Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi is an Indian film made by director Sudhir Mishra in 2003, but released in 2005. Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 1970s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes. The movies title is taken from a poem by Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

The film opens at Hindu College in Delhi with the story of three students, Siddharth Tyabji Kay Kay Menon, Geeta Rao Chitrangada Singh and Vikram Malhotra Shiney Ahuja. Siddharth is a driven revolutionary who dreams of bringing a revolution in the state of Bihar that will end the castebased discrimination there bring social justice, and, change the society for the better. Geeta is a London returned, South Indian girl in love with the firebrand Siddharth. She has led a very sheltered life thus far, and is yet to explore the terrain of the Indian sociopolitical landscape. While she finds Siddharths Naxalite rhetoric attractive, she is not sure if she can wholeheartedly subscribe to it. And every time they come to point of choice, Siddharth chooses his ideology over his love for her thus breaking her heart time and again. Vikram is a middleclass boy who dreams of making it big, whatever the cost. He is particularly afflicted by his fathers Gandhian ideas, but irritated and frustrated at the same time, seeing his fathers way of life as ineffective in bringing about a change.Siddharth leaves for Bihar to bring about a revolution Geeta leaves for Oxford to get a degree, and Vikram sets up an office in Delhi. ........

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