Mahesh Bhatt’s production Hamari Adhuri Kahani, which was directed by Mohit Suri, completed 10 years today. Starring Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan and Rajkummar Rao, the movie was a moving love story. Bhatt got talking about the film in an interview with us.
Mahesh Bhatt on 10 years of Hamari Adhuri Kahani, “Incomplete stories are the only ones worth telling”
It is ten years of Hamari Adhuri Kahani featuring Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan and Rajkummar Rao
It was Raj Kapoor who once said, “The child who loses the race is the one you remember. The world embraces the winner. The lights follow the victor. But your heart lingers where the pain did.” And I’ve lived long enough to know how true that is. When I think of Hamari Adhuri Kahani, that’s the film I return to—not because it triumphed, but because it bled.
The beautiful love story was considered regressive by some
People tell me it was regressive. That it wore the idiom of television. That the maker of Arth turned the clock back. And maybe they were right. But what they forget is pain doesn’t evolve. It remains archaic. And love, in its purest form, is always old-fashioned.
You stand by the film?
Mohit Suri crafted something aching with vulnerability. A film about the silences between people. About a woman caught between duty and desire. It wasn’t fashionable love. It was love the way the old poets wrote about it: incomplete, inconvenient, irrevocable.
Vidya Balan was ethereal and yet so real
Vidya… Vidya Balan walked through that film like a ghost who had once been fire. She gave herself to that role. Not to perform, but to relive something. You could feel her past in every pause. And Emraan Hashmi—who I’ve seen mocked and misread—was a man possessed. He was brilliant. Understated, aching, present.
Rajkummar Rao put in a grey cameo
Rajkummar Rao… he had just begun then. But I remember that one scene, the raw, unscripted fury in his voice when he confronts Vidya. It was not performance. It was truth disguised as acting. Brutal. Uncomfortable. Human. I still get uneasy remembering it. It takes courage to play the villain when you’re still being introduced to the world.
Hamari Adhuri Kahani was not a success
Yes, it didn’t blaze the box office. How could it? This was not a film of grand declarations. It was about those who loved in the shadows. Those who stayed. Those who left. And those who were never allowed to choose. The audience in small towns understood. Maybe because they had lived those stories.
The music played a big hand in giving Hamari Adhuri Kahani its blazing bleeding heart
The soundtrack—Mithoon’s ‘Humnawa’, Papon’s aching chords… Jeet Ganguly’s title track— ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’. And Arijit… what can you say? Some voices don’t sing songs; they relive lives. His voice was the breath between words. And then there was Rahat Saab, who once said to me over a quiet cup of chai, “Mohabbat bhi zaroori thi, bichhadna bhi zaroori tha”—that line didn’t belong to any one film. It belonged to all lost stories. And yet somehow, it found its place in Hamari Adhuri Kahani.
Do you remember any particular moment in the film?
The confrontation scene in Kolkata—when Rajkummar finds Vidya amidst the echo of Durga’s drums—was penned by Suhrita Das. That scene was born from her scars. She sent it to me, trembling, asking only to be seen. That scene opened a door. Ten years later, she’s making a film, Tu Meri Puri Kahaani, and I am watching from the shore, remembering where she began. Life circles back. Always. Cinema is not just commerce. It’s memory. It’s breath. Even when the world forgets, the heart archives.
Do you think Hamari Adhuri Kahani should get a second chance?
Maybe Hamari Adhuri Kahani came too soon. Or too late. Maybe it came exactly when it had to. But I know this: When the dust of applause settles and success fades into forgettable numbers, it’s not the victories that stay with you. It’s the ache. “To feel everything in every way, to hold all opinions, to be sincere in being contradictory…” That’s how I feel about this film. Contradicted. Full. Empty. Grateful. I wrote that film with parts of me I didn’t know were still alive. And I’m glad Mohit made it. I’m glad Vidya carried it. I’m glad we gave it to the world, even if the world wasn’t ready. Because Adhuri Kahaniyaan—incomplete stories—are the only ones worth telling.
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