Chandni (1989)

Anecdotes

• Tourné à : Bombay
• Récompenses : 2 · Nominations : 5. Dont : Filmfare Award de la meilleure photographie; National Film Award du meilleur film de divertissement

Chandni (Moonlight) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film directed and co-produced by Yash Chopra from a story written by Kamna Chandra with a screenplay by Umesh Kalbagh, Arun Kaul, and Sagar Sarhadi. The film stars Sridevi in the title role of Chandni Mathur, a young, effervescent woman torn between two suitors played by Rishi Kapoor and Vinod Khanna. Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher, Sushma Seth, Mita Vashisht, Manohar Singh feature in supporting roles.

Production

Speaking about the film with Karan Johar, Yash Chopra recalled when he was making Vijay (1988), an action film, he felt like he was not supposed to make films like this. Later, he met with writer Kamna Chandra, who had achieved popularity after having written Raj Kapoor's Prem Rog (1982). She presented the story of a social romantic musical film to Chopra, who liked it and started casting the stars.

Initially, Rekha was approached to play the titular role; however, upon her refusal, Chopra offered the role to Sridevi who accepted the offer.

With the casting of Vinod Khanna, distributors started demanding an action sequence in the film, to which Chopra refused. Originally, the script required Khanna to save Sridevi from a fire incident. However, upon watching the completed film, Chopra felt that it did not feel like a part of the film, so he called Sridevi and Khanna back for a day's shoot to re-film their first meeting sequence.

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