Yaadein...

Plot synopsis:
Raj Singh Puri is best friends with L.K. Malhotra, who is the younger brother of J.K. Malhotra. The brothers are business tycoons and Raj works in their company.
Raj has three daughters. Their mother, Shalini Singh Puri, died from being hit by a car while shopping. The first one, Avantika, gets married through arrangement. The second one, Sania, marries her lover, even though Raj said the family will not fit with their lifestyle and how they're brought up. The last, Isha, doesn't believe in love. After a few weeks at her in-laws, the second daughter (Sania) returns home asking for divorce. After this, Raj becomes strictly against love and relationships.
All this changes when Isha falls in love with the heir to the Malhotra empire, Ronit, L.K. Malhotra's son. They ask for Raj's blessings; he bluntly refuses them. Isha understandingly shuns her relationship with Ronit. Raj arranges for Ronit to be married to the daughter of another tycoon. Isha agrees and makes him promise that he will not do anything, and would listen to his parents, but deep down she still has really strong feelings for him. Ronit is unhappy, but still goes along with the promise, and makes Raj realize that his fiancée's family is not right for them. Raj approaches the Malhotras to break off the engagement. J.K. Malhotra shuns him by calling him poor and small. The other Malhotras join forces to make J.K. realize his mistake and Ronit is finally married to Isha. At the end of the movie, Raj is still living in his farmhouse with his daughters, their husbands, and a granddaughter.

Tags: romantic

Review:
Though I am not a Hrithik fan, I went to see the movie because of Subhash Ghai.
After all he has given some excellent movies to Indian Film Industry.
But it seemed like it was trying to save itself (specially during song sequences, dance by Hrithik is only little good thing about the movie).
In last half an hour of the movie Jackie has given a credible performance.
From the trailers it looked like it would be a good movie, but like other reviewers at IMDB I feel that this movie was an utter disappointment.
The only thing that might save the movie are the cinematography, songs and the music, and _maybe_ the acting of Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor.
I had great expectation from this film but it bombed on the box office but yet i liked the movie.Yaadein is a very different film and is entertaining movie.Subhash ghai has once again proved that he is one of the best director.Music of the film is excellent.
Hrithik and Kareena have given very good performances.There is nothing to criticize about this film except for a very few..
However, Overall Great performances by the three main characters, heart rending music, good story line makes Yaadein a "must see"..
Subhash ghai attempts to make a love story which falls flat on its face.
The movie is a story of a father trying to become a dost of his three grown-up daughters who have been brought up in London.
Now obviously, the father is Indian to the core and there are enough dialogues in the movie about sanskriti etc.The father(played by Jackie shroff) wobbles between the two extreme views about mohabbat(whether it is good or bad) and there are a lot of sub-plots none of which is allowed to develop.
The romance between Hrithik and kareena is pathetic with all the usual fundas thrown in(viz saving the heroine, puppy love etc).
There are twists:) like rich boy-poor girl, love is good/bad, another girl, a dead sweetheart always dressed in white, sacrifice to show gratitude etc which are just ghai's attempts to borrow from the breed of directors who are adept at making love-stories.
I think the movie is far better than the low overall score that it has received.
Let's look at why I feel that "Yaadein" is a nice, entertaining movie (and justifies a score much higher than the 4.5/10 awarded to it:1.
The director is very well known.So why has this movie got such a low score?My personal belief is that Hindi movies get wild, inconsistent ratings from fans who have not thought the matter sufficiently through.
Is "Dil Chahta Hai" a better movie than, say,  "Shawshank Redemption" which was rated 9.0/10?"Dil Chata Hai" is good.
I don't think so.It appears that very few people rate Hindi movies compared to the numbers of reviews that English movies get (45 people rated "Yaadein"; 75,837 people rates "Shawshank Redemption").
Roshan's acting and dancing is good as always, but unfortunately it is not enough of a saving grace to sit down and be tortured for 3+ hours.The movie can be described as one big advertising arena - for products ranging from Coke to Hero bicycles.
