Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents
for the first time with a dance troupe of which she is a part of to Delhi to perform.
On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan (Aamir Khan), a casanova and tour guide who
flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she still wants to
experience the feeling of being in love for the first time, and spends time with
him. In New Delhi, Rehan shows her the city and starts to develop feelings for
her.
Zooni and Rehan decide to marry. Her mother Nafisa (Kiron Kher) and father
Zulfikar Ali Baig (Rishi Kapoor) acquiesce to the marriage, and tell her they
are coming in from Kashmir for the wedding. Meanwhile, the young couple visit
an ophthalmologist, who advises Zooni that her blindness may be surgically curable,
though the operation has a slim chance of a full recovery. They decide to take
the chance and have the operation before the wedding. Zooni asks Rehan to visit
the Rashtrapati Bhawan (president's residence) to invite their friend, the guard
Jolly Good Singh (Jaspal Bhatti), to the ceremony. While still recovering from
the successful surgery - and before she can see Rehan -- Zooni is told that
Rehan has been killed in a terrorist bomb attack on Rashtrapati Bhawan. She
is comforted by her parents who have arrived from Kashmir. Zooni feels she sent
Rehan to his death in Rashtrapati Bhawan.
In reality, Rehan is a terrorist fighting to liberate the state of Kashmir
from both India and Pakistan. As grandson of the mastermind and leader of a
key insurgent group, the Independent Kashmir Front (IKF), he is its most trusted
operative. He has been plotting and executing terrorist strikes against these
two countries, including the explosion in which he is reported to have died
and believed Zooni to have been killed in as well. He in truth had loved Zooni,
but he knew that for his cause, he had to let her go and regretted ever falling
in love with her.
Years later, the terrorists are about to pull off a huge strike as a part of
their plan. With parts stolen from India, Pakistan and Russia, they hope to
build a nuclear explosive device. This device, capable of destroying a whole
city -- New Delhi or Islamabad - within a ten mile radius. They will use to
pressure both countries into leaving Kashmir. A critical part is missing: the
detonator or electronic "trigger" device. Rehan is to bring in this
trigger. Meanwhile, the mourning and guilt-ridden Zooni returns to Kashmir and
is delivered of a baby boy, whom she names Rehan for his father.
Rehan infiltrates an Indian army unit that is taking the trigger back to Delhi
to safeguard it from theft by the insurgents. During a helicopter transport
in a remote area, he drugs his colleagues, takes the trigger, destroys the helicopter
with a hand grenade and escapes by parachute. A key intelligence operative Malini
Tyagi (Tabu) realizes who he is, but cannot deploy forces quickly enough to
stop Rehan. He is wounded by the troops, but escapes. Tyagi orders a communications
blackout in the area so that he will not be able to contact the IKF.
Exhausted, wounded, and incommunicado with a storm building, he seeks shelter
in a remote house. He is shocked to find that the house belongs to Zooni and
her father. Neither of them recognize him: Zooni had never seen Rehan as she
was blind, and her father had never met him. The child Rehan is very taken with
the man, and he likewise develops an affection for the little boy. Later, Rehan
admits to his identity, though unable to explain what he has done for the seven
years since they parted, or why he played dead. Nevertheless, he still loves
Zooni and she loves him, and they marry in a simple ceremony performed by her
father.
Soon afterward, through a TV broadcast, Zooni and her father both separately
discover that Rehan is the terrorist for whom a manhunt is in progress. Her
father tries to stop Rehan, taking him to an Army friend's house so he can use
his radio transmitter and then attempting to shoot him. Instead, Rehan accidentally
kills him, then uses the radio to contact the IKF. The IKF tell him they will
send a pick-up helicopter the next morning. Then, when the army officer discovers
Rehan in his home, Rehan kills him too.
Zooni finds her father dead, floating by under the ice in the river near which
Zooni and Rehan Jr are playing. When Rehan returns home, and tells her that
her father is at the army officer's house, she suspects that Rehan killed him.
She takes the "trigger" to her father's friend's house, and radios
the army. Tyagi apprises her of the seriousness of the danger, and the risk
to millions of lives should the IKF get the device. Before the police or army
arrives, Rehan finds her, and tries to convince her to give him the "trigger"
so he can give it to his grandfather who is arriving by helicopter, telling
her that this way they can have a happy future together. Unable to stop him
any other way, Zooni shoots him,while saying "I love you Rehan". His
grandfather is angered and aims to shoot Zooni, but Tyagi arrives in time with
an Indian army helicopter and shoots the terrorist leader dead and his helicopter
down a pistol.
The final scene shows Zooni and little Rehan laying flowers on the graves of
Rehan Senior and Mr. Ali Beg. Zooni tells him that it's easy to choose between
good and bad, but life sometimes presents two bad choices or two good ones and
Rehan Jr kisses his father's grave.
- Cast : Aamir Khan, Kajol, Rishi Kapoor, Tabu, Kiron Kher
- Studio/Banner : Yash Raj
- Format : VCD
- Language : Hindi