4. Thursday - Romance
Starring: SRK, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee
Veer-Zaara is master director Yash Chopra's most recent effort and can easily be named an eternal story of not only love, but also of dedication, perseverance, and humanity. With a backdrop of tensions between India and Pakistan, Chopra tells the love story of an Indian Air Force pilot being detained at a prison in Lahore, Pakistan for over twenty years. One day, an ambitious female lawyer, Saamiya Siddiqui (played by Rani Mukherjee), arrives to defend Veer and try his case in court. It is during this period, that Saamiya is able to probe Veer's brain and extract an unbelievable love story. The love story between Veer and Zaara (played by Preity Zinta) is crafted second only to the love story between India and Pakistan - their people, their villages, their colors, and their traditions.
This film, being from the Yash Raj camp, has the gloss, necessary song-in-the-mountains, Lata & Udit duets, and corny lyrics - yet it retains its heart. Veer-Zaara is an intellectual's film in a masala film package. Needless to say, the 2005 Filmfare Award for Best Film went to Veer-Zaara.
The soundtrack by Madan Mohan is amazing and reminds one of older Bollywood soundtracks from the '90s.
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