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Zindagi Tere Naam
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Zindagi Tere Naam
Zindagi Tere Naam.jpg
Promotional Poster of Zindagi Tere Naam

Directed by
Ashu Trikha
Produced by
Pawan Goyal
Written by
Sanjay Masoom
Starring
Mithun Chakraborty
Ranjeeta
Dalip Tahil
Goldy
Supriya Karnik
Music by
Sajid-Wajid
Release dates
16 March 2012
Running time
137 min.
Language
Hindi
Budget
Rs 4 Crores
Zindagi Tere Naam is a 2012 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Ashu Trikha, starring Mithun Chakraborty and Ranjeeta in lead roles and the film is a matured love story. The film was completed in 2008, but released only in 2012 with limited prints. The film is based on the Nicholas Sparks novel The Notebook and also the 2004 movie of the same name.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Cast
4 Soundtrack
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
The film starts with an old man, named Mr. Singh (Mithun Chakraborty) narrating a story to an old woman as her memory is slipping day by day. Mr. Singh's story is about a young lovers Siddharth and Anjali played by (Aseem Ali Khan) and (Priyanka Mehta) respectively. Anjali is a rich girl, but Siddharth is a poor man's son. Anjali's father (Dalip Tahil) as usual disapproves this affair and takes the daughter away. Dejected Siddharth has no other option, but he starts writing letters to her. He writes 365 letters in that entire year, but surprisinlgy Anjali never receives any of those 365 letters. Years pass and Anjali could not find Siddharth, so she eventually plans to settle down with another man. But destiny had other ideas and the two lovers meet again. As the flash back ends and the film goes back to the elder couple, the old woman realizes that, Mr. Singh was telling the story about their own love story and her memories of the past come rushing back making Mr. Singh a happy man, but ironically her memory stays only for a brief moment and she forgets him all over again like the life of an Alzheimer's patient.
Trivia[edit]
In Zindagi Tere Naam, Mithun Chakraborty worked again with his 1980s romantic films co-star Ranjeeta almost after 18 years. They appeared together last time in Gunahon Ka Devta and also acted together after a gap of 6 years as their first innings pairing was over in 1984 as they did not appear in films after Baazi and Ghar Ek Mandir. Their previous films included Tarana, Suraksha, Taqdeer Ka Badshah, Wardat, Unees-Bees, Hum Se Badkar Kaun and Dhuaan.
Cast[edit]
Mithun Chakraborty.... Siddharth Singh
Ranjeeta Kaur.... Mrs. Anjali Singh
Aseem Ali Khan.... Young Siddharth Singh
Priyanka Mehta.... Young Anjali
Ashish Sharma.... Vishal
Dalip Tahil.... Anjali's Father
Supriya Karnik.... Anjali's Mother
Sharat Saxena.... Siddharth's Father
Himani Shivpuri.... Nurse
Yatin Karyekar.... Doctor
Dia Mirza.... Item Number
Sajid.... Special appearance
Soundtrack[edit]

Zindagi Tere Naam

Soundtrack album by Sajid-Wajid

Released
13 June 2008
Genre
Film soundtrack
Length
40:38
Label
Venus Records & Tapes Pvt. Ltd.
As the movie was completed in 2008, the music of the movie was released on 13 June 2008. Soon before the release of movie in 2012. The most anticipated track of the movie was Tu Mujhe Soch Kabhi by KK. [2]

