Chal Mere Bhai

Chal Mere Bhai is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language comedy film produced by Nitin Manmohan and directed by David Dhawan. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan and Karishma Kapoor.

Plot

Chal Mere Bhai is the story of two brothers, Vikram "Vicky" Oberoi and Prem Oberoi and how their lives are turned upside down by a girl named Sapna.
Vicky is a business tycoon who runs his family's huge business empire. Sapna applies for the position of his secretary. She is an orphan who has just moved to Bombay from Pune and is currently living with her uncle and aunt and doesn't have the required experience to be Vicky's secretary, but Vicky's father, Balraj Oberoi is impressed by Sapna's passion and hires her.
Prem is an aspiring actor, much to the chagrin of Balraj, who would like Prem to also work for the family business. However, Prem's grandmother and Vicky support Prem's decision to be an actor. He works with Sapna's uncle who is a theater director.
Sapna is very inefficient at work and annoys Vicky constantly with her clumsy behavior and incompetence. But when Vicky is attacked after work, it is Sapna's fast thinking that saves his life. Vicky's family invite her and her family to a short vacation on their farmhouse. Vicky's family become quite fond of Sapna. Prem and Sapna also fall in love during this time.
However, before Prem can tell his family that he loves Sapna, he finds out that his grandmother wants Vicky to marry Sapna and that Vicky has agreed to the proposal. Prem doesn't want to break his brother's heart. Vicky has been grieving for his late girlfriend, Piya for a very long time. Prem doesn't want to get in his way now that Vicky has finally decided to move on. Prem therefore falsely tells Sapna that he was just fooling around with her. A heartbroken Sapna gives in to the pressure of her aunt and uncle and agrees to marry Vicky. However, Vicky finds out the truth before the wedding and calls them out. Sapna and Prem are reunited at the end. The last scene implies that Vicky finds love again when a new girl, Pooja joins his office.

Cast

Sanjay Dutt as Vikram "Vicky" Oberoi
Salman Khan as Prem Oberoi
Karishma Kapoor as Sapna Mehra
Dalip Tahil as Balraj Oberoi
Sushma Seth as Dadima, Vicky and Prem's grandmother.
Shakti Kapoor as Mamaji, Sapna's uncle.
Ravi Baswani as Waiter in a guest appearance
Anil Dhawan as Doctor in hospital
Himani Shivpuri as Mamiji, Sapna's aunt.
Shahbaz Khan as Rakesh
Javed Khan as Murari
Asrani as Family doctor
Nagma as Sonia
Shankar Mahadevan as himself in the title sequence.
Lesle Lewis as himself in the title sequence.
Sonali Bendre as Piya, Vicky's beloved who died in an accident
Twinkle Khanna as Pooja
Birbal as Astrologer
Ghanshyam Rohera as Nandu, the cook
Shashi Kiran as Suri
Masshe Uddin Qureshi
Dinesh Anand
Suresh Bhagwat
Divya Palat in song Mehndi Rang Laayi

Soundtrack

According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 12,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack was the year's fifteenth highest-selling.

Reception

Sharmila Taliculam of Rediff.com wrote that "Chal Mere Bhai is supposed to deliver a message on love, brotherhood, sacrifice and family values. But really, do you want to sit through another one? I suppose not. In that case, you can comfortably give this a miss". Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 1 star out of 5, writing opined that "Director David Dhawan should've chosen a better script to work on. Those going to watch a typical David Dhawan kind of a masala film are bound to be disappointed this time. The film lacks in substance, which is its biggest flaw.At the box-office, CHAL MERE BHAI has weak merits and will find the going tough."