Yash Chopra was advised to change the ending whereby Pooja convinces Viren to stop sleeping with her mother's ghost (in a manner of speaking). But the director insisted that if he had changed the ending it wouldn't have been the film he set out to make.
Sridevi asked Yash Chopra to consider changing the ending (see her interview with Rajeev Masand on CNN). Though it didn't work as a commercial hit, she still loved the film and thought she performed better in Lamhe than she did in Chandni.
Anil Kapoor, "Well, Lamhe, people liked the second half better. The first half, I found to be unnecessarily slow. A film must hold you from the beginning to the end. People say climax theek nahi tha [It wasn't ok]. I feel it was ahead of its time. And Sridevi was magnificent in both Mr India and Lamhe. She was beyond perfect in Mr India. Or, for that matter, even Judaai, if you've see her in the film, she is exceptional."
Lamhe was dubbed in English and was released under the name 'Indian Summer' for the overseas audience. However, the English version did not fare any better. In fact, with the absence of many songs, it felt a poorer version of Chopra's original concept. The magic of Bollywood is its song and dance routines, executed perfectly by its superstars; deleting them for an international audience took away the soul of the film.
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