Track listing

No.
Title
Singer(s)
Length

1. "Milne Ko Nahi Aaye - Duet"   Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan 4:57
2. "Trishna Trishna Dil"   Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Sunidhi Chauhan 5:13
3. "Milne Ko Nahi Aaye - Male"   Shaan 4:58
4. "Ajnabee Sa Lagta Hai"   Sunidhi Chauhan, Wajid Khan 5:20
5. "Kya Khata Ho Gayee"   Afzal Sabri, Richa Sharma 5:35
6. "Milne Ko Nahi Aaye - Female"   Sunidhi Chauhan 4:58
7. "Tauba Tauba"   Sunidhi Chauhan, Wajid Khan 5:17
8. "Tu Mujhe Soch Kabhi"   KK 4:28
Total length:
 40:38 
See also[edit]
Bollywood films of 2012
The Notebook (novel)
The Notebook (2004 film)
Mithun Chakraborty
Nicholas Sparks
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://movies.fullhyderabad.com/zindagi-tere-naam/hindi/theatres-list-show-timings-hyderabad-4819-3.html
2.Jump up ^ http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/zindagi-tere-naam-bollywood/id484075775/
External links[edit]
Zindagi Tere Naam at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/cast/id/503176/Zindagi+Tere+Naam


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The Notebook (novel)
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The Notebook
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Author
Nicholas Sparks
Country
United States
Language
English
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Series
The Notebook & The Wedding
Genre
Romance
Publisher
Warner Books
Publication date
October 1, 1996
Media type
Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages
224
ISBN
0-446-52080-2
OCLC Number
34321554
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC Classification
PS3569.P363 N68 1996
Followed by
Message in a Bottle
The Notebook is a 1996 romantic novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks, based on a true story. The novel was later adapted into a popular film of the same name, in 2004. The Indian Bollywood film Zindagi Tere Naam starring Mithun Chakraborty is also based on it.[1]
Background[edit]
The novel was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel, and the third written after The Passing and The Royal Murders, which he did not publish. He wrote it over a period of six months in 1994. Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks after picking the book out of her agency's slush pile. Park offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for the book from the Time Warner Book Group, and the novel was published in October 1997. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of release. The Notebook was a hardcover best seller for more than a year.[2]
In interviews, Sparks said he was inspired to write the novel by the grandparents of his wife, who had been married for more than 60 years when he met them. In The Notebook, he tried to express the long romantic love of that couple.[3]
Plot of the story[edit]
The story begins with Mr Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home. He tells her the following story:


Noah, 31, returns from World War II to his town of New Bern, North Carolina. He finishes restoring an antebellum-style house, after his father's death. Meanwhile Allie, 29, sees the house in the newspaper and decides to pay him a visit.
 They are meeting, again, after a 14-year separation, which followed their brief but passionate summer romance when her family was visiting the town. They were separated by class, as she was the daughter of a wealthy family, and he worked as a laborer in a lumberyard then. Seeing each other brings on a flood of memories and strong emotions in both of them. They have dinner together and talk about their lives and the past. Allie learns that Noah had written letters to her, for two years after their breakup. She realizes that her mother hid the letters so that Allie could never receive them, thinking that Noah has forgotten about her. They talk about what could have happened between them without her mother's interference. At the end of the night, Noah invites Allie to come back the next day and promises her a surprise. She decides to see him again. During this time, her fiancé, Lon, tries to reach her at the hotel. When Allie does not respond to his calls, he begins to worry.
 The next day, Noah takes Allie on a canoe ride in a small lake where swans and geese swim. She is enchanted. On their way back, they are caught in a storm and end up soaked. When they return to his house, they talk again about how important they were to each other, and how their feelings have not changed. Noah and Allie share a kiss and make love.
 Allie's mother shows up the next morning and gives Allie the letters from Noah. When her mother leaves, Allie is torn and has a decision to make. She knows she loves Noah, but she does not want to hurt Lon. Noah begs her to stay with him, but she decides to leave. She cries all the way back to the hotel and starts reading the letters her mother returned to her. At the hotel, her fiancé, Lon, is waiting in the lobby.
The man stops reading the story at this point, and tells the reader that he is reading to his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and does not recognize him. He explains that he is also ill, battling a third cancer, and suffering heart disease, kidney failure, and severe arthritis in his hands.
He resumes reading the story and describing their life together: her career as a famous painter, their children, growing old together, and finally the diagnosis of Alzheimer's. He had changed the names in the story to protect her, but he is Noah and she is Allie. They walk together and Allie, although she does not recognize him, says she might feel something for him.
That night they have dinner together. Referring to the story, she says that she thinks Allie chose Noah. Recognizing her husband, she tells him that she loves him. They embrace and talk, but after almost four hours, Allie fades and begins to panic and hallucinate. She forgets who Noah is again. A week later, after he had a stroke and recovered, Noah goes to Allie's room at night to see her. She remembered who he was, despite the Alzheimer's, and they lay together for the night.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Zindagi Tere Naam: Hyderabad Theatres List, Show Timings - fullhyd.com". Movies.fullhyderabad.com. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
2.Jump up ^ Nicholas Sparks Biography
3.Jump up ^ Nicholas Sparks Official Website-Book FAQs


