Yeh Hai Mohabbatein Romantic

[Julia Kozub]

Narayanhires Raj Aryan as Gurukul's new music teacher. Raj believes in the power of love and decides to spread love throughout Gurukul. He sympathizes with the predicaments of Sameer, Vicky, and Karan, and encourages them to persist and stay loyal to their loves. Raj manages to help all three of the boys reach out to their loved ones by: getting Sameer a part time job at a cafe in the marketplace outside Gurukul to be closer with Sanjana who lives there, allowing Vicky to attend dance sessions with Ishika at the all-girls college, and giving private piano lessons to Karan to impress Kiran and her family. Raj tells the three students he had a special love himself and that although she is dead, she accompanies him every day, as a ghost. One day, as part of his plan, Raj throws a party, to which he invites the students of the all-girls college. Narayan discovers the party and threatens to dismiss Raj. At this point, Raj reveals he had been a student at Gurukul over a decade earlier and that he had fallen in love with Megha, Narayan's only daughter. Narayan had summarily expelled Raj from the college and the distraught Megha had committed suicide. Raj returns to Gurukul to honour Megha's memory by reversing the college's zero-tolerance policy on romance; he promises he will fill the school with love and that Narayan will be unable to stop it. Narayan is shocked; he takes this as a challenge and allows Raj to remain.

Sameer, Vicky, and Karan are able to win over Sanjana, Ishika, and Kiran, respectively, but Narayan retaliates by tightening the college's rules after he caught Vicky arriving late at night but got saved by Raj. The student body, however, encouraged by Raj, continues to defy the rules and in a final effort to preserve the school atmosphere he has built up for 25 years, Narayan expels the three students. Raj speaks up on their behalf, stating they did nothing wrong by falling in love and accusing Narayan of causing his own daughter's death with his intolerance of love. Raj says he feels Narayan lost the challenge because his daughter left him and now Raj, who considered Narayan an elder, is leaving him as well. Raj's words hurt Narayan, who realizes his strict no-romance policy is misguided. Narayan apologizes to the student body, resigns as principal of Gurukul, and nominates Raj as his successor. Raj accepts and reconciles with Narayan.

"It was not easy at all but I wanted faces which were not seen every Friday. I wanted fresh faces, talented faces, naturally young faces, basically youngsters who would be willing to learn, faces who could understand the truth about what this thing they called Mohabbatein was all about and more than any thing else I wanted them to understand every minute detail of the script as conceived by me."

Mohabbatein was one of the most anticipated films of the year and the audience's expectations were high.[33] On 8 October 2000, a special screening for the film in Film City was organized with Aditya Chopra, Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan, and Johar in attendance.[34] The film was released theatrically on 27 October during the Diwali celebrations; its release clashed with those of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's thriller Mission Kashmir and K. S. Ravikumar's comedy-drama Thenali.[33] Due to its lengthy running time, theatres screened three shows daily rather than four.[1]

Mohabbatein received positive reviews upon release, with Bachchan and Khan's performances garnering the highest praise.[1] Savera R. Someshwar of Rediff.com commented the film "is a mish-mash alright. But it is also a successful, feel-good film." She described both actors as "the two pillars on which this film is built and each time they come face-to-face, there is this expectant hush."[40] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated the film 4 stars out of 5, praising Aditya Chopra for handling the confrontation sequences between the two "with aplomb". He added the director "is at his best", saying, "Not once do you feel that the writer in Chopra has tilted on any one side".[41] Vinayak Chakravorty concluded, "Clearly, Aditya Chopra faces a downhill task this time around. Shorn of a solid script, bereft of impressive treatment and lacking any directorial credibility to hold his [...] mega dream [...] Mohabbatein is a veritable lesson to any budding filmmaker on how not to make a film".[28] Zee Next's Vinaya Hagde gave a scathing review of the film, calling it "dumb", and saying Kher and Singh were "totally wasted".[42]

