Love Likes Coincidences
Love Likes Coincidences () is a 2011 Turkish drama film, directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, starring Mehmet Günsür and Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan as star crossed lovers whose lives are intertwined by a series of coincidences. The film, which opened on at number 1 in the Turkish box office, is one of the highest grossing Turkish films of 2011. Production. The film was shot on location in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Plot. One September morning in 1977 in Ankara, a young man rushes his pregnant wife to the hospital for the impending birth. He crashes into another car, whose  driver is another father-to-be. As a result of the accident, the woman in the car they hit gives birth prematurely, resulting in both babies being born on the same day at the same hospital. That accident becomes the first of many coincidences that will connect the fates of Özgür and Deniz, whose lives will continue to intersect throughout the rest of their childhood and teenage years in Ankara. Each time their paths intersect, the cause of the intersection greatly transforms both Özgür and Deniz’s lives. However, their lives never fully intertwine because whatever it is that brings  them together manages to build a wall between until their next encounter, some 25 years on, in Istanbul. Release. The film opened on nationwide general release in 350 screens across Turkey on at number 1 in the national box office with a first weekend gross of US$1,779,485. Remake. An Indian Telugu-language remake "Iddari Lokam Okate" was released in 2019.