Kabhi Kabhie

Infobox Film
name = Kabhi Kabhie


caption = Film poster
director = Yash Chopra
producer = Yash Chopra
writer = Pamela Chopra
Sagar Sarhadi
starring = Amitabh Bachchan
Shashi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor
Waheeda Rehman
Rakhee Gulzar
music = Khayyam
cinematography = Romesh Bhalla
Kay Gee
editing = Naresh Malhotra
Pran Mehra
distributor = Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd.
released = 27 January 1976
runtime = 177 min.
country = India
awards =
language = Hindi/Urdu
budget =
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imdb_id = 0074730

"Kabhi Kabhie" (English: "Sometimes...") is a 1976 Hindi movie, produced and directed by Yash Chopra, starring Waheeda Rehman, Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee Gulzar, Neetu Singh and Rishi Kapoor. 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.

tory

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. Amit's poetry is best seen in the two versions of his 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.

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 they adopted her as a baby. So Pinky goes after her biological mother and we see Anjali is her birthmother. Sometimes later Anjali & Amit's daughter Sweetie comes in the picture and Sweetie feels jealous as her mother shows love more to Pinky than 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.

Production

The movie's concept came to Yash Chopra while he was reading a poem by his longtime friend (and also the film's lyricist) Sahir Ludhianvi. The movie was shot by Yash Chopra in Kashmir. During filming, all the cast stayed together as a family and contributed to every aspect of the film, even bringing their families with them to Kashmir where 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 (1973) but before production started she married Sampooran Singh Gulzar, who wanted her to retire from acting. However, after some persuasion, Yash Chopra Gulzar him to let her do the film.

The title track was later remixed by Bally Sagoo.

Cast

* Amitabh Bachchan .... Amitabh "Amit" Malhotra
* Shashi Kapoor .... Vijay Khanna
* Rishi Kapoor.... Vikram "Vicky" Khanna
* Waheeda Rehman.... Anjali Malhotra
* Raakhee Gulzar .... Pooja Khanna
* Neetu Singh.... Pinky Kapoor really Pinky Malhotra
* Simi Garewal .... Shobha Kapoor
* Parikshat Sahni.... Dr. R.P. Kapoor
* Naseem .... Sweety Malhotra

External links

*imdb title|id=0074730|title=Kabhi Kabhie