Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001)

This is a typical example of Indian cinema glorifying the harassment in the name of romance. Maddy - Does not respect women during college, acts like a goon etc etc. Falls in love instantly with Dia and decides that she is the one. He sets out to get her by hook or crook. Dia - Shown as independent working woman. But , I don't understand how did she even fall for this guy in 5 days and decide to marry him. Stereotyped to be an Adarsh Indian Bahu. Rajiv - Sensitive enough to respect women ; to even notice that Dia was not happy during the wedding ceremony. (Most Indian guys cannot even figure out why a woman is mad at him even when it's super obvious). But, Dia is shown to fall for Maddy who shouts and threatens her when things aren't going his way. Even after he says that he could have sexually violated her in disguise as Rajiv. No self respecting woman in the real world would actually choose someone like Maddy. Atleast I would not. Such a sad thing to see that this is such a celebrated movie among Indian youth. Influences the people to think it's "OKAY" to lie, stalk , threaten, harrass, emotionally blackmail, beat up people etc. :'(

I watched that movie with a lot of hope after seeing its mark. I have been hugely disappointed. India is a country where girls are subject to an increasing level of sexual harassment. It is also a country where their honour is highly valued, and where a bad marriage often means a life of misery. This film portrays Reena as a nice girl, but a girl whose choice is never taken into account. I thought that the film would end by her choosing neither after she says she doesn't want to decide her future by closing her eyes. It would have been an excellent, and genuinely original ending. Sadly, she goes with her harasser (which is what Madhav is). This basically say you can lie to a girl, and you'll get her. It doesn't matter what she thinks, she'll fall for you. As in ALL Bollywood movies, the first half hour is about the guy creepily staring at her all the time. It doesn't take into account the fact that, yes we do realise that as girls. And we don't like it. No wonder guys in India think it's OK to stare at a girl and harass her. It's because of films like that such behaviour is tolerated. Then what happens? Oh yes, Madhav pursue her, threatens her, threaten to hit her friends, beat up a few guys, and tell her that he could have raped her. She cries, but so what? It works. The film ends when Rajiv 'gives her' (she doesn't even come on her own) to Madhav. I know the story between the guys was in the background, but come on. What does that say, really? Such a film deserves only blame. It normalises attitudes which are deeply disturbing in Indian society. Get a grip, and produce films that have the balls to actually portray women other than passive victims, and men as weirdos who stare, harass, and get what they want.

RHTDM was best movie according to me. But i didn't know how it became flop. It was awesome movie with nice story line. Role of diya mirza and madhvan was extra ordinary. I had watched this movie approx 50-60times. One of the best movie of madhvan. And the song was great. There was mixture of all type of song. "Sach keh raha hai deewana" and "Dilko tmse pyar hua" was awesome. The movie was slightly slow or boring in first part. But after that the movie was great. When first time i watched the movie. I was very sad because i didn't watched the movie in theater. By the way all movie of madhvan are good. Tanu weds Manu was also a great movie, with great story line, and awesome songs.

Although it wasn't a big movie when it came out and wasn't a successful one either. But, I got to see this movie in theater and I loved it throughout. It has emotional/comic romantic story and movie starts from college campus when our hero is about graduate and most of the story takes place after he passes out of college.I was amazed by madhavan's acting skills (and comic timing too) and diya's beauty. Perfect chemistry between the two and comic moments here and there in the movie keeps you engrossed throughout. Music and all the songs are superb and A-classAnother great revelation was Saif's character. He was in new avatar (as he was written off by then) and could easily be said to be his one of the finest comeback movie (though there is dil chahta hai) and now he is one of the biggest star in bollywood, he should be thankful to this role.I must have seen this move 100s time by now, it is so refreshing. When this movie came out, I was 18 then and was totally smitten by it.I love it. :)