At the 44th Filmfare Awards, Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya received 7 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Sohail), Best Actor (Salman) and Best Supporting Actor (Arbaaz), and won R. D. Burman Award for New Music Talent (Kamaal Khan for "O O Jaane Jaana").

Muskaan is an orphan girl living on a farm run by her overly-protective elder brother, Vishal and their uncle, Ajay a.k.a.

Once in the big city, Suraj, an underachieving student, who does not get along with his stepmother and is estranged from his father, falls in love with Muskaan.

One day, when Vishal comes to visit Muskaan, he is mistakenly considered her boyfriend by Suraj and his group of friends.

And he decides to bring Muskaan back to the farm sensing Suraj's bad influence on her studies.

Suraj pursues her and begins to work on the farm as a stable boy after a chance meeting with 'Chachu' in which he saves Chachu's life.