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Plot summary
Zaara Hayaat Khan, whose family holds a high place in Lahore politics, travels to India to scatter the ashes of the nanny who raised her. Her bus crashes, and Veer Pratap Singh, an Indian Air Force rescue pilot, rescues her. He helps her finish the journey and takes her to his Punjabi village for the Lohri festival, where she meets the aunt and uncle who raised him after his parents died young. Her family has already arranged her engagement to Razaa Shirazi, a wealthy and influential politician, and her mother Mariam favors the match because it will help her father's political career. Twenty-two years later, the young lawyer Saamiya Siddiqui is given her first case, a Pakistani prisoner documented as Rajesh Rathore who has not spoken for all that time.
Cast
- S.M. Zaheeras Pakistani Court Judge
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Veer-Zaara (2004)
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- While filming an action sequence with Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta was left hanging from a harness for nearly six hours in what she called a near-fatal experience, and she said it showed her the difficulties male actors face.
- Kajol was the first choice for the title role of Zaara but turned it down because of her pregnancy, and the part went to Preity Zinta.
- The lawyer Saamiya Siddiqui was based on Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir, and the part was first offered to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Pakistani actress Nadia Jamil, who both refused before Rani Mukherji took it.
- Every prison scene featuring Shah Rukh Khan was shot in a single day, at a jail in Pakistan.
- The soundtrack's 11 songs are built on old, untouched compositions by the late Madan Mohan, revised by his son Sanjeev Kohli.
- Veer-Zaara became the first Indian film to premiere at The Grand Rex, the biggest theatre in Paris, when it opened there on 26 April 2006.
