Hum Saath-Saath Hain

Hum Saath Saath Hain (transl. We are together) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya.[4] It stars Salman Khan, Sonali Bendre, Mohnish Bahl, Tabu, Saif Ali Khan and Karisma Kapoor, with Alok Nath, Reema Lagoo, Neelam Kothari and Mahesh Thakur in supporting roles. The story centers on a family headed by Ramkishan, containing his wife Mamta and three sons.

Hum Saath Saath Hain
Film poster
Directed bySooraj R. Barjatya
Produced by
  • Ajit Kumar Barjatya
    Kamal Kumar Barjatya
    Rajkumar Barjatya
Written bySooraj R. Barjatya
Starring
Music byRaamlaxman
Cinematography
  • Rajan Kinagi
Edited by
  • Mukhtar Ahmed
Production
company
Rajshri Productions
Amber Entertainment
Distributed byRajshri Productions
Amber Entertainment (International)
Release date
  • 5 November 1999 (1999-11-05)
Running time
170 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹100 million[2]
Box office₹817 million[3]

With a worldwide gross of ₹810 million (US$11 million), Hum Saath-Saath Hain went on to become the highest-grossing film of the year.[4][5] It received predominantly positive reviews from critics. It was also the first Bollywood film to be played in Canadian theatres, with six screenings in Toronto.

Salman Khan's performance earned him Best Actor nomination at the Zee Cine Awards held in 2000. Mohnish Behl received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 45th Filmfare Awards . The film was also dubbed into Telugu and released with the title Premaanuraagam.[6]

Plot

Ramkishan, a rich businessman married a simpleton Mamta, after his first wife died leaving him with the 1 year-old baby, Vivek, who also accepted and respects Mamta as his own mother. Later Ramkishan and Mamta have three kids: Prem, Sangeeta and Vinod. Some years earlier while trying to save Prem in an about to happen accident, Vivek is injured and his right hand is paralyzed.

Back to the present, Prem returns from United States after completing his studies.Sangita is married to Anand Tiwari and has a daughter Radhika. Vinod is doing his studies. Vivek is still receiving treatment for his hand.

On Ramkishan and Mamta's 25th anniversary celebration, all the siblings wish their parents with respect. After seeing Vivek's love for his parents, Sadhna, the daughter of Ramkishan's business associate Adarsh Sharma likes him at first sight. Adarsh comes to know of her feelings and sends a proposal for Vivek to marry his daughter. Scared at first due to his hand, Vivek later agrees and marries Sadhna. On the reception Vinod and Sapna (daughter of Ramkishan's village neighbor Dharamraj Bajpai) introduce Sadhna to the family by staging a musical program and they show the love of Prem and Preeti (daughter of Ramkishan's friend Pritam Shukla). Everyone agrees to engage the two of them. The family decides to go on vacation and they visit their village. Eventually, Prem and Preeti find out about the love interest of Vinod and Sapna. They get engaged too. However, Mamta's three friends and Dharamraj fill her head with thoughts as to why Vivek should be in charge of the family inheritance. This causes Mamta to feel scared about what will happen.

But a bitter turn comes when Anand's elder brother Anurag cheats on him from inheritance and share in the family business. This makes Mamta very paranoid and questions Ramkishan's decision to make Vivek the head of their family business. She demands that Ramkishan divide the business equally between all sons instead of putting Vivek in charge. Ramkishan disagrees thinking it will divide the family.

Heartbroken after finding out about the conversation, Vivek instead decides to choose defusion by telling Mamta that he will move back to their ancestral village Rampur to take care of the new factory recently set up. He asks Ramkishan to put Prem in charge of the family empire and Sadhna supports him. They move to Rampur and Vinod accompanies them.

Upon returning from USA, Prem refuses to replace Vivek as head of the family. Vivek convinces him to go along with the plan in the interest of preventing further conflict within the family. Prem confronts Mamta and tells her that he will not marry if she wants him to replace Vivek. Eventually, Anurag realizes he made a huge mistake in cheating Anand and breaking up his family.

