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| Directed by | David Dhawan |
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| Written by | Rumi Jaffrey (Dialogues) |
| Produced by | Nitin Manmohan |
| Starring | Sanjay Dutt Salman Khan Karishma Kapoor |
| Cinematography | Harmeet Singh |
| Edited by | A. Muthu |
| Music by | Anand-Milind Nitin Raikwar, Sameer (Lyrics)
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | Template:INRConvert[1]
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Chal Mere Bhai(translated: Come on, my brother) is a 2000 Indian Hindi comedy film. The film was produced by Nitin Manmohan and directed by David Dhawan. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan and Karishma Kapoor in the lead roles. This was Karisma's fourth consecutive portrayal of a character with the name Sapna.[2]The film draws a few similaries with Saajan which also had Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan as the main leads whereas the lead actors fall in love with the same girl where one of them sacrifices his love for the other guy, Salman Khan acts as a playboy to create a bad impression towards his beloved in both the films. The plot of the movie was based on the 1982 Pakistani drama Ankahi.
Plot
This is the story of two brothers, Vicky (Sanjay Dutt) and Prem Oberoi (Salman Khan) and how their lives are turned upside down by a girl named Sapna (Karishma Kapoor).
Vicky is a business tycoon who runs his family's huge business empire. Sapna applies for the position of his secretary. She is an orphan who has just moved to Bombay from Pune and is currently living with her uncle and aunt (Himani Shivpuri). Sapna doesn't have the required experience to be Vicky's secretary, but Vicky's father, Balraj Oberoi (Dalip Tahil) is impressed by Sapna's passion and hires her.
Prem is an aspiring actor, much to the chagrin of Balraj, who would like Prem to also work for the family business. However, Prem's grandmother (Sushma Seth) and Vicky support Prem's decision to be an actor. He works with a theater director (Shakti Kapoor) who happens to be Sapna's uncle.
Sapna is very inefficient at work and Vicky is completely sick of her. But when Vicky is attacked after work, it is Sapna's fast thinking that saves his life. Vicky's family invite her and her family to a short vacation on their farmhouse.[3] Vicky's family become quite fond of Sapna. Prem and Sapna also fall in love during this time.[4]
However, before Prem can tell his family that he loves Sapna he finds out that his grandmother wants Vicky to marry Sapna and that Vicky has agreed to the proposal. Prem doesn't want to break his brother's heart. Vicky has been grieving for his late girlfriend (Sonali Bendre) for a very long time. Prem doesn't want to get in his way now that Vicky has finally decided to move on.[5] Prem tells Sapna that he was just fooling around with her. A heartbroken Sapna gives in to the pressure of her aunt and uncle and agrees to marry Vicky. However, Vicky finds out the truth before the wedding and calls them out. Sapna and Prem are reunited at the end. The last scene implies that Vicky finds love again when a new girl (Twinkle Khanna) joins his office.[6]
Cast
- Sanjay Dutt as Vikram "Vicky" Oberoi
- Salman Khan as Prem Oberoi
- Karishma Kapoor as Sapna Mehra
- Dalip Tahil as Balraj Oberoi
- Sushma Seth as Dadima, Vicky and Prem's grandmother
- Shakti Kapoor as Mamaji, Sapna's uncle
- Ravi Baswani as Waiter in a Guest Appearance
- Anil Dhawan as Doctor in hospital
- Birbal as Astrologer
- Himani Shivpuri as Mamiji, Sapna's aunt
- Shahbaz Khan as Rakesh
- Ghanshyam Rohera as Nandu, the cook
- Javed Khan as Murari
- Shashi Kiran as Suri
- Asrani as Family doctor
- Nagma as Sonia in Guest Appearance
- Sonali Bendre as Piya,Vicky's beloved who died in an accident, Guest Appearance
- Twinkle Khanna as Pooja, Guest Appearance
- Shankar Mahadevan as Himself in the title sequence
- Lesle Lewis as Himself in the title sequence
- Satish Kaushik
- Divya Palat
- Masshe Uddin Qureshi
- Raju Shrestha
- Mangal Dhillon
- Dinesh Anand
- Shiva
- Suresh Bhagwat[7]
Soundtrack
Template:Infobox album According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 12,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fifteenth highest-selling.[8]
References
- ↑ https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=723
- ↑ https://bestoftheyear.in/movie/chal-mere-bhai/
- ↑ Anustup Basu describes director David Dhawan's creation of a logically-impossible "composite visual world" for the Oberoi's farmhouse, e.g. at 58 mins., Prem drives away from the house in Maharashtra into a lush, green landscape with towering mountains behind, undoubtedly in Austria, given the two other duets with Karisma Kapoor are in Innsbruck and Salzburg ,respectively. See Basu, "The Geo-televisual and Hindi Film in the Age of Information", in Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-Televisual Aesthetic (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 82-83. Template:ISBN Basu referenced the same scene in another publication, naming the landscape locale "Swiss", in "The Music of Intolerable Love: Political Conjugality in Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se", in Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, eds., Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance (Minneapolis: Univ. of MN Press, 2008), 160.
- ↑ In their second duet, Prem again drives to another Austrian locale (Innsbruck), this time from the Oberoi's office. The car he drives is a DC Vampire; the same car exists: https://www.cartoq.com/used-cars/best-used-car-deals-in-bangalore/
- ↑ Vicky's duet with Sapna is also in Austria (Salzburg) but is completely a fantasy, occurring in Vicky's mind as he sees her through a set of blinds in the office.
- ↑ Plot Summary
- ↑ Chal Mere Bhai - Cast
- ↑ Music Hits 2000–2009 (Figures in Units). Box Office India.