Expectations were high, as this was the first film that Madhuri Dixit acts with Karisma Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan alongside. This was also the first film Shah Rukh Khan acted with Yash Chopra as director after the mega-success Darr.
To start off the music was released and within a month the songs have hit the number one position on the charts and are breaking records all over the world. The music director, Uttam Singh, relatively unknown before this album released (except for a few albums in the eighties), reached a high with his compositions. Anand Bakshi’s mastered the lyrics one more time.
The story is fairly simple. Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), a director, starts with describing a new play that his performing team is going to put on ’’Maya ’’. The lone female dancer in his team is Nisha (Karisma Kapoor). Nisha, madly in love with Rahul, once tells him about her love. As Rahul starts making this play with Nisha in the lead as ’’Maya’’, she gets injured, and the real ’’Maya’’, Pooja (Madhuri Dixit) arrives. Pooja is arranged to marry Ajay (Akshay Kumar), a businessman from London. Pooja takes the part as Maya hesitantly. From there, the story rolls to the finale quite peacefully.
Shah Rukh Khan dominates the movie. His role as Rahul is played valiantly truly deserved the award. Karisma Kapoor dominates her role also. Madhuri Dixit, as Pooja, shows off her talent as an actress, and this role may bring her back into the numero uno spot.
The music sounds even better in the film than on cassette.
Shah Rukh, Madhuri , Karisma, and even Akshay do a good job and Yash Chopra’s potentially award winning direction are just a few reasons to go watch it once.