Full of cliches, cheesy, over exaggerated and unrealistic at points but I absolutely love this movie. And I have no qualms in saying that. For me it does come under classics; classics such as Mughl-e-azam, Kagaaz ke phool, Pyaasa (old), Sahib biwi aur ghulam, Jaane bhi do yaaro and countless others. Everybody has a different opinion on what they would count as classics, I know most people love Sholay, so do I. But I personally know countless people who absolutely disregard Sholay and would never consider it as a classic, again its their opinion. So for me I love DDLJ.
I watched it when I was a young kid about 9-10 and it was the first movie that I watched on my first trip to India. Hence it holds and will always hold a special place in my heart. I still remember I went to watch it with my cousins and other girls and boys from our neighbourhood and we ended up getting tickets in black and had to settle for some really crappy seats. Now that was an experience.
The movie worked coz when it came out, the concept was something very new, it was the movie that started the trend of shooting majority of the movie outside of India, it also started the trend to target and cater for NRIs. The simplicity of the characters worked, the fact that people living out of India could identify with the father struggling to keep the culture intact in his kids, the mother who was caught between her child and husband knowing well that neither of them were wrong. A girl wanting to live and experience the life before she gets tied down, the little chutki and her relationship with her mother and sister. It somewhat showed all of that amongst a fairy tale, cheesy sort of disney-ish romance. Hence people bought that... it was also the movie that increased the expectations of many girls to find their Rajs on a Eurorail trip and boost the tourism side of Europe and also increased the business of Eurorail. lol.
The movie made the SRK-Kajol pair. It put SRK and Kajol on the map and how. It made Aditya Chopra, and the Yashraj camp.
I am not much for romantic movies, but DDLJ is an exception. I don't really have an answer for what I like about the movie, I just do. Its a feel good movie, and somehow watching it always uplifts my mood when I am down. May be if it was to release in times right now, I don't think I would have liked it as much. I hardly like or watch any Hindi movie nowadays. My taste has definitely changed, I guess growing up does that to you. But DDLJ is a part of my growing up years and some things should never change. DDLJ is a memory that I will always cherish, and also because it gave my favourite SRK-Kajol pair, the only other pair that I love apart from Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman.
Before I forget, my favourite scene of the movie is quite difficult to pick, so I won't pick one. But the relationship between the mother and daughter is something I loved. I loved their scenes, Farida Jalal was fabulous. All actors did an amazing job, even Amrish Puri as a strict father was bloody good, sad that people always remember him as Mogambo (though I love Mogambo 😆), he always played all his roles to a great conviction.
Lastly, if we are taking suggestion about discussing movies I would love it if we did some old movies instead.. I don't know how many here would have seen them. But Naya daur is an amazing movie, Mughl-e-azam, or even Chupke chupke or Jaane bhi do yaaro.. or there are many other serious ones like Arth or other Nasseruddin Shah stuff..or Guru dutt stuff. But I am not sure how many here would have even heard of them. So I'll leave to you guys.
You're doing a great job Simran. Can I say I love your name..😆
Edited by -Edelweiss- - 15 years ago
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