Kabhi Kabhie

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Kabhi Kabhie

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Directed by Yash Chopra
Produced by Yash Chopra
Written by Pamela Chopra
Sagar Sarhadi
Starring Amitabh Bachchan
Shashi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor
Music by Khayyam
Cinematography Romesh Bhalla
Kay Gee
Editing by Naresh Malhotra
Pran Mehra
Distributed by Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd.
Release date(s) 27 January 1976
Running time 177 min.
Country India
Language Hindi/Urdu
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Kabhi Kabhie (English: Sometimes sometimes) is a 1976 Hindi movie, produced and directed by Yash Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee, Simi Garewal, Shashi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. This was Yash Chopra's second directorial film with Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor in the lead roles after Deewar. The movie was a great commercial success with excellent performances and haunting music by Khayyam.

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Kabhi Kabhie is a romantic story about a young poet named Amit and a young and beautiful girl named Pooja, who both deeply love each other and decide to get married but destiny has other plans, as Pooja bows to the wishes of her parents and marries Vijay. However Amit drifts away from his poetry in a futile and unsuccessful attempt to leave behind his memories of Pooja by getting married to Anjali.

Spanning over to the next generation, Pooja & Vijay's son Vicky and Shobha and R.P's daughter Pinky who love each other but things unravel as Pinky's parents tell her that she is not their daughter. So Pinky goes after her real mother and we see she is Anjali's daughter. Sometimes later Anjali & Amit's daughter Sweetie comes in the picture and Sweetie feels jealous as her mother shows love more to Pinky as to her. Later Vicky comes and meets both the sisters, forming a love triangle between them, and a chain of events bring together old lovers as friends, some 20 years later is what forms the rest of Kabhi Kabhie.

Kabhi Kabhie is a film about love story of generations - It is a film that happens "Sometimes".

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  • Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh fell in love on the sets of the film and later married. Today they are the most famous married couple of the Indian film industry.
  • Parveen Babi was the first choice of Yash Chopra for the role opposite Rishi Kapoor.
  • The film's producer, Gulshan Rai , was convinced it would never run. It went on to break all box-office records.
  • The concept came to Yash Chopra while he was reading a poem by his longtime friend (and also the film's lyricist) Sahir Ludhianvi . Initially, the story just centered on Amit, Pooja, Vijay and Anjali, but Pamela Chopra read an article in a magazine about a woman meeting her adopted child. Yash Chopra thought it good enough to make it a sub-plot in the film.
  • Yash Chopra shot the movie in Kashmir. All the cast stayed together as a family and contributed to every aspect of the film, and they even brought their families with them to Kashmir (they were used as extras in the wedding scenes). It was one of Yash Chopra's happiest experiences and he described the production as a honeymoon.
  • The film had been written with Raakhee in mind, and she had agreed to do it during the making of _Daag: A Poem of Love (1973)_ , but before production started she married Sampooran Singh Gulzar , who wanted her to retire from acting. Yash Chopra persuaded Gulzar to let her do the film.
  • The film was supposed to open with Amit standing under a tree and watching Pooja get married. Traditionally in a Hindi "shaadi" (wedding) ceremony, there were to be seven "pheras" (circuits) around the altar; therefore there would be seven different love scenes between Amit and Pooja intercut with each phera. This was deemed too artistic a beginning for the film, so a few days were spent re-shooting the simple scenes of Amit reciting poetry and meeting Pooja.
  • There are two versions of the poem "Kabhi Kabhie" - one is the romantic poem Amit sings to Pooja when they are in love, and the other version, rewritten by a shattered Amit since the marriage of Pooja to Vijay, is a bitter, self-hating ode of misery and loss. Sahir Ludhianvi wrote this version of "Kabhi Kabhie" first; the more romantic version was written for the film.


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