Reviewing Mohabbatein for The Hindu, Savitha Padmanabhan criticized the film's duration and the way the confrontation sequences between Bachchan and Khan "are always interrupted by the love stories of the teenyboppers"[43] but Filmfare's anonymous reviewer appreciated them for "[excelling] in their respective roles". Nikhat Kazmi called the film the "inglorious uncertainties of cinema" and Khalid Mohamed wrote, "Back in the romantic mode, Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein is indeed like a rich, multi-layered, vibgyor cake. But frankly, only a few slices tickle the taste-buds."[24] Suman Tarafdar from Filmfare said most of the cast members "look so unconvinced about their roles and perform accordingly".[15] Screen said Aditya Chopra's "untiring efforts are visible in every frame and his mastery over screenplay is evident throughout the first half".[25] Comparing the film with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge in his review for India Today, Dinesh Raheja said Mohabbatein "has too many diverse strands and in a bid to avoid getting knotted up in them", and considered the story is "disappointingly pat and oversimplified".[44]

No she did not just turn up at Shaguns house. What was she thinking? Shagun was the last person she should have been speaking to. One she had lied at home secondly, Shagun is a heart less women who would never understand where Ishita was coming from.

We once again saw Ishita fall to Shaguns feet, begging for her to reconsider, take her feelings into consideration, and change her mind. Instead Shagun was seen being even more rude to Ishita. Instead she told Ishita to get out of where she was living, and spend the last night with her that she could. Ishita was seen leaving in absolute tears, fully broken hearted, after losing the battle for sure.

Ishita did however listen to Shaguns words and immediately went home to join Ruhi in her bed. She was once again seen weeping however this time, Ruhi woke up. We saw Ruhi take care of her Ishima, making her go to sleep. It was a cute scene that took place, showing the relationship the two share, and the love between them.

Just then the tables turned. Ruhi was being taken away from the family. Ishita was awaken from her sleep and had to return Ruhi to Shagun. No one was stopping her. Ishita was fighting, stopping the female officer from taking her Ruhi away from her. Everyone was distraught yet did nothing, instead they aimed to stop Ishita from holding on to Ruhi as they knew this was part of the deal. But why??

Once again fantastic acting by Divyanka and Anita. The way the scenes were shot were just great. The way Anita portrays the character of Shagun is just superb, otherwise I would never hate Shagun like I do.

Raman was the first to make a move. He decided to drive around with Bala and try to find someone who could help. He searched everywhere, driving from one lawyer to another, trying to find some solution, someway to save his daughter.

When he thought all hope was lost, the way he reacted was just agonizing. The way he took his anger out on the car and started crying. It just showed that Raman has gone through a lot to get Ruhi and now she is being taken away from him once again.

Meanwhile, Ishita sat at home with her sister and mother, discussing how things were going, how she would be unable to live without Ruhi. Explaining how that first day she just forgot about everything and went to save Ruhi, and now Ruhi was no longer going to stay with her or be a part of her family. She then was seen making phone call, frantically pacing between rooms, trying to make sense of everything happening. Romi was also making phone calls, all in hope of finding a solution.

Thankfully, Bala also had an idea. He and Raman decided to go to a senior lawyer and try and find help. It all looked very hopeful; however he then explained how nothing could now happen due to it being too late. It was distressing. Nothing could be done; Ruhi had to now be handed over to Shagun!

The screen was then shifted to Shagun, who was sitting, gloating along with her lawyer, feeling proud of what she had just managed to do. It was just frustrating to see that Shagun was feeling so proud and had actually succeeded with her plan. Mihir then entered, trying to get Shagun to change her mind. But as usual, Shaguns stone heart and unwillingness to listen left even her brother wasting his breath.

Divyanka and Karan throughout these scenes have just been absolutely believable. The way they portray their characters is just great. Both of them throughout have been in emotional scenes and have done justice to them. It was one of those episodes where you knew exactly how the characters felt, and almost felt like it was actually happening to you, making you want to cry. Well Done once again Divyanka Tripathi and Karan Patel.

Ishita rushed to pick the documents up, it was evident something had being changed. The way her facial expressions changed, something big must have happened. And then the shouting started. Ishita was furious. How could Raman decide to agree to these clauses???

Divyanka Tripathi! Wow just wow, how does she do it? The whole time the amount of emotion she bought to the character was just amazing. How could someone connect to her own character so much. The amount of emotion showed, almost seemed like her own daughter was being taken.

The Bhalla family had two things to be happy about, one Adi was coming to stay with them and two it was HOLI! The celebration of colours, likely to be a day where the whole family are having fun, messing around and ensuring that everyone is coloured from head to toe.

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