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 A Bend in the Road (2001) ·
 Nights in Rodanthe (2002) ·
 The Guardian (2003) ·
 The Wedding (2003) ·
 True Believer (2005) ·
 At First Sight (2006) ·
 Dear John (2006) ·
 The Choice (2007) ·
 The Lucky One (2008) ·
 The Last Song (2009) ·
 Safe Haven (2010) ·
 The Best of Me (2011) ·
 The Longest Ride (2013)
 

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Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding (1990) ·
 Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
 

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Message in a Bottle (1999) ·
 A Walk to Remember (2002) ·
 The Notebook (2004) ·
 Nights in Rodanthe (2008) ·
 Dear John (2010) ·
 The Last Song (2010) ·
 Zindagi Tere Naam (2012) ·
 The Lucky One (2012) ·
 Safe Haven (2013)
 

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The Notebook (2004 film)
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For the 2006 Indian film, see Notebook (film).

The Notebook
Posternotebook.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Nick Cassavetes
Produced by
Lynn Harris
Mark Johnson
Screenplay by
Jeremy Leven
Story by
Jan Sardi (adaptation)
Based on
The Notebook (novel)
 by Nicholas Sparks
Narrated by
James Garner
Starring
Ryan Gosling
Rachel McAdams
James Garner
Gena Rowlands
Music by
Suite_420
Cinematography
Robert Fraisse
Editing by
Alan Heim
Studio
Avery Pix
Distributed by
New Line Cinema
Release dates
May 20, 2004 (SIFF)
June 25, 2004

