Veer-Zaara is a 2004 film directed by director Yash Chopra. The lyrics were penned by Javed Akhtar and dialogue by Aditya Chopra. The music for Veer-Zaara was inspired by music director Madan Mohan and was recreated by his son Sanjeev Kohli. The movie stars Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, and Rani Mukherjee, with film icon Amitabh Bachchan in a special cameo role.

Veer-Zaara was heavily promoted pre-release. Audience expectations were high: Shah Rukh and Preity Zinta had co-starred in the recent crowd-pleaser Kal Ho Naa Ho and Yash Chopra is known for well-produced big-budget spectacles. The film music, released before the actual cinematic release, was already a hit. Veer-Zaara opened world-wide, to packed audiences, on November 12th, 2004, and has continued to pack theatres.

The Story

Zaara Haayat Khan (Priety Zinta) is a Pakistani, travelling in India. Her bus overturns; she is saved by an Indian soldier, Veer Pratap Singh (Shah Rukh Khan). Veer falls in love with Zaara, but finds out that she is engaged to another man. He tells her that he loves her, then sees her off at the railway station when she returns to Pakistan. Both believe that this is the end of the story.

Zaara eventually realizes that she loves Veer and cannot marry her fiancé; Veer realizes that he cannot live without Zaara and travels to Pakistan to find her. He is suspected of spying for India and imprisoned before he can reach Zaara.

Twenty-two years later, an idealistic Pakistani lawyer (Rani Mukherjee) takes up Veer's case. Will she manage to free him? Will Veer and Zaara be re-united?