The longest-running film in Indian movie history, the 189-minute romantic comedy is about a young Indian couple from London who meet during a road trip around Europe. Simran, who is from a strict, conservative family, is due to be married off to a husband in India, when a Raj, a young hot head, pursues her. After much singing, dancing and serenading across fields of poppies, they fall head over heels in lovedespite opposition from their families.
Much of DDLJ’s enduring success is down to the movie’s young leading actress, Kajol, who plays Simran. A virtual unknown when the film released in 1995, she’s now Bollywood royalty — known as much for her very distinctive eyebrows as her singing and dancing.
Then there’s Kajol’s co-star Shah Rukh Khan, who plays as Raj. Now one of the most famous men in the world, he played a cheesy, over-the-top kid with a fancy car and charming dimples. Barely a blip on the Bollywood radar back then, Khan’s career was defined by the first notes from his character’s ukulele, which wafted through a field of yellow flowers as Kajol — wearing hot pink lipstick — ran towards him with the urgency of a woman in love.
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The movie’s return to the big screen means that now — at 11.30 a.m. every day – Mumbai’s film aficionados can share that nostalgia, once again falling under the spell of some truly classic crooning Bollywood-style.
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