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 - someone who does not drink, smoke or tell lies. She is skeptical when her friend Honeys [Delnaaz Paul] mom, a tarot reader, Sunita Rao [Kirron Kher], predicts that 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 Singh [Shahid Kapoor], known as Immy, who is from Delhi, also goes to Bangkok and he is everything Priya does not want in a man. Immy and his friend break into the girl''s 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 of it and replaces it. Knowing exactly what Priya wants, he pursues her and they fall in love but their happiness is shattered when Priya, one day goes to Immys room, finds her diary, realizing he has read her diary and lied to her. While Immy is making a promise to his friends, that he will now have his last cigarette, and last can of beer. As he takes a zip out of his can, Priya appears in front of him and all hell breaks loose. She then breaks up with Immy despite his protests. He tries to explain to her it was destiny which brought them together. Priya decides to test destiny and asks Immy to write his full name on a fifty-rupee note and buys a notebook with it. She writes her full name and phone number in the book and gives it to an old book shop. She feels that if destiny really meant for them to be together they''d find the note and the book again and find each other. Three years later Immy, now again known as Amit, is the exact man Priya wanted him to be in South Africa, and Priya, the girl he didnt want her to be. But still, they are engaged to marry different people. Priya totally forgets him as she finds the fifty-rupee note, and then believes that they were destined to be together. Even though Amit is getting married now, he finds the notebook, and tells everything to his fiance [Aarti Chhabria], and she leaves him as she tells him where Priya is, and they both get back together, and turns out that destiny did want them together.

Production

In 2004, the cast began shooting in places like Delhi and Dubai, and later continued to shoot at Pathways World School. They were also supposed to shoot in Thailand, but Kapoor asked for a delay to attend the premiere of Dil Maange More, thus avoiding the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that destroyed the hotel that the cast and crew had been scheduled to stay in. The movie was expected to hit screens on 23 December 2005, but due to some financial and casting problems, it failed to do so. Salman Khan was signed on to do an important extended guest appearance for the film but opted out because of differences with the films lead pair [Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor]. After the lead pair broke up, sources indicated that they wouldnt come together to dub for the film. However, the director, Satish Kaushik questioned "...why should Shahid and Kareena have any problems dubbing it?" Producer Boney Kapoor further noted that "...perhaps it was destined that the most romantic film featuring Shahid and Kareena would come after their relationship." In December 2007, sources indicated that the film was scheduled to release the day after Valentines Day [15 February 2008] but it was again delayed. On 1 April 2008, the director announced that Shahid Kapoor had begun dubbing for the film whilst Kareena Kapoor would begin after she returned from her overseas trip. In February 2009, it was reported that both the actors had finally completed dubbing for the movie.

Soundtrack

# Milenge Milenge - Alka Yagnik & Jayesh Gandhi [04:46] #Kuch To Bakee Hai - Himesh Reshammiya [03:55] #Ishq Ki Galee - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Jayesh Gandhi [05:15] #Tum Chain Ho - Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik & Suzanne DMello [05:11] #Milenge Milenge - Himesh Reshammiya & Shreya Ghoshal [05:07] #Yeh Hare Kaanch Ki Choodiyan - Alka Yagnik [04:43] #Kuch To Bakee Hai [Bright Mix] - Himesh Reshammiya [04:00] #Ishq Ki Galee [Dance Mix] - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Jayesh Gandhi [03:40] #Milenge Milenge [Lounge Mix] - Himesh Reshammiya & Shreya Ghoshal [06:47] # Kuch To Bakee Hai [Dark Mix] - Himesh Reshammiya [03:59] #Tum Chain Ho [Unplugged] - Vineet Singh [04:12]

Box office

The film collected Rs. 10.45 crore in its first week.

Critical reception

Upon release, Milenge Milenge received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 5 and described the film as "regressive, senseless, and packed with plot-holes the size of craters". Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated it 2/5 and said, "Milenge Milenge has the charismatic lead pair, who are very popular with the youth, as its USP. But the problem is its dated look. Having taken a long time to reach the theatres, it will have to rely on a solid word of mouth to lure the audiences into cineplexes". Mayank Shekhar of the Hindustan Times gave it 1.5/5 saying, "Years since, while the film''s main pair may not be friends anymore, have probably knocked each other off their Facebook pages, trashed old kissing pics, tucked away the sweet SMSes, they can''t quite disown a new release that celebrates them still. Well. Sucks. I guess!". Gaurav Malani of India Times gave the film 2/5 and stated, "Watch it only if you are just interested to see Kareena Kapoor when the term size zero wasn''t coined. Else Milenge Milenge doesn''t score too much above zero".