Yeh Mohabbat Hai

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Yeh Mohabbat Hai

Credits
Producer/s:	Cinevista Eagle
Director:	Umesh Mehra
Cast:	Akansha Malhotra, Danny Denzonp, Rahul Bhatt, Rakesh Bedi, Mohnish Behl, Arbaaz Khan, Mohini Sharma, Shakti Kapoor, Johny Lever, Dolly Bindra, Gulshan Grover, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Avtaar Gill and others
Music:	Anand Raaj Anand
Lyrics:	Dev Kohli

YMH has been in news for a few reasons - mainly being, it is the launchpad for yet another star daughter and another one being that part of the film was shot in Uzbekistan (a small country bordering Afganistan). Yeh Mohabbat Hai (YMH) launches Akanksha, the granddaughter of the legendary star-couple, Bina Rai and Prem Nath, and the daughter of Prem Kishen, a flop hero turned head of Cinevista, one the most successful television production houses in the country. Cinevista also makes a debut into film-production with this film.

As for the plot/story line:

Shaheen (Akanksha) and Chan (Rahul Bhatt) are in love with each other. Shaheen is a rich businessman Aman Khan's (Danny Denzongpa) daughter while Khan's manager Bashir Khan (Parikshit Sahani) is Chand's father. Shaukat is Aman Khan's nephew and the film's villain.

Chand is also the captain of his amateur cricket team, which has been invited to play in Mumbai. He's asked by one of the cricket match organisers in Mumbai to get a bag of cricket bats. Chand is unaware that the bag actually contains RDX and the organiser is actually a dreaded terrorist Abdul Jameel (Arbaaz Khan). The police are tipped off about Chand's arrival and in a police encounter, all his teammates get killed while Jameel manages to escape. Chand is caught by the police (Sadashiv Amrapurkar). News reaches Aman Khan and Bashir Khan about Chand's involvement in the RDX case and the fathers of the 10 'killed' boys are up in arms against Bashir Khan as they think that Chand is involved with the terrorists.

While Shaheen is heartbroken, she is certain about Chand innocence. Meanwhile, Chand is put in a Mumbai jail. A year or so later, Shaheen comes to know about Chand and with the help of her chacha (Rakesh Bedi) comes to Mumbai to rescue him.

What follows next is the effort to rescue Chand, to prove Chand's innocence. Watch YMH, if you must to find out how they go about doing this...

Performance wise, Akansha doesn't impress much. She doesn't look like a Bollywood material at all and honestly she looks prettier in person than onscreen. Rahul Bhatt, on the other hand, looks and acts like a Bollywood hero. It's unfortunate that he didn't get his share of publicity during whatever publicity this film got.

Umesh Mehra should be punished for wasting the audience's time and money with such a movie. The writer probably forgot about the word 'logic' while writing the script so don't even complain while watching YMH. Camera work by S.Pappu is decent and Anand Raj Anand has given OK music.

All in all, YMH is a movie which you should watch only if you get paid to do so.