By Jilawatan

MILENGE MILENGE featuring Shaid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Satish Shah, Aarti Chhabria and Delnaz Paul. Directed by Satish Kapoor. (Walmer Park). Reviewed by Mogan Segadavan
INSPIRED by the 2001 romantic comedy Serendipity, Milenge, Milenge (“We will meet, we will meet”) teams Bollywood hunk Shahid Kapoor and the sexy Kareena Kapoor in their fifth film together.
Priya Malhotra (Kareena Kapoor) is an orphan who hopes to have a family of her own and keeps a diary outlining her dreams and the type of man she wants to meet.
Her friend Honey’s (Delnaaz Paul) mom, a tarot reader, predicts she will go to a foreign land and find the love of her life in seven days. She is pleasantly surprised when she is selected to go to a Youth Festival in Bangkok.
Amit “Immy” Singh (Shahid Kapoor), a fun-loving party animal who is everything Priya does not want in a man, also ends up in Bangkok. Immy and his friend break into the girls’ dorm and while they are being chased by a matron, Immy enters Priya’s room and is struck by her beauty.
He steals her diary and makes a copy. Knowing exactly what she wants, he pursues her and they fall in love, but their happiness is shattered when Priya finds her diary in Immy’s room.
The couple break up despite Immy’s protests because he has really fallen in love with her. Priya decides to test destiny and asks Immy to write his full name on a fifty rupee note and buys a book on numerology with it.
She writes her full name and phone number in the book and gives it to a second-hand bookshop. She feels if destiny meant them to be together they would find the note and the book again and each other.
Fast-forward three years and Immy is a changed man. He returns from America to an arranged marriage to the stunning Sohhiya (Aarti Chhabria) but decides to make a last-ditch attempt to find the book .
Meanwhile, Priya has also reluctantly agreed to marry someone she does not love.
In typical Bollywood fashion both weddings are scheduled for the same hotel. While it will not win any awards Milenge Milenge is a fun movie with excellent songs and lots of English dialogue.
In real life Shahid and Kareena Kapoor were an item for three years before splitting up. The chemistry is still evident in the movie.
Kareena has received five Filmfare awards. Her melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabkie Gham became India’s highest grossing film in the overseas market in 2001.