Story of Yash Chopra’s Film

One of the most anticipated movies of 2004 undoubtedly is Yash
Chopra's next starring Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee
and Manoj Bajpai. Apart from the multi starcast, which also includes
Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini in guest appearances, the USP of the
film will be Yash Chopra, who returns to the direction front after a
hiatus of more than six long years since his last film Dil To Pagal
Hai. And contrary to what the rumor-mills have to say, Yash Chopra
has not revealed the title of his film as yet though it's shooting
schedule is going on in full swing.

Chopra chooses the current favorite India - Pakistan theme as the
base of his movie. However this one seems to be a genuine effort to
cement the Indo-Pak relations further, which have been on an upswing
in the recent times. The movie talks about the trauma of partition.
In true Yashraj tradition, it's an emotional love story.


Recently the opening sequence of the film was shot at Asia's biggest
wetland, the convergence of Ravi and the Beas, near the Ishar Dham
Nanaksar Gurdwara at Amritsar. Yash Chopra along with his nearly 100-
member team, which included fashion designer Manish Malhotra (who is
also assisting him on this film) and ace cameraman Anil Mehta
picturized the scene on Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee. The scene
illustrated a Pakistani girl who comes to India after the
recommencement of the Samjhauta Express to immerse the ashes of her
forefathers. Preity plays the Pakistani girl and Shah Rukh meets him
in the course.

Of what little the director was ready to divulge on the project,
Shah Rukh rescues Preity from an accident and subsequently befriends
and takes her around a trip to Punjab. But eventually, Preity has to
return with her fiancée, Manoj Bajpai, to Pakistan. Does that sound
somewhat like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge?

Well we are keeping our fingers crossed and eagerly awaiting for the
film!