This is my favourite Bollywood movie,i.e not considering the pre-80s stuff. Call me a mushy idiot if you please. No other on-screen romance has left this mark on my head as this one has. A love-story so ideal that I want to be a part of that movie myself, Too big dreams no ? Even today, I can watch this movie and feel-good again.
Romance may be boring and dead for many people. For some it doesnt exist at all. Romance has gotten a 'not-so-cool' tag with today's youth. Honestly I tell you, nothing can make you feel nicer than watching a lovely romantic movie,(note the words Lovely and Movie) because I'm not referring to those flicks made by aesthetically deprived directors for whom the concept of an on-screen love has little to do with people and emotions! I'm alluding to movies like DDLJ which has heroes and not super-heroes or gadgets. Ofcourse am not saying the movie was perfect, it definitely had its bad shots, yet when I look back, stills from the movie I think does make me 'want to fall in love'.
This movie is the best example of pure entertainment for the following reasons :-
1. Excellent songs,locales and all standard stuff.
2. Good leading pair - excellent on-screen chemistry
3. Romantic moments that gives goosepimples.
4. Mush,mush mush - on a lonely friday evening for a single soul :)
5. Lotsa garam masala too - the typical Indian fare at the end I mean!
Most importantly, this movie gives me the feeling of belonging to a certain place, with certain people,in a certain situation in some faraway moment of time - the existence of which is impossible in my life.It gives me what my life doesnt! While everything in my existence is a remote approximation, this movie gives me perfection, in myself and my surroundings. It empowers me to dream the only dream that I dare not dream! , It makes me cry while smiling and smile while crying.
According to SP( and me too!),romance maybe a subject but sometimes,people we meet in books and movies do appear in public :) And when that happens, I only need to take them from there and put them into the dim corners of my soul,so dim that no one can find them there excepting that little faint light called hope!
PS :- By posting nice comments to this one, you shall rekindle that faint light I speak about. ( I hope my blog-readers understand what am trying to say *wink*)
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Not with DDLJ,But I share the same kind of magic
("the feeling of belonging to a certain place, with certain people,in a certain situation") with "Wonder Years" and Archies.
Most importantly, the penultimate two paragraphs are absolutely beautiful.
:)
DDLJ is a movie that hit the right chords and although its an old one, I can watch it again.
There are quite a few movies which make me wish I were in the heroes shoes, this is one of them.
And incase u havent watched eth Tamil movie Mozhi, do watch it. Its a nice movie, a quality movie in Tamil for a change.
You should consider a career in writing. You write well.
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