U Me Aur Hum (2008)

Interesting facts

U Me Aur Hum is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film co-written, directed, and produced by Ajay Devgn. The film tells the story of Ajay (Devgn), who meets barmaid Piya (Kajol) on a cruise with his friends. They fall in love and marry; a few months later, Piya is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Production

In May 2007, the entertainment portal Bollywood Hungama reported that Ajay Devgn would make his directorial debut in a project which was later entitled U Me Aur Hum. Wanting to be a director since childhood, Devgn described directing as a passion that came to him "naturally". Addressing the issue of Alzheimer's disease, he had conceived the film three years before its release.

When Devgn told his wife Kajol about U Me Aur Hum, she immediately said that she wanted to star in it. It was their seventh collaboration, following the action films Hulchul (1995), Gundaraj (1995), and Raju Chacha (2000), the romantic comedies Ishq (1997) and Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha (1998), and the drama Dil Kya Kare (1999). Kajol played Piya, a waitress who develops Alzheimer's disease several months after her marriage to Ajay.

Principal photography was completed by Aseem Bajaj and began at the Manoranjan Studio in Andheri, with Sameer Chandra as the production designer. The costumes were designed by Anna Singh except for Kajol's, which was by Manish Malhotra. Singh gave Devgn bright, sun-coloured clothes for the cruise scenes, and suits when he was a doctor at the hospital.

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