But in deciding to not hide things from each other, Aditi and Viren also start baring themselves, drawn to each other in a way that soon upends the trajectory of their lives. We’re never going to see each other again, Viren keeps reminding Aditi throughout the film, indicating that there is very little reason in merely performing pleasantries. There’s also a delightful comparison to prospective grooms expecting women to treat marriage as a “job” and not a relationship – if the film were to release today, it would come across as a dig at the disastrous preoccupation with the love vs career conflict in last month’s Love Aaj Kal.Įven though Viren refuses the marriage, he strikes up a friendship with Aditi and the effortless ease with which their conversations flow is due in part to the fact that it comes without any accountability. When they meet, Viren finds himself confiding about his relationship to a rank stranger and Aditi returns the favour by launching into a rewarding monologue about the double standards of arranged marriage. Viren and Aditi find their way to each other when their families broker an arranged marriage proposal, unaware that Viren already is in a serious relationship. Written by Ali, Socha Na Tha revolved around Viren (Deol), an affable son of an industrialist, and Aditi (Takia), a meek orphan who lives with her uncle. Its lacklustre fate at the box office then, came as no surprise, although it is no measure of the cachet that the film continues enjoying even today. The film, which marked the beginning of the inimitable decade-old collaboration between Ali and lyricist Irshad Kamil, featured relative newcomers: At that time, Takia was barely one film old and Abhay Deol was a debutante. Back then, the craft of a filmmaker or his risk-taking acumen didn’t drive audiences to the theatres in hordes like it does today instead what piqued their interest was the cult of the A-list stars. Socha Na Tha came out at a time when the appetite of the Hindi film audience was yet to grow. When it was released 15 years ago, it was a misfit in Bollywood’s rosters of big-budget, studio-led releases like Bunty Aur Babli, Parineeta, and Black. Yet it’s also a reductive comparison – Jab We Met might be the enduring love story but Socha Na Tha is unquestionably the better film. In the film’s closing song sequence in fact, Ayesha Takia dons a corseted white shirt paired with a long skirt that closely resembles the outfit Kareena Kapoor wore in Jab We Met’s “Yeh Ishq Hai.” There are other similarities: an accidental love story sprouting outside the confines of what initially seemed like the film’s central romance, a brief love triangle, the comic machinations of large Indian families, an unhealthy amount of subterfuge, and wedding preparations. Like Ali’s biggest success, Socha Na Tha revolves around two strangers embarking on an impromptu journey and opening themselves to discovery. Songs in order of appearance in the movie.The easiest way to describe Socha Na Tha, Imtiaz Ali’s debut film might be describing it as “ Jab We Met in progress”. They apologise to their families and are accepted. Her cousin overhears this conversation and convinces Aditi to elope with Viren, which she does. Karen also tells her that Viren is miserable. On the day of Aditi's engagement, Karen meets her and asks her why she is not marrying Viren, now that Viren and Karen have broken up. After several conversations, Viren finally forgets Aditi, tells the truth to Karen and gets on with his life, feeling miserable. However, Aditi rejects him out of respect for her aunt and uncle who have engaged her to Mahesh, Aditi's on-and-off boyfriend. Despite this, he wants to marry Aditi who has fallen in love with him, too. Viren realises he has fallen in love with Aditi – however, preparations for his own wedding with Karen are already underway things get more complicated as he fought very hard to get engaged to Karen because she's a Christian and Viren a Hindu. In Goa, the two of them grow closer and Karen notices this. However Viren and Aditi meet by coincidence, bond quickly and Viren invites Aditi to accompany him to Goa – he wants her to find out if his girlfriend Karen loves him or not. Viren's refusal creates tension between the families, as Aditi's aunt feels insulted. Viren ( Abhay Deol) and Aditi ( Ayesha Takia) are introduced by their families, but Viren refuses to marry because he wants to marry his girlfriend of three years, Karen ( Apoorva Jha).
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