Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai

Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai (transl. It's My Friend's Wedding) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Sanjay Gadhvi and produced by Yash Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films.^[2] The film stars Uday Chopra, Jimmy Sheirgill, Tulip Joshi and Bipasha Basu. The film marked the debut of Tulip Joshi. It is partly inspired by My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).^[3]

Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai
Poster
Directed by	Sanjay Gadhvi
Written by	Sanjay Gadhvi Mayur Puri
Produced by	Yash Chopra
Starring	Uday Chopra Jimmy Shergill Tulip Joshi Bipasha Basu
Cinematography	Sunil Patel
Edited by	V. Karnik Ritesh Soni
Music by	Jeet-Pritam
Production company	Yash Raj Films
Distributed by	Yash Raj Films
Release date	7 June 2002 (2002-06-07)
Running time	159 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹57.5 million[1]
Box office	₹165.4 million[1]

Plot

Sanjay Malhotra lives in Mumbai with his friend Riya. He receives a phone call from his childhood friend Anjali Sharma, who shocks him with the news that she is getting married. Unfortunately, Sanjay has loved Anjali for years. Jealous and frustrated, Sanjay makes his way to Anjali with an intention to stop her marriage.

Sanjay goes to Anjali's home and soon meets her groom, Rohit Khanna. Sanjay, constantly reprimanded and lovingly chided for his playboy behaviour, is not taken seriously by anyone. Sanjay then begins to scheme. He organises a bachelor party for Rohit and all the men in the family. Rohit ends up completely drunk. He picks up on the fact that Sanjay is out to stop his marriage and vows to make sure that Sanjay fails in this. Sanjay and Riya try to make Anjali jealous to make her understand she loves him. At Anjali's Mehendi ceremony, Riya tells Anjali that she and Sanjay were never lovers. Anjali reveals that she loved Sanjay all her life, but the latter never understood it but considered her as only his best friend. Rohit is heartbroken when he learns of this. Rohit tells Anjali's mom that she and her daughter had the same choice for Anjali's groom; Anjali always wanted Sanjay to marry Anjali from deep within their hearts. Knowing his absence at her wedding, Anjali leaves for Mumbai to meet Sanjay in her bridal dress. She asks him why he left. Sanjay expresses his love for her, saying that he can't see her marrying anyone else. Finally, both express their love for each other. Even though Rohit fails in his challenge, he is happy for their love. Sanjay and Anjali marry, and Rohit and Ria sing and dance at their best friend's wedding.

Cast

• Tulip Joshi as Anjali Sharma (credited as Sanjana)
• Uday Chopra as Sanjay Malhotra "Sanju" Anjali's childhood friend
• Jimmy Shergill as Rohit Khanna Anjali's fiance
• Bipasha Basu as Riya Bhalla, Sanjay's friend
• Alok Nath as Vishnu Sharma, Anjali’s father
• Neena Kulkarni as Gayatri Sharma, Anjali’s mother
• Saurabh Shukla as Kunal Sharma, Anjali's uncle, Gayatri's brother
• Tannaz Irani as Anushka Sharma, Anjali’s sister
• Raja Vaid as Anushka's husband, Anjali's brother-in-law
• Dina Pathak as Anjali's Dadi
• Deven Verma as Hari Taya Anjali's Uncle
• Parikshit Sahni as Rohan Khanna, Rohit's father
• Resham Tipnis as Neelima Agarwal, Anjali's cousin
• Tushar Dalvi as Naren, Anjali's cousin-brother-in-law, Neelima's husband
• Bindu as Kapila Tai, Anjali's aunt, Hari's wife
• Mehul Buch as Ajit Sharma Anjali's brother

• Sheela Sharma as Ajit's wife, Anjali's sister-in-law

• Shamita Shetty as item dancer in the song "Sharara" (special appearance)

Soundtrack

Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai
Soundtrack album by Jeet-Pritam
Released	9 May 2002 (2002-05-09)
Genre	Feature Film soundtrack
Length	27:34
Label	YRF Music (digital) Saregama (physical)
Producer	Yash Chopra
Jeet-Pritam chronology
Tere Liye (2001) Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai (2002) Mudda - The Issue (2003)

The film's music was composed by the duo Jeet-Pritam, with lyrics written by Javed Akhtar. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 11,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's twelfth highest-selling.^[4] The first single track "Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai" sung by Alka Yagnik,^[5] Sonu Nigam,^[6] and Udit Narayan ^[7] was released on 25 April 2002. The soundtrack album was released by Yash Raj Films on 7 June 2002.

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Ek Ladki"	Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik	05:37
2.	"Humne Suna Hai"	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Sudesh Bhonsle & Jaspinder Narula	05:01
3.	"Sharara"	Sonu Nigam & Asha Bhosle	04:56
4.	"Jaage Jaage (Resham Si Hai Yeh)"	Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik & Udit Narayan	05:38
5.	"Hum Dono Jaise Kaun Yahan"	KK & Sunidhi Chauhan	05:41
6.	"Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai"	Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam & Alka Yagnik	05:41
7.	"Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai (Version 2)"	Sonu Nigam & Shweta Pandit	01:19

Reception

Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film two stars out of five, writing, "On the whole, MERE YAAR KI SHAADI HAI is a decent entertainer that should appeal more to the city audience."^[8] Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com wrote, "Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai is good, lighthearted, clean entertainment. It might just prove a welcome break from the two films on Shaheed Bhagat Singh releasing the same day.^[9] Derek Elley of Variety wrote, "At every level (casting, budget, songs, production values), pic is one notch down from a Chopra super-production, but it still makes a fine entry-level Bollywood pic. And anyone who thinks “Monsoon Wedding” was actually representative of contemporary Bollywood should just take a look at the real thing here.^[10] Manish Gajjar of BBC.com wrote, "My advice is that you take heed of Yash Chopra's offer because this invitation is definitely not going to disappoint when it releases at UCI Telford with English subtitles."^[11]