Dhadkan
- IMDb link: 0255111
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (8,915 votes)
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Director: Dharmesh Darshan
- Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mahima Chaudhry, Sunil Shetty, Shilpa Shetty Kundra and others
- Release date: 11 Aug 2000
- Release year: 2000
- Runtime: 161 minutes
- Country: India
- Keywords: stepbrother stepsister relationship, stepbrother stepbrother relationship, parental interference in romance, husband wife relationship, family relationships, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional marriage, forbidden love, dysfunctional family, stepmother stepson relationship
Plot:
Wealthy Anjali (Shilpa Shetty), is passionately in love with poor Dev (Sunil Shetty). They want to marry, but Anjali's family objects and marries her off to equally-wealthy Ram (Akshay Kumar), who lives with his uncaring stepmother and siblings. But Ram believes that one day his family will surely undergo a change of heart. However, Anjali finds out that Ram is not respected, but does not care as she does not love him, because she is still haunted by memories of her past love. Ram continues to be affectionate towards her and his family, then Ram decides to assert himself and asks his family to leave him and his wife alone. Anjali starts warming up to Ram, when Dev shows up, now a millionaire who wants her back. Which will she choose?