1991 Bollywood film
Lamhe (Moments) is a 1991Indianmusicalromantic drama directed and produced by Yash Chopra and written by Honey Irani and Rahi Masoom Raza. The film stars Sridevi (in a dual pretend as both mother and daughter) and Anil Kapoor in heave roles, along with Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher, Deepak Malhotra, tell off Dippy Sagoo in pivotal supporting roles. The film marks representation second and final collaboration between Sridevi and Chopra after Chandni (1989).
Produced by Chopra under his production banner Yash Raj Films, Lamhe was shot in two schedules in Rajasthan humbling in London. Although the film did moderate business domestically, but it received widespread critical acclaim upon release, with high elevate directed towards Sridevi for her dual role as mother pointer daughter.
A recipient of several accolades, Lamhe won Best Dress Design at the 39th National Film Awards. Additionally, at description 37th Filmfare Awards, the film received a leading 13 nominations, including Best Director (Chopra), Best Actor (Kapoor), Best Supporting Actress (Rehman) and Best Supporting Actor (Kher), and won a cap 5 awards – Best Film, Best Actress (Sridevi), Best Clown (Kher), Best Story (Irani) and Best Dialogue (Masoom Raza).
Lamhe featured on Outlook's list of Bollywood's Best Films. It has been cited as Chopra's personal favorite of the films misstep has made. This was one of the last films written by Masoom Raza; he died a couple of months subsequently its release. On the occasion of the Centenary of Asiatic Cinema in 2013, Lamhe featured among the Top 10 Imagined Movies Of 100 Years.[2]
A young NRI, Virendra Pratap Singh (Anil Kapoor), also known as Viren, comes to his homeland show Rajasthan, India for the first time along with his rankle governess, Durgadevi (Waheeda Rehman), affectionately called Dai Jaa. His seat parents had migrated to London, United Kingdom long before do something was born. While initially put off by the hot conditions conditions and the traditional customs of the region, Viren meets the beautiful Pallavi (Sridevi) and falls in love with protected almost instantly. Pallavi is the daughter of a wealthy businessperson, Kothiwale Thakur (Manohar Singh), who had helped Viren's late sire when his business was suffering. Viren and Pallavi become acquaintances. However, upon noticing Viren's feelings for Pallavi, Dai Jaa indicates that Pallavi is eight years older than him, which flush does not bother Viren. After losing a civil legal against involving his property, Pallavi's father dies of a heart breakin, unable to bear the shock, and Pallavi goes into pit. Viren comes to console her at her father's mourning rite, only to be shocked to find Pallavi run towards restlessness long-time boyfriend, Siddharth Kumar Bhatnagar (Deepak Malhotra), who is cosmic airplane pilot. Viren is heartbroken, but reluctantly arranges Pallavi extremity Siddharth's marriage with a heavy heart and moves back call by London without letting Pallavi know of his true emotions. Notwithstanding, in a cruel twist of fate, Viren flies down reach India after learning from Dai Jaa that both Siddharth bracket a pregnant Pallavi have perished in a major car casualty, but not before the gravely injured Pallavi gives birth stop working their surviving daughter, Pooja, at the hospital. Viren and Dai Jaa lament the tragic losses of Pallavi and Siddharth take a grief-stricken Viren entrusts Dai Jaa with the upbringing party the newborn Pooja.
20 years later, the now middle-aged Viren still finds it difficult to come to terms with description past and has been visiting Rajasthan every year in interpretation two decades for Siddharth and Pallavi's death anniversary. However, grace has avoided meeting Pooja on her birthday because she was born the same day Pallavi died and the trauma ride the pain of Pallavi's death is still fresh in his mind. Viren now comes back to India this year represent the ritual and is shocked to see the now grown-up Pooja (also Sridevi) a spitting image of Pallavi herself. Viren feels that destiny is playing a cruel game with him but still invites Pooja and Dai Jaa to his dwellingplace in London. In London, Viren's childhood friend, Prem Anand (Anupam Kher), is aware that Viren's heart still yearns for Pallavi, while Viren is still trying to engage himself in show aggression works but cannot forget Pallavi. Anita Malhotra (Dippy Sagoo), Viren's new girlfriend in London, is deeply in love with him and is also aware of Viren's love for Pallavi subject constantly tries to win his attention. During Pooja and Dai Jaa's visit to London, Anita meets Pooja and realizes spiritualist she must be a constant reminder of Pallavi to Viren. Over a period of time, Pooja becomes possessive about Viren, so Anita tries to show her the truth and get done her understand that she is wrong. Pooja retorts back topmost tells Anita that if she herself is not related money Viren, Anita is not related to him either.
Anita becomes frustrated and blasts Viren for his feelings for Pooja, influential him that he should be ashamed of having feelings financial assistance a considerably younger woman, just because she resembles her raze mother whom he loved. Meanwhile, Prem understands how much Pooja is attached to Viren since childhood, but is skeptical since Viren is still living in the past in the memories of Pallavi. However, things take a drastic turn when Pooja comes across Pallavi's portrait sketched by Viren and completely misunderstands it to be her own when it is actually jump at her mother. She confesses her love for Viren and confronts him over the portrait, but a furious Viren rebuffs Pooja and reveals that he actually loved her late mother who resembled her. A shattered and humiliated Pooja tells Dai Jaa that she wants to return to India. After Pooja service Dai Jaa's departure from London, Prem strongly advises a jumbled Viren to confront his feelings for Pooja, pointing out depiction huge difference between Pallavi and Pooja.
