But what is giving me confidence is the fantastic team that I have.
I’m a hardcore cinema guy, I have never done theatre in my life and here I am trying to pull off the craziest ambition of my life. I’m terribly nervous and incredibly excited. 26 years later I will be directing DDLJ all over again but this time as an English language Broadway Musical for a worldwide audience. But this time the medium is not cinema but theatre. It gave me my identity and kickstarted an amazing journey for which I’ll always be grateful.Ģ6 years later I’m going back to my original vision of the story of DDLJ, a love story of an American boy and an Indian girl, a love story of two cultures…two worlds. DDLJ released in 1995 and became the longest running film of Indian cinema. As a 23 year old young man greatly influenced by Hollywood and American pop culture, I thought I would make a couple of Indian films and then I would be off to Hollywood and make DDLJ for a worldwide English speaking audience with Tom Cruise as my leading man. But what many don’t know is that I never intended to make DDLJ in Hindi. The film created history and changed my life and many others forever. 26 years back I started my career with a film called Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ, what it is more famously known as). I’m reuniting two long lost lovers, Broadway Musical and Indian Films. I realised then, that worlds apart, languages apart, western musical theatre and Indian films are two long lost lovers separated in time.Īutumn 2021… I’m embarking on my most ambitious project till date. It filled me with the same joy and emotions that a good Indian film does. The burst of colours, the heightened drama, the passionate singing, the unabashed dancing, a classic story, a happy end. It was just not the fact that both use songs to tell the story, it was much more than that, it was the feeling they evoked which was exactly the same. But the most significant aspect that resonated with me was how similar musical theatre was to our Indian films. I couldn’t believe that this kind of spectacle could be created live on stage. But that day what I saw on stage blew my mind. Now, till then, I was a kid who was an avid movie watcher and what I loved the most was big screen Indian blockbusters. The lights dimmed, the curtains lifted and what unfolded in the next 3 hours left me speechless and stunned. My parents took my brother and me for our first musical theatre experience. It also won 10 Filmfare Awards as well as the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.Summer 1985. Raj attempts to win her family and marry her.ĭDLJ became one of the most successful Indian films. However, Simran's father had already promised her marriage to his friend's son. The plot revolved around Raj and Simran who fell in love during their vacation with friends in Europe. Watch vintage videoĭilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge also starred Farida Jalal, Amrish Puri, Anupam Kher, Mandira Bedi and Parmeet Sethi. but they have not always seen a happy ending like the character did in the film."Īlso Read | Shah Rukh Khan says DDJL is about ‘bourgeoise suppression of proletariat', fans dub him a comrade.
I must have met 120 girls like Simran, girls who have fallen in love. Whatever I did stemmed from my imagination and from what I know about some of my friends who are like her. Speaking on her closeness with her character in DDLJ, Kajol added, "I didn't feel close to Simran at all. It was supposed to look sensuous… but the dupatta just wouldn’t fall properly. I pick up a duppata and say, 'Saaya sa lehrata hai'. Speaking with Filmfare, a few years after DDLJ's release, when Kajol was asked the most difficult shot for her, she had said, "The shot where I have to describe my dream guy with passages of poetry. In the film, Kajol essayed the role of Simran Singh and Shah Rukh that of Raj Malhotra. It launched Shah Rukh and Kajol into superstardom and gave Shah Rukh his romantic hero image. It completed 26 years of release on Wednesday. Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge released in 1995. In an old interview, Kajol had said that the scene had to look sensuous but even after the movie released the shot lacked 'something'. Actor Kajol had once revealed that Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) director Aditya Chopra was 'disgusted' with her after she couldn't get a shot right.
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