Chal Mere Bhai

Chal Mere Bhai(translated: Come on, my brother) is a 2000 Indian Hindi comedy film. The film was produced by Nitin Manmohan and directed by David Dhawan. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan and Karishma Kapoor in the lead roles. This was Karisma's fourth consecutive portrayal of a character with the name Sapna.[3]

Chal Mere Bhai
Luv is tough... so laugh a little
Directed byDavid Dhawan
Produced byNitin Manmohan
Written byRumi Jaffrey (Dialogues)
Screenplay byIkram Akhtar
Yunus Sejawal
Story byIkram Akhtar
StarringSanjay Dutt
Salman Khan
Karishma Kapoor
Music byAnand-Milind
Nitin Raikwar, Sameer (Lyrics)
CinematographyHarmeet Singh
Edited byA. Muthu
Distributed byGaurav Digital
Neha Arts
Eros International
Release date
  • 5 May 2000 (2000-05-05)
Running time
133 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹14 crore (US$2.0 million)[1]
Box office₹22 crore (US$3.1 million)[2]

Plot

This is the story of two brothers, Vicky (Sanjay Dutt) and Prem Oberoi (Salman Khan) and how their lives are turned upside down by a girl named Sapna (Karishma Kapoor).

Vicky is a business tycoon who runs his family's huge business empire. Sapna applies for the position of his secretary. She is an orphan who has just moved to Bombay from Pune and is currently living with her uncle and aunt (Himani Shivpuri). Sapna doesn't have the required experience to be Vicky's secretary, but Vicky's father, Balraj Oberoi (Dalip Tahil) is impressed by Sapna's passion and hires her.

Prem is an aspiring actor, much to the chagrin of Balraj, who would like Prem to also work for the family business. However, Prem's grandmother (Sushma Seth) and Vicky support Prem's decision to be an actor. He works with a theater director (Shakti Kapoor) who happens to be Sapna's uncle.

Sapna is very inefficient at work and Vicky is completely sick of her. But when Vicky is attacked after work, it is Sapna's fast thinking that saves his life. Vicky's family invite her and her family to a short vacation on their farmhouse.[4] Vicky's family become quite fond of Sapna. Prem and Sapna also fall in love during this time.[5]

However, before Prem can tell his family that he loves Sapna he finds out that his grandmother wants Vicky to marry Sapna and that Vicky has agreed to the proposal. Prem doesn't want to break his brother's heart. Vicky has been grieving for his late girlfriend (Sonali Bendre) for a very long time. Prem doesn't want to get in his way now that Vicky has finally decided to move on.[6] Prem tells Sapna that he was just fooling around with her. A heartbroken Sapna gives in to the pressure of her aunt and uncle and agrees to marry Vicky. However, Vicky finds out the truth before the wedding and calls them out. Sapna and Prem are reunited at the end. The last scene implies that Vicky finds love again when a new girl (Twinkle Khanna) joins his office.[7]

Cast

Soundtrack
Chal Mere Bhai
Soundtrack album by
Anand-Milind
Released2000
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelT-Series
ProducerAnand-Milind
Anand-Milind chronology
Shikaar
(2000)		 Chal Mere Bhai
(2000)		 Chhupa Rustam: A Musical Thriller
(2000)

According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 12,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fifteenth highest-selling.[9]

All lyrics are written by Nitin Raikwar, Sameer; all music is composed by Anand-Milind

The music featured in the top 15 best selling albums of 2000.[10].

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Aaj Kal Ki Ladkiyan"Sonu Nigam, Vinod Rathod, Poornima, Vaijanti6:35
2."Chal Mere Bhai[11]"Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan5:00
3."Chal Mere Bhai" (Remix)Shankar Mahadevan, Lesle Lewis, Dominique4:20
4."Chori Chori Sapno Mein"Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik5:03
5."Chori Chori Sapno Mein" (Sad)Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik1:08
6."Mehndi Rang Layee"Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Jaspinder Narula6:49
7."Mere Baap Ki Beti"Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Vinod Rathod4:40
8."Meri Neend Jaane Lagi Hai[12]"Alka Yagnik, Sonu Nigam5:30
9."Thodi Si Beqarari[13]"Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik4:39
10."Theme Music" (Instrumental) – 3:23

References
  1. https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=723
  2. https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=723
  3. https://bestoftheyear.in/movie/chal-mere-bhai/
  4. Anustup Basu describes director David Dhawan's creation of a logically-impossible "composite visual world" for the Oberoi's farmhouse, e.g. at 58 mins., Prem drives away from the house in Maharashtra into a lush, green landscape with towering mountains behind, undoubtedly in Austria, given the two other duets with Karisma Kapoor are in Innsbruck and Salzburg ,respectively. See Basu, "The Geo-televisual and Hindi Film in the Age of Information", in Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-Televisual Aesthetic (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 82-83. ISBN 9780748641024 Basu referenced the same scene in another publication, naming the landscape locale "Swiss", in "The Music of Intolerable Love: Political Conjugality in Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se", in Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, eds., Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance (Minneapolis: Univ. of MN Press, 2008), 160.
  5. In their second duet, Prem again drives to another Austrian locale (Innsbruck), this time from the Oberoi's office. The car he drives is a DC Vampire; the same car exists: https://www.cartoq.com/used-cars/best-used-car-deals-in-bangalore/
  6. Vicky's duet with Sapna is also in Austria (Salzburg) but is completely a fantasy, occurring in Vicky's mind as he sees her through a set of blinds in the office.
  7. Plot Summary
  8. Chal Mere Bhai - Cast
  9. "Music Hits 2000–2009 (Figures in Units)". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  10. "Chal Mere Bhai among most sold music albums of 2000". Archived from the original on 14 June 2012.
  11. The director filmed this duet in at least three locations: on the sea, near Nariman Point; Agarkar Chowk/Pinky Cinema (outside, in front of the permanently-shut cinema); and a bowling alley like PlayPark. https://goo.gl/maps/wtp5gmWKkV8usQgQA
  12. The director filmed this duet in Salzburg, Austria, mainly in the garden outside the Mirabell palace: https://goo.gl/maps/roxLYRUwsGGZZE2FA and the square outside the Salzburg Residenz palace: https://goo.gl/maps/7k24dQbG5MjHincW6
  13. The director filmed this duet in the town square of Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. Cf. 1hr11min to Google Map streetview: https://goo.gl/maps/cT8ppRBKPuiUpSyT9
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