One rainy afternoon,
Six years later…
Two estranged lovers met…
To play the game of words.
The four lines above summarize the essence of Rituparno Ghosh’s Raincoat starring Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai in lead roles. IndiaFM takes you on an exclusive trip for some interesting facts from this film.
Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai have been teamed up again for the third time in this film. Earlier, they were paired together in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam & Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin.
Shree Venkatesh Films (of Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni) that released Rituparno's last movie Choker Bali is producing this movie. This is Rituparno Ghosh’s first attempt at directing a Hindi movie. Similarly, Ajay Devgan is working for the first time with a Tollywood (Bengali) director.
Well, the film tells the story of estranged lovers meeting on a rainy afternoon and the game [of words] they play with each other. Hence, the title Raincoat!
The story involves a romance between two people who encounter each other years after they last met. The man (Ajay Devgan) is an entrepreneur now while the woman (Aishwarya) is married and is in service. In their second encounter they get to know each other better and rediscover themselves against the passage of time. Ajay plays a defeated person who arrives in Kolkata for some work and ends up meeting Aishwarya. It’s about their relationship.
