Kabhie Kabhie (1976)

Kabhie Kabhie Movie Trailer 1976

Crew

Directed by     Yash Chopra
Produced by     Yash Chopra
Written by     Pamela Chopra (story)
Sagar Sarhadi (screenplay)
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

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Amitabh "Amit" Malhotra
    Shashi Kapoor as Vijay Khanna
    Waheeda Rehman as Anjali "Anju" Malhotra
    Raakhee as Pooja Khanna
    Neetu Singh as Pinky Kapoor
    Rishi Kapoor as Vikram "Vicky" Khanna
    Naseem as Sweety Malhotra
    Simi Garewal as Shobha Kapoor
    Parikshit Sahni as Dr. R.P. Kapoor

Story

Kabhi Kabhie is a romantic story about a young poet named Amit and a young and beautiful girl named Pooja, who both deeply love each other and decide to get married but destiny has other plans, as Pooja bows to the wishes of her parents and marries Vijay. However Amit drifts away from his poetry in a futile and unsuccessful attempt to leave behind his memories of Pooja by getting married to Anjali. Spanning over to the next generation, Pooja & Vijay's son Vicky and Shobha and R.P's daughter Pinky who love each other but things unravel as Pinky's parents tell her that she is not their daughter. So Pinky goes after her mother and we see she is Anjali's daughter. Sometimes later Anjali & Amit's daughter Sweetie comes in the picture and Sweetie feels jealous as her mother shows love more to Pinky as to her. Later Vicky comes and meets both the sisters, forming a love triangle between them.


Did you know?

• Canadian/US singer Paul Anka sung his own version of the title song "Kabhie Kabhie".
• Yash Chopra shot the movie in Kashmir. All the cast stayed together as a family and contributed to every aspect of the film, and they even brought their families with them to Kashmir (they were used as extras in the wedding scenes). It was one of Chopra's happiest experiences and he described the production as a honeymoon.
• The film had been written with Rakhee Gulzar in mind, and she had agreed to do it during the making of Daag: A Poem of Love, but before production started she married Gulzar, who wanted her to retire from acting. Yash Chopra persuaded Gulzar to let her do the film.
• Parveen Babi was Yash Chopra's first choice for the role opposite Rishi Kapoor.
• The film was supposed to open with Amit standing under a tree and watching Pooja get married. Traditionally in a Hindi "shaadi" (wedding) ceremony, there were to be seven "pheras" (circuits) around the altar; therefore there would be seven different love scenes between Amit and Pooja intercut with each phera. This was deemed too artistic a beginning for the film, so a few days were spent re-shooting the simple scenes of Amit reciting poetry and meeting Pooja.
• Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh fell in love while shooting this film.
• There are two versions of the poem "Kabhi Kabhie" - one is the romantic poem Amit sings to Pooja when they are in love, and the other version, rewritten by a shattered Amit since the marriage of Pooja to Vijay, is a bitter, self-hating ode of misery and loss. Sahir Ludhianvi wrote this version of "Kabhi Kabhie" first; the more romantic version was written for the film.
• At the launch of the movie, the three lead men Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor all wore the same costume Kurta-pajamas.
• The film's producer, Gulshan Rai, was convinced it would never run. It went on to break all box-office records.
• The concept came to Yash Chopra while he was reading a poem by his longtime friend (and also the film's lyricist) Sahir Ludhianvi. Initially, the story just centered on Amit, Pooja, Vijay and Anjali, but Pamela Chopra read an article in a magazine about a woman meeting her adopted child. Yash Chopra thought it good enough to make it a sub-plot in the film.