Running time
124 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$29 million[2]
Box office
$115,603,229[2]
The Notebook is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who fall in love during the early 1940s. Their story is narrated from the present day by an elderly man (portrayed by James Garner) telling the tale to a fellow nursing home resident (played by Gena Rowlands, who is Cassavetes' mother).
The Notebook received mixed reviews but performed well at the box office and received several award nominations, winning eight Teen Choice Awards, a Satellite Award and a MTV Movie Award. The film has gained a cult following.[3] On November 11, 2012, ABC Family premiered an extended version with deleted scenes added back into the original storyline.[4]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Casting
3.2 Filming
4 Release 4.1 Box-office performance
4.2 Critical response
4.3 Awards and nominations
4.4 Home media
5 Music
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man named Duke (James Garner) begins to read a romantic story from his notebook to a fellow patient (Gena Rowlands).
The story he tells begins in June 6, 1940. In Seabrook Island, South Carolina, local country boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) is smitten with seventeen-year-old heiress Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) after seeing her at a carnival, and they share an idyllic summer love affair. Noah takes Allie to an abandoned house, which he explains that he intends to buy for them. Later that evening, she asks him to make love to her, but they are interrupted by Noah's friend Fin (Kevin Connolly) with the news that Allie's parents have the police out looking for her. When Allie and Noah return to her parents' mansion, they ban her from seeing Noah, whom they called "trash, trash, trash". The two break up and the next morning, Allie's mother announces that the family is returning home to Charleston.
Noah and Allie have no choice but to move on with their lives; Noah and Fin enlist to fight in World War II and Fin is killed in battle. Allie becomes a volunteer in a hospital for wounded soldiers, where she meets an officer named Lon Hammond, Jr. (James Marsden), a young lawyer who is handsome, sophisticated, charming and comes from old Southern money. The two eventually become engaged, to the delight of Allie's parents, but Allie sees Noah's face when Lon asks her to marry him.
When Noah returns home from the war, he discovers his father has sold their home so that Noah can buy the abandoned house, fulfilling his lifelong dream to buy it for the departed Allie, whom by now he hasn't seen for several years. While visiting Charleston, Noah witnesses Allie and Lon kissing at a restaurant; he convinces himself that if he restores the house, Allie will come back to him. Later, Allie is startled to read in the newspaper that Noah has completed the house, and she visits him in Seabrook.
In the present, it is made clear that the elderly woman is in fact Allie, who is suffering from dementia and cannot remember any of the events being read to her. Duke, the man who is reading to her, is her husband, but Allie cannot recognize him.
Back in the forties, Allie returns to Seabrook. She and Noah renew their relationship and make love at Noah's now-restored house. In the morning, Allie's mother appears on Noah's doorstep, warning Allie that a jealous Lon has followed her to Seabrook. Allie confesses to Lon that she has been spending time with Noah. He is upset but says that he still loves her. Allie tells him she knows she should be with him, but she remains indecisive.
In the present, Allie becomes briefly lucid and remembers that the story Duke is reading is the story of how they met. Young Allie appears at Noah's doorstep, having left Lon at the hotel. Elderly Allie suddenly remembers her past; after finding out about her illness, she herself wrote their story in the notebook with instructions for Noah to "read this to me, and I'll come back to you". But Allie soon relapses, losing her memories of Noah. She panics, not understanding who he is, and has to be sedated. That same night Noah is hospitalised with what seems to be another heart attack.
When released from the hospital, Elderly Noah ("Duke") goes to Allie's room to find her lucid again. Allie questions Noah about what will happen to them when she loses her memory completely, and he reassures her that he will never leave her. She asks him if he thinks their love for each other is strong enough to "take them away together"; he replies that he thinks their love could do anything. After telling each other that they love one another, they both go to sleep in Allie's bed. The next morning, a nurse finds them dead in each other's arms.
Cast[edit]
Ryan Gosling as Noah Calhoun
Rachel McAdams as Allison "Allie" Hamilton
James Garner as Old Noah Calhoun/"Duke"
Gena Rowlands as Old Allie Calhoun
Joan Allen as Ann Hamilton
James Marsden as Lon Hammond, Jr.
Jamie Brown as Martha Shaw
Sam Shepard as Joe Ryan
David Thornton as John Hamilton
Kevin Connolly as Fin
Heather Wahlquist as Sara Tuffington
Ed Grady as Harry
Starletta DuPois as Nurse Esther
Obba Babatunde as Bandleader
Mark Johnson as Photographer
William Sattelberg as Ryan Gosling's stunt double
Production[edit]
Work began in March 1996, when the first screenwriter was hired to write the first draft and script, but it did not get off the ground as the studios wanted the film to be closer to the book. Another writer wrote a draft, but several years passed as they wanted several changes. Then Nick Cassavetes came aboard.[5]
Casting[edit]
Cassavetes wanted someone unknown and "not handsome" to portray Noah; therefore, he cast Ryan Gosling in the role.[6] Gosling was initially surprised by this: "I read [the script] and I thought, 'He's crazy. I couldn't be more wrong for this movie.' "[7] "It gave me an opportunity to play a character over a period of time - from 1940 to 1946 - that was quite profound and formative."[8] To prepare for the part, Gosling temporarily moved to Charleston, South Carolina prior to filming. During two months, he rowed the Ashley River and made furniture.[9] A nationwide search was conducted to find the right actress to play Allie, and Rachel McAdams was ultimately chosen.[8] On casting her, Cassavetes said: "When Rachel McAdams came in and read, it was apparent that she was the one. She and Ryan had great chemistry between them." She commented: "I thought it would be a dream to be able to do it. I read the script and went into the audition just two days later. It was a good way to do it, because I was very full of the story."[10] In comparison to the book, the role was extended.[11] McAdams spent time in Charleston before filming to familiarize herself with the surroundings,[12] and took ballet and etiquette classes.[13]
Filming[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion with: reliable sources. (September 2012)
The Notebook was filmed almost entirely on location in South Carolina,[8] in late 2002 and early 2003. Production offices for the film were set up at the old Charleston Naval Base in North Charleston.[14]
Much of the film's plot takes place in and around Seabrook Island, an actual town which is one of the South Carolina "sea islands." It is located 20 miles inland, halfway between Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. However, none of the filming took place in the Seabrook area. The house that Noah is seen fixing up is a private residence at Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina,[15] which is another "sea island" locality situated 20 miles closer to Charleston. The house was not actually in a dilapidated state at any time, but it was made to look that way by special effects in the first half of the film. Contrary to the suggestion in the film's dialogue, neither the house nor the Seabrook area was home to South Carolina Revolutionary hero Francis Marion, whose plantation was actually located some distance northwest of Charleston.[citation needed] The Boone Hall Plantation served as Allie's summer house.[15]
Many of the scenes set in Seabrook were filmed in the town of Mt. Pleasant, (a suburb of Charleston). Others were filmed in Charleston and in Edisto Island. The lake scenes were filmed at Cypress Gardens (in Moncks Corner, South Carolina)[15] with trained birds that were brought in from elsewhere.[citation needed]
Another major portion of the film was set at an unnamed nursing home, presumably located somewhere in the Carolinas. The nursing home scenes were actually filmed at Rice Hope Plantation,[16] located in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The college depicted briefly in the film is identified in the film as Sarah Lawrence College, but the campus that is seen is actually the College of Charleston.[15]
Release[edit]
Box-office performance[edit]
The film premiered June 25, 2004, in the United States and Canada and grossed $13.5 million in 2,303 theaters its opening weekend, ranking number 4 at the box office.[17] The film grossed a total of $115.6 million worldwide, $81 million in Canada and the United States and $34.6 million in other countries.[2] It is the 12th highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time.[18]
Critical response[edit]








