Saathiya (Forever Beloved)

Aditya (Vivek Oberoi) is a bright young law student. He meets Suhani Sharma (Rani Mukerji) on a wedding function. She is a medical student who scorns love and romance as trivial diversions.

He is immediately attracted to her, but she spurns him. Aditya is relentless and she is driven to admit that yes, she is attracted to him too. All seems set for a big wedding, but their two families meet and then fight. The couple after a failed attempt to avoid each other decide to break all rules, move into a dilapidated apartment and start an at-first-blissful married life.

Most Bollywood movies would end here. SAATHIYA, however, follows the couple into the difficulties of marriage. Aditya is busy and pre-occupied; Suhani feels neglected. They fight frequently. Then Suhani disappears.

Has she left Aditya because the marriage has become so painful? Aditya searches for her desperately and finally finds her in the hospital. Suhani has been badly hurt in an accident. She is in a coma and may not live. Sitting by her bedside and thinking over their lives together, Aditya realizes that he loves his wife deeply and that he wants to make a go of their marriage. He pleads to his unconscious wife to wake up and return to him -- which she does. All ends happily. 

Cast: Rani Mukerji, Vivek Oberoi, Sandhya Mridul, Tanuja, Satish Shah, Swaroop Sampat, Sharat Saxena, Tinnu Anand, Virendra Saxena, Ujjwal Rana, Anju Mahendru, Shehnaz Anand, Annu Ansari, Chandrashekhar Gautam, Karl Katgara, Kunal Kumar, Prerna Sharma, Pubali Sanyal, Samantha, Shanu Sharma, Trishla Patel
Thank You: Shah Rukh Khan, Tabu
Guest Appearance: Shamita Shetty
Director: Shaad Ali
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Story & Screenplay: Mani Ratnam
Dialogues & Lyrics: Gulzar
Script Supervisor: Karan Kashyap
Director of Photography: Anil Mehta (ISC)
Music: A. R. Rahman
Editor: Sreekar Prasad
Art: Chetna Prabhu, Priya Raghunathan
Choreography: Saroj Khan, Piyush Panchal, Geeta Kapoor, Remo
Sound Recordist/Mixer: Robert Taylor
Additional Sound: Dilip Subramaniam
Action Director: Horse Babu
Publicity Stills: Hardeep Sachdeva
Costume Designers: Manish Malhotra, Ferzine Khambatta, Shahid Amir, Reza Sharifi
Visual Effects: EFX, Western Outdoor