Back then, the craft of a filmmaker or his risk-taking acumen didn’t drive audiences to the theatres in hordes like it does today instead what piqued their interest was the cult of the A-list stars. Socha Na Tha came out at a time when the appetite of the Hindi film audience was yet to grow. When it was released 15 years ago, it was a misfit in Bollywood’s rosters of big-budget, studio-led releases like Bunty Aur Babli, Parineeta, and Black. Yet it’s also a reductive comparison – Jab We Met might be the enduring love story but Socha Na Tha is unquestionably the better film. In the film’s closing song sequence in fact, Ayesha Takia dons a corseted white shirt paired with a long skirt that closely resembles the outfit Kareena Kapoor wore in Jab We Met’s “Yeh Ishq Hai.” There are other similarities: an accidental love story sprouting outside the confines of what initially seemed like the film’s central romance, a brief love triangle, the comic machinations of large Indian families, an unhealthy amount of subterfuge, and wedding preparations. Like Ali’s biggest success, Socha Na Tha revolves around two strangers embarking on an impromptu journey and opening themselves to discovery. The easiest way to describe Socha Na Tha, Imtiaz Ali’s debut film might be describing it as “ Jab We Met in progress”.
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