Teri Meri Kahaani

Teri Meri Kahaani spans three eras, with each era featuring a pair of lovers as portrayed by Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. It opens in Bombay in 1960 as breezy but unemployed musician Govind (Shahid) bumps into famous Bollywood actress Ruksar (Priyanka) on a Poona-to-Bombay rail coach. Their flirtation persists all the way to the Bollywood studio, but then is derailed by an unexpected love triangle. As things look their bleakest, the camera cuts away. to present day, 2012, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, as college students Radha Chopra (Priyanka) and Krish Kapoor (Shahid) collide into each other. It's not an auspicious encounter as Radha gets Krish arrested, and this on his birthday. Still, they end up hanging out all night and this leads to something more serious, as evidenced by a montage of flirty online chats and smartphone banter. But then the film dusts off that old "We were on a break!" running gag from FRIENDS, and Radha furiously ends up breaking up with Krish. The camera shows us a moping Krish but then the venue shifts and rewinds back. To 1910, in Sargoda, Lahore, in pre-independence India, wherein loquacious Muslim poet and inveterate womanizer Javed Qadri (played by you know who) whiles away the days by courting the village beauties and skirting an honest day's work. All that changes when Javed is chased by a British official's guards and is saved by Aradhana (played by you know who), vibrant daughter of a nationalist Sikh. Javed is instantly smitten, and perhaps so is Aradhana, except she's savvy enough not to show it. This arc, set during the British Raj, is the longest of the three and is highlighted by Javed's unflagging pursuit of Aradhana and his conversion from layabout to a man with a cause.