Bollywood romantic comedy, Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan, directed by Mahesh Bhatt and written by Girish Dhamija was released in the year 1999. The movie starred Saif Ali Khan and Twinkle Khanna in lead roles while Chunkey Pandey, Akshay Anand, Avtar Gill, Saurabh Shukla, Krishna Bhatt, Ramesh Rai and Savita Karle also played important characters in the film. The melodious hit music of the film was composed by the famous music director duo Jatin-Lalit while the songs were rendered by Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan and Sudesh Bhonsle.

Raju Tarachand ( Saif Ali Khan ) belongs to a hill station, Nainital. He always dreams of making it big one day and therefore wants to relocate to Mumbai. He goes to join the firm of Chaturvedi but learns that Chaturvedi’s firm has gone bankrupt. He tries to find out job in some other firm but fails. His luggage and moeny is stolen by a theif named Charli D’Souza ( Chunkey Pandey ). Raju finds out Charli and beats him badly. In the end he forces him to arrange for his accomodation. He starts his searhc for a new job but ends up getting the post of peon in Malhotra Group of Companies.

There he meets with a beautiful girl named Jasmin Arora ( Twinkle Khanna ), who works as a dress designer there. He revelas that Malhotra’s elder brother and M. R. Poplet are making a plan against his boss Malhotra, he decides to enter in the company as an American trouble shooter, David Rathod. But soon he is identified by the staff and is sent to jail. He tries to convince Malhotra that what he has done is only for thecompany’s sake but no one believes him including his beloved Jasmine.

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Ae raat zara tham tham ke guzar mera chand mujhe aaya hai nazar
2. Teri chahat ke deewane hue hum
3. Tu bada gazab ka yaar hai