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Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke Reviews:
This is a love story about carrying a "lie" too far, and all its undesirable consequences
2009-01-25 -
It begins where a soldier saves a girl from being attacked by men who want to kill her. They want to kill her because she saw them kill another girl.

Sahiba (Aishwarya Rai) comes from a wealthy family who sends her away to a city college. And three years into going to college, her father (Amrish Puri) calls her and tells her that he has arranged a marriage for her. Well, she sees that the girls that she's in school with all have boyfriends that they love and will want to marry on their own. But, Sahiba is expected to have a traditional arranged marriage that she does not agree with. So, she tells her father a "lie" and that she's already married to someone. This makes her father so very angry (and feeling humiliated and disgraced) that he tells Sahiba that she is not welcomed to come home and that he feels that he "has no daughter." So, she is alone. She has no more funding for college, and she is not welcomed at home. But, as she wanders the streets, hopeless, she witnessed a girl being murdered and so the murderer and his thugs started chasing her. Then, out of the blue, an off duty soldier named Karan (Abhishek Bachchan), sees the girl running away from those men so Karan saves the girl by fighting off the men and then he helped her get on the bus that he jumped on. Sahiba is lost and confused and when the bus stops, she sees that the road they're on is high up a cliff and she may just want to jump off the cliff and kill herself. So, again, Karan grabs her and saves her.

Sahiba tells Karan about her situation and said that she's got nowhere to go and basically has nothing to live for. Karan wants to get home to marry his love Nisha (Sonali Bendre) but he tells Sahiba that he will take her all the way to her home and will tell her father that he is her husband. This will help get her father to calm down and maybe then she can explain to him that she never did get married.

But, as luck will have it, Sahiba has a large family, and everyone takes to loving Karan right away. So, it gets difficult to be able to get everyone to listen when they try to explain that they are not married. At one point, Karan says that he must leave so then Sahiba's eldest aunt suffers a heart attack at the terrible news that he wants to leave. So, for this reason, he just cannot leave just yet, or tell them the truth that they are not married.

The family treats the couple like they are the most important people in the house. They are to take the master bedroom and they are to also have a traditional Indian wedding, which just makes this "lie" harder and harder to be able to bring to an end. Karan wants to get home to marry Nisha, but all the while, not only does Sahiba's family love him, she is also falling in love with Karan. With all this new pressure on them about this non-marriage and with Sahiba telling Karan that she loves him, Karan now feels that he must just run away in the night. Just leave immediately. Sahiba will just have to tell her father and her family that Karan is gone because they never were married in the first place. So, of course, this enrages her father. So, he decides that she must marry the first man he decides, and so an arrangement is made so quickly that Sahiba is scheduled to be married within three days to a man her family never knew before. The man Sahiba will marry, Vicky, is also that man she saw murder the girl at the beginning of the film. When Sahiba tells her father and her family that the man they want her to marry is a murderer, nobody believes her. She lied before, so to them, she would just lie again. Her father insists that she will marry Vicky.

Meanwhile, Karan goes home to be with Nisha, the love of his life whom he hasn't seen for over a year, but to his surprise, she got married. Nisha never really knew that Karan was in love with her. She thought that they were just good friends. So, now Karan, has nobody. But, with a hope in his heart, he goes back to Sahiba. And immediately, Sahiba's father is there to stop him from coming into the house. The whole angry family tells Karan to leave at once. But, Sahiba's uncle still had faith in Karan and arranged for Karan and Sahiba to meet at the temple. She tells Karan that she is expected to marry the man that she saw commit the murder, and this man Vicky knows that she was the one who saw him kill the girl. And so it's expected that her new husband Vicky will kill her and her father and take over the family's wealth. Karan runs to expose Vicky as the killer that he is and Sahiba's father finds out the truth. So Vicky and his father arrange to have Sahiba's father and Karan die in a fire while the wedding is taking place. ...........

"So, have I captured your interest in this movie yet? I'll let you rent or buy it to see how it ends. I hope you enjoy it."

It didn't end the way I wanted to, though. Let's see what you think.


Ok but a little unexciting
2008-12-10 - I've given this 4 stars as overall they have some decent actors and acting in it (a lot of strong supports), scenery is good, dancing reasonable etc Yet there was something a bit unengaging through a lot of the film. Ash was doing a good job but Ab at this stage of his career looks shy and a bit withdrawn a lot of the movie.
The plot was fine except it's overemphasis on Ab's inability to get anyone in Ash's family to understand they werent married. A bit thin premise but you go with it in Bollywood.
None of the music stayed with me and I recall some of the dance sequences went on a bit as the music seemed a bit uninteresting.
If you like Ash and Ab or just adding to your collection, it's fine and a step above mediocre - but it could have been more.