siddharth Chaudhary)
Shah Rukh Khan (Rahul Joshi)
Juhi Chawla (Seema Bakshi)
Gulshan Grover
Ashok Saraf
Johny Lever
Reema Lagoo
Rakesh Bedi
Mahavir Shah
Sheela Sharma
Amrut Patel
Shashi Kiran
Ghanshyam
Ajay Vadhavkar
Joginder
Anant Mahadevan
Kashmira Shah (Special Appearance)
Kulbhushan Kharbanda (Guest Appearance)

SYNOPSIS
Rahul Joshi (Shah Rukh Khan) is a young ambitious man who will do anything to keep his boss, Siddharth Chaudhary (Aditya Pancholi), happy. Rahul aspires to start his own advertising agency as promised by his boss and all is going hunky-dory till Rahul meets and begins to fall in love with a beautiful girl. His boss also lay his eyes on the same girl, a model named Seema Bakshi (Juhi Chawla) and desires to add her to his list of mistresses. Seema, a middle-class hostelite, has dreams of making it to the top of the glamourous world of high-fashion and acquiring the affluence and fame attached with it.

While Rahul begins to love Seema, she naively gets taken in by Siddharth's smooth talk and is drawn into dating him. Rahul's dilemma is that he has to keep his boss happy to fulfill his ambition and yet he is aware that his beloved is being conned into a false relationship.

When Siddharth takes Seema on a holiday on the pretext of a photosession, his scheming brother-in-law (Gulshan Grover) springs a surprise by bringing Siddharth's rich wife along. To avoid being caught, Siddharth tells her that Seema is Rahul's new wife and makes the two share the room. This gives Rahul a chance to get closer to Seema.

The suspicious Gulshan Grover also tells Rahul's mother in Bombay that Rahul is married and upon their return, when Seema and Rahul share a taxi, Rahul finds his home has been decorated to celebrate the event. Not wanting to break his mother's heart, he asks Seema to continue the pretense for some time more. Seema enters into Rahul's home and gradually begins to love him and his affectionate mother.

As Seema grows closer to Rahul Gulshan Grover plays Siddharth against Rahul and convinces him to give Rahul his dream ad agency on the condition that he leaves Seema. Rahul, suddenly not so sure whether he wants his ad agency anymore, takes the keys. In the end his love for Seema wins and he exposes his deceiving boss and settles for less in life but gets Seema in the bargain.