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| Directed by | Dev Anand |
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| Written by | Dev Anand |
| Produced by | Dev Anand |
| Starring | Dev Anand Shoib Khan Heene Kaushik Chaitanya Choudhury Satish Shah Ketki Dave Ashish Vidyarthi Vikram Gokhale
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| Music by | Lucky Ali Adnan Sami
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi
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Love at Times Square is a 2003 Bollywood film directed by and starring Dev Anand with Shoib Khan, Chaitanya Chaudhary and Heene Kaushik. The film had special appearances from Salman Khan and Rishi Kapoor.
Plot
Sweety (Heene) is the daughter of a billionaire Indian Shaan (Dev Anand). The girl's father organizes a musical concert at Times Square where she comes across two young boys: Raj (Shoeb Khan) and Bobby (Chaitanya Chaudhary). Raj is a computer engineer and works in the Silicon Valley whereas Bobby, who is a middle class person, has come to the US in order to earn a bright future. Sweety (Heene) is pursuing her studies in Mass Communication in the US. Both the boys fall in love with the same girl (Sweety).
Sweety drives from New York City to San Jose with Raj to meet her father and on the way, Raj falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Bobby starts work under her father, also in love with Sweety. Both men propose marriage to her but Sweety declines, unsure about love.
Eventually, she falls in love with Bobby after he saves her from a bad guy Ashish Vidyarthi. On New Year's Eve, one year after their initial meeting, Sweety chooses Bobby and the two get engaged.
Cast
- Heenee Kaushik as Sweety
- Dev Anand as Shaan, Sweety’s father
- Shoib Khan as Raj
- Harish Patel as Natvar
- Chaitanya Chaudhary as Bobby
- Rishi Kapoor as Satellite Channel CEO (Special Appearance)
- Salman Khan as Song (Special Appearance)
- Ananth Mahadevan as Guru Swamy
- Satish Shah as Gujrat Motel Owner
- Ketki Dave as Gujarat Motel Owner’s wife
- Tom Alter as Mr. Gery
- Dalip Tahil as Uncle of Bobby
- Moon Moon Sen as Mother of Sweety
- Vikram Gokhale as Father of Raj
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Hashmi 'Bullet'
Music
Lyrics were penned by Javed Akhtar and music was composed by Lucky Ali, Rajesh Roshan and Adnan Sami.Lucky Ali and Adnan Sami also gave his voice for the songs.
- "Aa Ja Aa Ja Aa Bhi Ja" - Adnan Sami
- "Aisa Ho Koi" - Kavita Krishnamurthy
- "Raat Hai Jawan" - Adnan Sami
- "Sapna Ho" - Sonu Nigam, Vijeta Pandit
- "Sote Sote" - Lucky Ali, Sapna Mukherjee
- "Woh Ladka Aisa Hoga" - Udit Narayan, Abhijeet, Jaspinder Narula
- "Yahan Pyar Me Dhadke Dil" - Alka Yagnik (composed by Rajesh Roshan)
- "Ye Raste Yeh Masti" - Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lucky Ali
Reception
The film was critically and commercially unsuccessful. It was much criticized for poor writing and plot as well as poor acting by the newcomers. The direction of scenes in New York and transitions between scenes were also criticized.[1]
References
- ↑ Love At Times Square - movie review. Retrieved 7 October 2019.