If it's Yash, there's gotta be mush. And Veer-Zaara has plenty to offer. The cross-border prem kahani is a cross between DDLJ and Mughal-E-Azam.
Zaara (Preity Zinta) is a sassy lassy from a prominent politcal family in Pakistan while Veer (Shahrukh Khan), a rescue pilot with the Indian Air Force is a pukka Punjab da puttar. When she travels to India to fulfill her bebe's (Zohra Sehgal) aakhri khwaish, the bus meets with an accident and he rescues her. He falls in love at first sight and proceeds to show her some countryside sights. Just when he decides to tell her his dil ki baat, her fiance Raza (Manoj Bajpai) shows up. But whadyaknow, she loves him too and with the help of her maid (the spunky Divya Dutta), gets him to hot foot it to Pakistan before the wedding. They reunite only for her pop (Boman Irani) to almost pop it from the shock and her mom to plead with Veer to give her back her daughter. Our maa-tyr is all set to board the bus back home when he is arrested and thrown in jail ala Anarkali.
For reasons not worth going into here, he resigns himself to suffer in silence - for the next 22 years! That's when human rights lawyer Samiya (Rani Mukerji) appears out of nowhere to fight for his release.
Even at 19 reels, Veer Zaara manages to hold your attention - and that's thanks not so much to the ocassionally implausable screenplay but to the top...

notch acting from all its three lead stars. For once, Shahrukh Khan does more than just playing loverboy and impresses as the old Veer. Preity looks as good as ever and plays her not-very-challenging role effortlessly. Rani, in a role that's reminscent of Abhishek Bachchan's in Phir Milenge, proves that she is one of the best actresses around today.
VZ has a whole lotta flaws (logical and factual) but like all YashRaj films, it successfully takes you into a fantasy world where love reigns supreme. And though it won't quite become a classic like some of their past endeavours, it definitely does not disappoint.