Showman Subhash Ghai's much-hyped Yaadein vanished from the viewer's memory in a fraction of a second.

A star cast of Jackie Shroff, Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor couldn't salvage the film. Yaadein was torn apart by critics and public alike for its plain stupidity.

At first, Ghai refused to take the film's failure in his stride, but the bitter truth soon dawned upon him.