The conflict between Amitabh and Shah Rukh is another trump card of this enterprise. The basic plot is refreshingly different from the Mills & Boons fares one is so used to witnessing in film after film. MOHABBATEIN meets the expectations, but disappoints in two major departments ? the screenplay and the length of the film. Obviously, you expect the moon in terms of entertainment. It brings together two super-stars ? Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan ? face to face for the first time. Produced by Yash Chopra, the film is the second release from the director of DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE. MOHABBATEIN is one of the most eagerly awaited films of all times. One who stands for love and everything that the heart encompasses and the other who stands for discipline and fear and who believes that love only leads to pain and weakness. Two stubborn men who live their lives with completely opposing principles. MOHABBATEIN slowly becomes a story of the battle between what the two stellar men - Narayan Shankar and Raj Aryan - stand for. It is only with the arrival of Raj Aryan (Shah Rukh Khan), the maverick music teacher, who encourages the boys to follow their hearts and break open the gates of Gurukul, that the boys actually begin living a life that they earlier only dreamed of. When Vicky, Sameer and Karan first meet Ishika (Shamita Shetty), Sanjana (Kim Sharma) and Kiran (Preeti Jhangiani), respectively, their lives are placed in a turmoil as they would like to meet the girls, talk to the girls and dream about the girls, but the omnipotent figure of Narayan Shankar looms large. Because it is here that these boys break the cardinal rule of Gurukul and Narayan Shankar. A bond that will require them to face the most difficult of tests and make choices that they never thought that they would have to make. It is here that Vicky (Uday Chopra), Sameer (Jugal Hansraj) and Karan (Jimmy Shergill) form a kind of unbreakable bond. They enter this cold and strict atmosphere where only excellence is encouraged, where fun and frivolity is frowned upon, where laughing or sharing a joke is deemed unacceptable. Boys from different parts of the country, with difference characteristics and different stories to tell. To this institution come three youngsters. And he warns them that any flouting or bending of rules will not be tolerated. Every year he reminds the fresh batch of students that the outside world is closed to them once they have decided to enrol in this prestigious institution. He runs the institution keeping in mind its three pillars - Tradition, Honour and Discipline. The autocratic disciplinarian Narayan Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) governs Gurukul with an iron hand. A film that is set in one of the most prestigious educational institutions of the country - Gurukul. It is a film that is based in a small North Indian town. Ltd.'s MOHABBATEIN is a film that portrays the battle between love and fear.