Sangita asks Mamta to bring back Vivek in the house. Mamta realizes her mistakes and visits Rampur along with Ramkishan. In the hospital, Sadhna delivers a baby boy. Prem marries Preeti, Vinod marries Sapna and Anwar marries Rehana. Dharamraj apologises realising that manners cannot separate the love in family. Everyone lives happily ever after.

Cast
  • Salman Khan as Prem Chaturvedi: Mamta and Ramkishan's son; Vivek's half brother; Sangita and Vinod's brother; Preeti's husband
  • Sonali Bendre as Dr. Preeti Shukla Chaturvedi: Pritam's daughter; Prem's wife
  • Mohnish Behl as Vivek Chaturvedi: Ramkishan's son; Mamta's step son; Prem, Sangita and Vinod's half brother; Anwar's friend; Sadhna's husband
  • Tabu as Sadhna Sharma Chaturvedi: Adarsh's daughter; Vivek's wife
  • Saif Ali Khan as Vinod Chaturvedi: Mamta and Ramkishan's son; Vivek's half brother; Prem and Sangita's brother; Sapna's husband
  • Karisma Kapoor as Sapna Bajpai Chaturvedi: Dharamraj's daughter; Durga's granddaughter; Vinod's wife
  • Neelam Kothari as Sangita Chaturvedi Tiwari: Mamta and Ramkishan's daughter; Vivek's half sister; Prem and Vinod's sister; Anand's wife; Radhika's mother
  • Mahesh Thakur as Anand Tiwari: Anurag's brother; Sangita's husband; Radhika's father
  • Reema Lagoo as Mamta Awasthi Chaturvedi: Pranab's sister; Ramkishan's second wife; Vivek's step mother; Prem, Sangita and Vinod's mother; Shanti, Krishna and Armani's friend
  • Alok Nath as Ramkishan Chaturvedi: Mamta's husband; Adarsh's business associate; Pritam's friend; Dharamraj's colleague; Vivek, Prem, Sangita and Vinod's father
  • Ajit Vachhani as Lawyer Pranab Awasthi: Mamta's brother; Neenakshi's husband
  • Himani Shivpuri as Neenakshi Awasthi: Pranab's wife
  • Satish Shah as Pritam Shukla: Ramkishan's friend; Preeti's father
  • Rajeev Verma as Adarsh Sharma: Ramkishan's business associate; Sadhna's father
  • Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Dharamraj Bajpai: Durga's son; Ramkishan's colleague; Sapna's father
  • Shammi as Durga Bajpai: Dharamraj's mother; Sapna's grandmother
  • Shakti Kapoor as Anwar Sheikh: Vivek's friend; Rehana's husband
  • Huma Khan as Rehana Baig Sheikh: Anwar's wife
  • Dilip Dhawan as Anurag Tiwari: Anand's brother; Jyoti's husband; Raju and Bablu's father
  • Sheela Sharma as Jyoti Pandey Tiwari: Anurag's wife; Raju and Bablu's mother
  • Dinesh Hingoo as Raghuveer
  • Kunika as Shanti Ojha: Mamta's friend
  • Jayshree T. as Krishna: Mamta's friend
  • Kalpana Iyer as Armani Mishra: Mamta's friend
  • Jatin Kanakia as Dr. Rajiv Sen
  • Achyut Potdar as Asif Ali Khan
  • Zaki Mukaddam as Rajeev "Raju" Tiwari: Jyoti and Anurag's son; Bablu's brother
  • Hardik Tanna as Bablesh "Bablu" Tiwari: Jyoti and Anurag's son; Raju's brother
  • Zoya Afroz as Radhika Tiwari: Sangita and Anand's daughter[7]

Filming

The maximum principal photography of Hum Saath-Saath Hain was done in Film City, Mumbai, and left portions were shot in Jodhpur, Rajasthan like the song "Mhare Hiwade Mein Naache Mor".[8]

Casting

Salman Khan, Mohnish Bahl, Reema Lagoo, Alok Nath, Himani Shivpuri, Satish Shah and Ajit Vachani who all were part of Barjatya's Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! were cast in this film. Among this Salman, Lagoo, Nath, Bahl and Vachani appeared in Barjatya's Maine Pyar Kiya too.

