#11YearsOfJabWeMet (26/10/2007)

BollywooDirect
3 min readOct 26, 2018

The film is directed and written by Imtiaz Ali. It stars Kareena Kapoor and Shahid 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, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. However, eventually, it was remade only in Tamil as Kanden Kadhalai. It was also remade in Hollywood as “Leap Year” The film remains one of the most romantic movies in Bollywood. The movie catapulted to one of the best success stories throughout the Bollywood cinema.

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