Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor-starrer 'Jab We Met' completed 17 years of release on Saturday, October 26. Directed by Imtiaz Ali, the film was an instant blockbuster and the characters, dialogues went on to become part of pop culture and to date audiences love and enjoy the film. The love showered on the film during its re-release earlier this year was proof of the same.
As the film completes 17 years of release, we revisit the time Kareena Kapoor said that every generation after 'Jab We Met' had a role just like Geet. The actress played the role of the bubbly, talkative Punjabi girl Geet in the film. Kareena had no hopes from Jab We Met During the launch of the Film Festival recently, the actress said that she had high hopes from Tashan, but Jab We Met surprised her.
"I was shooting Tashan and Jab We Met simultaneously. Tashan was a really big film with Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan - it was a YRF film. Jab We Met did not have any big names attached to it at that point.
Imtiaz had done just one film. I thought, 'Tashan is going to be amazing, I am going to have this amazing body and I am doing action'. My focus was on Tashan.
But then Jab We Met released, and – not that Tashan isn’t special – but people just loved Jab We Met. No one had really thought that. Magic just happens," she said.
Many actresses played Geet, says Kareena In an earlier interview with BBC Asia, Kareena spoke about the impact of . When the anchor pointed out how actresses also auditio.