20 years on, DDLJ team reveals behind the scenes
Two decades after they made one of India's most iconic romantic films, the cast of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge talk about hits and misses during the making of the film.
Also read: 19 reasons why we can still watch DDLJ
Why do we still love to watch Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ), a film made 19 years ago? No, it's not just because Yash Raj Films have done a very good job keeping it away from pirates and therefore whetting our appetite for it ever more. And not just because it was the first film which showed that Indians who divided their time between Southall and the pind could be as cool as Simran and Raj, at ease in Western clothes and Indian traditions. The previous such major movie Purab Aur Paschim in 1970 showed the London-bred Indian woman (Saira Banu) as a chain-smoking, binge-drinking spoilt princess who had to be taught tradition by the tedious son of desh ki dharti, Manoj Kumar. The pardes was a pollutant, only the des was true. So why is DDLJ still so popular, despite so many clones, most immediately Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in 1998, whose "om jai jagdish hare"-singing wife of Aditya Chopra, Rani Mukerji, who had come straight from ''Oxford University'' to the Riverdale campus of Karan Johar's fantasy?
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