'Rishtey' the movie, as the title aptly implies deals with relationships.
It touches emotions of love, mistrust, compassion, callousness, laughter
and sadness.
The film opens showing the life of a father and son, Suraj (Anil Kapoor)
and Karan (Master Jibraan Khan) who have a beautiful relationship. Although
they have everything, there is a wife/mother figure missing in their life.
Komal (Karisma Kapoor) who is that figure stays with her rich and scheming
father Yashpal Chaudhary (Amrish Puri). How Komal and Suraj get estranged
is shown in flashback. Suraj from a middle class family falls for the
rich girl Komal. When her father opposes to the relationship, she walks
out and they get married. Everything goes smoothly till she is invited
to a wedding in her family. There her father pretends to forgive her and
she in turn invites her father to meet her husband. But her world turns
upside down as she enters her apartment and finds another woman wearing
her clothes and claiming to share her husband. With this incident she
leaves Suraj and goes back to her father. There she delivers a baby boy.
Though her callous father tries to destroy the baby, Suraj saves his baby
and flees with him to a far off place.
