Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor
Directed by: Imtiaz Ali
Now this movie was unexpectedly marvellous. I and two of my friends bunked post lunch college to go home, but decided on the way back to catch the evening show of Jab we met. Honestly, I’m not too fond of Kareena or for that matter Shahid either, but this movie and their performances left me speechless. This was hitherto the only movie in which I enjoyed watching Kareena. And now, I look forward to Shahid movies.. 
The movie begins on a rather serious note with Aditya (Shahid) seen wandering aimlessly and lost on the streets of Mumbai. The love of his life just got married to someone else, his mother left his father for another man and his father recently passed away. In short.. he has nothing good left in his life. Add to this, the pressure of expectations from him since he is the only hier to his father’s business and now it is his responsibility to run the business.
He just wants to run away from his life. So he walks up to the station and boards the first train he sees on the platform with no idea what-so-ever where he might end up. Enter Geet (Kareena) who is late for the train and is desperately trying to get on it. The movie picks up as soon as she comes into picture.
Geet is this punjabi girl from Bhatinda who was putting up in a hostel in Mumbai completing her studies. She is a complete crazy chatter-box who refuses to stay quiet even for catching her breath. Fate plans to make her sit opposite Aditya in the train. When the ticket-checker asks Aditya for his ticket and he fails to produce one, Geet over-excitedly jumps to his rescue. Quite expectedly, she starts the conversation with him from then.
The movie later for some time sees Geet trying to help Aditya and missing her train in her attempts. She blames Aditya for this and commands him to make her reach home safely with her luggage which went along with the train. Thats how they end up spending about 3 days together, all through the journey from Mumbai to Bhatinda.
They develop this amazing friendship and share things about their life with each other. Geet tells him that she has a boyfriend and she plans to elope from home to get married to him. Aditya tells her about the mess in his life and she actually helps him relieve it a bit. Somehow, they manage to reach Geet’s home and her family welcomes Aditya warmly.
Through it all, Aditya finds himself in some kind of awe for Geet. He is amazed by how impulsive she is. How she just randomly decides to do anything that her heart says without thinking of the consequences. And he finds courage on thinking of her. Geet literally pushes him into helping her to be rejected by a guy who her family chose for her and later to run away from home.
They separate when Aditya drops her off in Manali near the place her boyfriend lives and returns to his life. But he is a changed man. He has a new level of confidence and perspective with which he begins working and takes his business to new heights in a matter of 8-9 months. He even begins to understand his mother and why she left his father and reconciles differences with her. Through all this, he misses Geet deeply and falls in love with her and her memories.
Suddenly one day out of the blue, Geet’s family turns up at his office full of rage demanding that he bring her to them as she hasn’t been in contact for the past 9 months.
This makes Aditya start worrying about her and he senses that something is wrong. He finds out that Geet’s boyfriend had refused to accept her when she came leaving her family behind for him and left her to wander the streets with no idea what to do or where to go.
The rest of the movie shows Aditya finding Geet, who is now changed into this quiet depressed girl and his attempt at making her smile again. He does succeed and Geet realizes how much he adores her. The end to the movie is quite amazing as well. I’m sure you must have watched this one…
I loved the movie for the sheer energy of it. The freshness, the performances, the direction.. everything was so perfect it almost seemed real. Seemed natural and worth connecting to.
This movie surely can inspire you to follow what your heart says but also to be cautious at the same time and not always go with impulse. I totally enjoyed it and still do..
One of my favorites too!