Phir Milenge (2004)

Our professor in Philosophy, Prof. Espiritu, showed us a very beautiful Bollywood movie entitled Phir Milenge. This is actually my second Bollywood movie as he also showed us Lagaan when we took Asian History with him. I like what he told us before we finished the movie that “good luck” shouldn’t only mean luck in money but in every other aspect of life. He actually just said that because it is Chinese New Year today. Anyways, Phir Milenge is great — simply great. There are a lot of lessons to be learned. I made my own summary of the movie. Here it is:

Phir Milenge started off with the very successful Tamanna Sahni (Shilpa Shetty) who is the best employee of a top advertising company which she herself have helped to become a successful company. In the middle of a successful career, a college reunion came in and she learned that her college crush Rohit (Salman Khan) is coming from the United States. They fell in love with each other and had intimate moments. But after the reunion, they returned to their normal lives; no contact. Tamanna’s younger sister Tania got into a driving accident and had to be donated some blood in which Tamanna offered. But the doctor announced a very bad news to Tamanna — that she is HIV positive. Tamanna’s world broke down. She sought for Rohit but couldn’t find him. She became depressed. When she returned to work, she got fired immediately for grounds of negligence. Tamanna knew that the real reason why her boss fired her is because of her being HIV positive. Tamanna sought for many lawyers to fight her case. Nobody accepted in fear of the disease she bring until the last one who rejected pitied her and got amazed of her determination that he decided to fight for the case. Tarun Anand (Abhishek Bachchan), Tamanna’s lawyer did his best to fight the case even going against the top lawyer in India. Eventually, they won. But the sad part is Rohit died. He apologized for spreading the virus to Tamanna. He didn’t know and he said Tamanna shouldn’t die with him. Rohit is still Tamanna’s love even after he died. Three years later, Tamanna became the top businesswoman in India even she has HIV. End.

The movie was great. The issue is real. I just knew that Indians don’t have any solid law (maybe at that time or up to now, I don’t know) against discrimination of HIV positive persons. Tamanna did a good fight against discrimination and she won. The movie’s issues are sensitive yet they are mind-awakening and educational.

I recommend the movie to all Bollywood enthusiasts. There’s really a big difference between Hollywood and Bollywood. The music is also great. The song I embedded below is entitled Jeene Ke Ishare Mil Gaye, the song’s theme song.