Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega is an Indian 2000 Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Raj Kanwar, produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, written by Rumi Jaffrey and edited by Sanjay Verma. Salman Khan, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji are featured in pivotal roles. Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega was the third consecutive hit between Khan and Nadiadwala's collaboration after Jeet and Judwaa as well as one of the year's top-earnings film releases with a gross of worldwide. The film entered Top 10 chart in the UK.
Plot
Raj is a singer trying to make his way in the big city ofMumbai. He rescues a young woman who has fallen in front of a train and stays with her when she is rushed to a hospital. Pooja Oberoi, the daughter of a wealthy family, survives but falls into a coma. Her family rushes to the hospital and, finding Raj there, assumes that he is Pooja's husband, Romi, with whom she had eloped with to marry and whom they had never met. Since Pooja's father has a higher chance of a heart attack, Raj lies and says he is Romi. As the family gets to know the pretend Romi, Pooja's best friend, Jahnvi starts spending a lot of time with him. They both fall in love with each other, who is regarded as a second daughter by Pooja's family. Then Pooja revives from her coma and complicates matters by falling for Raj. In a conversation, Pooja and Jahnvi both reveal that they both love Raj using signs but Jahnvi realises that Pooja loves Raj resulting in her putting her hand down. Raj and Jahnvi put their relationship to an end. On the day of their engagement, Jahnvi unknowingly takes Pooja's cell phone. Knowing that Raj will never marry Pooja if she's there, she decides to leave. When Jahnvi cell's phone rings, Pooja picks it up and it ends up being Raj's best friend who pleads Jahnvi to break this wedding and come back to Raj. Pooja then reveals to everyone about Raj and Jahnvi and Raj and Jahnvi are once reunited. Pooja chooses Rahul Rahul comes to marry Pooja.
Music of the album has been composed by Anu Malik. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 22,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was year's one of the highest-selling. "Har Dil jo Pyar Karega", "Piya Piya", "Ek garam chai ki pyali ho" and "Aisa Pehli Baar Hua Hai Satrah Athrah Saalon Mein" garnered special popularity, and the whole album was received positively. Screen rated the soundtrack album number one for the third week of August 2000. As of 2020, fans are petitioning for all the songs to be on TikTok.
The film was generally well received by the critics, especially the performances of the three leads were appreciated. Film journal Screen praised the performances of Khan and Zinta and wrote, "The director deserves to be commended for his efforts to spring a few surprises in the film and extract better performances from the lead players." Aparajita Saha of Rediff wrote that the film is "guaranteed to give audiences everywhere that mushy, gooey, everything-is-all-right-with-the-world sensation they crave." Dinesh Raheja of India Today wrote, "a fluorescent feel-good film, with everything from the psychedelic sets to the multitude of outfits being as colourful as a candy wrapper." Madhur Mittal of The Tribune was particularly fond of the "devastating, delightful, delicious duo" of Preity Zinta and Rani Mukherjee", noting their comic timing.
