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Kabhi Kabhie

Film poster
Directed by Yash Chopra
Produced by Yash Chopra
Written by Pamela Chopra (story)
Sagar Sarhadi (screenplay)
Starring Amitabh Bachchan
Shashi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor
Waheeda Rehman
Raakhee Gulzar
Neetu Singh
Simi Garewal
Parikshat Sahni
Iftekhar
Deven Verma
Music by Khayyam
Sahir Ludhianvi(Lyrics)
Cinematography Romesh Bhalla
Kay Gee
Editing by Naresh Malhotra
Pran Mehra
Studio Himachal Pradesh
New Dehli
Rajkamal Studios
Uttar Pradesh
Distributed by Yash Raj Films
Release date(s) 27 January 1976
Running time 178 mins
Country India
Language Hindi
Gross revenue Rs. 4,00,00,000 [1]
Preceded by Daag (1972)
Followed by Kala Patthar (1979)

Kabhi Kabhie (English: Sometimes...) is a 1976 Bollywood film, 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 and was particularly noted for its soundtrack compositions by Khayyam, who won Filmfare Award for Best Music, while film lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi won the Best Lyricist Award for "Kabhi Kbhie Mere Dil Mein", the song which also got singer Mukesh, the Best Male Playback Singer award [2].

The movie was a commercial success, and became the 8th highest grosser of the year at the Indian Box Office[1][3],

Contents

[edit] Story

Amit Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan), recites one of his poems at a college / university where he meets fellow student Pooja (Raakhee Gulzar) and they fall in love. But Pooja decides to marry an architect, Vijay Khanna (Shashi Kapoor), in line with her parents' wishes. A heartbroken Amit returns home and joins his father's business - a construction company - and later marries Anjali (Waheeda Rehman), who is secretly a widow and has a daughter named Pinky (Neetu Singh) from an earlier marriage. Amit and Anjali have a daughter, Sweetie, of their own. In the meantime, Pinky is adopted by childless couple Dr. and Mrs. R.P. Kapoor.

Spanning over to the next generation, Pooja and Vijay have a son, Vikram (Rishi Kapoor), also known as "Vicky", who falls in love with Pinky while they are in college and the two plan to get married. When Pinky learns that she is actually adopted and the identity of her real mother, she tries to get close to Anjali. While Anjali eventually acknowledges her existence and secretly showers her love on her reunited daughter, she does not reveal the relationship to her husband, fearing for her marriage. The situation is further complicated by Vicky's attempts to stay close to Pinky and Sweetie's romantic interest in Vicky.

This sets in motion a chain of events that unites old flames as friends.

[edit] 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 in Kashmir and Yash Chopra has claimed this to be one of his happiest experiences and he described the production as a "honeymoon", since the entire united stayed together as a family.[4] The film also led to the reinvention of Amitabh Bachchan as a romantic poet who loses his love, which was a major departure from his earlier "angry-young man" roles such as Deewar and Zanjeer. The film had been written with Raakhee in mind, and she had agreed to do it during the making of Daag (1973)[5] but before production started she married lyricist Gulzar, who wanted her to retire from acting. However, after some persuasion from Yash Chopra, Gulzar let her do the film.

The title track was later resung and remixed by Dal Hothi followed many years later by a remixed version by Bally Sagoo.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Crew

  • Chief Assistant Director: Ramesh Talwar
  • Art Direction: Desh Mukerji
  • Costume Design: Jennifer Kapoor, Rajee Singh
  • Choreography: Suresh Bhatt

[edit] Soundtrack

The soundtrack includes the following tracks, composed by Khayyam, and with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi, both of whom won the Filmfare Award for the year [6]. The Kabhi Kabhie version, which duet between Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar, year end Annual list 1976 of Radio Ceylon radio show, Binaca Geetmala.

Kabhi Kabhie
Soundtrack by Khayyam
Released 1976 (India)
Genre Film soundtrack
Label EMI
Producer Khayyam
Khayyam chronology
Sankalp
(1975)		 Kabhi Kabhie
(1976)		 Shankar Hussain
(1977)
Song Singer (s)
Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein -I Mukesh
Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein - II Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar
Main Pal Do Pal Ka Shayar Hoon Mukesh
Main Har Ek Pal Ka Shayar Hoon Mukesh
Chahe Chale Churiya Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein - Dialogue Amitabh Bachchan
Mere Ghar Aaye Ek Nanhi Pari Lata Mangeshkar
Pyar Kar Liya To Kya Kishore Kumar
Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein Kishore Kumar
Surkh Jode ki Yeh Jagmagahat Lata Mangeshkar
Tere Chehre Se Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] DVD Release

  • The release date of the DVD for this film is 1 November 1999.
  • DVD is available at Amazon

[edit] Blu Ray Release

  • Yash Raj Films has planned to roll out Kabhi Kabhie on Blu Ray.
  • It will be available on Blu Ray Disc in December, 2009.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Box Office 1976
  2. ^ Kabhie Kabhie Review Planet Bollywood.
  3. ^ Kabhie Kabhie Review
  4. ^ http://www.mag4you.com/music/k/kabhi-kabhi.asp
  5. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaVSb9faj6M&feature=channel
  6. ^ Kabhi Kabhie 1976 songs
  7. ^ 1977 Filmfare Awards IMDB

[edit] External links

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