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Notting Hill - Bobby Talks Cinema.com

I loved watching “Notting Hill” featuring the adorable Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. And it genuinely deserved all the praises & success it received at the time of its release. The movie obviously is there in my “Not to Be Missed” list, since it’s one of the most beautiful and expressive movies made on the theme of “Love at First Sight”.

Having said that, I also remember one old Bollywood movie called “Abhinetri” featuring Shashi Kapoor and Hema Malini, released in 1970. Here also a well known stage dancer/actress meets a simple person by chance and then falls in love with him ignoring her own career and passion. The only difference is that here they get married and the story talks more about the problems in their post marriage life.
 
Abhinetri - Bobby Talks Cinema.com“Notting Hill” is also based on a similar plot but without any reference to marriage between the characters. It surely expresses the story in a much superior and lovable manner than “Abhinetri”, but the fact remains that the plot does have some good similarities to think it over.
 
I could not find any reference to whether “Notting Hill” was based on a novel or a story written much earlier. But if it’s not, then here Bollywood becomes the first one to come up with the idea of an actress falling in love with a common man and the rest are simply second.

(Do let me know if you have any info of another movie made on a similar plot before these two)
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