Tum Bin

Tum Bin
Directed by	Anubhav Sinha
Produced by	Bhushan Kumar Krishan Kumar
Written by	Shashank Dabral
Starring	Priyanshu Chatterjee Himanshu Malik Sandali Sinha Rakesh Bapat Vikram Gokhale
Music by	Nikhil-Vinay T.S.Jarnail Ravi Parwar
Cinematography	Vijay Arora
Edited by	Sanjib Datta
Release dates	13 July 2001
Running time	158 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	2.5 cr
Box office	9 cr

Tum Bin - Love Will Find the Way (meaning Without You) is a 2001 Hindi movie directed by Anubhav Sinha. It starred Priyanshu Chatterjee, Sandali Sinha, Himanshu Malik and Rakesh Bapat. The film was a sleeper hit at the box office, and the song "Koi Fariyaad" sung by ghazal singer Jagjit Singh is considered one of the greatest ghazals in modern day Bollywood movies and a most popular one. Tum Bin is considered as one of the best romantic films of Bollywood.

Plot summary

After Amar Shah's accidental death in India, Canada-based Shah Industries is on the verge of collapse. Pia, Amar's fiancée, is devastated; Girdhari, his dad, has become numb from shock; and Amar's sister and grandmother are in mourning. Months after Amar's death, a young man, Shekhar Malhotra, enters their lives and offers to re-build and restore Shah Industries without any compensation. He is given the chance and goes about the uphill task of making the company viable again. Gradually, Shekhar heals the gaping wound left in the Shah family by Amar's death and they come to accept him as one of the family. Also, Shekhar falls in love with Pia. What they don't know — except for Bosco, Shekhar's friend in Canada — is that it was Shekhar's jeep that accidentally had hit Amar, causing his death. Ridden by guilt, Shekhar has come to Canada to confess his crime, ask for forgiveness, and do what he can for the family.

Abhigyan is a wealthy Canadian industrialist who meets Pia and realizes that she is the right woman for him. He is considering proposing to Pia and helping to rebuild Shah Industries. But Pia has fallen in love with Shekhar. Eventually, a conflict arises between Pia and Shekhar regarding a proposition made by Abhi to take over Shah Industries. Shekhar realizes that Pia does not need his help any more and decides to return to India.

Pia stops Shekhar while he boards his flight and confesses her feelings for him. Shekhar denies his feelings and boards the plane. Devastated, Pia goes home and gets engaged to Abhi. At the airport arrives inspector D'mello (Manoj Pahwa), from India in search of the person who killed Amar, and arrests Shekhar. They wait, with Bosco, to board the next flight to India. Shekhar calls Pia and tells her how much he loves her and confesses that it was he who hit her fiancée. Being drunk, Shekhar meets with an accident.

Pia feels guilty about falling for the man who caused Amar's death and confesses it to Girdhari, who surprises her by speaking for the first time after his son's death. He tells her that Shekhar had told him the truth when he first visited them and he believes Shekhar. Amar's family then makes Pia realize how much Shekhar has done for the family and that he is like Amar to them. Bosco informs them about Shekhar's accident. Abhi tells a skeptical Pia to go back to Shekhar as he is her true love. D'mello, in hospital with everyone, understands that the family needs Shekhar and simply closes the case and leaves. The movie ends with Shekhar recovering and uniting with Pia. ^[1]

Cast

• Priyanshu Chatterjee as Shekhar Malhotra
• Sandali Sinha as Pia
• Rakesh Bapat as Amar Shah
• Himanshu Malik as Abhigyan
• Vikram Gokhale as Amar's father
• Amrita Prakash as Amar's sister
• Dina Pathak as Amar's grandmother
• Manoj Pahwa as Inspector D'Mello
• Rajesh Khera as Shekar's Friend
• Ripunjay Pathak as Dr. Mukul

Box office

The film was released on 13 July 2001 in India, clashing with some other films which came out the same day. The film opened to a 20–35% occupancy at the theatres but with time the film got positive word of mouth and its collections picked up and collected around 9 crores at the box office with a budget of 2.5 crore the film recovered its production costs and Box Office India declared it superhit.^[2]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by Nikhil Vinay, Ravi Pawar and T.S.Jarnail. The lyrics were provided by Faaiz Anwar, Pushpa Patel and T.S. Jarnail. Singers like Sonu Nigam, Anuradha Paudwal, Jagjit Singh, K.S. Chitra, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, S Shailaja, Tarsame Singh Saini and Udit Narayan lent their voices for the soundtrack. The ghazal "Koi Faryad" sung by Jagjit Singh and composed by Nikhil Vinay is considered as one of the greatest ghazals in the history of Bollywood. The songs "Choti Choti Raatein", "Tum Bin" and "Tumhare Siva" composed by Nikhil Vinay were chart-busters in 2001. Other songs composed by Ravi Pawar & T.S.Jarnail were also successful making the soundtrack one of the most successful soundtrack of the year.

References

External links

• Tum Bin at the Internet Movie Database