Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (, ) is a 2007
Bollywood film starring
Abhishek Bachchan,
Preity Zinta,
Bobby Deol and
Lara Dutta. It is directed by
Shaad Ali. The film is produced by
Aditya Chopra and
Yash Chopra under
Yash Raj Films. The film released on 15 June 2007.
Plot
The film begins with a mysterious
gypsy-like musician (
Amitabh Bachchan) leading the crowds at
Waterloo station in
London in a dance to the title song.
At the station, two strangers, Rikki Thukral (
Abhishek Bachchan) and Alvira Khan (
Preity Zinta), wait for their respective friends arriving on the same train. Rikki is a fun-loving
Punjabi from
Bhatinda who lives in
Southall, while Alvira is an sexy, elite class
Pakistani from
Lahore who is more
assimilated into British culture. The two
share a table in a café together and to kill the time they talk about how they met their partners-to-be.
Rikki says that he met his fiancé, Anaida Raza (
Lara Dutta), at
Hôtel Ritz Paris, the same night that
Diana, Princess of Wales and
Dodi Al-Fayed left the hotel to take their last journey together. Rikki explains "When two lovers die, another two are born", as he fell in love with Anaida that night. Alvira says she met her fiancé, the dashing lawyer Steve Singh (
Bobby Deol) at
Madame Tussauds in London when he saved her from death by a falling
Superman wax model. The encounter changed her life and she was smitten by the lawyer who also helped her sue Madame Tussauds...
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