The performances of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, as well as chemistry between them, were particularly praised by most film critics.
The Notebook received a mixed reaction from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 52% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 154 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10.[19] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film currently holds an average score of 53, based on 34 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews."[20]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film, awarding it with three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling the photography "striking in its rich, saturated effects" and stating that the "actors are blessed by good material."[21] Peter Lowry of Film Threat gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of five; praising the performances of both Gosling and McAdams, he wrote: "Gosling and especially McAdams give all-star performances, doing just enough to hand the reins over to the pros, who take what's left of the film and finish the audience off with some touching scenes that don't leave a dry eye in the house." About the film itself, he added: "Overall, The Notebook is a surprisingly good film that manages to succeed where many other "chick flick" like romances fail."[22]
Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film a positive review, stating that "the scenes between the young lovers confronting adult authority have the same seething tension and lurking hysteria that the young Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood brought more than 40 years ago to their roles in Splendor in the Grass.[23] Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post also gave the film a positive review, she also praised the performances of Gosling and McAdams, stating: "Never mind that McAdams and Gosling don't for a minute call to mind 1940s America; they're both suitably attractive and appealing. Gosling, who delivered a searing and largely unseen screen debut performance in the 2001 drama The Believer, is particularly convincing as a young man who charms his way past a girl's strongest defenses." About the film, she added: "Audiences craving big, gooey over-the-top romance have their must-see summer movie in The Notebook."[24] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer praised the performance of McAdams but criticized the performance of Gosling, stating that he "just doesn't have the kind of star power or chemistry with McAdams to anchor this kind of minor-league Gone with the Wind." He also added about the film that it "doesn't completely work on its own terms, mainly because its romantic casting just doesn't spark: It doesn't make us fall in love with its lovers."[25] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe gave the film two-and-a-half stars, praising the performances of its cast members, writing about McAdams that "she's soulfully committed to the suds in the story and fiercely attentive to the other actors". He added about Gosling: "Gosling is adept at playing sociopaths and intense brooders, and there's reason to think, early on, that Noah might be similarly off, as when he threatens to drop from a Ferris wheel unless Allie agrees to go on a date with him." About the film, he wrote: "Considering the sunny, relatively pleasurable romantic business that precedes it, the elderly stuff seems dark, morbid, and forced upon us."[26]
Jessica Winter of The Village Voice gave the film a mixed review, stating: "Amid the sticky-sweet swamp of Jeremy Leven's script, Rowlands and Garner emerge spotless and beatific, lending a magnanimous credibility to their scenes together. These two old pros slice cleanly through the thicket of sap-weeping dialogue and contrivance, locating the terror and desolation wrought by the cruel betrayals of a failing mind."[27] Robert Koehler of Variety magazine also gave the film a mixed review, he however, praised the performances, writing that "already one of the most intriguing young thesps, Gosling extends his range to pure romance without sacrificing a bit of his naturally subversive qualities, and even seems comfortable looking beautiful in a manly American way. The head-turner is McAdams, doing such a different perf from her top bitch in Mean Girls that it's hard to tell it's the same actor. She skillfully carries much of the film's emotional weight with a free and easy manner."[28]
In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly included Allie and Noah in its list of the "100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years."[29] The periodical listed The Notebook in their 25 Sexiest Movies Ever.[30] Us Weekly included the film in their list of the 30 Most Romantic Movies of All Time.[31] Boston.com ranked the film the third Top Romantic Movie.[32] The Notebook appeared on Moviefone's list of the 25 Best Romance Movies of All Time.[33] Marie Claire also put the film on its list of the 12 Most Romantic Movie Scenes of All Time.[34] In 2011, The Notebook was named the best chick-flick during ABC News and People's television special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.[35] The scene where Noah climbs the Ferris Wheel because he wants a date with Allie made the list of Total Film's 50 Most Romantic Movie Moments Of All Time.[36]
Awards and nominations[edit]

