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'''''Veer-Zaara''''' ([[Hindi]]: वीर-ज़ारा, [[Urdu]]: ویر زارا) is a [[2004 in film|2004 film]] directed by [[Yash Chopra]]. It is a romance set against the ongoing conflict between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. The movie stars [[Shahrukh Khan]], [[Preity Zinta]] and [[Rani Mukerji]]. The dialogues were written by [[Aditya Chopra]]. [[Yash Chopra]] returned to directing after eight years, his last directed film being ''[[Dil To Pagal Hai]]'' (1997).
'''''Veer-Zaara''''' ([[Hindi]]: वीर-ज़ारा) is a [[2004 in film|2004 film]] directed by [[Yash Chopra]]. It is a romance set against the ongoing conflict between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. The movie stars [[Shahrukh Khan]], [[Preity Zinta]] and [[Rani Mukerji]]. The dialogues were written by [[Aditya Chopra]]. [[Yash Chopra]] returned to directing after eight years, his last directed film being ''[[Dil To Pagal Hai]]'' (1997).
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Veer - Zaara
File:Veerzaara.jpg
Movie poster for Veer-Zaara
Directed byYash Chopra
Written byAditya Chopra
Produced byYash Chopra
StarringShahrukh Khan
Preity Zinta
Rani Mukerji
Kirron Kher
Divya Dutta
Boman Irani
Anupam Kher
Music bySanjeev Kohli
Distributed byYash Raj Films
Release dates
November 12, 2004
Running time
192 min.
LanguagesHindi, Punjabi
Budget$7,000,000 (estimated)

Veer-Zaara (Hindi: वीर-ज़ारा) is a 2004 film directed by Yash Chopra. It is a romance set against the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan. The movie stars Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji. The dialogues were written by Aditya Chopra. Yash Chopra returned to directing after eight years, his last directed film being Dil To Pagal Hai (1997).

Synopsis

Most of the story is told in flashback from Veer's prison cell.

File:Veer-zaara.jpg
Alternative film poster for Veer-Zaara

Zaara Haayat Khan (Preity Zinta) is an independent, carefree, and sprightly young Pakistani girl travelling to India. Her bus, which is traveling to India with her "bebe's" (a Punjabi word to denote mother or grandmother,but here used for Zaara's old governess) ashes. Before dying, "Bebe" (Zohra Sehgal) begs Zaara to fulfill her final wish - to take her ashes to India, to the holy Sikh city of Kiritpur, and scatter her ashes in the river there, among her ancestors. Zaara decides to carry out Bebe's dying wish.

In India, Zaara's bus gets into an accident, overturns, and she is saved by an Indian pilot, Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh (Shahrukh Khan). Zaara completes her Bebe's final rites with the help of Veer. He convinces Zaara to go back to his village with him, and spend one day together. Veer then takes Zaara on a tour of India's Punjab and they visit Veer's hometown during the Lodi festival. The two fall in love and Veer is just waiting for the right time to tell Zaara how he feels about her. But then it is revealed that Zaara is engaged to another man, Raza (Manoj Bajpai). During their last few moments together, Veer confesses his love, then watches sadly as Zaara boards the train that will take her back to Pakistan. Both believe that this is the end of the story, and the last time they will ever see each other.

File:Saamiyainveer-zaara.jpg
Rani Mukerji as Saamiya Siddiqui

Zaara eventually realizes that she loves Veer and cannot marry her fiancé; Veer realizes that he cannot live without Zaara and travels to Pakistan to find her. Zaara's mother, however, begs him to leave Zaara. Zaara's father is a high-profile politician whose reputation will be ruined if news got out that his daughter is in love with a Hindu man. Veer respects this and decides to leave. But Zaara's fiancé, outraged by the shame Zaara has brought upon him, frames Veer and has him wrongly imprisoned for being an Indian spy.

