[Movie] Hamari Adhuri Kahani

cecilia

Staff member
Is this movie good? This song got me ... sounds so sad but the comments speak otherwise (romantic). The movie looks like a second chance at love kind of story .. makes me want to watch it. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDnBLYHFwIyYA&v=-fWejtOkCYs
Synopsis:
The movie opens with a woman Vasudha (Vidya Balan) getting off from the bus. At 15 km before the Bastar district, she stumbles and falls down after walking a few steps. An elderly man, Hari, sees a psychiatrist about hallucinations of his wife. He is then recruited by his daughter-in-law, who takes him to his wife's funeral. There, he steals her ashes and leaves a diary for his son.
The story then jumps to the past, where Vasudha, is a florist and a single mother whose husband is missing for five years. Bound to traditions, she has been waiting for him since he left her. Vasudha meets Aarav Ruparel (Emraan Hashmi) in one of his hotels, where she works as a floral arranger. He creates a mock fire drill in order to watch the capabilities of the security department. Vasudha comes to save him. He offers her a job in his hotel in Dubai, which she refuses. Despite her refusal Aarav asks her to reconsider the offer. Vasudha gets to know from the police that her husband Hari (Rajkumar Rao) has murdered five Americanjournalists and he is a member of a terrorist group. The police asks her to inform about Hari if he ever visits her. Worried for her son's future, she accepts the offer given by Aarav.
Despite knowing about Vasudha's past and her son, Aarav falls in love with her. Aarav tells Vasudha about his mother, who was a cabaret singer and a single parent and how she fell in love with a man who tried to commit suicide for failing to save them from poverty. Vasudha shuns her feelings saying that she belongs to someone else and leaves. Vasudha meets Aarav's mother on his request where she accepts Aarav's love and both unite. They both spend romantic moments together. Aarav gives a divorce paper to Vasudha before dropping her home. Vasudha then encounters Hari at home, and tells him about Aarav. Hari then storms out in anger where he is arrested by the police and later jailed for being a wanted criminal. Vasudha asks Aarav to save Hari as he is innocent. Aarav tries to save Hari by bribing the chief minister who reveals that Hari himself accepted his crime. Vasudha refuses to marry Aarav because Hari's action tells her that he sacrifices his life for them to be together. It is then revealed to Aarav that Hari deliberately accepts his crime so that Vasudha will live in guilt as she will think Hari sacrificed himself for their love. In order to free Vasudha out of her guilt, Aarav travels to the bastar where Hari is accused of killing, to prove Hari's innocent. Aarav meets Father Dayal who explains what happened with the journalists and reveals Hari's innocence. On the way back to Mumbai, Aarav smells the scent of the same flowers which first caused him to meet Vasudha. Following the scent, he goes into the jungle, not knowing that the place has mines. He accidentally steps on one of the mines. Realising his predicament, Aarav smiles just before taking his foot off the mine. Vasudha receives the news of Aarav's death and is shattered. Vasudha leaves Hari, who searches for her for two years. After finding her, she reveals to him that she knows about his fake sacrifice and tells him that she is not afraid of any traditions and boundaries. He warns her that she will come back to him one day. Hari waits for Vasudha twenty-one years in vain.
Back in the present, it is now clear that the woman who gets off the bus is Vasudha and she wanted to be reunited with Aarav where he died. In the end Hari takes Vasudha's ashes to scatter them at the forest ofBastar where Aarav died. Thus Aarav and Vasudha reunite after death.
Credit: wikipedia
 
The soundtrack is beautiful <3 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZiBmzHQTIk
 

cecilia

Staff member
This was a beautiful movie .. don't know why it didn't do well at the box office.
I like Emraan in roles like this too.  He suits it well .. should definitely do more of this role.  
 
Anyway, this movie got me crying terribly like a baby T____T
I'm going to get myself a copy from Yashraj now.  
 

Step

Mrs James Ma
It was not a commercial movie. The title of the film is 'our incomplete story', people dont like sad stories. Both Vidya and Emraan dont have huge fan base. Vidya is good actress but lacks star power. But she does female oriented movies recently so people were a bit bored of her.
cecilia said:
This was a beautiful movie .. don't know why it didn't do well at the box office.
I like Emraan in roles like this too.  He suits it well .. should definitely do more of this role.  
 

cecilia

Staff member
I thought he has a lot of fan because he always plays the overly sexualize guy in most of his movies lol I find it refreshing to see him not being overexposed in here ... I think Vidya is beautiful. She's not your typical and overly sexy actress. I like people who sell their skills than those who only there as eye candy ... I like eye candy people but with good acting skills. In fact, I even complain about SRK and Salman works when compare to Aamir lol

Anyway, I love it a lot so I bought a copy and plan to watch it again tonight :) I find Emtasn super attractive with this role.
 
Oh, the title sounds so sad .. at least he was nice enough to reunited them in the end .. also, the lyric are so sad but beautiful at the same.
 

Maya_Fantasy

sarNie Oldmaid
cecilia said:
This was a beautiful movie .. don't know why it didn't do well at the box office.
I like Emraan in roles like this too.  He suits it well .. should definitely do more of this role.  
 
Anyway, this movie got me crying terribly like a baby T____T
I'm going to get myself a copy from Yashraj now.  
 
I just read the synopsis you put up above, and I got teary eyes reading it, I don't think I'll have the heart to watch the movie.  It's too sad. :cry: 
 
But thanks for always find good movies for us, maybe someday I will not be such a wimp I may check it out.  :bhehe:
 

cecilia

Staff member
It's not that bad .. you should watch it. You will cry and smile with a happy thought in the end. Mahesh Bhatt wrote this script well and the actors did justice to the characters as well. It's worth it! 
 

mia07

Introvert
Love all the songs. Love the concept of the film. Love all the actors. Only problem is that it was moving a bit too slow so I think that's why it didn't do so well at the BO.
 

cecilia

Staff member
Agree that it drags a little in the middle but that didn't' affect the movie overall. I noticed that Indian doesn't like sappy love story -- or maybe older actor/actress who portray 'real' life matter like this. It's refreshing for me to watch something new and different aside from all these young boy meet girl love bird stories if you ask me :)
 
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