The easiest way to describe Socha Na Tha, Imtiaz Ali’s debut film might be describing it as “Jab We Met in progress”. Like Ali’s biggest success, Socha Na Tha revolves around two strangers embarking on an impromptu journey and opening themselves to discovery. 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. 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.”Socha Na Tha 2005 Movie Download.
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. 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. Socha Na Tha came out at a time when the appetite of the Hindi film audience was yet to grow. 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 had none.
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. 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.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. 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.