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Main Hoon Na
Poster for Main Hoon Na
Directed by	Farah Khan
Produced by	Gauri Khan Shahrukh Khan
Written by	Farah Khan Rajesh Saathi Abbas Tyrewala
Starring	Shahrukh Khan Sushmita Sen Sunil Shetty Zayed Khan Amrita Rao Kabir Bedi
Music by	Anu Malik
Cinematography	V. Manikandan
Editing by	Shirish Kunder
Distributed by	Red Chillies Entertainment
Release date(s)	30 April 2004
Running time	175 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Main Hoon Na (Hindi: मैं हूँ ना, Urdu: میں ہوں نہ, translation: I'm Here Now) is a Hindi Bollywood film written and directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan and Shahrukh Khan; it was released on 30 April 2004 and went on to become a box-office success .It starred Shah Rukh Khan ,Sushmita Sen in main roles as well as Zayed Khan & Amrita Rao who played the supporting protagonists and Sunil Shetty was the antagonist and popular villain in the movie.

[edit] Plot summary

Main Hoon Na tells the story of Ram Prasad Sharma (Shahrukh Khan) and his efforts to foil the terrorist Raghavan Datta(Sunil Shetty). Ram is simultaneously attempting to mend relations with his father's estranged first wife and his half-brother Lucky; complications ensue.

Raghavan is a former army officer decommissioned and court martialed for executing eleven Pakistani civilians who accidentally crossed the border looking for water. He wants to sabotage a military scheme called Project Milaap (Project Unity), a first step towards friendship between India and Pakistan. India will release fifty Pakistanis imprisoned for crossing the border into India, most of which them are illiterate villagers who wandered over the border by mistake. Raghavan does not want the state of war between India and Pakistan to end and believes that Pakistan will betray India in the process. He lost his son in the Indo-Pakistani wars in Kashmir and cherishes an abiding hatred for all Pakistanis.

First he tries to stop Project Milaap by killing the general in charge, General Amir Singh Bakshi (Kabir Bedi), the commander and chief of the Indian Army, during a national television interview with him, by taking many hostages. This fails due to Major Ram's intervention although Raghavan does succeed in killing Brigadier Shekhar Sharma (Naseeruddin Shah), Major Sharma's father, who had ordered his decommission. He also shoots the talk show host in the shoulder for interrupting his flow of questions for the general and also threatens Bakshi's daughter Sanjana (Amrita Rao). As the elder Sharma dies, he tells Ram about his step mother Madhu (Kiron Kher) and half-brother Lakshman (Zayed Khan) and begs Ram to re-establish relations with them, who are to be found at Darjeeling, a hill station on the Himalayas. Both brothers should cast their father's ashes into the Ganges river.

The general later asks Major Sharma to go undercover as a student at the college to protect Sanjana since she will distrusts anyone who is in a military uniform. Ram pleads that he has never seen a civilian college before and does not know much about the current generation. The General points out that, by a strange coincidence, Sanjana attends college in the same town where Lakshman lives, so Ram can protect Sanjana and look for Lakshman at the same time. Ram goes undercover as a student returning to college after many years away, supposedly taking care of the family business before completing his education. He is much older than the other students, who initially make fun of him because of his fashion sense. He also has to deal with the many awkward teachers as well the comically forgetful principal of the college.

He finds Lakshman (known as Lucky to his peers) who is somewhat of a legend and idol at the school, having failed the senior year exams three times. Lakshman gives Major Sharma a hard time, and they do not like one another. Later, it is revealed to be Ram that Lakshman is brother. This occurs when Lakshman's life is in danger when he and fellow student Vivek (Praveen Sirohi), race onto the roof to bring down the college flag to win a kiss from Vivek's pretty girlfriend, Mini (Rakhi Sawant). Sanjana, nicknamed Sanju, is Lucky's best friend and is secretly jealous that other girls can get his attention while she cannot. Ram shocks everyone by climbing to the rescue of Lucky, who escapes from falling to his death. This allows him to befriend Lucky and Sanjana, who had previously snubbed him as being "not special". He quickly becomes a sensation among the whole school community and falls in love with the chemistry teacher Chandni (Sushmita Sen) after the students dare him to sing for anyone new coming in through the college's main entrance. Meanwhile Raghvan gives an order to shoot a friend of Lucky and Sanjana named Percy shocking many of his comrades in order to show that if he can kill one of her friends, he can definitely kill her as well. Ram and his friends go to the movies until he spots a SUV and Percy. Shocked, Ram quickly intervenes causing Raghvan's right-hand man and former army colleague Khan, to fail killing him with a sniper rifle. Ram then chases them down and captures Khan, whom he tortures to get information about Raghvan and his operations on stopping Project Milaap. Ram also convinces Sanjana to talk to her father and also helps her on getting Lucky's attention, which she later feels as cheating him.

