26 Years Of Dil Se - Page 6

Originally posted by: Clochette

Can't give you a precise answer for Devdas but it had been the first SRK movie I watched with French subtitles as Devdas was t h e movie that established his French fan-following.

Both Fritz Lang's movies dealing with India had been German productions, btw.

I randomly chose Mohabbatein first out of the 3 as the synopsis recalled me the subject of one of my favourite Robin Williams' movies (Dead Poets' Society). As for the TV channel...it is a private German one who screened SRK- (and later other Hindi) movies because of the owner's liking for K3G (the first dubbed one, but shown in a shortened version about which I only read much later)... he got to like SRK-movies through a Karan Johar stay in Germany (Rapid Eye Movies). SRK's movies then got dubbed by the same German actor (Patrick Breuer) who later also played a role in Don 2.

SRK and his kind of cinema became the only one I really studied - first through his (and other) movies and media and then through meeting SRK to get to know the person. Comparing with all the fans I met throughout the years, my approach to SRK hadn't been that of a fan (which he himself also said) but I always loved his fans for their own positivity and enthusiasm.

I can see why Devdas would have so much appeal to the French. It's very much like a tragic French novel.

That explains it. I haven't seen his actual German films.

Out of those three initial films, I can see why Mohabbatein would appeal most since it's inspired by the Dead Poets Society. Both K3G and Main Hoon Na are original works. Do the songs get cut out of the shortened version of K3G? I have a German friend who used to tell me that many old Disney movies would also screen on TV heavily edited. Pete's Dragon would have all the songs cut out and Bedknobs and Broomsticks removed all references to Nazis.

Yes, even in your posts on here, they don't read like a fan's posts but more a film scholar's writings. I've seen online many blogs on SRK's films as well so his movies tend to lead to higher analysis.

Interesting, Manisha reveals the original ending was different. Only her character died, not SRK's. SRK would have let Manisha die but not join her in the explosion.

Manisha says she preferred the original ending because it dealt with unrequited love.

"That time only itself I had liked the original one. I said because there is no way they would have become one. So it's like sometimes unrequited love is far more interesting than the one that gets fulfilled in life or after death. It is not interesting than the love story which is left unfulfilled," Manisha Koirala noted.

https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment-news/tamil/did-mani-ratnam-change-the-ending-of-dil-se-manisha-koirala-reveals-srk-s-character-survived-in-the-original-script-article-114986727

Honestly, I find the actual ending better/more intense... but I can understand Manisha's take.

watched it recently just out of curiosity and the songs!!! And damn the film is a visual spectacle. I was surprised such good cameras existed back then. What angles, what cinematography. Aajkal ke filmmakers cant do even 10% of it.

Santosh Sivan (from Kerala), the cinematographer of Dil Se, also made Asoka...and many, many other movies (South and Hindi)...he is a very fine cinematographer (an artist with the camera).

Originally posted by: _symphony

watched it recently just out of curiosity and the songs!!! And damn the film is a visual spectacle. I was surprised such good cameras existed back then. What angles, what cinematography. Aajkal ke filmmakers cant do even 10% of it.

You take any Mani Ratnam movie, even an ordinary social love story like Alaypayuthe, you get exquisite cinematography. He is a genius filmmaker.

Originally posted by: Clochette

Honestly, I find the actual ending better/more intense... but I can understand Manisha's take.

I agree. I don't think the ending would be as impactful if only Manisha just died and SRK just stood and watched. Very weak ending then and so much for the depth of SRK's love.

Unrequited love, which ends with one of the pair dead because filmmakers don't know how to end the movie without the couple together, does not work as evident by ADHM. It's very forced.

I didn't like the fim but the songs are timless & evergreen❤️. Its still playing on my playlist