Prem

Prem ( Love) is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Satish Kaushik and cinematography by Baba Azmi and Chota K. Naidu. It stars Sanjay Kapoor and Tabu in dual roles, and deals with the concept of reincarnation. Shekhar Kapoor was initially attached to direct the film before Kaushik was contracted. The film was a box office failure. Plot Sanjay Verma is an eligible young man, who has been having hallucinations of a past life as Shantanu. He travels to a small community and meets with Sonia Verma, and recognizes her as the girl named Lachi in his hallucinations. Convinced, that they were lovers from a past life, he attempts in vain to impress this upon Sonia, who is engaged, and is to be married to Vikram Minocha. However Sanjay finally wins her over and united at the end. Cast Sanjay Kapoor as Shantanu / Sanjay 'Sanju' Verma Tabu as Lachi / Sonya Jaitley Aruna Irani as Panna Amrish Puri as Vanraja Deepak Tijori as Vikram Minocha Saeed Jaffrey as R. K. Jaitley,Sonya's father Dalip Tahil as Ratan Minocha Akash Khurana as S.P. Verma,Sanju's father Beena Banerjee as Sumitra Verma,Sanju's mother Sunita Dhingra as Rumila Gupta aka Bubly,Sanju's friend Navneet Nishan as Vanrani Govind Namdev as Chacha Sher Ali Raju Kher as Mr.Wilson, British Commanding Officer Bob Christo as British Senior Officer Chandrakant Gokhale as Old bangharu baba Yusuf Khurram as tribal Damaru Sudhir Production Mani Ratnam and Shekhar Kapur both turned down the chance to direct the film before Satish Kaushik was finalised.