Woh Lamhe

Story:

Woh Lamhe… is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Mohit Suri, starring Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja. The film is supposedly based on Parveen Babi’s life, her battle with schizophrenia and her relationship with Mahesh Bhatt to whom she was a lover as well as a mentor in his struggling days.

PLOT

The film begins with a woman in a hotel room. She goes to the bathroom and slits her wrists in an attempt to kill herself. That woman is later revealed to be Sana Azim (Kangana Ranaut), a famous Bollywood actress. When this news reaches filmmaker Aditya Pankaj Garewal (Shiney Ahuja), he is devastated. Aditya has been searching for Sana, who was intensely involved with him and who had mysteriously disappeared from his life without any explanation three years ago, only to surface now in what could be the last moments of her life.

As Aditya waits outside of the ICU alongside his friend Sam (Purab Kohli), praying to be reunited with her, he has a flashback of moments spent with her three years ago.

Sana had achieved stardom while Aditya was a struggling film director. He spots Sana at a fashion show, where he rebukes her for being ugly inside-out. He insults her to a point where she throws her underwear on him, thus garnering media attention. Nikhil (Shaad Randhawa), her abusive boyfriend, scolds her and rapes her. Sana’s mother also scolds her for this act.

Sana agrees at first to work with Aditya for his film, but later she declines as she is bound by a contract. However, she breaks free from Nikhil’s misery and agrees to work with Aditya.

Aditya starts shooting his film. During the shoot, both become close to each other. During the last day of the shoot, Sana tearfully says that she will miss him and those memories spent during the shoot. Aditya compares those memories to the sand castles on the beach by saying that those sand castles remain in our memories forever even though they are knocked down by the waves. During the film premiere, both fall in love with each other.

One day Sana spots a girl forcefully entering her hotel room. She tells Aditya that a girl named Rani (Masumeh Makhija) entered the room. However, through the CCTV footage, there was no girl who entered. It later revealed that Sana is a patient with schizophrenia who has excessive hallucinations of Rani, who doesn’t even exist, which gradually ruins both Sana’s life and career. When Aditya realizes that the only way he can save Sana from total devastation is to take her away from Bollywood and the vested interests that threaten to destroy her completely, he kidnaps her from the hospital, thus putting his career on the line.

Aditya tries his best to bring Sana back on track, but in vain. She secretly stops taking her medication. During her birthday party, she faces her hallucinations once again and stabs Aditya.
One day, suddenly, she disappears, leaving him with unanswered questions. Aditya is shocked. Meanwhile, Nikhil and the police reach the place and take Aditya. Nikhil asks him in anger about Sana’s whereabouts, to which Aditya repeatedly answers that he doesn’t know.

Back in the present, Aditya is told that Sana has very little time and wants to meet him. They both profess their love for each other, and she breathes her last. Nikhil asks him what he will do next, to which Aditya replies that he doesn’t know.
The film ends with Aditya reminiscing about her on a beach. He spots some children making sand castles and remembers his metaphor. He goes and makes castles with them.