Socha Na Tha

Socha Na Tha
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Directed by	Imtiaz Ali
Produced by	Dharmendra
Written by	Imtiaz Ali
Starring	Abhay Deol; Ayesha Takia
Music by	Sandesh Shandilya
Cinematography	Ravi Yadav
Edited by	Imtiaz Ali; Shirish Kunder
Distributed by	Vijayta Films
Release date	4 March 2005; ; ; ; ;
Running time	157 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	?110 million (US$1.6 million)
Box office	?170 million (US$2.5 million)

Socha Na Tha is an Indian Hindi language romantic film, released on 4 March 2005. It was the debut of Abhay Deol and stars Ayesha Takia & Apoorva Jha. The film marks the directorial debut of Imtiaz Ali. Abhay Deol's uncle Dharmendra produced it. It was remade into Telugu as Premante Inte.

Plot

Viren (Abhay Deol) and Aditi (Ayesha Takia) are introduced by their families, but Viren refuses to marry because he wants to marry his girlfriend of three years, Karen (Apoorva Jha). Viren's refusal creates tension between the families, as Aditi's aunt feels insulted. However Viren and Aditi meet by coincidence, bond quickly and Viren invites Aditi to accompany him to Goa – he wants her to find out if his girlfriend Karen loves him or not.

In Goa, the two of them grow closer and Karen notices this. Viren realises he has fallen in love with Aditi – however preparations for his own wedding with Karen are already underway; things get more complicated as he fought very hard to get engaged to Karen because she's a Christian and Viren a Hindu. Despite this, he wants to marry Aditi who has fallen in love with him, too. However, Aditi rejects him out of respect for her aunt and uncle who have engaged her to Mahesh, Aditi's on-and-off boyfriend. After several conversations, Viren finally forgets Aditi, tells the truth to Karen and gets on with his life, feeling miserable.

On the day of Aditi's engagement, Karen meets her and asks her why is she not marrying Viren, now that Viren and Karen have broken up. Karen also tells her that Viren is miserable. Her cousin overhears this conversation and convinces Aditi to elope with Viren, which she does. They apologise to their families and are accepted.

Cast

Actor/actress	Role
Abhay Deol	Viren Oberoi
Ayesha Takia	Aditi Sahani
Apoorva Jha	Karen Fernandes
Sohrab Ardeshir	Karen's father
Neeti Mohan	Unknown
Salim Shah	Damodar Malhotra, Aditi's uncle
Rati Agnihotri	Aditi's aunt
Sandhya Mridul	Sonal, Aditi's female first cousin
Rajendranath Zutshi	Gopal, Aditi's male first cousin
Kamlesh Gill	Aditi's grandmother
Suresh Oberoi	Mr. Nirmal Oberoi, Viren's father
Lushin Dubey	Viren's mother
Manish Choudhary	Naren, Viren's brother
Ayesha Jhulka	Namita, Viren's sister-in-law
Vijay Maurya	Shiva, Viren's friend