With "Yaadein" Hrithik Roshan delivers his first flop, commercially and artistically.
"Yaadein" is the kind of film everybody involved probably wants to leave behind and forget, despite its title..
It was a good movie but the first half was quite inadequate.
Kareena,Hrithik,Anu Malik Save Yaadein.
I went to see Yaadein on opening night at a theatre in Diamond Bar.There was an unprecedented crowd at the box-office for a Bollywood movie.
I finally saw the movie on Sunday at the 5 p.m. show.It was a disappointment in the sense that I expected a lot more from Subhash Ghai.
Kareena Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan are brilliant.
Anu Malik's score, despite poor lyrics by Anand Bakshi, is one of his best in recent times.
At least four songs - the title number and three others - are going to be big hits.Another asset of the movie is its outstanding photography by Kabir Lal.The movie has hit the top ten list in U.K. and is 19th in the US.Just in 3 days it has grossed approximately $645,000 from 59 theatres giving it one of the highest per theatre average.
To the best of my knowledge no other movie from Bollywood has reached this level of business in the US.However, from this Ghai should not conclude that his critics are wrong and he is right.In future he should shun those product placements.
To be a movie director is a great thing in itself.
Salim-Javed may not be writing scripts any more, but there is Javed Siddiqui who is equally good and with whom Mr.Ghai has collaborated very successfully in the past and can do so with greater success in the future.Finally, as moviegoers we should all go to see Yaadein and enjoy the great performances of Kareena and Hrithik and the intoxicating music of Anu Malik..
Could have a really good movie.................
Yaadien was one of the most anticipated films of 2001 in India, because not only was it a big film, but it was a film directed by showman Subhash Ghai, at the time considered the finest filmmaker in Hindi Cinema, it was also a film with chartbuster music, it was also a movie featuring two talented promising young actors/actresses Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor, and it was a movie also starring veteran actor Jackie Shroff.
I felt this movie will be golden, and it starred Hrithik Roshan, one of the best actors of Hindi Cinema, and my favorite actor, so I watched this movie, and man was I disappointed.
Kareena Kapoor, who back then was known to be a very over expressive actress, did a wonderful job, in this movie.
I have to say, the actors tried really hard and it shows, What saves the movie from becoming a total disaster, are the musical numbers.
Watch it only if you are a Kareena or Hrithik fan, DO NOT WATCH IT, THINKING ITS A SUBASH GHAI MOVIE, by the way, after this movie, Mr. Subash Ghai entered a career slump, and pretty much his career was over.
Yaadein is an o.k. movie but someone instead of Kareena Kapoor like Priety Zinta would have been much much much more better than Kareena Kapoor because shes not good enough for the role.Hrithick Roshan was fantastic though and so was Jackie Shroff.
Amrish Puri was good as well and so was everyone.Kareena Kapoor is just too much of a show off but she should know that shes boring.The songs were good and the director is a well known director but he can make more kinds of better films.Hrithick Rochan was better in Koi mil gaya,Lakshya and Kaho na pyar hai but he was still good in this film too.I do like this film but it can improve..
A Subhash Ghai film.
This movie tells you why Subhash Ghai's movies are different from others in the same genre (say, love stories?).
Watch out for Udit Narayan's version of the title song "naghme hain, shikwein hain..." Credit goes to the director the way he used Udit's voice to great effect in this piece and Hariharan's voice for the other one.
So, movie lovers not knowing Hindi should not miss this film.I watched this movie for the 4th time on DVD; but try to watch it on the biggest screen possible..
The thing about 'Yaadein' that people don't seem to like is that it clearly does NOT relate to them.
Hindi movie-goers want a sheer love story that is mysterious, and only breathes within your head, and your heart.'Yaadein' tells you that love can be extreme fickle.
Because of this, it probably disappointed many people who expected Hrithik Roshan to TOTALLY score with Kareena Kapoor.
This film gives the movie-goer a good message: That abandoning family for business changes you, and it weakens your heritage and tradition.
