
The album was the year's top seller, with around 7 million copies sold. The music was composed by Nadeem-Shravan, with lyrics by Sameer and Faiz Anwar (for song Pehli Bar Mile Hain). The film was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 1991 After two decades, the director has also planned to make a sequel for the film. Despite liking the story, he did not connect the role to his satisfaction and upon his refusal, Sanjay Dutt was cast. Lawrence D'Souza in a special appearance in the song "Dekha Hai Pehli Baar"Īamir Khan was the initial choice for Aman's role.Pankaj Udhas as himself in the song "Jiyen to Jiyen Kaise".Tej Sapru as Veera, a local goon who appears in the "Tu Shayaar Hai" song.Yunus Parvez as Anees Saheb, a press editor.Laxmikant Berde as Laxmi, Verma's servant at Ooty.Reema Lagoo as Kamla Verma, Aman and Akash's mother.Kader Khan as businessman Rajiv Verma, Aman and Akash's father.
Sanjay Dutt as Aman Verma,the adopted so of Mr and Mrs Verma.He is hard working and helps the poor.He writes poetry under his pen name ,sagar. Madhuri Dixit as Pooja Saxena, a book store owner who falls in love with Aman's Sagar persona. Salman Khan as Akash Verma ,Rajiv Verma's younger son. Eventually, Akash decides to unite Pooja and Aman and sacrifices his love for Pooja. Later, she meets up with Aman and tells him that she still can't forget him and that she would have loved him if he had revealed the truth that he is Sagar and cries a lot on his shoulder. Pooja witnesses this encounter (behind a curtain) and then after Aman confesses that he loves Pooja (his fan) very much, Pooja comes out of hiding and becomes upset with both Akash and Aman and leaves their house in an emotional frenzy, confused about this whole fiasco. Gradually, Akash gets really tired of posing as a poet, he messes up the lines many times! Also, Akash discovers that Aman truly loves Pooja and that his brother, is actually Sagar – through a string of events triggered by a Pankaj Udhas show.Īkash musters up enough courage and comes to his senses about what is going on, then he confronts Aman (and brings Pooja with him secretly) with all the above and then Aman admits that he loves Pooja. She is not aware that Aman is sacrificing his love for his younger brother.Īn insecure and heartbroken Aman looks on, as he knows that many fans (including women) like his poetry, but they will never come out openly and love him when they see his handicap. Little does she know that the one posing as Sagar is Akash (Aman's younger brother). When Akash does this, Pooja is fooled and overjoyed that she has met her idol finally. Aman is shocked and shaken at this, as he also was head over heels in love with Pooja, but now in order to help his brother, to reciprocate his feelings in an attempt to help, Aman suggests to Akash to pose as Sagar.Īt this point, Akash does not know that his brother Aman writes poems under name of Sagar. When Akash meets Aman in private, he explains to his brother Aman that this time he is really in love - and discloses a photo of Pooja. One day, as a twist of fate, none other than Akash meets Pooja (and being the vivacious womaniser) falls head over heels in love with her. which she does, but does not recognise him, but he recognises her. In her letters, she writes of how much she admires him, is in love with him and his poetic abilities and even wishes to meet him one day if possible.
One of his fans is a pretty young woman by the name of Pooja Saxena, who frequently writes letters to correspond with her idol - Sagar. Gradually, Aman becomes popular and well-known all around town and has millions of fans. Akash's personality is more care-free, flexible, gregarious and he turns into a Roadside Romeo, and a womaniser, while Aman grows up to become more serious and writes best-selling poems under the pen name Sagar. Varma has one son called Akash.Īs Akash and Aman grow up as brothers, they bond very closely. During childhood, Aman is an impoverished and lame orphan who is luckily befriended and adopted by a very wealthy family headed by Mr.