Lara Dutta

Chalo Dilli revolves around two people from two completely different worlds. What can happen when a la-di-dah woman is suddenly thrown into the company of this middle-class Delhi saree seller? The film showcases India, through the relationship of this mismatched couple and ends with a surprise twist.

Avinash Malhotra (Bobby Deol) is married to Sanjana (Lara Dutta). One night Sanjana is murdered, and Avinash is arrested for the murder of his wife. An astrologer forecasts that wealthy industrialist Avinash Malhotra will find his soul-mate on new years' eve. Avinash disbelieves this, but does attend the party and he meets his dream-girl and soul-mate, Sanjana, and both in love with each other. They get married and settle down in a harmonious lifestyle. Shortly after this, Avinash notices very odd behavior on her part, as she leaves the house at very odd hours, and when he is not present, lies to him about where she has been, and does not answer the phone. He follows her. He finds out that she has a secret male lover. When he confronts her, an argument ensues, and Avinash drinks himself to sleep. The next morning he is woken up by Police Inspector Vishnu Patnaik, arrested and charged with killing Sanjana. On being questioned, Avinash admits that they did have an argument, but he does not remember anything thereafter as he had too much alcohol. Avinash's advocate friend, Rohit, does not think that he is a killer and is on the verge of proving it in court, when a man claiming to be Sanjana's maternal uncle, Chamanlal, gives evidence that he had seen Sanjana being killed at the hands of her husband, and that her body is buried in the backyard. The police locate the body, identify it as that of Sanjana, and the court sentences Avinash with the death penalty. While being transported to jail, Avinash manages to escape in order to try and find out who killed his wife, and who framed him. Only to run into Rohit - who wants Avinash dead, and take over his vast estate and property. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Multi-millionaire businessman Avinash Malhotra is an eligible bachelor. He attends a party on new-year's eve and gets to meet beautiful Sanjana; the next day he decides to employ her as his secretary. Working with each other both Avinash and Sanjana started to fall in love and decided to get married. Shortly after Avinash finds that Sanjana is not the same person; as she frequently makes excuses about her where-about, when confronted lie to him and does not answer her phone. Avinash decides to pay keener interest to her and finds out that she has a male lover; when confronted an argument unfolds forcing Avinash to get violent and Sanjana to lock herself up in a room for safety. Avinash then consume an unreasonable amount of alcohol which leads him into a deep sleep. The next morning Avinash finds himself handcuffed for the murder of Sanjana. The case is called up in court with Avinash's close friend Rohit as his defense lawyer who also gives him the assurance not to worry. Rohit is on the vogue of winning the case when a man named Chamanlal enters claiming that he is Sanjana's maternal uncle and providing evidence which leads the court to a rotten half decompose dead body. Avinash is then sentence with the death penalty. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Amjad (Akshay Kumar) is an auto rickshaw driver, who is searching for his long lost brother Munna, and Avinash ( Tusshar Kapoor) wants to be a star in the Bollywood industry. Amjad wants to marry his lover Heena (Esha Deol) . But her parents want her to marry a rich man. So Amjad plans to win her parents' trust by a fake drama with Avinash and his friend to act as fake goons and they involve Rathod to arrest and win Heena's heart. The plan goes wrong as real goons appear but Amjad fights them leading Heena's parents agreeing to marry her to Amjad. Meanwhile, Inspector Ajit Rathod (Ajay Devgan) is on a mission to eliminate a notorious terrorist Azhar Khan (Rahul Dev) who killed his wife and the latter is underground from the eyes of the law and is planning to destroy Mumbai in order to release Masood, who was arrested by Ajit. Avinash, who is on the other hand, loses his job as an extra in films after an argument with an egoistic actor. A newcomer Indu (Laila) is helped by Avinash to enter the industry and soon both fall in love with each other not knowing that she had been subjected to a compromise with the producer Agarwal. Hopeless, Avinash decides to be an auto-rickshaw driver but Indu apologies and encourages Avinash to be a good actor. Soon, Avinash and Indu's luck turns when the filmmaker casts them as leads in his next film after being impressed on their acting skills. Meghna (Lara Dutta) a news reporter develops a liking towards Rathod, but the latter is still traumatized and angered by his wife's death. Azhar returns home after the exile, but seeking the same motive of destruction: planning a bomb blast on train with passengers. He kills Rathod's friend, Inspector Deepak and is on the loose. Rathod learns that Azhar is none other than Amjad's younger brother, Munna, and arrests Amjad and beats him up. A am Azhar calls Rathod at the Bandra Terminus where he has kept passengers as hostages. He asks to make a deal to release Masood and Amjad and demands a helicopter for escaping to Pakistan. Rathod goes according to the plan and reaches the station where a horrified Amjad learns that his brother is a terrorist. Amjad pleads Azhar to leave the innocent people but the latter denies by naming his actions as jihad. A fight ensues during an explosion at the station which kills Azhar's men. Just when Azhar and Masood try to attack Rathod and Amjad where he shoots Masood. Azhar tries to kill Meghna and is killed by Amjad to save her. Rathod condoles Amjad to which he refuses and disowns Azhar instead, stating that any person who kills innocent people in the name of religion should be gunned down and considers Avinash as his brother. At the end, Rathod, Amjad and Avinash return from the ambush.

After separating from the love of his life, Kajal, Raj moves to Cape Town, only to cross paths with her again.