Jab We Met (English: When We Met) is a 2007 cult Hindi romantic comedy-drama directed and written by Imtiaz Ali. The film, produced by Dhillin Mehta under Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd, stars Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in their fourth film together with Dara Singh, Pawan 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 U.K. 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 (dubbed into Telugu), Kannada and Malayalam. The Tamil remake of the film was released in 2009 as Kanden Kadhalai. The film inspired the TV show Love U Zindagi.
Cast:
Shahid Kapoor as Aditya Kashyap
Kareena Kapoor as Geet Dhillon
Dara Singh as Geet's grandfather
Pawan Malhotra as Geet's uncle
Kiran Juneja as Geet's mother
Saumya Tandon as Roop
Tarun Arora as Anshuman
Divya Seth as Aditya's mother
Brijendra Kala as Taxi driver
Vishal O Sharma as Aditya's lawyer
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