Rahul and Anu fall in love with each other, but before they unite, they have their own problems to deal with.
Aashiqui (1990) Online
Things are not nice for both Rahul and Anu Verghese; with Rahul having a stressful family life to deal with and Anu; often being ill-treated by her hostel supervisor Arnie Campbell which makes her run away time and again. Both meet with each other and fall in love only to get married; but even after marriage things once again turn sour which eventually made the couple split up.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Rahul Roy | - | Rahul Roy |
 | Anu Agrawal | - | Anu Verghese (as Anu Agarwal) |
 | Avtar Gill | - | Police Inspector Deshpande |
 | Tom Alter | - | Arnie Campbell |
 | Reema Lagoo | - | Mrs. Vikram Roy |
 | Homi Wadia | - | Mr. Padamsee |
 | Anang Desai | - | Mr. Paul |
 | Mushtaq Khan | - | Rafoo Master (as Mustaque Khan) |
 | Javed Khan | - | Uncle Peter |
 | Deepak Tijori | - | Balu (as Depak Tijori) |
| Sunil Rege | - | Vikram Roy |
 | Virendra Saxena | - | Street Singer (as Veerendra Saxena) |
| Sajjan Choudhary | - | (as Sajjan Chowdhry) |
 | Deepa Mehta | ||
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Saloons and barbers where making excellent money during the time from this so-called 'Rahul Roy hair cut'.
The song "Meri Dil Tere Liye" is inspired by and a reworking of "You're the Voice" by John Farnham.
Mahesh Bhatt had gone to Indira Roy's house to congratulate her on being on India's Savvy Magazine. Indira is a charity worker with UNICEF and the mother of Rahul Roy.This is where he spotted Rahul Roy and decided to cast him in Aashique.
Kumar Sanu the singer has played a small role of a thug in the movie...he gets thrashed by Rahul Roy when the group of thugs attack the runaway couple in the woods after the Jane Jigar Janeman song.
According to 'Mahesh Bhatt', a big part of the film is inspired from his real life relationship with his first wife Kiran Bhatt, where he educated her as a typist.
Aditya Pancholi dubbed over the voice of _Rahul Roy_. Pancholi was also part of 'Mahesh Bhatt''s Saathi (1991).
After the success of the film singer Kumar Sanu became an overnight star he had sung almost all the songs in the film which proving to be big hit.
The soundtrack album has been rated the 4th best ever by Planet Bollywood on their "100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks"
'Mahesh Bhatt' was very impressed with the audience's reaction to Rahul Roy that he later casted him in Jaanam (1992) and _Janoon (1992)_.
The songs of the movie were recorded to be released in an album, but when the director Mahesh Bhatt listened the songs he convinced Gulshan Kumar(album's producer) to release them in a film and that the songs are film songs, he convinced him that he will write and direct the film placing in these songs according to the story
Deepak Tijori's got a major breakthrough with this film as Rahul Roy's friend later was cast as hero's friend in many big films in early 90s.
T Series stopped counting the sales of Aashiqui 1990 audio cassettes once the sales reached 1 Crore.
Kumar Sanu and music director Nadeem Shravan later collaborated for many films in 90s their pairing worked for every film making its music a big hit.
The male version songs were sung by Kumar Sanu expect for Mera Dil Tere Liye by Udit Narayan,Fenale version songs were sung my Anuradha Padwal.
Earlier Deepak Tijori was to play the lead role but Mahesh Bhatt choose Rahul Roy and gave Deepak Tijori the supporting role which made him a known actor of that time.
Mahesh Bhatt wanted daughter Pooja Bhatt in the lead role. But Pooja Bhatt was not ready to be a actress in 1989.
The college scenes in. this. films is. the real story. of Mahesh Bhatt and his wife Kiran when they were students.
After the success of Maine Pyar Kiya with newcomers, Mahesh Bhatt thought he should also make a film with newcomers and Ashiquie was the result.
Actress Roshni of the south film Guna fame was signed for the film. She was later replaced for Anu Aggarwal.
Gulshan Kumar heard the song " Duniya Mein Tere Siva" from the film Aandhiyaan and told Nadeem Shravan about it. Gulshan had heard the song in Pahlaj Nihalani's office. They later recreated that same tune as "Main Duniya Bhula Doonga". It was later revealed that the original song was from a Pakistani film titled "Doorie".
Despite being a big musical hit the film was not Nadeem-shravan's biggest box office hit in 1990. That honor goes to Baap numbri beta dus numbri which was one of the biggest hits of 1990.
The music of the film was such a big hit that even after 25 years of its release its still alive in hearts of people.
The songs in Aashiqui were recorded to make an album in 1989, but when Mahesh Bhatt heard the songs, he decided to make a film and he asked Gulshan Kumar for the same.
Mahedh Bhatt had signed Sachin to dub for Rahul Roy but later changed his mind.
Dheere Dheere Se was sampled from Joy Sims song Come Into My Life.
Jaan-e-Jigar Jaaneman" from AASHIQUI (1990) and "Duniya Mein Tere Siva" in AANDHIYAN (1990), both inspired from a Pakistani film song, "Bas Ek Tere Siva" in DOORIYAN (1984). But actually the basic origin of this song seems to be in "Main Chali Main Chali" from PROFESSOR (1961).
Deepak Tijori wanted to play the lead role and had approached Mahesh Bhatt with the video cassette of the original English film.
Dheere Dheere song was remixed video was released by T Series with Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor with the voice of Honey Singh in 2015 on the 25th anniversary of the film paying tribute to T series founder late Gulshan Kumar.
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