Money, business, and wealth kill tradition.One further point of concern: Most Hindi film titles contain the world "Dil," "Prem" (sometimes), "Ishq," "Hai," or even the infamous "Mohabbatein." This is 'Yaadein.' MEMORIES.
Try to cherish them, because love is not exploited in this film, like they are in others.
Though people might have high expectations from Subhash Ghai, even by normal standards, this movie is horrible.
Not only that, the blatant product placements is very insulting, imagine watching a commercial for Coke or 'Paas-Paas' in the movie itself!.
His work has been going down since Trimurti but with Yaadein, Ghai has scaled a new high of the most boring movies of all time or shall I say, a new low?
The movie was initially written as a father-daughter love story but Ghai wanted to en-cash on Hrithik's sudden stardom and the result is a big mess.
Despite the film having received bad reviews, people are still queueing up to see the film, possibly I suspect, to see how bad the film really is.What was Subhash Ghai even thinking of!
Jackie Shroff, who surprisingly is the pivot around which the movie revolves, just can't act.
The editing is clumsy, the rest of the supporting acts are average to worse, the cinematography is at places terrible, the dialogues make no sense, the story is patchy, the music is no great shakes...I could just go on.
Jackie Shroff is a middle-class restauranteur (with a swimming pool) living in England, a father of three daughters, who loses his wife (Rati Agnihotri, probably the only saving grace of the movie) in a shoot-out.
Hrithik is a foster son of his, who eventually falls in love with Kareena.
I don't think I'll be having Pass-Pass for some time to come, considering that it will immediately remind me of Yaadein.Subhash Ghai has gone or record saying that his target market is the foreign market where people pay 7-10$ for a ticket and he does not really care for the guy paying 10 rupees in a small town in Bihar.
Which may make economic sense (though I doubt it)...but doesn't the movie still have to be good?
Pardes was average, Taal was bad but had good songs and now we have the worst of the bunch, Yaadeun.
Ghai loyalist Jackie Shroff is the only saving grace in this melodramatic disaster.
Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor were bad and the characters actors like Amrish Puri weren't any better.Its the same cliché plot about a rich guy falling in love with a poor girl.
It seems to me Subhash Ghai hasn't been able to keep up with the times.
The one time hit director of films like Karz, Hero, Karma, Ram Lakhan and Saudagar has hit a rough patch.
A word of advice to Subhash Ghai next time give us something to remember and not something we would rather like to forget..
another bad movie by Subash Ghai.
i've read comments on this website about this movie about how only few people can relate to this movie but those commentators are wrong i of course find this movie crappy and sad any movie by Subhash Ghai will suck unless he writes it for some films or produces or presents it only old people can relate to this movie i definitely do think that this movie really deserves the rating it gets i give it an even lower rating this movie is not strong but just about relationships isn't there enough crap being made about it that the director had to do this i wish that in the future Subhashji tries something different next time this is just the same sad crap that he put into Taal and i hope maybe he will come up with lighter stuff than this.
Good Movie Wrongly Rated..
A rating of below 4 is an insult to the hard work and dedication of movie makers in the caliber of Subash Ghai.
Yes, Ghai, has made few stinkers ("Kisna"), but overhaul this man is an asset to the Indian Film Industry.
Why this movie is rated so low?
That said, the movie is too long and the story too twisted.
Great lyrics and good music.
The song/dance number at the Jaipur palace, was one of the best aesthetically choreographed numbers in Hindi Films.
I look forward to Subhash Ghai films every two years, I really do.
I loved PARDES (3.5/4), and I appreciated parts of TAAL (3/4), so the expectations for his next film YAADEIN were naturally sky high.
When TAAL released in the summer of 1999, one would have thought that Subhash Ghai would have taken the critics' reviews seriously.
Therefore, I thought that by now, Ghai would be able to craft a perfect film, as I heard the pre-buzz about the film to be good.
When the soundtrack released, I found the flak it received quite unfair, as I like the score, but I definitely did not think it was great.
A few songs are good, many are average and only one is truly great - of course, the well loved title track.Well, none of the hype lived upto the film.
