Did Yash Chopra create sympathy for SRK in Darr?

Just watched it on TV. Enjoyed every bit of it. SRK of those days...so amazing!

The story was about Rahul & Srk did justice with the role

may be.Actually hero of the movie was Sunny deol.He shared large portion of film including songs but SRK's acting was so unique(in those days) that he overshadowed Sunny.

Originally posted by: Chachachoudhury

may be.Actually hero of the movie was Sunny deol.He shared large portion of film including songs but SRK's acting was so unique(in those days) that he overshadowed Sunny.

I think the 'talking to dead mother angle' was important, it was not meant to create sympathy but rather to demonstrate as well as provide some sort of background about Rahul's psychological condition.. to explain that this guy is not a creepy kamina lusty stalker but a mental patient and hence much more dangerous as nothing would be able to stop him.

That people ended up sympathising with him is a different issue, lol.

Can't speak about the rest of your points as I don't remember the movie in that much detail about his expressions during fight etc.

Nikita

This is the reason why Aamir rejected Darr. He knew that YC gave different narrations to him and Sunny

Probably for Yash Chopra that character was only a obsessive lover not the lusty and rapist kind of character.He gave a reason why Rahul was behaving that way.It gave clarification to the viewers.

I read somewhere that Sunny said he read a different script and the end product was something else.If its not true then the whole character sketch was in the script and Sunny should have understood whats the story is all about.But if its true then probably when every other bigger stars refused to act as Rahul then Yash Chopra's love for the character increased more and he wanted to show how brilliant the negative character was to all those people who rejected to play that character.So slowly he added much more to that character.And Shahrukh's acting added much more depth to it.

Or Yash Chopra might have wanted to show it from Rahul's point of view.Just like Bazigar,even though Shilpa's character was killed and she did nothing wrong to anyone still at the end we completely forget Shilpa's character and feel sad for the killer who killed an innocent person.I didn't cry when Shilpa's character died but I cried when Shahrukh's character died.

But for me, I didn't feel bad or sympathize for Rahul the way I did in Bazigar even if I slightly sympathized when he stabbed Sunny's character I lost all sympathy.In my opinion it was Shahrukh's brilliant acting in it which gathered accolades not that character.The character was negative and he deserved dying,that I felt after watching it.That means Yash Chopra didn't try to create sympathy for that character.

SRK never looks with totally lusty eyes at Juhi. He is almost teary eyed when he gazes at her. Then all those dialogues about "mere zakhm" and spouting Ghalib poetry. No way does he feel like a lusty villainous stalker.😆

No, I don't think so. The mental illness thing was a very valid thing and it is not an excuse to create sympathy. Rahul Mehra was obsessed with Kiran to the obviousness of everything. But he did not kill anyone right ?