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Theatrical release poster
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Directed by | Imtiaz Ali |
Produced by | Dhillin Mehta |
Screenplay by | Imtiaz Ali |
Story by | Imtiaz Ali |
Starring |
Shahid Kapoor Kareena Kapoor |
Music by |
Songs: Pritam Sandesh Shandilya Background score: Sanjoy Chowdhury |
Cinematography | Natarajan Subramaniam |
Edited by | Aarti Bajaj |
Distributed by | Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd |
Release date
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Running time
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142 min |
Country | India |
Language |
Hindi Punjabi |
Budget | ₹150 million (US$2.2 million) |
Box office | ₹302.5 million (US$4.5 million) |
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Soundtrack album by Pritam Chakraborty | ||||
Released | 21 September 2007 (India) | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Length | 45:01 | |||
Label | T-Series | |||
Producer | Dhillin Mehta | |||
Pritam Chakraborty chronology | ||||
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Jab We Met (English: When We Met) is a 2007 Indian romantic drama film directed and written by Imtiaz Ali. The film, produced by Dhillin Mehta under Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd, stars Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in their fourth film together with Dara Singh, Pavan Malhotra and Saumya Tandon in supporting roles.
The film tells the story of a feisty Punjabi girl who is sent off track when she bumps into a depressed Mumbai businessman on an overnight train to Delhi. While attempting to get him back on board when he alights at a station stop, both are left stranded in the middle of nowhere. Having walked out of his corporate business after being dumped by his girlfriend, the man has no destination in mind, until the girl forces him to accompany her back home and then on to elope with her secret boyfriend.
Released in the United Kingdom a day before its worldwide release of 26 October 2007, the film became a hit at the Indian box office as well as overseas. The distributors of the film, Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd, announced that Jab We Met would be remade by corporate entity Moser Baer in four other Indian languages: Tamil (dubbed into Telugu), Kannada and Malayalam. The film remains as one of the best romantic movies in Bollywood.
Aditya Kashyap (Shahid Kapoor), a wealthy industrialist faces many problems in business and personal life. After attending his girlfriend's wedding with someone else, he leaves his mobile, car and identities behind and walks away. At chatrapathi shivaji terminal he boards a departing train. There he bumps into Geet Dhillon (Kareena Kapoor), an energetic, talkative Punjabi girl. He tries to jump off of the train but disturbed by Geet calling him inside saying that standing at door was dangerous. He finds her irritating and shouts at her but she continues her chatter after he apologizes.