One, he just wanted to speak to her in peace for two minutes and two, he cannot live without her. He gives two very good justifications for his actions. When she chastises him for putting up with her ‘huh!’ for ‘han!’, he abducts her, shouts at her, and even terrorizes to kill her. Radhe’s love for Nirjara (Chawla) is so robust and so intense that he sees no disparity in yes and no. Furthermore, the few moments he uses to oppression and aggression are just Radhe’s way of conveying love and affection. Radhe’s violent, almost deadly fights are mostly to save the weak from the intimidator. Though he passed out of college long back, Radhe keeps busy in college liaisons, ragging freshmen, beating goons for the sake of friends, and ‘saving’ women. Salman Khan plays Radhe (sort of an appellation used for the god Krishna). However, on the 17th anniversary of the film’s release (it hit the theatres on 15 August 2003), let’s take a near look at the film, taking off beyond the creations of Himesh Reshammiya and Sajid-Wajid, and, yes, the infamous locks that every other Bhai fanboy imitated. A modern Romeo-Juliet adaptation, Tere Naam is today remembered primarily for two reasons - its music and Khan’s hairstyle. Though this number may be common now, with every second film crossing Rs 100 crore in India itself, 17 years ago it meant very big business. Satish Kaushik’s Tere Naam (2003), starring Salman Khan and Bhumika Chawla, earned around Rs24.5 crore worldwide.
Tere Naam released This Month, That Year and it’s been 17 years and yet this movie leaves a deep impact on you! Tere Naam – a film that signified the debut of Bhumika Chawla – told the story of an obsessive lover Radhe (Salman) who is a good-for-nothing college drop-out who proceeds to linger about the college premises, originally for hoodlum and later he falls for the girl.