| Lamhe | |
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| Directed by | Yash Chopra |
| Written by | Story: Honey Irani Rahi Masoom Raza Dialogue: Rahi Masoom Raza |
| Screenplay by | Honey Irani |
| Produced by | Yash Chopra T. Subbarami Reddy |
| Starring | Sridevi Anil Kapoor Waheeda Rehman Anupam Kher Deepak Malhotra Dippy Sagoo |
| Cinematography | Manmohan Singh |
| Music by | Shiv-Hari |
| Distributed by | Yash Raj Films |
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Running time | 187 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹2 crore (equivalent to ₹17 crore or US$2.1 million in 2023) |
| Box office | ₹3 crore (equivalent to ₹26 crore or US$3.1 million in 2023) |
Lamhe (Moments) is a 1991 Indian musical romantic drama directed and produced by Yash Chopra and written by Honey Irani and Rahi Masoom Raza. The film stars Sridevi (in a dual role as both mother and daughter) and Anil Kapoor in lead roles, along with Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher, Deepak Malhotra, and Dippy Sagoo in pivotal supporting roles. The film marks the second and final collaboration between Sridevi and Chopra after Chandni (1989).
Produced by Chopra under his production banner Yash Raj Films, Lamhe was shot in two schedules in Rajasthan and in London. Over the years, it has been hailed as an all-time classic and Chopra's finest film. Although the film did moderate business domestically, it became a major success in overseas markets, bringing in a worldwide gross of ₹20.5 crores on a production budget of ₹6 crores; thus becoming the 10th highest-grossing Indian film of the year. It received widespread critical acclaim upon release, with high praise directed towards Sridevi for her dual role as mother and daughter.
A recipient of several accolades, Lamhe won Best Costume Design at the 39th National Film Awards. Additionally, at the 37th Filmfare Awards, the film received a leading 13 nominations, including Best Director (Chopra), Best Actor (Kapoor), Best Supporting Actress (Rehman) and Best Supporting Actor (Kher), and won a leading 5 awards – Best Film, Best Actress (Sridevi), Best Comedian (Kher), Best Story (Irani) and Best Dialogue (Masoom Raza).
Lamhe featured on Outlook's list of Bollywood's Best Films. It has been cited as Chopra's personal favorite of the films he has made. This was one of the last films scripted by Masoom Raza; he died a couple of months after its release. On the occasion of the Centenary of Indian Cinema in 2013, Lamhe featured among the Top 10 Romantic Movies Of 100 Years.[2]
- ^ "Lamhe". The Indian Express. 22 November 1991. p. 4.
- ^ Yahoo. "Top 10 romantic movies". Archived from the original on 2 March 2012.