Salaam Namaste is a 2005 Bollywood musical romantic comedy film. It is directed by firsttime director Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner. The film stars Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta in their fourth film together. Arshad Warsi, Tania Zaetta and Jugal Hansraj appear in supporting roles. Released onSeptember 2005, it was the first Indian movie to be filmed entirely in Australia.
Two young progressive Indians, Nikhil Nick Arora Saif Ali Khan and Ambar Amby Malhotra Preity Zinta, have left India to live their lives in Melbourne, Australia. Nick was sent to Australia to become an architect. After graduating, he got a commission to design a restaurant, where he works as the head chef and the restaurant has been named Nick of Time. His job allows him to have a laidback lifestyle and get up late in the morning, both aspects that he values very much. In Bangalore, Ambar was shown twelve men for marriage and she rejected each one. Her parents suspected that she did not want to get married, however, she denied it. She went to Australia for a oneyear foreign exchange program and decided to stay and become a surgeon. After hearing this, her parents cut off all ties with her. To pay for her education, she works as an R.J. at a local radio station, Salaam Namaste.When Nick is supposed to do an interview for Salaam Namaste, he oversleeps resulting in him getting insulted by Ambar on the air. His boss, Dheka, demands that he go to the radio station or he will kill him. Nick oversleeps again and he is, once again, insulted by Ambar for being late. Nick is the caterer for one of Ambars friends wedding. His best friend Ranjan Ron Mathur Arshad Warsi falls in love with Ambars best friend Cathy Tania Zaetta at the wedding. Nick also feels a connection with Ambar, although they have no idea who the other really is. Nick tells Ambar he is an architect. Ron and Cathy marry the next day and Nick and Ambar discover each others true identities. Nick gives the interview on Salaam Namaste, where he states, publicly, that he loves Ambar. They both end up at Ron and Cathys house, where the two just had a fight. Nick persuades Ambar to move in together, where they fall in love. Two months later, Ambar discovers she is pregnant. Nick takes her to get an abortion that she later tells him she did not have, resulting in a break up. ........
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