22 years later, Veer meets Saamiya Siddiqui (Rani Mukerji) is an idealistic Pakistani lawyer, whose mission in life is to pave the path for women's empowerment. To dissuade a female lawyer from being successful, she has been given Veer's case, an impossible case to many. The man has been languishing in prison and hasn't spoken for the last 22 years.

Veer tells Saamiya she can do anything for the case except mention, much less subpoena, Zaara's family. He's assigned the number 786 for his prisoner number. This convinces Saamiya that God has chosen Veer for some special purpose, and determined to exonerate him, and restore his name, identity and country.

After a number of attempts which fail to prove Veer's innocence, Saamiya goes to Veer's village in India to gather evidence proving Veer is Veer and not Rajesh Rathore the spy. Will she manage to free him? Will Veer and Zaara be re-united? Time will tell...

Music

Untitled

The music is based on compositions by the late Madan Mohan, as revised by Madan Mohan's son, Sanjeev Kohli. Lyrics were contributed by Javed Akhtar.

Lata Mangeshkar, the famous playback singer, is featured in many of the songs. She used to sing with Madan Mohan, so there is a special poignancy to her contributions. Other singers: Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Gurdas Mann, Roop Kumar Rathod, Ahmed, and Mohhamed Hussain.

List of tracks

Awards and nominations

  • The music for this film was nominated in the Filmfare Best music director award and Javed Akhtar won best lyricist award for the song "Tere Liye".
  • In the IIFA awards the Best Music Director award was won by the late Madan Mohan and Sanjeev Kohli.
  • Various nominations also were given to its music.

Box office

The movie opened in theatres on 12 November 2004. It grossed Rs.45,00,00,000. In its first week it grossed Rs.17,00,00,000 which hold the recored for highest grossed first week from 2004-2005.

Popularity

  • Veer-Zaara was heavily promoted pre-release. The film music, released before the actual cinematic release, was a hit, as was the movie.
  • The film was a success not only in India and Pakistan, but overseas, notably in United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Africa and the United States. When the three Indian stars, Shah Rukh, Preity and Rani, visited the Virgin Megastore in the UK, over 5,000 fans thronged the store.[citation needed]
  • On April 26, 2006, Veer-Zaara had its French premiere at The Grand Rex, the biggest theatre in Paris. Veer-Zaara is the first Hindi film to premiere in such a large and luxe venue.

Awards

Filmfare Awards

Veer-Zaara received fifteen Filmfare nominations. It won awards for best dialogue, story, movie and lyrics. The film was nominated for the following awards (wins in bold):

IIFA Awards

National Film Awards

Stardust Awards

Star Screen Awards

Veer-Zaara on DVD

On June 6, 2005 the Yash Raj Films released the DVD of Veer-Zaara on a Collector's Double DVD Pack, with the disc one containing the original film and second disc having special features, e.g. making of the songs (with little original melodies), interview with Yash Chopra, premier, deleted scenes, trailers and promo and deleted song Yeh Hum Aa Gaye Hain Kahan.

Disc 1 (the film) has one audio track in Hindi/Urdu/Punjab, and eleven subtitle tracks for English, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam.

Trivia

  • Veer-Zaara was featured in the February 2005 issue of the National Geographic Magazine in an article about Bollywood.
  • Pakistan's leader Pervez Musharraf invited producer Yash Chopra to lunch, then took the occasion to express his 'displeasure' at what he termed the movie's negative portrayal of Pakistan.
  • The film was originally going to be called Yeh Kahaan Aa Gaye Hum, a name take from the title of a song in the movie Silsila (1981). The director, Yash Chopra, eventually decided on Veer-Zaara as a title. However, one of the songs in the film is called "Yeh Hum Aa Gaye Hain Kahan", a twist on the proposed title.
  • The colour combination of the dress of Preity Zinta in the song "Kyun Hawa" is the same colour combination of the new Yash Raj films logo.
  • The role of Saamiya Siddiqui was originally intended for Aishwarya Rai, but it didn't work out.

Cast

See also

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Koi... Mil Gaya
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 Filmfare Best Movie
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