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Veer-Zaara | 
 enlarge | Director: Preity Zinta
Actors: Yash Chopra, Shahrukh Khan
Studio: Yash Raj Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 17028
Format: Anamorphic, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: Hindi (Original Language), Punjabi (Original Language), Urdu (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 192 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 792097258555
EAN: 0792097258555
ASIN: B0009XBR5U
Release Date: June 6, 2005
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 Veer-Zaara September 3, 2008
Mr. David M. Bourne (Whyalla, South Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After first seeing the last half this on SBS (Australian Govt. Funded TV) late one evening I was amazed at how fun The Bollywood Genre was.
Looked the film up on the Web and found out that it was one of the most successful Bollywood films ever.
The story in itself lends itself to fall into the "Chick Flick" category. A story of forbidden love, and the sacrifices people are willing to make...
Brilliantly put together film, by far my favorite scene is the Festival of Lodi, brilliant dance, costumes and song... you just can't help but smile and enjoy it!
 Great, classic Bollywood January 5, 2008
Luisa Toulon
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite Bollywood films. It is a take on the classic Romeo and Juliet love story, but with an Indian man and a Pakistani woman. Veer is a former pilot who meets Zaara, a girl from privileged Pakistani society who has traveled to India to bury her nanny's ashes. The two fall in love and the rest...well, you have to see for yourself.
Shahrukh Khan is great as he always in, incredibly invested in his character--it's hard not to love Veer. Zaara is played by Preity Zinta who is very good as well, and the two look very good together and have a lot of chemistry.
As I've said, this is CLASSIC Bollywood (in my opinion). Great songs (such as "Tere Liye") and a really moving story. It contains all the drama and sappiness that Bollywood movies tend to have, but this one has a lot of heart. I highly recommend it.
Gone With The Wind is gone! November 22, 2007
MommySan (Tucson, AZ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Once upon a time Gone With The Wind was my favorite epic romance. Veer-Zaara ended that forever! New to Indian film, at first we giggled over the exageratedly dramatic opening scenes, but before long we were entranced with the beauty of it all - the scenes, the music, the characters, and the story. V-Z is a heartbreaking and heartwarming love story, but far beyond that, it's a moral tale and a reminder of how we should determine our values and live our lives.
"Just for two moments existed the story of our hearts." October 29, 2007
Bobby Underwood (Bakersfield, California United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"When the right woman comes into a man's life, that's when he becomes complete."
Unfolding slowly with the bright and vibrant colors of an Indian quilt, this rich and moving romantic epic is the more hopeful side of "The English Patient." Whereas that film was haunted by love Veer Zaara revels in it and embraces the notion that destiny can sometimes overcome circumstance because, in the end, love really is all.
It begins in the same dark tone, however, as a young beautiful Pakistani named Saamiya Siddique (Rani Mukherji) comes to aid a man imprisoned for the past 22 years known only as 786. But she knows his name was once Veer Pratap Singh (Shahrukh Khan) and when she uses it, it opens up the floodgates of memory for him and he begins to tell her ever so slowly the story of love which brought him there. It is her belief that once she hears it she can prove his innocence and free him, despite her handicap of gender.
Veer is an Indian rescue pilot and Zaara (Preity Zinta) is a young Pakistani girl trying to bring her Bebe's ashes back home to India before she must return and marry Raza, an arranged marriage benefitting both their powerful and respected families but taking away Zaara's sprit. There is both humor and romance against the colorful backdrop of the two countries, which despite religious differences, director Chopra shows are closely tied together.
His Indian Uncle and Aunt, who have raised him, embrace Zaara as their own, and only when she must return does Veer learn she is bethrothed to another. He only knows he loves her and wants to be the one to marry her but not how she feels about this. It is a story of two hearts crossing borders, their love running deep like a river full of sacrifice. When her sister Shabbo comes to Veer and lets him know how much Zaara loves him, he comes to the shrine to see her and sets in motion the tragic events leading back to the beginning of the film.
Khan and Zinta are terrific here but it is Rani's marvelous turn as a Pakistani girl going against tradition, very much like the love story of Veer and Zaara, which is the glue holding the story together. Like most Indian films, it is interspersed with the occasional song which moves the story forward. For 22 years Veer has protected his love from dishonor but once in court, Saamiya discovers something which will change all their lives forever.
Magnificently romantic and hopeful, the viewer is rewarded with an old-fashioned love story both visually and internally beautiful. Rare and rewarding, its brilliance tied to its simplicity, this is a masterpiece of the old variety. Its story of love tied to modern Pakistan and India is somehow timeless and not soon forgotten. Those wanting romance in their films will want to come to the valley filled with the season of love.
the best love movie of all time October 22, 2007
Judy Lewis (Sandy, Utah United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have shared this with many friends; and everyone loves the moive even if they haven't seen Bollywood movies before. It is absolutely beautiful!!! Who says you have to have sex to be sensual?
This movie is acceptable for all to watch,it's a movie about true love and show great values.
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