Rishi (Fardeen Khan) is a Casanova, believing that he can get any girl that he likes. Love has no meaning for him. So we have the obligatory drunken song act with girls thronging to his side. The stupid Suman Raganathan feels that there may be something special in her liaison with him but she is immediately put in her place by Rishi who tells her how he feels. His college friend, a poor and dare I say, bit of a pathetic cheapskate Atul Agnihotri, works in the same office as him. The two boys saunter off to a beauty show where Chandni (Reema Sen) wins and both boys have their eyes on her. The cheapskate manages to woo her through his simplicity and love appears to have blossomed. In the meantime, Rishi also tries to "buy" her but she refuses, as any self-respecting girl would do.

Off she goes to her family in the village where her widowed mother has promised her in marriage to a doctor. They are to poor and she is forced into this marriage against her wishes so that he sister will be able to find a suitable man. Chandni makes several attempts to reach the cheapskate but due to a jealous colleage, those messages are never received. On discovering the truth, the cheapskate ropes in his friend Rishi to try and get the girl back for him. Rishi arrives at the wedding, a note is delivered to the intended hubby to be (Mahesh Thakur) who is sensibility personified. Happily he tells the dame to hot foot it to her paramour and that he will simply marry her sister. Chandni dashes off to the cheapskate who is found pleading with his parents that he be allowed to marry the girl of his dreams. But with no dhan daulat coming in, they refuse on account of poverty and that if he does so, they will all commit suicide. Cheapie clutches his parents and they all wail in unison whilst the girl is left to her own devices. Rishi comes to the rescue and takes her home.

The transformation from Casanova to decent individual is now imminent. But the path of love is never smooth although you would think that there could not possibly any impediment here. The girl lives happily in Rishi's house, he dreams of her, his father and others approve of her…so what's the problem.

Athayian's film is an old fashioned yarn, probably more suited to the 70s than present day. The director makes no attempt at brightening up the proceedings with heavy turgid and often unintentionally laughable scenes. It is all too crass to be at all believeable. There is also little charm attached to any of the lead performers and the climax is a complete let down.

Fardeen Khan is awful as the driven Casanova. He simply cannot carry it off. He appears more comfortable later on but this is one hell of a boring role and nothing he can do would make it better! Reema Sen is Ok, not bad, not great. At least she is not as wooden as some in their first films. Atul Agnihotri needs a complete makeover. He plays roles which show him as passive and completely ineffectual (Kasoor, this one) and he is hardly scoring points on the acting front with his hang dog expression and floppy hair. The music by Nadeem Shravan is pleasing enough, the title song and der se huya being the better tunes. But their music is so much the same thing that I do not think that any of it is at all memorable.