Salaam Namaste (Urdu and Hindi greetings, respectively) is an Indian Bollywood movie released on September 9, 2005, directed by Siddharth Raj Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra. It is about two Indians living in Australia and follows one year of their lives, dealing with their problems and relationships. The major plot is closely based upon Hugh Grant starrer Nine Months.

The tagline of the movie is "Let's get to know each other".

The movie is about two Indians, Nikhil Arora, called Nick, (Saif Ali Khan) and Ambar Malhotra, called Amby, (Preity Zinta) who have left India in order to live their own lives in Australia: Nick finished studying Architecture in his hometown of Ludhiana and moved to Melbourne, Australia, to pursue dreams of becoming a chef, and does so at a restaurant called "Nick of Time", which provides him with his laid-back lifestyle (and he can get up late in the morning); Ambar left her home due to her parent's persistence to get her married -- they are likely to introduce the entire male Indian population to her if she does not choose a suitor -- and is studying to become a surgeon. When Nikhil is supposed to do an interview for the Australia based Indian radio station "Salaam Namaste", he is late (due to oversleeping), so a war of very public words ensues with the RJ of the show, Ambar Malhotra.

After many misunderstandings, fighting and convincing, they fall in love and move in together. Soon they discover each other's tastes and distastes and rest of the movie covers how they continue their relationship. Nick is not the marriage-type, but after all, relationships happen when you are busy not thinking about it...