Veer Zaara

VeerZaara is a 2004 Indian romantic drama film directed by Yash Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta in the leading roles, with Rani Mukerji, Manoj Bajpayee, Kirron Kher, Divya Dutta and Anupam Kher in supporting roles. Veteran actors Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini make a special appearance in the film. The films story and dialogues were written by Aditya Chopra.

The narrative begins by showing Zaara Haayat Khan Preity Zinta, an independent, carefree, and sprightly young Pakistani girl travelling to India. Her family is of a political background and a well known family of Lahore. She is on her way to India with the ashes of her Sikh governess Bebe a Punjabi word to denote mother or grandmother, but here used for Zaaras old governess. Before dying, Bebe Zohra Sehgal begs Zaara to fulfill her final wish to take her ashes to India, to the holy Sikh city of Kiratpur, and scatter them in the Sutlej river, among her ancestors. Zaara decides to carry out Bebes dying wish.Upon reaching India, Zaaras bus meets with an accident causing it to overturn. An Indian Air Force pilot, Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh Shah Rukh Khan comes to her rescue and with his help, Zaara completes Bebes final rites. Veer convinces Zaara to return with him to his village to spend one day together. Zaara agrees and Veer takes her on a tour of Indias Punjab. They visit Veers home village on the day of the Lodi festival and meet Veers uncle Choudhary Sumer Singh Amitabh Bachchan and aunt Saraswati Kaur Hema Malini. With his uncle telling Veer that, in a dream he has seen Zaara becoming Veers wife, Veer realises he is falling in love with Zaara. Taking her to catch her train to Lahore, Veer is just waiting for the right time to tell Zaara about his feelings, but before he can do that they are met by Zaaras fiance, who has come looking for her, Raza Sharazi Manoj Bajpayee. Just before she boards the train, Veer confesses his love to Zaara. He gets no sense of Zaaras feelings, but as she is leaving he discovers he still has one of her silver anklets. She nods for him to keep it both believe that this is the end of the road for their relationship and that they will probably never meet again. ........

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