Jaanam Samjha Karo

Plot synopsis:
Chandni (Urmila Matondkar), a lower class talented night club singer and dancer at Daniel's (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) club, but in fact 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 a Rahul who appears to taking 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 taking all 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 Chandni is not like the girls he had met and he tries to mend things sending a gift to Chandni, but it is rejected by Chandni 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 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 mom (Rohini Hattangadi) due to her lower class and disreputable job. She however joins in to sing but her feelings took over in between and she ran 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 stuck 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 molesting 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 rather luxurious hotel.
There, Rahul meets his old womanizer friend Harry (Shakti Kapoor) but then stuck with a blonde French girl bearing his child. Rahul gets rid of her and joins Chandni for shopping, in Harry's notice. Chandni finds an old Indian man with whom she chats and enjoys Indian lifestyle abroad, not knowing he's Rahul's grandfather, Dadaji (Shammi Kapoor). Bumping into the latter in the same hotel, Rahul suddenly persuades Chandni to leave the hotel at the soonest. Dadaji takes him out for a coffee where Rahul neglects Chandni in front of him. Later, Dadaji catches both of them together and demands an explanation, to which Rahul says Chandni is his wife whom he married to save her honour. One day, however, Dadaji mentions that he wants to see Rahul married to Chandni. In order to fool him, Rahul asks Chandni to pretend to be his wife, which she accepts. In this role, Chandni acquires the respect she longed to have. She meets Divya again who is on travel with her husband, Ashwin and mother. On further acquaintance between them and Rahul, it is found that Ashwin's factories are dependent on Rahul's for garments and he finally met him as he wanted. Divya's mom feels then lower in status than Chandni who feels proud wearing the mangalsutra.
Harry and Monica join hands to mislead Rahul while driving away Chandni. After Dadaji leaves, Rahul goes squandering his money on gambling and after losing, he's instigated by the duo against Chandni who has then been entrusted with some investment money. Rahul and Chandni have a big fight, where Rahul slaps Chandni, and both decide to go their separate ways.Harry(Shakti Kapoor) tries to make advances towards Chandni but she gives him a tight slap. When asked outside restaurant about what happened Harry says" Thappad khaya hai Chandni se maine" Chandni is hurt and expresses her pain in her performance. Dadaji has a talk with her before she leaves, and discusses her goodness with Rahul who then realizes that he has fallen in love with her. The unfaithful duo, on their success, abuses Chandni to which Rahul fights with them and begins enmity with Harry. Despite inheriting all wealth, Rahul follows Chandni back to India from London. Meanwhile, Chandni has promised to settle with Daniel in Goa, still as bar dancer, in exchange for a new bank account, with all of Daniel's savings, to Chandni's family. Rahul goes to her home and asks to speak to her, but she refuses to listen to him. So he yells out his apologies in front of her house and states that he loves her while a crowd gathers, including Daniel. Harry arrives there with a gang to take revenge from Chandni for slapping him and they get into a fight. When Rahul is almost about to murder his ex friend, Chandni comes out and tells him to not ruin his life by killing Harry. Rahul then proposes to her, and Chandni wants to accept, except that she can't break her promise to Daniel who then feels as if he has witnessed true love and kindly lets Chandni go. Chandni then accepts Rahul's proposal and the movie ends with them embracing each other.

Tags: romantic

Review:
A typical but heartwarming romance. Jaanam Samjha Karo is a very nice watch for the entire family. Urmila Matondkar plays Chandni, a young girl who works as a nightclub dancer and singer to feed her family. She meets a handsome womaniser named Rahul, played by Salman Khan. Rahul's grandfather, played by the great Shammi Kapoor, comes to visit him and keeps insisting that he finally get married, and Rahul asks Chandni to pretend to be his wife. She does so, and his grandpa is charmed by the young girl who has great values. Rahul does not take Chandni seriously, but she falls in love with him. But then, when his grandpa leaves, she decides to do the same. Will something or someone change this? Go and watch to find out. The film has everything a Hindi commercial flick of its sort needs: very melodious songs, charming romance, good stars, nice story, solid dialogues, amazing locations and many emotions. Salman Khan and Urmila Matondkar have a very good chemistry together. Shame they didn't work as much together. Khan is very good as Rahul, but the film belongs to Urmila, who is wonderful in an all-out mainstream flick. She manages to make the sensitive Chandni a real woman of substance with her intense style and forceful dialogue delivery. Shammi Kapoor is very, very likable as Rahul's grandpa. The film is light and entertaining, it does get a bit overdone at times (though I still can name a few filmmakers who would have turned it into an unbearable soap), but is generally an interesting watch despite some of its flaws. I recommend.. Predictable but Enjoyable. Chandni (Urmila Matondkar) has been forced to become a dancer to support her extended family. Despite this, she lives a virtuous life, dreaming of marriage. Womanizer Rahul (Salman Khan) sees her and is determined to seduce her, but she is not taken in by his lies. This romantic drama showcases Matondkar's excellent dancing with some impressive musical numbers. Shammi Kapoor is great in his role as Grandfather. While this is a familiar role for Khan, he does it well enough that I intensely disliked him at times. The plot was good, predictable in it's happy ending, but still enjoyable. Overall, it's an entertaining film for Bollywood fans.. One of Salman's good films. Salman gave many hits in 1999 and this was one of them. Jaanam Samjha Karo was the first and last time Urmila Matondkar and Salman Khan worked together and I must say, their pairing was good. It's definitely a shame filmmakers never had Urmila with Salman ever again in any film. Anyways, Janaam Samjha Karo is a typical romantic comedy with some action but it's well handled for the most part.The story is the same old formula, where the guy is a Casanova but the girl changes the guy. This story has been used many times in the past but not every movie using this formula has succeeded. The film contains everything from funny one liners, typical romance, action, and good songs. The movie does drag nearing the end but the final fight and then the end is good. However, the very end is a bit stretched out making the drama boring. However, the direction and the script work well and do full justice to the film.Direction is good, scenes are well handled and despite a few flaws like drags and stretches, the film flows well. The biggest flaw would have to be the scene right before the title song. Salman Khan comes to dance ans flirt with Urmila and the way they act looks like they know each other when this is their first meet. However, this is forgiven with the comedy that happens later. There are many light hearted scenes, there is no vulgarity despite Salman's character being a vulgar one.Salman Khan steals the show with his one liners, his expressions are good. He doesn't look bored when acting, he puts full energy into his dancing, his action. Overall, Salman does a good job. Urmila Matondkar proves why she is such a great actress, she doesn't overact. Her expressions are well timed and she also gets good dialogs to mouth. Despite that one scene where the script makes her overact, she acts well. Late Jaspal Bhatti is funny, he evokes laughter the most in the film. Shammi Kapoor is good as the grandfather of Salman. Shakti Kapoor is good as the villain, he makes the act look real but his Casanova act is irritating. Sadashiv Amrapukar is good as well, his change nearing the end is too sudden but well shown. The rest provide decent support.On the whole, Jaanam Samjha Karo is a light hearted movie despite some a few crude jokes. The film successfully evokes laughter and successfully forms a drama where two opposite characters fall in love. Unlike many films, this one is well handled and the flow of the film is good.