Doli Saja Ke Rakhna

Doli Saja Ke Rakhna
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Directed by	Priyadarshan
Produced by	Rajkumar Santoshi (Presenter) Xavier Marquis Raman Maroo
Written by	Neeraj Vora (Screenplay & Dialogue)
Story by	Fazil
Starring	Akshaye Khanna Jyothika
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	K. V. Anand
Edited by	N. Gopalakrishnan
Production company	Shemaroo Entertainment
Distributed by	Shemaroo Entertainment
Release dates	27 November 1998
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Doli Saja Ke Rakhna is a 1998 Bollywood romance film directed by Priyadarshan with Akshaye Khanna and Jyothika in lead roles. The plot is adapted from the Malayalam film Aniyathipraavu. The music was composed by A. R. Rahman.

Plot

Inderjit "Inder" Bansal (Akshaye Khanna) is a very rich young man. Although his parents (Anupam Kher and Moushumi Chatterjee) want him to settle down, he goes to another city to do his MBA and stays with friends. During this time, he meets Pallavi Sinha (Jyothika) and they fall in love. She reciprocates his feelings, but trouble comes in the form of her tyrannical trio of brothers (Paresh Rawal, Tej Sapru and Mohnish Behl) who are over-protective of their little sister and take an irrational dislike to Inder. They show hostility towards Inder and conflicts arise within the households and the couple decides to elope, but afterward realize they miss their families. They decide to return home, relinquishing their feelings, but ultimately their families accept their love, and they are reunited.

Cast

Role	Actor
Inderjit "Inder" Bansal	Akshaye Khanna
Pallavi Sinh	Jyothika
Mr. Bansal	Anupam Kher
Mrs. Chandrika Bansal	Moushumi Chatterjee
Mrs. Sinh	Aruna Irani
Dr. Suraj Sinh	Paresh Rawal
Inspector Sinh	Tej Sapru
Vikram "Vicky" Sinh	Mohnish Behl
Colonel	Innocent Vincent

Reception

Anish Khanna of Planet Bollywood gave the film 8.5 out of 10. Faisal Shariff of Rediff criticised the film for a perceived lack of subtlety and poor acting from secondary characters. Doli Saja Ke Rakhna performed poorly at the box office. In a 2000 interview with India Today, Priyadarshan said that he "lapsed into depression" after the film flopped.

Soundtrack

Doli Saja Ke Rakhna
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Soundtrack album by A.R.Rahman
Released	1998
Recorded	Panchathan Record Inn
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	T-Series
Producer	A. R. Rahman
A.R.Rahman chronology
1947 Earth (1998)1947 Earth1998 Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (1998) En Swasa Kaatre (1999)En Swasa Kaatre1999

The soundtrack for the film was composed by A.R.Rahman, who worked with Priyadarshan in his previous film Kabhi Na Kabhi to spawn a critically acclaimed soundtrack. This time Rahman focussed more on popularity and gave some of the all-time chart-toppers. Rahman reused most of the songs in the films Jodi and its Kannada remake Sajni. The lyrics were written by Mehboob.

Song	Artist(s)
"Taram Pum"	Babul Supriyo, Srinivas
"Kissa Hum Likhenge"	Anuradha Paudwal, M. G. Sreekumar
"Jhula Bahon Ka - 1"	Sadhana Sargam, Srinivas
"Jhula Bahon Ka - 2"	Sadhana Sargam, Chorus
"Bol Sajni Mori Sajni"	Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishnamurthy
"Chal Kheva Re Kheva"	Sukhwinder Singh, Ranu Mukherjee
"Bol Sajni Mori Sajni (Instrumental)"	Instrumental
"Taram Pum"	Instrumental
"Ganga Ke Jal Se"	Chitra Srinivasan, Chorus

External links

• Doli Saja Ke Rakhna at IMDb