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Pehle Aap Janab is an upcoming Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Sudhir Mishra, and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor and Chitrangada Singh as the leads. Initially the film was titled, Mehrunnisa.

The film is set in Lucknow in 1945, when two friends, a Muslim and a Hindu, who fell in love with the same girl, thus turned hostile. But 40 years later in 1980s, they meet again in their 60s, as the girl enters their life and confront each other.

Production

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Director-screenwriter, Sudhir Mishra first wrote the idea script of the film in 1996, under the working title Mehrunissa, that was the year he released, Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin, but the project was delayed several times. Meanwhile, he directed by numerous films including, Calcutta Mail (2003), Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005) and Khoya Khoya Chand (2007). The final script of the film was co-written by Mishra and Nikhil Advani, who was initially also the film's producer. Previously, Advani co-wrote Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996) with Mishra as his assistant, and went on to direct films like Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) and D-Day (2013). In September, 2011, director Sudhir Mishra informed media that the film was undergoing its final draft, and expected to be completed by October end. Meanwhile during this period, he shot Inkaar with Chitrangda Singh and Arjun Rampal as leads, and which was released in January 2013.

Initially, Hyderbad was the tentative shooting location for the film. However later Mishra, who is himself from Lucknow, decided that since the film is set in Lucknow, it is befitting to shoot in the city. In May 2013, Mishra visited Lucknow for a recce of shooting locations in the city, with cameraman Sachin Krishna and art director Muneesh Sappel.

Tariq Siddiqui who hails from Lucknow was chosen as dialogue writer for the film. In August 2013, Nikhil Advani left the film, due to schedule clash with his other film,  D-Day. This left Sudhir Mishra and Shahnaab Alam as remaining producers. On August 19, 2013, Misra announced reworking of the script to turn it into a romantic comedy, and a new title, Pehle Aap Janab. In the reworked script, he also started looking of younger version of the characters played by Bachchan and Kapoor, which were now set to have more prominent roles in the new version. Mishra who hails from Lucknow, called his film, "a tribute to the city of Lucknow."

By January 2012, news regarding various candidates for the lead role of Meherunissa was reported, this included Chitrangada Singh, Vidya Balan, and Katrina Kaif.
 * Casting

However by then, two male leads were already decided, with veteran actors, Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor playing the older versions of male leads. Both of them sharing screen space 22 years after, Ajooba (1991) directed by Shashi Kapoor. Though, they were in cast of Delhi-6, they didn't have any scenes with each other. All through the year, the name of the leading actress was kept under wraps, despite continued speculations.

In April 2013, actress Chitrangda Singh was reported to be learning Urdu and Kathak dance, which led to speculations around entry as a cast member. Finally, after weeks of speculations, in May 2013, Singh was confirmed by Mishra to playing the lead role of Mehrunnisa. To play the younger versions of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor, actors Arjan Bajwa most known for Fashion (2008) and Divyendu Sharma, who made his film debut with Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011) were selected, and were reported to be attending rehearsal workshops in August 2012.


 * Filming

The film was to start production in April, 2012, but was delayed due to Bachchan's health problems. Meanwhile Chitranagada Singh was also have problems with her dates.

In early August, a set started started getting erected at Chowk, Lucknow, while permission was sought to shot at locations like Chowk, Bada Imambara, La Martinere Boys' College and Colvin Taluqdars' College. By then, the film was set to be shot in single schedule in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, starting September 2013. However, in late August 2013, the film's script went into rework, and the principal photography was further delayed, pending the casting of younger versions of the characters played by Bachchan and Kapoor.

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 * Let's not celebrate a birthday...Let's celebrate you, who you came here as and will long after, eternally after you leave this transient world!...Lets celebrate you everyday!

The journey of life is internal. It is of becoming more and more authentic, and aligned with our soul! Know your soul, it sparkles when I see it.

When we reflect, look within for the point of reference, rather than the world outside, we begin to know our souls deeply, with passing years. It allows our life to sparkle. No doubt, our self, constantly challenges us. But to not be more, rather only who we are, as who we are is enough, and that is our greatest challenge to stand in our light, authentic light!

Just be.

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 * The more you focus on what you do not like in others and the world, the more you activate it in your experience! Instead the MORE you focus on what you LIKE, it would ONLY increase your life experience! :)
 * Allowing people to make choices as they like it the best way to be easy with them, and knowing that they would figure it out in the end, as you would, gives us peace!
 * People are people, we never know what they are, unless we can STEP into their shoes and THAT we can NEVER do, so spare them your judgment of them!

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Lack of integrity is a weakness, when we have an encounter with someone with such a weakness, may we be inspired forgive them, realising the consequences they will have to face not just now, but in future lifetimes, and pray for wisdom being dawned on them, as it has on you!

Loss of innocence and moral backbone has been a issue of perennial concern with parents and elders of society, witnessing the marked lack of a wisdom culture in modern life, which is more devout to monetary success and worships its demigods and goods, more than real ones.

Personally this archetypal betrayal, is a valuable experience, as from it we can scan our own inner darkness, plus learn to discern amongst people.

We also need the balance while growing up to become aware of dark side of society as well as of people. Just has we teach our children, or young adults as I prefer to see them, to discern between good touch and bad touch, we also need to teach them and even learn ourselves to distinguish between good attention and bad one, between good company and bad one, good path and bad one or environment for that matter, no matter how flattering it might seem outwardly. This can only be done if learn to listen to our inner intuition, gut feeling about thing.

Recently I read about American Army in Iraq has people who can sense this "cold feeling" when they step on to a road which has mines or some form of danger. Same can be used in guiding ourselves to better people to associate with, rather associating with people who we can look up rather than people who shower accolades at us and in turn control us by boosting our egos.

People who are inauthentic would do anything thing to make to like them, which is easy. Once they can tape into our inner "weakness of being liked". Guys have been doing it for ever, to latch on to girls with low self esteem, hence low standards in whom they would give their company to.

Is monetary success the only success or being a successful human being is equally important? When we as a society learn it, in the coming generation we'd have more of a society. Right now, we are hardly social, though we might like to think of ourselves as a society, we have clubs at the maximum.

When we realise that we are heroes of our life and not sidekicks, we'd be inspired naturally to lead a more authentic life, with greater integrity, honour and above all of social consequence. Few lives these days have any social consequence!

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Whatever works for an individual is the right path, none better than another. As someone rightly mentioned above one has to be ready for the self-inquiry path, even then bhakti is an essential ingredient, as you cannot stay aware at all times, so we do need grace! And for someone who is not ready, that is hasn't brought his/her shadow sides into awareness, this can be tricky,

as often they strike when you are most unprepared! So till the advent of grace, till our mind becomes still naturally, practice all that you need to. Thereafter stay at the heart. as the mind tend to ..wait for self-inquiry to happen spontaneously!

accha hai
Never settle for an ordinary life when you can live a life filled with the presence of the sacred in every single moment! You were born for something extraordinary. because you come from the extraordinary! Find your extra ordinary-ness deep beneath your ordinary-ness and thus your sacred nature!