Sony Pictures UK website has the following info available for Saawariya:
The story of a couple’s chance encounter and the advance of their parallel obsessions over four successive nights.
An impromptu romance initiated in a remote town in the serene beauty of picturesque Simla, (a quaint hill station in Northern India, that was once the summer capital of India under the British Raj) known for its lakes, mist, heavenly snowfall, rains and the tall swaying pine trees.
Saawariya an adaptation of White Nights?
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s provides the inspiration for SLB in his forthcoming venture Saawariya. His novel White Nights is about a loner who doesnt have a friend in his life. On night on a regular outing across the streets of St. Petersburg he finds a girl crying on a bridge. They start talking and she starts to relate her story to him. How her grandmother wouldn’t let her make friends or enjoy her life. Then came a PG in her house to life who was considerably older than her. She fell for him but he knew his limits, but one day he had to leave. She begged him to take her with him, but he didn’t. He left with a promise that he will come for her in a year, when he started making a living for the two of them. On the night of her meeting with the loner, one year had passed and there had been no sign of the PG. Then the girl goes back to her house. The loner doesn’t know whether he will meet her again or not. On the second night, she gives the loner a letter to deliver to her fiance to find out if he has returned or not. The next night the loner finally confessed his love to her and gets a promise that if the PG doesn’t return by the fourth night, she will marry him and they will move in with her grandmother. On the fourth night, the PG eventually returns and begs her forgiveness. The next day the loner gets a letter asking for forgiveness.
How Bhansali finally moulds this story into entirely his own creation remains to be seen, but it might just turn out to be a tragedy like Devdas!
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