Remember Madhavan's debut days? The struggling period that most newcomers often go through before having a "turning point". Abhishek Bachchan had it with REFUGEE but he turned over with Mani Ratnam's YUVA. Hrithik Roshan had it good with KNPH but he got sour with a festival of flops [FIZA, MISSION KASHMIR, YAADEIN, LAKSHAYA] but bounced back with K3G to an extent and KOI MILL GAYA.
Aside from that, this is one of the most underrated movies of all times. In a time where masalas, action thrillers rule the roost (down south mostly) a film like this got underlooked at. Probably because of this release coiciciding with SRK Asoka and Sunny Deol's INDIAN (not the Shankar tamil remake, that was dubbed in hindi as HINDUSTANI.) Both of them flopped along with this, but GAUTHAM MENON [KAKKA KAKKA, VETTAIYAADU VILAYAADU, PACHAIKILLI MUTHUCHARAM] didn't back off.
In fact the way Menon's presented his story is superb. A remake of his Tamil debut film MINNALE [co-starring Reema Sen], Gautham had made significant changes to this one with in the end becomes a better product than the remake itself.
Madhav "Maddy" Shastri is a typical goonda who known to be girl allergic and have a fearsome quarrel with those who go against him. His rival Samraj "Sam" [Saif Ali Khan] is the typical college hero, topper in classes and a girls magnet. Fate changes one day when both of them cross each other lines therefore leaving their last fight in the air until fate crosses paths again.
Cue 3 years later and we have Maddy as a Software Engineer instructor, who's more clean slate but also falls for Reena [Diya Mirza]. However, after knowing about her marriage to a person called "Rajeev", Maddy impersonates as Rajeev from America, who then entices Reena until a sequence of events follows, leading to the ultimate climax.
First and formost, the music deserves full brownie points. Harris Jayaraj has retained 3 of the songs from the Tamil original but has composed "Kehnna Hai" newly for this film exclusively. Camera by Varma is excellent. Edits by Antony is great. Course the post-intervals could've been trimmed a bit.
Madhavan as Maddy is the highlight of the film. Be it his flair for comedy, love, or anger scenes, he's simply competent. Diya Mirza impresses but dialogue delivery could be improved. Saif's done a great job and it shows alot better than Abbas did in the original.
REHNNA HAI TERE DIL MEIN is worth a watch. Go for it!
Rating: ***.5
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