While discussing Bahl's role, it was first offered to Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor but upon their refusal Bahl was cast to play Vivek and prepared it by making a habit of keeping right hand in pocket accordingly the role.

Barjatya initially approached Madhuri Dixit for Sadhna's role, who played the lead actress in Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! but declined owing to her popularity, and then Manisha Koirala got the offer; even she was unable to take it due to filming for Mann, before Tabu was chosen.

Later, the makers talked with Rishi Kapoor again for Anand's role, but his refusal came again as did by Nitish Bhardwaj when offered too, and thus Mahesh Thakur was roped in.

Release

Hum Saath-Saath Hain had released earlier but the music director Raamlaxman took time to check the soundtrack album for second time to not suffer any mistake. Following all work including post-production, cinematography, choreography and other things was completed followed by promotions, Hum Saath-Saath Hain finally hit the theatre screens on November 2, 1999 during Diwali.

Music

Raamlaxman composed the music, teaming up with Sooraj Barjatya for the third time. The soundtrack features seven songs and playback singers Kumar Sanu (as Prem), Alka Yagnik (as Preeti), Kavita Krishnamurthy (as Sapna) Udit Narayan (as Vinod), Anuradha Paudwal (as Sadhna), Hariharan (as Vivek), and Sonu Nigam (as Anwar). Raamlaxman plagiarised his track "A B C D" from the Spanish singer Jeanette's 1974 song "Porque te vas".[9] Savera R Someshwar of Rediff said that "..It is definitely time for Barjatya to look out for a new music director. Even the lyrics – barring "Maare hidwa ma naache mor" and "Mayya yashoda" — are banal...".[10]

Hum Saath-Saath Hain
Soundtrack album by

Raamlaxman
Released1999
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length42:48
LanguageHindi
LabelSa Re Ga Ma
ProducerRaamlaxman

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No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Hum Saath Saath Hain"Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Hariharan, Anuradha Paudwal, Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy3:57
2."Yeh To Sach Hai Ki Bhagwan Hai"Hariharan, Pratima Rao, Ghanshyam Vaswani, Santosh Tiwari, Ravinder Rawal6:33
3."Chhote Chhote Bhaiyon Ke"Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu4:15
4."Sunoji Dulhan"Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Roop Kumar Rathod, Pratima Rao12:11
5."A B C D"Udit Narayan, Hariharan, Hema Sardesai, Shankar Mahadevan4:32
6."Mhare Hiwda"Kavita Krishnamurthy, Hariharan, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal6:22
7."Maiyya Yashoda"Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal6:19
Total length:42:48

Awards and nominations
Awards Category Recipients and Nominees Results
Filmfare Awards Best Supporting Actor Mohnish Behl Nominated
Zee Cine Awards Best Actor Salman Khan Nominated
International Indian Film Academy Awards Best Makeup Raju Chauhan, Mickey Contractor, Gafoor, Ashok Gavas, Ramkrishna Godse, Jayant, Nassir Khan, Umesh Kumar, Raju Naag, Lakhan Singh Won

References
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  3. "Hum Saath-Saath Hain". Box Office India. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. "Box Office 1999". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  5. "Hum Saath Saath Hain - Movie - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  6. "Premaanuraagam". youtube.com. Rajshri Telugu. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
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  9. "The 'ABCD' Song from 'Hum Saath-Saath Hain' is Actually Stolen from a Spanish Song". News18. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  10. "Rediff On The NeT, Movies: It's not HAHK!". m.rediff.com. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
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