Drama > Chopra, Yash Drama

Yash Chopra's Mega multistarrer

Advantages: Amitabh Bachan and Sanjeev Kumar's performances
Disadvantages: Too many stars

Trishul ( Trident ) - 1978 Trishul was made by Yash Chopra on a grand scale. The story was written by Javed Akhtar. It was the first film for which Javed wrote the story independently. Earlier Salim and Javed as a team penned stories for many popular films like Sholay, Deewar, and so on; Yash Chopra, Salim- Javed and Amitabh Bachan teamed in many films in the seventies after the super success of Deewar. Trishul was as big a success as Yash Chopra's ...
...say. The story of Trishul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shanti ( Waheeda Rehman) is a middle class working girl, who meets Raj ( Sanjeev Kumar) an Engineer.They fall in love and she gets pregnant. She informs Raj about this and they plan to get married . But Raj's mother has a lot of ambitions for him and talks him out of marrying Shanti and encourages him to marry Kamini ( Geeta kak), who is his boss's daughter. Raj too sees an opportunity to get rich by marrying ...

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Forbidden love between a Pakistani and an Indian

Advantages: Beautiful Bollywood love story
Disadvantages: Not for the cynical or those with a short attention span

...The story begins with Veer as an old man, rotting away alone in a dingy, cramped cell in Pakistan. Immediately, the audience knows that the love story between Veer and Zaara went wrong. He is visited by Saamiya Sidiqui, a young lawyer determined to prove that firstly, women can do the same things as men and secondly, that lawyers can do the right thing. She wants to help Veer leave prison but in order to do this, she must know how Veer came to arrive ...
...tell the story of how Veer met Zaara as she arrived in India and how they fell in love and ultimately, how Veer ended up in prison and why there appears to be a complete absence of Zaara. What happened to her? I won't give away any more of the plot since the purpose of the story is for the audience to watch with Saamiya as Veer and Zaara's life unfolds before our eyes. -Actors- The film features a large number of currently very big Bollywood actors. ...

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Sometimes, sometimes..

Advantages: Great film, great performance and Great music
Disadvantages: None

Kabhie Kabhie ( Now and then or Sometimes)- 1976 This is yet another film that was produced and directed by Yash Chopra.This was a super hit multi starrer.Yash Chopra and BR Chopra together introduced the trend of having many big stars in one film, generally with a highly complicated story line.Waqt was their first multistarrer, a very successful film , followed by Humraaz and Kabhie Kabhie(1976).And to their credit all these films were extremely ...
...well! Yash Chopra is a director who is very careful in planning the details of his films.His films are classy, with great sets, music, outdoors and carefully chosen wardrobe for his actors.It is a treat to watch his movies. Kabhie Kabhie is a romantic story.It is the story of Amitabh Malhotra, called Amit ( Amitabh bachan), a poet and an Engineer, and Pooja ( Raakhee Gulzar), who meet , while in college and fall in love.But Pooja is engaged to be ...

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Hindi movie silsila(in hinid language)

Advantages: it's nice sentimental movie
Disadvantages: Extra- marital affair is always wrong

Silsila is very sentimental love story.It is very touching Rekha and Amitabh are shown in love and are in the process of getting married. In the mean time, Jaya's would be shashi kapoor who is a pilot dies unfortunately and Amitabh is forced to marry jaya bachhan who is pregnant. Rekha also had to marry Sanjeev kumar who is a doctor and is a gentleman. Accidentally Rekha and Amitabh come across once again their marriage and the emotions of love for ...
...again and again even elope one day from their houses.Amitabh tells his wife that he is leaving her to marry some one else. on the other hand sanjeev kapoor's plane is crashed and this information reaches to both Rekha and Amitabh.Both of them could not resist and come back and Amitabh rushes hurriedly and saves sanjeev kapoor .At this stage both realise and with due respect go back to their respective life.After all the silsilaas they are shown happy ...

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Precious moments

Advantages: One of those well made nineties film..
Disadvantages: Could have been better

...most of these films... Lamhe produced in 1991, was like a breath of fresh air and it was one of those rare films , that got recognition from the most hardened critic.It had an explosive subject by Indian standards, yet, it was accepted by the masses which showed that at least a certain class of the Indian film viewer had become more broad minded, capable of accepting a subject that was out of the ordinary. Yash Chopra , the Producer/director of ...
...The story of Lamhe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lamhe is an unconventional Love story ,spanning two decades.Viren( Anil Kapoor) on his visit to his native village in Rajasthan, meets Pallavi(Sridevi), an extremely bubbly and charming lady who is many years older than him.He is totally smitten by her and wants to marry her.He consults his Nanny( Waheeda Rehman), who is the only family he has, and the nanny is not too happy with the idea. However to his disappointment ...

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