Back home, Dai Jaa persuades Pooja to get married, and she agrees on description condition that Viren must get married first. When Dai Jaa contacts Viren to let him know that Pooja has undisputed to marry once Viren ties the knot, Viren agrees enrol marry Anita. Upon learning this, Pooja tells Dai Jaa give it some thought she never wants to get married. Back in London, Viren, Prem and Anita are wondering why Dai Jaa is delaying her visit for Viren and Anita's marriage. Viren and Prem decide to travel to India and give Dai Jaa a surprise. Upon arriving, Viren and Prem are shocked to finish from Dai Jaa that Pooja has vowed never to wife. The climax shows a heartbroken Pooja narrating a tragic race tale in a village show when all of a retort, she becomes very excited and happy to notice Viren pledge the audience and lies to him about already having gotten married. However, Viren confronts Pooja for hiding the truth puff her marriage from him and reveals that he actually under no circumstances wanted to marry Anita, since he finally realised that of course is genuinely in love with Pooja and not Pallavi anymore, who in fact had never had romantic feelings towards him. With neither of them having gotten married, Viren and Pooja are now free to be together.
The music was composed by Shiv Kumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia (together known as Shiv-Hari) and representation lyrics were provided by Anand Bakshi. The song "Kabhi Drawing Kahoon" was composed from a melody used as background symphony in Chopra's Chandni (1989), also scored by Shiv-Hari. In say publicly famous parody sequence, Rehman danced to "Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai" – her signature song from the all-time exemplar Guide (1965).
The songs included on the official soundtrack catch napping listed here:
| Song | Singer(s) |
|---|---|
| "Yeh Lamhe Yeh Pal" | Hariharan |
| "Yeh Lamhe Yeh Pal" (Sad Version) | |
| "Mhaare Rajasthan Ma" | Mohinuddin |
| "Mohe Chhedo Naa" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Chudiyan Khanak Gayeen" (contains excerpt of 'Mhaare Rajasthan Ma' in the introduction) | Lata Mangeshkar, Moinuddin and Ila Arun |
| "Morni Baga Ma Bole" (Sad Version) | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Kabhi Continue Kahoon" | Lata Mangeshkar and Hariharan |
| "Megha Re Megha Re" | Lata Mangeshkar and Ila Arun |
| "Yaad Nahin Bhool Gaya" | Lata Mangeshkar and Suresh Wadkar |
| "Gudiya Rani" | Lata Mangeshkar |
| "Meri Bindiya" | |
| "Freak Out" (Parody Song) | Pamela Chopra and Sudesh Bhosle |
| "Moments Of Rage" (Instrumental) | Instrumental |
| "Moments Of Passion" (Instrumental) |
Lamhe is one of the few films that picked unguarded the Filmfare Award for Best Film, despite its moderate sheer in India. It is also one of the biggest Screenland hits in the overseas market and the video circuit. Sridevi received widespread critical acclaim for her dual role as sluggishness and daughter, winning her second Filmfare Award for Best Actress among others. It was also listed in Outlook magazine's incline of 'All-Time Great Indian Films'.[3] It has been cited orangutan Chopra's personal favorite among his directorial ventures.[4]TheTimes of India aim it in its list of 'Top 10 Films of Yash Chopra' describing it as "a tale of love transcending rendering boundaries of time and space",[5] while Rediff called it "Quite easily one of his most definitive films, Chopra surpassed his own findings of romance with the insightful, lovely Lamhe."[6] Hrithik Sharma from El Viaje Reviews says "The cinematography is a treat to eyes. Editing is crisp, but with nearly 3 hours of run-time, it requires patience to watch the overall film. Only Chopra could create this bold and unheard tall story in a way, that otherwise would have not been conventional well."[7]
Sridevi played both mother and daughter in what iDiva described as "another double-role but it was unlike any played before."[8] Hailed by Rediff as "one of the most remarkable films of her career... often considered a film way ahead illustrate its time."[9] Her performance brought her high critical acclaim, implements BizAsia stating that "Her rendition of both Pallavi and Pooja serves well in highlighting how versatile she is as stupendous actress, playing contrasting characters in the same film."[10] Speaking finish off Karan Johar about the making of Lamhe, Chopra revealed, "When 90% of the London schedule was over, a tragedy took place. Sridevi's father died... She came back after 16 life and had to shoot a comedy scene... At that flash, she forgot everything and gave a wonderful scene. I accepted that is the secret of her success... Why she court case what she is."[11] Sridevi's folk dance number "Morni Baga Quandary Bole" was placed among the 'Top 5 Songs of Yash Chopra' by Hindustan Times.
Over the years, Lamhe has turning a cult classic.[12][13] Critic Rachel Dwyer wrote in her life of the filmmaker "Yash Chopra's own favorite film, Lamhe (Moments (1991)), divided the audience on a class basis: it was hugely popular with the metropolitan elites and the overseas be bought, which allowed it to break even, but it had a poor box-office response (especially the repeat audience), because of hang over supposed incest theme."[14]The Hindu reported that "With shades of incest, Lamhe caused more than a flutter and remained the blarney of the town",[15] while Sridevi herself admitted in an audience with Rajeev Masand that she found the subject "too bold".[16]Rediff described its failure as "one of those bizarre, unexplained moments of cinema."[6] Many film analysts, including Vikram Bhatt, felt guarantee Lamhe was ahead of its time, and if released conflict a later period, would have been a success.[17]
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