Jab Tak Hai Jaan is a 2012 Indian romance film directed by Yash Chopra and written and produced by Aditya Chopra under their production banner Yash Raj Films. The film features Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in lead roles, making it the first film to pair Khan and Kaif and the second collaboration between Khan and Sharma after Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. It was Yash Chopra's fourth film to feature Shahrukh Khan in the lead role, the former returning as a director after eight years post Veer-Zaara which released in 200
4. Jab Tak Hai Jaan was Yash Chopra's last directorial venture before his death on 21 October 2012.
The background score and soundtrack is composed by A.R. Rahman while the lyrics are penned by Gulzar. The film released during the six-day Diwali weekend which began on 13 November 2012.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan received positive to mixed reactions from critics and opened very well at the box office. Various websites have also opined that the film might have drawn inspiration from the Graham Greene novel The End Of The Affair.
Plot of
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)
The film begins with Samar Anand (Shahrukh Khan) a major from the Indian Army, defusing a bomb. After a while, Akira Rai (Anushka Sharma), a Discovery Channel intern, dives in a cold river in Ladakh because of a bet. As soon as she got into the river, she felt so cold that she started drowning and cried for help. Samar saves her and gave his jacket to warm her. Akira, offended by his late reaction, starts yelling at him. After reaching her hotel, she finds out a diary which falls from the jacket's pocket. Curious, she starts reading it.
Samar, aged 28, was a struggling immigrant in London, working as a street musician and a seafood seller. He was offered a job to be a part-time waiter in a hotel, which he accepted. One day, he meets Meera (Katrina Kaif) in her engagement party taking place at his hotel. Meera believed that giving up something she loves is the only way to ask for a favour. In exchange for some English lessons, Samar agreed to teach Meera a Punjabi song. In the process, Samar fell in love with Meera. Samar helped Meera get out of her shell & also in resolving her issues with her mother which made Meera reciprocate his feelings. On the day when Meera was going to tell her father about their relationship, Samar is hit by a car and goes unconscious. Meera starts praying to God to save Samar and makes a vow to never meet him again. Soon, Samar makes a speedy recovery. Samar comes to know about the vow and in anger, tells her to go away and leaves London, giving all his money to his roommate. Samar challenges God to keep him alive while he will risk his life everyday because he believes his death is the only way to make Meera lose her faith in the deity who stole his love. He goes to India and gets a job as an army officer posted in Kashmir.
As Akira finishes reading the diary, she requests her boss to make a documentary about the bomb disposal squad of the Indian Army, and is granted permission. She approaches Samar and his colleagues for help and soon gets acquainted with them. She soon starts showing romantic feelings towards Samar, though he refuses reciprocation due to his past. Akira makes the film successfully and departs for London, earning her praise from her boss but to launch it, she needs Samar to come to London. After extensively persuading an overly hesitant Samar to come with her, he again gets hit by a car and is diagnosed with Retrograde amnesia, remembering only the events before his former accident. Akira meets Meera to help her try and recover Samar's memory, but she is hesitant as Meera is happy with her own family. Later, it is revealed that Meera never married her fiancé as she loved Samar too much. Meera pretends to be Samar's wife to recover his memory and Samar is told that he is the owner of a big restaurant. During this time, Akira realizes that Major Samar is only a fragment of young Samar who was a jubilant social man while today's is a lonely bitter individual. Later, he comes across a bomb and diffuses it, which results in his memory returning and realising that Meera has been lying to him. Samar gives Meera a condition, either come along with him or he will keep on risking his life until he is dead. Samar departs for Kashmir where he continues defusing bombs. During a conversation with Akira, Meera realizes that her beliefs and prayers subjected Samar to a fate worse than death. Meera, realising her mistake, travels to Kashmir where they reunite, while Akira is shown addressing an audience in London, stating how Samar will be defusing his last bomb in India because there is a time for love, and the time for Samar and Meera's love is now.
Cast of
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)
Shahrukh Khan as Samar Anand
Khan's role in the film spans two ages, one at the age of 28 as a musician based in London and the other, at the age of 38 as an introverted, composed, dutiful army officer in Kashmir. In an interview, Shahrukh revealed many details about his Jab Tak Hai Jaan character. He said Samar is "angry, unforgiving, with loads of emotional baggage. I play him sweet when he needs to be, actually he is a lot like me. Samar is a combination of angst, tenderness, anger and yeah he’s pretty unforgiving. He’s a lover who feels there is arrogance in love. You know, when you are in love then you tend to feel more confident about yourself. You feel confident and arrogant that somebody loves [you]." Shahrukh added that there is "a sense of ownership in Samar. He feels he owns the person he loves but then when it's needed he can show his frailty also. I like this in him, he accepts his flaws and weaknesses."
Katrina Kaif as Meera Thappar
Prior to the film's release, Kaif's role was described as "the archetypal Yash Chopra seductress, an unattainable beauty." She was reported to have put in significant amount of work to make her character believable, and was helped by Khan, who had prior experience with the director.
Anushka Sharma as Akira Rai
Anushka Sharma was confirmed to be the second female lead in the film. In an interview with a leading daily journal, Anushka stated, "I play a girl by the name Akira. She is a 21 year old who works for Discovery Channel and makes documentaries. I am on a quest to discover the truth behind the compelling story of The Man Who Cannot Die. She is extremely ambitious and would do anything to make it big and realize her dreams."It was initially rumored that Sharma would be seen in an extended cameo appearance but this was refuted by the actress in the interview.
Anupam Kher as Meera's father
Kaif's father in the film. He stated officially in an interview that his role in the film was a cameo appearance.
Rishi Kapoor as Imraan
Neetu Singh's partner who is in a living relation with her. The role is a cameo appearance.
Neetu Singh as Pooja
Kaif's mother in the film who left Meera's father for her lover when she was 12. The role is a cameo appearance as well.
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