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Veer - Zaara

Movie poster for Veer-Zaara
Directed by Yash Chopra
Produced by Yash Chopra
Written by Aditya Chopra
Starring Shahrukh Khan
Preity Zinta
Rani Mukerji
Kirron Kher
Divya Dutta
Boman Irani
Anupam Kher
Music by Sanjeev Kohli
Distributed by Yash Raj Films
Release date(s) November 12, 2004
Running time 192 min.
Country India
Language Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi
Budget $7,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

Veer-Zaara (Hindi: वीर-ज़ारा, Urdu: ویر زارا) is a 2004 film Indian movie directed by Yash Chopra. It is a romance set against the backdrop of 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). 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 film was eventually the biggest Bollywood hit of the year at both the Indian and the international box office, being showcased at numerous prominent film festivals.

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

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.

Zaara eventually realizes that she loves Veer and cannot marry her fiancé; Veer, after being told over the phone by Zara's friend Shabbo, that how miserable she(Zara) is without him, quits from the Indian Air Force and goes to Pakistan to bring her back with him to India. 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), who 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 has not 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. There, Saamiya finds Zaara has taken over in the village for Veer's parents. Saamiya convinces Zaara to go back to Pakistan with her and finally tell the truth about Veer's identity. The judge releases Veer from prison and apologizes on behalf of Pakistan.

Veer-Zaara
Veer-Zaara cover
Studio album by Madan Mohan
Released
August 12, 2006 (India)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label
Producer Madan Mohan
Madan Mohan chronology
Chaal Baaz
(1980)		 Veer-Zaara
(2004)		 --

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.

Veer-Zaara was heavily promoted pre-release. The film music, released before the actual cinematic release, went on to do very well at the charts, as was the movie. 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.

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, Shahrukh, Preity and Rani, visited the Virgin Megastore in the UK, over 5,000 fans thronged the store. On April 26, 2006, Veer-Zaara had its French premiere at The Grand Rex, the biggest theatre in Paris. It is the first Hindi film to premiere in such a large and luxe venue. Apart from that, it was screened at the Berlin Film Festival as well. In February 2005, it was featured in the issue of the National Geographic Magazine in an article about Bollywood.

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

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.

Awards
Preceded by
Koi... Mil Gaya
कोई मिल गया		 Filmfare Best Movie
2004		 Succeeded by
Black
ब्लैक
v • d • e
Yash Raj Films
Yash Chopra Daag: A Poem of Love  (1973) • Kabhi Kabhie  (1976) • Kaala Patthar  (1979) • Silsila  (1981) • Mashaal  (1984) • Faasle  (1985) • Vijay  (1988) • Chandni  (1989) • Lamhe  (1991) • Darr  (1993) • Dil To Pagal Hai  (1997) • Veer-Zaara (2004) 
Aditya Chopra Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge  (1995) • Mohabbatein  (2000) 
Sanjay Gadhvi Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai  (2002) • Dhoom  (2004) • Dhoom 2  (2006) 
Kunal Kohli Mujhse Dosti Karoge!  (2002) • Hum Tum  (2004) • Fanaa  (2006) • Kunal Kohli's Next  (2008) 
Shaad Ali Saathiya  (2002) • Bunty Aur Babli  (2005) • Jhoom Barabar Jhoom  (2007) 
Siddharth Anand Salaam Namaste  (2005) • Ta Ra Rum Pum  (2007) • Siddharth Anand's Next  (2008) 
Other Doosra Aadmi  (1977) • Noorie  (1979) • Nakhuda  (1981) • Sawaal  (1982) • Aaina  (1993) • Yeh Dillagi  (1994) • Neal 'n' Nikki  (2005) • Kabul Express  (2006) • Chak De India  (2007) • Laaga Chunari Mein Daag  (2007) • Aaja Nachle  (2007) • Tashan  (2008) • Roadside Romeo  (2008)
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