Hum Tum

Story:

Hum Tum is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Kunal Kohli. Produced by Aditya Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films, it is loosely based on the English film When Harry Met Sally… (1989). The film stars Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji, with Rishi Kapoor, Kirron Kher, Rati Agnihotri and Jimmy Sheirgill. Hum Tum follows the encounters of two individuals, Karan and Rhea, who run into each other on several occasions under various circumstances.

PLOT

Karan Kapoor is a cartoonist and a self-styled ladies’ man. His daily comic, named “Hum Tum,” explores the battle of male/female behavior. On a plane from Delhi to New York, he meets Rhea Prakash who doesn’t seem to be interested in him. His feeble attempts at flirting go nowhere, but when they have a stopover in Amsterdam, she agrees to explore the city with him. Karan quickly learns that he has little in common with the feisty but proper Rhea, but he won’t give up. He ends their contentious time together with an unwelcome kiss. Outraged, Rhea slaps him, and storms off, but Karan insists they’ll meet again. After six months, he spots her in a park in New York, and he makes a scene with his girlfriend Shalini, who turns out to be Rhea’s childhood friend, which ends in their break-up.

Three years later, Karan is helping his mother plan a wedding that turns out to be Rhea’s. Rhea is marrying Sameer. They bicker again, but this time, they part on good terms. Three years later in Paris, Karan is visiting his father Arjun, when he runs into Rhea. He learns from Rhea’s mother, Parminder “Bobby” Prakash that Sameer has died in a car accident just after their first marriage anniversary, and he sets out to help her reclaim her positive outlook on life.

Karan returns to Mumbai, and three months later, Rhea and Bobby visit. Sensing that she needs to be with a strait-laced, “boring guy,” he conspires with Bobby to fix her up with his shy best friend, Mihir Vora. But eventually Mihir falls in love with a friend of Karan’s, Diana Fernandez, and they get engaged. On the engagement night, Rhea learns from a drunk Diana about the conspiracy and gets upset with Karan. Mihir makes Rhea realize her and Karan’s love for each other. That night Rhea and Karan consummate their relationship. Karan deems it a mistake and asks Rhea to marry him as he feels he took advantage of her, and that marriage will rectify the mistake. Rhea becomes upset, as she did not consider their actions a mistake; she realizes she loves him but tells Karan that they should not commit one more mistake by marrying for the wrong reasons. Rhea leaves him since Karan projects his confused feelings as guilt rather than love for her. Karan realises his mistake and tries to seek her out but fails.

One year later Karan’s cartoon Hum Tum becomes a hit and he writes a book about Hum and Tum. Basically, the story is based on his love story with Rhea, who reads that book and finds him in the press conference. Karan and Rhea reunite again. Karan admits his love for her, and they get married and have a baby girl. While looking at their child lovingly, a baby boy is placed in the crib next to hers. Karan believes that the boy will marry his daughter and complains to Rhea saying men flirt since the day they are born, indicating that their daughter and the boy will have their own romantic relationship.