Hameshaa

Synopsis

Raja (Saif Ali Khan) and Yash Vardhan (Aditya Pancholi) are childhood friends. Though they come from different backgrounds, Raja being poor and Yash being wealthy, they treat each other as brothers & engage in the odd off-road racing challenge. Rani Sharma - daughter of a local doctor (Kajol) enters their lives. Raja bumps into Rani at his college & falls in love with her instantly. Rani hesitates at first but Raja's charms start working their magic on her. Raja calls her to a precarious cliff meet up point to profess his love to her. It's a rainy day & Rani gets caught in a storm. Yash happens to be driving past her when she asks him for a ride to the clieff. Yash is instantly smitten by Rani. After some casual flirting with her in the car, he drops her off & she rushes to meet Raja to find out why he called her there. Raja confesses his love to her & she brushes him off. Raja feels snubbed & in order to prove his love for her, he attempts to kill himself while trying to walk off the edge off the cliff backwards to see her reaction. Rani sees his willingness to so easily give his life for her & comes to the realization that his love must indeed be true. After preventing Raja from falling off the cliff at the last minute, they profess their feelings for each other & their love deepens. However Yash, secretly sees them together & is shocked. Jealous and bitter, Yash proceeds to meet Raja under the guise of wanting to introduce the love of his life to his best friend. Raja shows up & Yash looks visibly disturbed. While trying to cheer up Yash, Raja casually holds Yash's hand & leans backwards from very same cliff ledge & tells him that he loves his friend & trusts him. Yash takes the opportunity & tragically kills a stunned Raja by leaving Raja's hand at the last minute as Raja falls to his death. Rani witnesses the murder and tells Yash that they will be together again and he will not be able to do anything. She jumps to her death with intent, leaving Yash heartbroken and as a living corpse.

Many years have passed and Yash is unmarried and lives with his Dai Ma (Aruna Irani). Fate brings him to Reshma - a folk dancer (also played by Kajol) who looks like Rani. Promising to fund her father's medical cure & telling her that he will support her talent, Yash brings them over to his palace. Soon thereafter, Yash discovers Raju (also played by Saif Ali Khan) who looks like Raja & is shocked. Yash continues to look after Reshma & try to win her heart but she encounters Raju and remembers bits of her past life. After several other encounters with him she remembers what happened in her past life but Raju does not remember a thing. Yash wishes to marry Rani and does whatever he can to make Raja leave. He even tries to bribe Raja by asking him to pursue his music career in Mumbai. Rani confronts Yash when she finds out that he secretly arranged to get engaged to her without her consent. She further discovers Yash's deceit through her dreams about Raja's murder from her past life. Unable to bear it & tortured by the truth, Rani escapes to Raja tells him what happened. He swiftly returns her to Yash thinking that she is mentally unsound. But when she escapes once again on the day of her wedding with Yash with photos to prove her theory, Raja remembers everything & jumps onto a train with Rani. They barely manage to escape Yash who murders Rani's father, kills Raja's best friend & even toss's Raja's uncle in front of a train in his murderous rampage. Raja is now determined to make sure that Rani stays with him only. In a car chase that ensues, they reach the same point where they had originally died. After fighting each other & trading punches, Raja is once again hanging on to Yash's hand, ready to die just like he did earlier, but reverses it by distracting Yash. Now Yash is hanging on for dear life and Raja lets go, killing Yash and thus avenging his death. Raja and Rani finally unite.

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