Release Date: 12 November 2004 Genre: Romance / Drama Run Time: 192 Mins Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Kirron Kher, Divya Dutta, Boman Irani And Anupam Kher Special Appearance: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini & Manoj Bajpai Lyrics: Javed Akhtar Music: The Late Madan Mohan Music Recreated By: Sanjeev Kohli Story, Screenplay & Dialogues: Aditya Chopra Produced By: Yash Chopra & Aditya Chopra Directed By: Yash Chopra Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh (Shahrukh Khan) is a rescue pilot with the Indian Air Force. In the line of duty he comes across a stranded Zaara (Preity Zinta)... a girl from Pakistan who has come to India to fulfill her surrogate mothers dying wish. Veer saves her life and his life is never the same again. Twenty two years later Saamia Siddiqui (Rani Mukerji), a Pakistani human rights lawyer on her first case, finds herself face to face with an aging Veer Pratap Singh. He has languished in a Pakistan jail cell for 22 years and has not spoken to anyone all these years. And no one knows why. Her mission is to discover the truth about Veer and see to it that justice is served. VEER-ZAARA is a saga of love, separation, courage and sacrifice. A love that is divine, a love that is whole-hearted, a love that is completely consuming, a love that grows with separation & deepens with sacrifice. A love that is an inspiration... and will remain a legend forever.