Socha Na Tha (2005)

A boy is forced meet a girl for an arranged marriage but even though he refuses the match, they secretly become friends. As things get complicated and both get engaged to different people they realize they've fallen in love with each other.

Director:

Imtiaz Ali

Writer:

Imtiaz Ali

Stars:

Abhay Deol, Ayesha Takia, Ayesha Jhulka

Cast

Credited cast:
Abhay Deol	...	Viren Oberoi
Ayesha Takia	...	Aditi
Ayesha Jhulka	...	Viren's bhabhi
Apoorva Jha	...	Karen Fernandes
Rati Agnihotri	...	Aditi's aunt
Sandhya Mridul
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sohrab Ardeshir
Manish Chaudhary
Lushin Dubey
Kamlesh Gill	...	Aisha takia's granny
Anamika Goel
Vijay Maurya	...	Shiva
Suresh Oberoi	...	Mr. Oberoi (Viren's dad)
Salim Shah
Shakti Singh

Storyline

Mr. Oberoi is a wealthy industrialist, and lives a comfortable lifestyle, with this two sons. The elder son is married, and Mr Oberoi wants his second son, Viren, to marry too. He has already selected a bride for him in Aditi Malhotra. Though Viren has always lived in his father and brother's shadows, he is quite romantic at heart, and hopes to fall in love first and then marry the girl of his choice. The presence of Aditi prevents this, and he makes all attempts not to marry her. He succeeds, the wedding arrangements are all called off. Then he meets the girl of his dreams, Karen Fernandes, and proposes marriage to her. The only setback he sees that she is a Catholic, and he, a Hindu. However, that is soon overcome. Everything seems to go on smoothly between both the families, when Viren falls out of love with Karen, and wants to cancel the wedding. When questioned about his change in mind, he responds that he is in love with Aditi. But Aditi will not have anything to do with him ...

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Genres:

Romance | Comedy

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi English

Release Date:

4 March 2005 (India)

Filming Locations:

Goa, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dharmendra, Vijeta Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Dharmendra produced this movie as a launch pad for his nephew Abhay Deol. Dharmendra earlier successfully launched both his sons Sunny, in Betaab and Bobby, in Barsaat. Both these movies were hits but he couldn't repeat the same success with Abhay. Though the movie didn't do much good for Abhay and the débutant director Imtiaz Ali, both young guys went on to make a niche for themselves.

User Reviews

Wonderful movie

A very light hearted and straight forward movie, Socha Naa Tha might have crashed at the box-office. But it touches hearts in a way that not many movies do. Director Imtiaz Ali has directed a wonderful plot which is very usual in any Indian household. The chemistry between the couple is very naturally presented. I had fallen in love with this movie instantly. The lyrics of the songs may seem vague at first. But they relate and amalgamate to situations so appropriately. The dialogues are very 'day to day'... which contribute that the movie is not out of this world. I would say it is a better movie than Jab We Met, the second movie by Imtiaz Ali.