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The movie tells the story of three friends graduating from college and facing life as adults.

Each character has a different outlook towards life, and love in particular:

• Akash (played by Aamir Khan) does not believe in love and says that one should never keep a girlfriend for more than two weeks.
• Sameer (played by Saif Ali Khan) is genial, well-meaning, and confused. He is prone to romantic infatuations; each time, he is sure that this time he has found true love!
• Siddharth, or Sid, (played by Akshaye Khanna} is a painter. He is serious about his painting and definitely does not want to meet a nice girl and get married.

Akash is not only a cad in his personal life (breaking hearts, proposing to a girl named Shalini in jest), but a mischief-maker in his friends' lives. He engineers a breakup between Sameer and Sameer's girlfriend, then proposes a vacation trip to the beaches of Goa.

Sameer, of course, falls in love in Goa, with a pretty girl who treats him badly. He returns home to find that his parents have arranged a meeting with a potential marriage prospect. He resists; he's horrified; he doesn't want an arranged marriage. But the instant he sees the girl, he decides that she is the one. Unfortunately, she already has a boyfriend. Sameer has to hide his unrequited love and content himself with her friendship.

Sid, in the meantime, is falling in love too. A lovely older woman, a divorcee, has moved next door. Sid befriends her, then finds that he can't help loving this utterly unsuitable person. Everything goes wrong. Akash makes sarcastic comments and Sid rejects his old friend. Sid's mother is horrified. Tara hears that Sid has quarrelled with friends and family because of her and feeling that she has ruined his life, refuses to see him.

Akash is also experiencing romantic upheaval. His parents send him to Sidney, to work in the family business. On the flight to Sydney, he meets Shalini again. She has no reason to trust or like him, but after they run into each other repeatedly, they both start to feel a certain ... "something." She presses him to tell her how he feels; he refuses. She then declares that she is returning to India to marry. Akash lets her go, then realizes that he can't live without her.

All three chums have fallen in love and all of them have -- so far -- been unlucky in love. Is there a happy Bollywood ending? For two of the characters, yes. For one, no. However, in the last scene of the movie, it is suggested that even the heart-broken character has met someone who will heal his wounds.