12/11/2023
19 years of "Veer Zaara" movie
★ Movie - Veer Zaara (2004)
★ Starring - Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerji, Manoj Bajpayee, Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini
★ Director - Yash/Yash Chopra
★ Release Date: 12/11/2004
★ Number of cinema halls - 625
☆ Budget – 23 crores
☆ Net Collection – 42 Crores
☆ Domestic gross – 60.65 crores
☆ Domestic Footfalls – 1.34 crores
☆ Overseas Gross – $8.22 Million (38 Crores)
☆ Worldwide gross – 98 crores
⚡ SUPER HIT ⚡
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✪ 2004 Domestic, Worldwide, Overseas HGOTY..
✪ Domestic and Worldwide Record Opening Weekends and Record Opening Weeks. Record opening week overseas
✪ The film became the first and only star in the history of Indian cinema to top Worldwide Gross Collection/HGOTY for 5 consecutive years (2000-2004).
1. Veer's (Shah Rukh Khan) prisoner number was '786', which Samia considered auspicious.
2. Samia Siddiqui's (Rani Mukherjee) character is inspired by famous Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir.
3. One of Hrithik Roshan's favorite movies.
4. Kajol and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were previously considered for the role of Samia Siddiqui, but were later dropped.
5. All the jail scenes were shot in one day.
6. The initial title of the movie was to be 'Yeh Kahan A Gaye Hum'. But Yash Chopra thinks it is better to keep 'Veer-Zara'.
7. Chowdhury Sumer Singh's character was created with Dharmendra in mind. But Dharmendra did not have a good relationship with Yash Chopra at that time, so he rejected the film.
8. Ajay Devgn was first offered the role of Manoj Bajpayee and he turned it down.
9. The house shown as Zara's Pakistani home was Saif Ali Khan's father Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi's house in Gurgaon, Haryana and the shoot of the song "May Yaha Hoo" was also completed here.
10. Shahrukh Khan completes the entire dialogue sequence in the court scene "My Prisoner No. 786" in one take. And it gets OK on the first shot.
11. Having previously romanced Rani Mukherjee in many films, calling and acting as Shahrukh's “daughter (daughter/daughter)” required a lot of coordination and retakes for both Shah Rukh and Rani.
12. Veer Zaara's was the highest selling music album of that year, selling around 3 million units
13. The film released in a clash of five films with Akshay Kumar's Aitraaz, Abhishek Bachchan's Naach and two other B grade films – Zakhmi Nagin, Aaj Jana Hai Ke Pyaar Kya Hai. And won the clash by a big margin
