But Gadar was the winner at the boxoffice.
It continues to be one of the top money-spinners of all times,leaving its Friday rival Lagaan behind in terms of boxoffice success. They live happily until Sakina's father enters their life and hatches a plan to. Tara Singh falls in love with a muslim girl, saves her life from fellow Sikhs and eventually, marries her. The story revolves around the partition of India. Gadar raked in more than Rs 200 crores during its first run. Gadar: Ek Prem Katha is a 2001 Hindi action drama film featuring Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel and Amrish Puri. Did I expect it to be so big? We had all worked really hard on this film.”ĥ. Wherever I go Gadar is bound to come up sooner or later. “I don’t know if, as you say,it is the best film of my career. He admitted to me that Gadar had become the signature tune of his career. Sunny Deol was the first and last choice for the Sikh husband and father breaking borders to get his family back. The offer didn’t come from the producer or director, but straight from Aamir.”Ĥ. And they both went on to make history.I was destined to make history of another kind with Aamir when we did Mangal Pandey.
They wanted someone who looked intelligent and educated.Lagaan and Gadar opened on the same day. Ironically, I was selected for Gadar for the same reasons that I was rejected for Lagaan. There, I got to know that Lagaan’s director Ashutosh Gowariker had rejected me because, according to him, my eyes looked too intelligent and educated to play the village belle. He put me at ease completely.Then I went to New Zealand to shoot for Kaho Na… Pyar Hai. Yet, he treated me gently and affectionately. That’s where I met Aamir for the first time.He was a superstar I was a nobody. Ameesha told me she had the privilege of auditioning for both Gadar and Lagaan. Was Ameesha Patel the first choice to play Sakeena, Tara Singh’s estranged better-half? According to a source Anil Sharma was in extended talks with Kajol for Sakeena. Anil Sharma told the same story in Gadar with some cosmetic changes.ģ. Gadar was actually inspired by a 1999 superhit Punjabi film Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh where singer-actor Gurdaas Maan trudges actors the border to get his wife Divya Dutt back. Gadar was released on the same Friday as Aamir Khan’s historic Lagaan and actually made more money in the long run (pun intended).Ģ. Gadar: Ek Prem Katha was a mammoth pre-Partition melodrama where Sunny Deol sets off across the border to bring his wife Ameesha Patel back from Pakistan, the film’s passionate patriotism made it one of the biggest box office successes in the history of Bollywood.
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