The girls find love through different ways, but the last daughter (Kareena Kapoor) encounters the biggest problem when her lover (Hritik Roshan) is engaged (conveniently by force) to someone else.
Yaadein is a really great movie, I know there are a couple of terrible things about the movie, like the dresses and some of the unnecessary detours from the plot, but overall I really enjoyed this movie.
But overall no matter how many times I watch Yaadein it still brings tears to my eyes, because I UNDERSTAND what Subhash Ghai was trying to portray with this movie.
A coca cola solves everything in Subhash Ghai films 8.
It is possible to have great songs in a film yet still tank at the box office.11.
Never expected this from Subhash Ghai!!!.
How a director like Mr Ghai can ever do this?
That too with a star cast of Hrithik & Kareena.
And on the top a good actor like Jakie Shroff as well.
Although Jackie's performance in the movie was good.
But the whole storyline & plot is sickening, does not makes much sense.Two people are in love and there parents are friend as well but they can't marry.
And people expect some senseless values for an Indian bride (questions Jackie asks Hrithik's would be wife).
And on the verge is the climax where like any typical movie, everything is taken care of and everyone's happy.How could he get such a bad performance from actors like Kareena and Hrithik?
The songs of the movie are still okay.
I have to say that Hrithik Roshan is one 'beeeyootiful' man who knows it, or maybe thats just the way he was directed.
But this is very much a common gripe I have about this particular genre and we can over rule this for the time being.The movie started off really slowly with the long winded wind up to the events that lead to Raj Puri's return to India (this felt like it took hours).
I enjoyed the way that the movie seemed to be a montage of events which fitted well with the title Yaadein (Memories), Raj Puri had a lot more depth than most characters in this genre of movie and I found him very likable and very human in many ways.
I got the message that if children are traded like commodities then there is no hope of a better future for Indian people.
A film that could be great.
Subhash Ghai lost his head post PARDES, his most films were bashing NRIS(even PARDES but it was a good film) but TAAL though a hit was nothing great, YAADEIN could've been a great film.
The film was initially supposed to be a story of Jackie and his daughters but after Hrithik's popularity Subhash Ghai changed the script increasing his role.
The worst thing of the film is the shift in focus from father-daughter relationship which does have it's moments to Hrithik and Kareena portions,worst being the shameless ad placements which gets to the nerves.
Also the clichés and stereotypes and predictability irritatesDirection by Subhash Ghai is okay but he seems confused Music by Anu Malik is decent, some songs are hummableJackie Shroff as always gives his best in Ghai films and he is good though at times he goes overboard, Kareena Kapoor in her 3rd film was decent, Hrithik Roshan too does well though he overdoes at times Rati Agnihotri is okay in a cameo, Amrish Puri and the entire family seem straight from PARDES and TAAL.
Hrithik is still the best dancer on earth and even that and the pleasure of watching him dance just one fantastic song (Chamakti Shaam Hai) goes a long way to making me like a film that has practically no other redeeming qualities.6.
Any costume designers that worked Hrithik's wardrobe in this film should be banished from the industry, and possibly from the planet.
Cant believe the same person made films like Pardes and Taal.
Which two couples?( Hrithik Kareena or Jackie-Roti?) Who is the main character in the film?
( Hrithik or Jackie or Kareena or Amrish?
These were the few question that struck my mind when i saw the film, as far as i feel every film should have a purpose, it can be either to teach us something, to make us laugh or even to make us cry, or to make us realize something...but after watching this film i couldn't think of anything to gain from this piece of trash.About acting only Jackie was somewhat watchable, don't want to talk about Hrithik cos this one is probably his worst piece of acting together with MPKDH, he has done nothing but overacting and occasionally tried to put in some English accent..and people say SRK overacts.....
Kareena has come a long way since Yaadein, she couldn't even act to save her life, let go overacting, and in the dance sequences she was awful.in my opinion she didn't even look good.the others went unnoticed.the only good thing about the movie were the songs..though not all of them.