Raghvan is frustrated with Major Ram's actions and decides to go undercover as a teacher at the college. When the prom comes and after everyone dances, Chandni is kidnapped by Raghvan's men right before Ram's eyes who later chases them and kills them, the last one holding her hostage by shooting him in the leg through Chandani's sari and then finishing him off. After this incident, Raghavan, Ram and Sanjana all drive to a location where General Bakshi and Sanjana are reunited. Later Raghvan tells Lucky's family about Ram being his step brother learning it from the idiotic principal of the college. Lucky and his mother have always suffered due to the fact that Shekhar had refused to abandon Ram after Ram's mother died even if it meant losing Lucky and Madhu (who refused to live everyday with a reminder of her husband's infidelity). Lucky had previously expressed his hatred for the army and his son not knowing it is Ram, hurting Ram's feelings. Ram later tells them that he came to them to complete his father's last wish to reunite the family showing them his ashes in the pot and leaving them in grief after hearing about his death.

Raghvan later takes the entire school hostage and asks for Khan to be released, Major Ram in handcuffs brought to him by a helicopter, and Project Milaap to be stopped or everyone will be executed. When General Bakshi tries to stop Project Milaap, Ram stops him saying that taking this opportunity away will mean another many years of hatred between India and Pakistan, especially since Pakistan agreed to free fifty Indian prisoners in return. There he arrives in a hall where all the frightened and worried students and teachers are being held along with Lucky and Sanjana. Khan has been convinced by Ram that Raghvan is wrong and helps Ram fake his own death horrifying the students and shocking Raghvan who doesn't want Ram to die yet. Ram then proceeds to kill the rest of the terrorists keeping the students within the hall and sets them free. Raghvan is shocked and tells his comrades to search for the students and kills Khan for betraying him after he tells him that he has lied about his mission of making India a better country.

Meanwhile General Bakshi meets with a Pakistani army general at the border who congratulates him on the success of the project and the now releasing of the prisoners. Raghvan finds Ram and battles Ram in a deserted part of the school. Lucky on the other hand gets onto an army helicopter to rescue Ram. After the fight, Raghvan has a gun being pointed at Ram and threatens him to turn around and look at his death before his eyes. Ram turns around and tells him that it is a shame that he always forgets how a story ends with the bad guy always dying at the end by showing him a pin he had pulled of one of his hand grenades secretly. As he runs towards the chopper, Raghvan closes his eyes and dies in the fiery explosion which also sets off the explosives planted underneath the roof. Ram jumps off just in time when the entire roof has gone up in flames. On the border, Pakistani and Indian prisoners are released and returned to their longing families and Ram and Lucky empty their father's ashes into the Ganges river. The movie then ends with the graduation ceremony, with Lakshman finally graduating from the college after 3 years of failures, and the end credits appearing in the form of a music video.

[edit] The Outsider

• "It is interesting to note that the working title of Main Hoon Na before it went on the floors was actually The Outsider, for almost two years. I had written the script in English and every time there was any untoward incident on the sets, Shahrukh would say Just Trust me. When Abbas Tyrewala started translating the dialogues, there was this line Main Hoon Na coming up in the place of Just Trust Me. When I told Sajid that the title of my film would be Main Hoon Na he told me that it sounded like a Sudhir Mishra film. Karan said that Main Hoon Na was a horrible title while Shahrukh told me bahut kharab title hai. However I insisted on the title since I wasn’t into K titles like Karan and Ekta Kapoor. My gamble paid off and every one agreed that Main Hoon Na was the apt title after I went ahead and recorded the title song with Anu Malik as the composer", THE DIRECTOR [Farah Khan] says.

[edit] Awards

• The film was nominated for ten Filmfare Awards, among them Best Actor, Best Comedian, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Villain and Best Film. Sonu Nigam was nominated as best singer for two songs from the same movie, namely the title song and "Tumse Milke". Ultimately, it won one award, a Filmfare Best Music Director Award for Anu Malik.
• Won the GIFA Best Film Award - Red Chillies Entertainment.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Music

The music won music director Anu Malik several award nominations and his second win as Best Music Director at the Filmfare Awards.

[edit] External links

• Main Hoon Na at the Internet Movie Database

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