Jab We Met (2007)

A depressed wealthy businessman finds his life changing after he meets a spunky and care-free young woman.

Director:

Imtiaz Ali

Writer:

Imtiaz Ali

Stars:

Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tarun Arora

Top Rated Indian Movies #101 | 7 wins & 15 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Shahid Kapoor	...	Aditya D. Kashyap
Kareena Kapoor	...	Geet Kaur Dhillon
Tarun Arora	...	Anshuman
Dara Singh	...	Dadaji
Pavan Malhotra	...	Geet's Chacha (as Pawan Malhotra)
Kamal Tiwari
Kiran Juneja	...	Mrs. Dhillon
Divya Shah	...	Mrs. Khanna
Saumya Tandon	...	Roop Kaur Dhillon
Nihar Thakkar	...	Raghav
Manushka Khisty	...	Meher
F.J. Jussawala	...	Mother's lawyer
Vishal Om Prakash	...	Aditya's lawyer (as Vishal Sharma)
Rohini Sahni	...	Bride
Deepak Sharma	...	Groom

Storyline

Depressed after the passing of his father (Dharamraj) and a ditching by his gorgeous girlfriend, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to the Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. There he meets Geet Kaur Dhillon, who is returning home to Bhatinda, and who pays for his ticket. At Bar Nagar, he decides to leave, but she follows him, missing her train. They manage to get a ride to Ratlam, miss the train again, but eventually make it to Bhatinda. Once there, he gets to meet her family, her pretty sister Roop as well as her to-be betrothed, Manjeet Singh Mann. Before the engagement can be finalized, she manages to convince her fiancé that she wants to marry Aditya. Before Aditya can take stock of these new developments, she elopes with him - not to get married but to re-locate to Manali where her true love, Anshuman, awaits, and to whom she hopes to get married.

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Plot Keywords:

train | love | elopement | arranged marriage | deception | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi Punjabi English

Release Date:

26 October 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

When We Met

Filming Locations:

Khandala, Maharashtra, India

Box Office

Budget:

INR 170,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

INR 109,350,408 (India), 1 November 2007

Gross USA:

$410,800

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$7,874,081

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision

Technical Specs

Runtime:

138 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Stereo (Song Recording and Mixing Engineer)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor who play lovers in the film were also dating in real life - until they broke up whilst making the movie.

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Goofs

When Aditya and Geet arrive together by car at her family home, the scene plays out with them talking together in the back seat, but when they finally get out of the vehicle, we see there's no one behind the wheel of the car to have driven them there.

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Quotes

Anshuman: [over phone] Yes?
Geet Kaur Dhillon: Hello, Anshuman?
Anshuman: Geet?
Geet Kaur Dhillon: Yes.
Aditya D, Kashyap: Come on. come on, abuse him.
Anshuman: Was that Aditya Kashyap's voice?
Geet Kaur Dhillon: [nervously] Yes.
Anshuman: Hello?
Aditya D, Kashyap: Come on.
Geet Kaur Dhillon: Anshuman, I wanted to say that...
[...]

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Connections

Remade as Kanden Kadhalai (2009)

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Soundtracks

Tum Se Hi - Remix
Written by Irshad Kamil
Composed by Pritam Chakraborty
Performed by Mohit Chauhan
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)

User Reviews

A movie thats much more than a movie

Movies are as much a part of my life as Dal- chawal (rice and pulses) but I can't remember having been as insanely in love with any other bollywood/Hollywood/Tollywood movie as this one and if at all, this love affair has only intensified over the years. That doesn't mean, there haven't been better movies, or the actors in Jab We Met haven't given better performances elsewhere. It only means, somewhere in those 2.5 hours, Jab We Met metamorphoses into something far more substantial than just a movie. On the surface, its a simple story of a guy and a girl but if u dive deep enough, it is a heartwarming assortment of stories, about losing and finding love, about internal and external journeys, about forgetting and rediscovering oneself, about letting go with a smile and above all about finding hope in despair. I won't go into the details of the plot, screenplay, acting,direction or any such technical aspect. You will find plenty of people telling you about that. I can only tell you how i can speak every single dialog, having repeated them a million times in my head, or how I can hum those songs which cheer me every time I feel alone. One little thing though, I can't articulate is how Aditya and Geet stay in my heart permanently and keep telling me once in a while.... "Go listen to your heart, everything will be fine then."