Critics at the time gave it mixed reviews, praising the performances but criticizing the predictability. However, over a decade later, the film has aged like fine wine for a specific generation of millennials. It represents an era of Bollywood that is rapidly vanishing—a time when rom-coms were shot in scenic, foreign locales, the music was melodic and ubiquitous, and conflicts were resolved with grand speeches rather than gritty realism.

On the Internet Archive, the film is often sought out specifically for the quality of these musical sequences. In an age of compressed audio on streaming apps, audiophiles and video enthusiasts often look for the high-bitrate files that might be

The plot was an ode to the classic romantic comedy tropes: a brother (Ali Zafar) asks his younger sibling (Imran Khan) to find him a bride. The sibling finds the perfect match, only to realize that he and the bride-to-be (Katrina Kaif) have a chaotic past and are still in love.