Plot
Esha Malhotra (Esha Deol) is a bright, spirited girl who has just left college. She finds a note from a past student of her school that coincides with her own feelings of love. She calls into a radio station and requests a song, repeating the words left on the note. An anonymous man calls in soon after, stating that he is the one who had written the letter and he would like to meet her someday since they seem to be one in the same. The radio announcer, Bingo, sets up a date and time for their meeting at the radio station. The day comes and the man (Hrithik Roshan) arrives but finds only a letter waiting for him. The letter does not state her name or address, only a Post Box number to which she requests him to write to so that they may become friends. So, the correspondence begins. The man turns out to be photographer Rahul Sharma (Hrithik Roshan). They do not meet, exchange numbers or tell their names to each other but they continue to write to each other. Fate brings the two together when Esha hires Rahul to be their photographer for a campaign.
Esha's grandfather wants her to marry and so, he arranges her to meet Akshay Kapoor (Saif Ali Khan), a flirt and womanizer who also happens to be Rahul's best friend. Esha has fallen in love with her pen pal and does not want to marry him. However, Akshay is falling for Esha. A love struck Rahul arranges to meet the one he writes the letters to. Much to his shock though, he finds out it is Esha who is his beloved. Because of his friendship with Akshay who is deeply in love with Esha, Rahul decides to forget her. Esha, unable to contact her anonymous love, agrees to get wed to Akshay. Rahul leaves for Vancouver the day before the wedding, vowing never to be seen again.
Four years later, in a mall in Canada, Rahul meets Akshay who now has a son. Rahul thinks he is about to meet Esha but instead meets Akshay's former girlfriend who is now his wife. Akshay explains that he could not marry Esha in the end because she still loves her mystery writer. Suddenly, a group of workers in the mall carry a large portrait of Esha right in front of where Akshay and Rahul are standing, and Akshay realizes that Rahul is the mystery writer Esha fell in love with. He urges Rahul to hurry back to India; Rahul does so and reunites with Esha.
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