Intrigue

Rahul Khanna (Shahrukh Khan) and Anjali Sharma (Kajol) are best friends in St. Xavier's college. They both love playing basketball - whenever they play, Anjali wins. Anjali is a perfect tomboy by looks and behavior and cannot understand the feminine habits of other girls around her. Rahul constantly chases the girls in college, which annoys Anjali. This is because, unknown to either of them, Anjali is in love with Rahul.

Principal Mr. Malhotra (Anupam Kher) tells Anjali that his daughter Tina (Rani Mukherji) is coming to St. Xavier's to finish her degree, having studied in Oxford University for her first two years. Miss Briganza (Archana Puran Singh) is one of the professors in college, and the Principal Mr Malhotra has a crush on her.

Tina arrives and quickly becomes friends with Rahul and Anjali. Rahul tells Anjali that Tina is not her type as she is not from a traditional Indian background and as such, he cannot introduce her to his mother. But the next day Rahul leads Tina's ragging session and Tina sings a melodious religious song, which changes Rahul's perception of Tina. Tina is a woman with beauty, brains and traditional values. In fact, Rahul obviously has feelings for Tina.

In class one day, Rahul says he believes love is friendship and that he will only ever love a girl who is his best friend. These words make Anjali realize that she is in love with Rahul and that possibly he loves her too, even though Rahul had directed his words at Tina and not Anjali.

Tina and Rahul team up to win a inter college song and dance competition. Even though Anjali participated, but she feels left out in the chemistry between Rahul and Tina. Tina is also attracted to Rahul as she finds out that he is a family-oriented person and visits a temple every week. Rahul impresses Tina with comments like a man only bows head in front of 3 women, his mother, Goddess Durga and his wife.

Anjali is encouraged by her motherly housekeeper Rifat Bi (Himani Shivpuri) to tell Rahul she loves him. Rifat had seen Anjali trying on jewelry and knew that Anjali was finally ready to acknowledge her feelings for Rahul. Anjali dresses up like a girl but is made fun of by Rahul and everybody else at college.

Anjali was about to admit her feelings but finds out that he loves Tina. She is now heartbroken and decides to leave college without telling either Rahul or Tina. Rahul and Tina find her just as she is about to leave - Rahul and Anjali share a tearful goodbye, believing they will never meet again. Tina now realizes that she came between two lovers - on this day, she realizes that Anjali and Rahul are soulmates.

Rahul marries Tina and in a year of marriage they give birth to a baby girl. Tina had complications in her pregnancy. Tina knew that her delivery could be fatal, and yet she proceeded with childbirth. Tina has little time left so writes eight letters to her daughter - one for each of her first eight birthdays (so that her daughter will know all about her mother). Before dying, Tina asks Rahul to name their daughter Anjali in memory of Anjali Sharma.

Anjali Khanna grows up and wants to be VJ like Neelam. Anjali Khanna is very close to her father Rahul, and they support each other whenever they are feeling down and low in life due to the absence of Tina. Rahul refuses all proposals for a second marriage. Rahul tells his mother that a person can only love once in life.

On her eighth birthday Anjali (Sana Saeed) reads the most important letter. She learns about Anjali Sharma and is given the mission of bringing back Rahul and Anjali. Anjali Sharma is now more feminine. She is engaged to Aman Mehra (Salman Khan), but leaves for a month before her wedding, to conduct a dance workshop in Shimla.

However, Anjali Sharma explains to her mother (Reema Lagoo) that she does not really love Aman and is mostly marrying him as a compromise (she feels she can never be in love again after she lost Rahul). Anjali Khanna and her grandmother (Farida Jalal) travel to St. Xavier's to find Anjali Sharma's address. They learn from Rifat Bi that Anjali Sharma is getting married in a week.

However, Anjali Khanna prays, and the wedding is postponed to December. They soon learn that Anjali Sharma is going to be working on a summer camp - they travel there and find her. Anjali Khanna enrolls in the same camp. One night on television, Anjali Sharma is watching a television show and sees Rahul there, who says he misses his daughter, Anjali who has gone on summer camp. She now realizes she has met her best friend's daughter. Rahul arrives at summer camp - he and Anjali are delighted to see each other again.

Anjali Khanna decides to make them play basketball against each other; in the hope they will come together again. Rahul and Anjali start feeling themselves falling in love again. However, Anjali soon remembers that she is engaged and feels guilty. Aman soon arrives at summer camp and tells Rahul that he is marrying Anjali. Rahul is hurt by this news but congratulates Anjali. She takes this as him rejecting her again so decides to leave summer camp and get married to Aman as soon as possible.

Rahul and his family arrive at Anjali's wedding. Anjali sees Rahul and realizes that he does in fact love her the same way she loves him. She knows now that she is letting go of her first love. During the ceremony, Anjali cannot bring herself to continue with the rituals. Aman notices the tears in her eyes and realizes that she has always been in love with Rahul. Having heard from Anjali Khanna that Rahul was his fiance's first love, he advises Anjali to marry Rahul instead. Finally, Anjali and Rahul get married in the same ceremony, with Aman and Rahul's family in attendance, and Anjali Khanna is thrilled that she fulfilled her mother's final wish.