Salim Akhtar, who gave Rani Mukherjee her first break in ' Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat ' and made a few medium budget action movies in the mid and late 90s, is back with ' Chand Sa Roshan Chehra '. This time around he launches his nephew Samir Aftab along with Tamanna who also makes her debut. With direction by Shahab Shamsi, music by Jatin Lalit and lyrics by Sameer, the initial songs that are on the air and the movie's title give an impression of a romantic musical love story.

Chand Sa Roshan Chehra is a teenage love story full of romance, emotions and values. This is the story of Raj and Jiya, who loved each other from childhood. But circumstances take them apart, a distance of seven seas by Jiya's opportunist father Oberoi, who did not approve the alliance of his daughter Jiya with his friend Kapur's son Raj.

Raj could not forget Jiya for even a day in his life. It was the last wish of Raj's mother that only Jiya should become her daughter-in-law. Kapur takes a promise from Raj that he will one day bring back Jiya as his daughter-in-law. One day fate gives Raj a chance to go abroad to the same place where Jiya lives.

Raj meets Jiya but both become enemies of each other without knowing that they have longed for each other, all their lives.

Raj meets a beautiful girl Firdaus in the distant land and a friendship develops, which is not liked by Firdaus's fianc?nd Raj lands in trouble to be bailed out by Firdaus herself.

During a youth festival Raj wins the competition that infuriates Jiya, and she gets Raj beaten up by a local boy! Raj wants revenge and in the process, both of them come to know that they are each other's lost love.

But misunderstanding crops in and Jiya agrees to get married to another boy.

During Jiya's engagement ceremony, Raj reaches and tries to convey his love to Jiya. Jiya is heart broken and wants to break her engagement. Fate once again plays its own game and lovers are separated once again, because Oberoi comes to know that Raj is the same boy from whom he had taken Jiya away.

How Jiya and Raj fight the fate and destiny and how both of them come together becomes the pivotal part of the story.

Chand Sa Roshan Chehra tries to deal with issues of purity in romance and ethics of humanity.