“Your heart is the scene of your match-making”.
Rahul Khanna (Shahrukh Kumar) is a skilled prem chikitsak, the absolute best in the dangerous art of Samapti. He specializes in stealing the love a person has for his beloved by delving deep within their subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Rahul’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in the world of arranged marriages where angry parents don’t want their precious little son/daughter to get married to their current gold-digger/douche bag love interests. He also bags tremendous business from people who feel that their spouses are cheating on them and of course from the Mahadesh Navbarbaad Sena (MNS). However, this has made him an international fugitive and has cost him everything he has ever loved. Now, Rahul is being offered once chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can achieve the opposite – Aarambh.
Instead of the perfect breakup, Rahul and his team of specialists have to pull of the reverse: their task is not to break up a couple but to create one. If they succeed it will be the perfect match-making. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Raj could have seen coming: the beautiful and mysterious, Anjali Sharma (Kajal).
The story begins with Raj washing up on a beach and is brought by armed guards into the chamber of an elderly man. The only things that Raj is carrying are a red rose and a small bright green stuffed parrot toy. “I have seen that thing many many years ago”, says the old man pointing to the parrot. The scene then cuts to a dream in the mind of Aman Mathur (Shahrukh Kumar in a double role) where Rahul and his team is on a Samapti mission, in which an individual’s mind is infiltrated through his dreams and his love for his girlfriend is stolen. Chikitsaks and their victims sleep in close proximity with each other connected by a device that administers a sedative and allows them to share a dream world built on their mental projections. Within the dream world, pain is felt but death merely results in consciousness. Rahul carries a stuffed toy – a bright green parrot, also known as tota, to test whether he is dreaming or awake, which flaps its wings continuously or intermittently, respectively. Unknown to Rahul and his team, Aman Mathur is actually auditioning the team to work for him.
Aman asks Rahul to perform the act of “aarambh” – secretly implanting love for another person in the target’s mind. The target is Naina Catherine Kapoor (Preity Pinta) whose mind has to be implanted with love for Rohit Patel (Saif Ali Kumar), because she feels that she is in love with Aman but unknown to her, Aman is dying of a serious heart condition. Since he knows that his life span is short he wants Naina to fall in love with Rohit so that they can live happily ever after.
Rahul meets Ali Bhai (Uday Bhopra) who is an excellent dream architect and recruits him for the mission. In Rahul’s mind, Ali discovers a vision of Rahul’s deceased girl friend, Anjali that continuously haunts him and sabotages his missions. Later, Rahul reveals to Ali that he and Anjali had spent many years in a limbo dream summer camp forging their lives playing basketball with a funny Sardar kid. She used to keep the stuffed parrot to remind herself if she was dreaming or awake. After waking up from the dream, Anjali disappeared only to be never found again with the police suspecting that Rahul had murdered her and hidden her dead body. That’s when Rahul started using the Anajli’s tota in her remembrance.
In payment of performing the aarambh on Naina Catherine Kapoor, Aman promises to clear Rahul’s criminal charges. Powered by this promise, Rahul devises a layer of multiple dreams (dream within a dream within a dream within a dream …) to infiltrate Naina’s mind and plant a deep love for Rohit. As Rahul and his team enter Naina’s subconscious, slowly it dawns upon Ali and Rahul that Rahul first needs to sort out his subconscious before they can successfully complete the mission because Anjali will keep sabotaging it. Gradually it is revealed that this is not the first time Rahul is performing an aarambh and has previously done it before – to Anjali. In the past, Rahul was in love with Tina (Maharani Mukherjee in a guest appearance), when Anjali was in love with Rahul. So that Anjali does not come in between Rahul and Tina, Rahul had performed an aarambh on Anjali so that she falls in love with someone else leaving Rahul and Tina alone. Secretly, Rahul had always loved Anjali more than Tina hence he kept having recurring visions of Anjali even after her mysterious disappearance. Rahul realizes that the only way he can complete Aman’s mission is by letting go of his love for Anjali by convincing himself that she is dead because that is the only way he can get her out of his mind and not have her sabotage the mission. He recalls for one last time that he had planted a random guy’s love in her mind and most probably the aarambh failed because Anjali could never forget her love for Rahul and ended up killing herself.
Finally, the mission is a success and Naina falls in love with Rohit. Aman keeps his promise makes sure that all charges are lifted from Rahul and that he is re-united with his children. The final twist in the tale comes when Rahul realizes that Anjali is not dead …when he sees her on TV with her husband, Ajay Devcannon. At this moment, he realizes that the ‘random’ man whose love he had planted in Anjali’s mind was none other than this guy. Totally flabbergasted, he looks at his tota, in the hope that this is a dream … and it starts flapping it wings … when suddenly the movie ends; leaving the question unanswered that whether this was a dream or reality.
What an original story! Pakka superhit!
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