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Chandni

  • 1989
  • PG
  • 3h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
2.3K
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Sridevi, Rishi Kapoor, and Vinod Khanna in Chandni (1989)
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Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.

  • Director
    • Yash Chopra
  • Writers
    • Kamna Chandra
    • Umesh Kalbagh
    • Arun Kaul
  • Stars
    • Sridevi
    • Rishi Kapoor
    • Vinod Khanna
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    2.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Yash Chopra
    • Writers
      • Kamna Chandra
      • Umesh Kalbagh
      • Arun Kaul
    • Stars
      • Sridevi
      • Rishi Kapoor
      • Vinod Khanna
    • 15User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 6 nominations total

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    Sridevi
    Sridevi
    • Chandni Mathur
    Rishi Kapoor
    Rishi Kapoor
    • Rohit Gupta
    Vinod Khanna
    Vinod Khanna
    • Lalit Khanna
    Waheeda Rehman
    Waheeda Rehman
    • Mrs. Khanna
    Anupam Kher
    Anupam Kher
    • Ramesh (Guest Appearance)
    Sushma Seth
    Sushma Seth
    • Mrs. Gupta
    Achala Sachdev
    Achala Sachdev
      Beena Banerjee
      Beena Banerjee
      • Pooja
      Manohar Singh
      Manohar Singh
      Renu Arya
      Renu Arya
      Mita Vashisht
      Mita Vashisht
      • Kiran Mathur
      • (as Meeta Vasisht)
      Asha Sharma
      Asha Sharma
      Ananth Mahadevan
      Ananth Mahadevan
        Manju Maini
        Shyam Arora
        Ram Gopal Bajaj
        Ram Gopal Bajaj
        • Shiv Prasad Mathur
        Suhas Joshi
        Suhas Joshi
        Lalit Tiwari
        Lalit Tiwari
        • Director
          • Yash Chopra
        • Writers
          • Kamna Chandra
          • Umesh Kalbagh
          • Arun Kaul
        • All cast & crew
        • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

        User reviews15

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        9mirmahmood

        A Beautiful Love Story.

        Chandni movie has an amazing performance by everyone in the cast especially the three main leads,love the performance of the late sridevi,she really looks so much pretty in the movie,the movie has amazing choreography,and is shot beautifully.Miss you Sridevi.
        long-ford

        Terrific Sridevi in standard Bollywood love triangle

        Chandni is probably Sridevi's most popular film and it's easy to see why. Sridevi is positively luminescent and makes you want to fall in love with her. Her co-stars Rish Kapoor and Vinod Khanna pale in comparison. The songs composed by Shiv-Hari are quite good and there's some terrific dancing by Sridevi, specially in the number "Mere Haathon Mein". The plot is a standard Bollywood love triangle but Yash Chopra manages to make it feel fresh. The second half tends to drag though. The film is very long and could have been better edited. 'Chandni' is worth watching for lovers of Hindi film romances and specially for fans of Sridevi.

        Overall 710
        9bobbybabu

        A correction

        Hello all,

        I am here to point out an error on Anu Kapoor who has written the story of the triangle love story "Chandni".

        Chandni is a story of a girl from a small town in Delhi who falls in love with the rich boy Rohit. But though their love blossoms, obstacles comes in the form of disapproval from Rohit's parents. When things get better fate plays a different game on them. Rohit meets with an accident and is left handicapped in a wheel chair. Chandni like a dutiful lover becomes his strength and pillar. But Rohit cannot bear seeing her waste her life on him as he cannot protect her. He breaks the relationship. A broken hearted Chandni finds solace in a new city with a new job. She slowly pecks her withered life.

        Another man comes into her life in the form of Lalit, his boss and well wisher. Will she be able to accept his proposal? The movie is worth a watch.

        If you did not find the story interesting enough. watch it for the sheer magic of Sridevi. She will never disappoint you. She is just magic.

        Now, coming to the correction. I would like to tell that Chandni and Rohit is not married so there is no question of them going for a honeymoon as mentioned in the review of Mr Anu Kapoor. What he saw was just a dream sequence in the form of a song, nothing else.

        I request to pay a little more attention while watching movies especially when you are going to write a review on it. Thank you.
        7Sweta_B

        Haunting memories

        It is hard to find a really good Indian film, but this film constitutes as good, even really good. It creates a haunting feel right from the start, and the theme of 'love never ends' is carried throughout the film by this haunting feeling with the use of Chandni (the character), and music. Extremely visual images of Chandni are given to the viewer in the opening of the film as Chandni dances around in misty scenery. These continues during the film with the use of the photographs that Rohit takes and are posted up on his wall, and through the songs that Rohit (with Chandni) and Lalit sing in the second half of the film; it is rare to find this type of usage of songs in Indian films. This film is really good and highly recommended because of the way that it establishes modes and memories, and later evokes them effectively. Well done.
        9dbhattac

        A Sridevi classic at the peak of her career.

        A remarkable film with Sridevi as the winner. She is just amazing. This movie showed her acting skills at its paramount. Be it a village belle, a westernized dancing girl, a assertive young women handling opponents as a matured adult, she took the film acting at a different level. This is a movie about three people, Chandni ( Sridevi), Rohit ( Rishi Kapoor ) and Lalit ( Vonod Khanna ) entangled in a triangular love story. Yash Chopra, famous film maker and younger brother of the legendary B.R. Chopra created a masterpiece of a love story surrounding these three human beings. Both Chandni and Rohit's encounter at the beginning of the movie kept us entertained with some good songs and frolics of two young lovers, the story took the turn to more serious situations with Rohits accident and eventual separation from Chandni. Sridevi showed some magnificent dance performance specially the one in white clothing in the open field without any song. That was a super show. The movie has quite a few songs but they were all very well placed in the story and performed very well both in playback and actual playing. Rishi Kapoor showed a lot of enthusiasm and zeal in portraying young Rohit as also Vinod Khanna in his more serious role. Sridevi expressed her self so well in all the different moods specially when she meets Rishi Kapoor at the door of her house first time after their separation, she expressed her surprise and emotions extremely well. It was a special surprise to see Waheeda Rehman as the mother of Vinod Khanna in a very well deserved role. Overall this a great movie of the late eighties Bollywood and it is a must see for all Sridevi fans. I gave it a nine out of ten.

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        Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Moonlight (2016)
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        • Trivia
          Director Yash Chopra offered Rekha the role of Chandni, since she had played a character called Chandni in his previous film Silsila (1981). She turned it down, but recommended Sridevi for the role.
        • Goofs
          When Lalit gives lift to Chandni and her friends, they are drenched in rain but when they reach Lalit's home everyone's clothes are dry.
        • Quotes

          Chandni Mathur: I have nowadays learned to be wary of happiness. It is said that moonlight only lasts for a few days.

        • Crazy credits
          The Yash Raj Films logo is colored silver-blue, the color of moonlight ("chandni").
        • Connections
          Featured in Darr (1993)
        • Soundtracks
          Chandni O Meri
          Sung by Sridevi and Jolly Mukherjee

          Composed by Shiv Kumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia

          Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

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        • Release date
          • September 14, 1989 (India)
        • Country of origin
          • India
        • Official site
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        • Language
          • Hindi
        • Also known as
          • Yash Chopra's Moonlight
        • Filming locations
          • India
        • Production company
          • Yash Raj Films
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        • Runtime
          • 3h 6m(186 min)
        • Color
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