Because of the extremist nature of the situation, the police relinquish the incident to the CBI. Amar chases him down to Connaught Place, where the man kills himself with a cyanide pill after being stopped by local police. On his date with Preeti, Amar spots one of Meghna's associates, Kim, who banished him earlier. Amar agrees to marry Preeti because he has no hope that he will ever meet Meghna again. It is later revealed that Meghna is part of a Liberationists group which has planned multiple suicide attacks in New Delhi at the upcoming Delhi Republic Day parade & celebrations.Īmar returns to his home in Delhi, where his family has found Preeti Nair ( Preity Zinta) from Kerala as a potential bride for him. In the morning, Amar wakes to find Meghna gone. Despite her protestations, the two end up traveling together and recuperate. En route Amar forces the woman to reveal her name: Meghna. While Amar tells the officers that he is there reporting on the festival, the woman uses Amar to her advantage and tells the officers that Amar is her husband.Īfter some travel, the bus breaks down and the passengers are required to walk to a nearby village.
As the woman and Amar board a bus, military officers question each passenger before the bus is allowed to leave. Subsequently, Amar travels to Leh, and while recording the Sindhu Darshan Festival, a suicide bomber is chased to death by Indian military, and Amar spots the woman again.
Amar then goes to the post office where he initially spotted her and bribes the PCO owner into giving him her contact details and learns that she is telephoning to Ladakh.
He reaches her home and learns from the locals that she has left the place. Amar wishes to apologize to her, but she arrives with two men who beat him unconscious.ĭuring the beating, Amar learns that the men are presumably her brothers and that she had lied about her being married. She resists and tells Amar that she is married. At this juncture, she tells him to leave her alone but he follows her to the house and tells her that he is in love with her. As part of his news reporting assignment, for the occasion of fifty years of Indian Independence, Amar interviews many Assamese citizen, and an extremist chief, who claims that the reason behind human rights violations and poverty in the region is due to the Indian Government and that the Liberationists do not wish to enter into any dialogue with the government, and further justify their resistance in Northeast India.Ī few weeks later, Amar describes his encounter with the woman, over the radio, which she hears. He attempts to talk to her, but she says she cannot recall meeting him before. Later, Amar spots the same woman in Silchar. When he returns with the tea, he watches as she boards the next train with three male passengers and rides off into the distance. Amar finds her very attractive and tries to strike up a conversation, but she ignores him for a bit and then asks him for a cup of tea. Suddenly a strong gust of wind blows the shawl off the person, revealing it to be a woman ( Manisha Koirala). As he waits, he tries to have a smoke and asks a mysterious person for either a match or a lighter. On his way there, during a rainy night, Amar stops at Haflong railway station to catch the Barak Valley Express. Īmarkant Varma ( Shah Rukh Khan) is a program executive for All India Radio, dispatched from New Delhi to cover festivities in Assam. The film's soundtrack album, composed by A. The film won two National Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards, while also receiving a special mention at the Netpac Awards. The film was a success overseas earning $975,000 in the United States and £537,930 in the United Kingdom, becoming the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts, and it was also a hit in Japan. Noted for its aspects nonlinear storytelling, the film won awards for cinematography, audiography, choreography, and music, among others. The film was screened at the Era New Horizons Film Festival and the Helsinki International Film Festival. Written by Ratnam and Tigmanshu Dhulia, the film is an example of parallel cinema and is noted as the final installment of Ratnam's thematic trilogy that consists of Roja (1992) and Bombay (1995). Set in the backdrop of Insurgency in Assam, the film stars Shahrukh Khan and Manisha Koirala, while Preity Zinta makes her film debut in a supporting role. ') is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film written and directed by Mani Ratnam, and produced by Ratnam, Ram Gopal Varma, and Shekhar Kapur.
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