''Kash... Aap Hamare Hote '' (translation: Wish... You Were Mine) is a 2003 Indian
drama film
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. The
film
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starred
Juhi Babbar
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in her film debut. The film was directed by Ravindra Peepat and music was composed by
Aadesh Shrivastava
Aadesh Shrivastava (4 September 1964 – 5 September 2015) was a music composer and singer of Indian music. Initially, he had worked as a drummer to music composers including R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan before working independently as a music d ...
.
Plot
Amrita is the adopted daughter of Yashwant Raj Mankotia. Amrita was actually the daughter of late Yashwant Raj's friend. Yashwant has a son, Randeep Raj Mankotia who is in Canada. Yashwant plans to get Randeep and Amrita married. Randeep does not want to go to India to visit his father. To make Randeep come to Yashwant pretends to have heart trouble. Randeep does not want to leave his business. He gets even more upset when he learns that he is going to marry Amrita. His father says if he does not accept the marriage all his property will go to Amrita. Randeep agrees to the marriage. After the wedding, Randeep and Amrita travel to Canada. When they go to Randeep's house, Amrita meets Simone, Randeep's business partner/spouse. Simone and Randeep humiliate Amrita and she runs away. Randeep gathers some men and orders them to find Amrita and kill her. Amrita then hides in the garage of Jay Kumar who befriends her. Daljit Brar
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(Ravee Gupta) is the daughter of Jay's boss and is jealous of the friendship between them so she fires Jay. Yashwant Raj misses Amrita so he goes to Canada to visit her. When Yashwant asks where Amrita is Randeep lies and says she has humiliated him by taking up alcohol. Yashwant doesn't believes this, he goes to find her and the truth. Afterwards he finds out that his son has not only disgraced Amrita but it fact doing illegal business of drugs with Simone. After a brawl Yashwant kills his son and he later discharged by the court, and he decides to go back home while blessing Amrita and Jay.
Cast
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Sonu Nigam
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as Jay Kumar
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Juhi Babbar
Juhi Babbar is an Indian film and television actress. She has also contributed to theatre both as an actor and director. She is the daughter of famous Bollywood actor Raj Babbar and the second wife of Indian TV actor and anchor Anup Soni.
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as Amrita Raj Mankotia
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Om Puri
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as Yashwant Raj Mankotia
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Sharad Kapoor
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as Randeep "Ronny" Raj Mankotia
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Saadhika
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as Simone
* Raavee Gupta as Daljit Brar (Dolly)
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Raj Babbar
Raj Babbar (born 23 June 1952) is an Indian Hindi and Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. three-time member of the Lok Sabha and a two-time member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He was the Pr ...
as Sardar Teja Singh Brar
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Johnny Lever
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as Native Indian
Soundtracks
* "Chalte Chalte" –
Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He has been described in the media as one of the most popular and successful playback singers of Hindi Cinema and Kannada Cinema. He has been honoured by the Govern ...
* "Dhaani Chunariya" –
Alka Yagnik
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* "Dil Main Sau"—Manmohan Singh
* "Hai Rabba"—Manmohan Singh
* "Hum Bhi Mohabbat"—Sonu Nigam
* "Kash Aap Hamare Hote" – Sad—Sonu Nigam
* "Kash Aap Hamare Hote"—Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik
* "Mera Hindustan Hai"—Sonu Nigam
* "Shaava Perdesio"—Sonu Nigam,
Sukhwinder Singh
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* "Tumse Hui"—Sonu Nigam,
Anuradha Paudwal
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Critical reception
Taran Adarsh
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Career
Taran Adarsh started his journalism career at the age of 15 with ''Trade Gui ...
of
IndiaFM
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gave the film 1 star out of 5, writing ″On the whole, KASH AAP HAMARE HOTE is an ordinary fare. At the box-office, the film will face rough weather due to a strong opposition in the form of
2003 Cricket World Cup
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. Had the film released at a more appropriate period and without oppositions, the prospects would've been better.″ Sukanya Verma of
Rediff.com
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, it had more than 300 e ...
wrote ″The best thing about the film is Manmohan Singh's cinematography. A Yash Chopra regular, Singh captures gorgeous Canada beautifully.″But then, films do not run on stunning locations, technical superiority or catchy music. Kash... simply lacks appeal in all other departments.″
References
External links
*{{IMDb title, 0352489
2000s Hindi-language films
2003 films
Films scored by Aadesh Shrivastava
Films shot in Vancouver
Films set in Vancouver
Films about illegal immigration