Year
Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
2004 Golden Trailer Awards[37] Best Romance
Nominated
Teen Choice Awards[38] Choice Movie of the Summer
Nominated
Choice Breakout Movie Star Rachel McAdams Nominated
2005 Artios Awards[39] Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Feature Film, Drama Matthew Barry and Nancy Green-Keyes Nominated
Golden Satellite Awards[38] Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Gena Rowlands Won
MTV Movie Awards[40] Best Female Performance Rachel McAdams Nominated
Best Kiss Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling Won
Screen Actors Guild Awards[41] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role James Garner Nominated
Teen Choice Awards[42] Choice Movie Drama
Won
Choice Date Movie
Won
Choice Movie Actor – Drama Ryan Gosling Won
Choice Movie Actress – Drama Rachel McAdams Won
Choice Movie Breakout Performance – Male Ryan Gosling Won
Choice Movie Chemistry Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling Won
Choice Movie Liplock Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling Won
Choice Movie Love Scene Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling Won
Home media[edit]
The Notebook was released on DVD on February 8, 2005[43] and on Blu-ray on January 20, 2009.[44] By February 2010, the film had sold over 11 million units of DVD.[45]
Music[edit]
The soundtrack to The Notebook was released on June 8, 2004.

No.
Title
Artist
Length

1. "Main Title"   Aaron Zigman 2:49
2. "Overture"   Aaron Zigman 6:16
3. "I'll Be Seeing You"   Billie Holiday 3:33
4. "Alabamy Home"   Duke Ellington 3:02
5. "Allie Returns"   Aaron Zigman 5:07
6. "House Blues / The Porch Dance / The Proposal / The Carnival"   Aaron Zigman 8:04
7. "Noah's Journey"   Aaron Zigman 6:03
8. "Always And Always"   Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 3:17
9. "A String Of Pearls"   Glenn Miller & His Orchestra 3:16
10. "On The Lake"   Aaron Zigman 5:39
11. "Diga Diga Doo"   Rex Stewart And The Ellingtonians 4:16
12. "One O'Clock Jump"   Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 3:15
13. "I'll Be Seeing You"   Jimmy Durante 3:13
14. "Noah's Last Letter"   Aaron Zigman 4:32
15. "Our Love Can Do Miracles"   Aaron Zigman 4:31
Total length:
 66:53[46] 
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