Movie Review : Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

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Some days back, I re-lived some of my teenage moments of the 90s again while watching DDLJ in a theatre at the Maratha Mandir in Mumbai (btw DLLJ has been continuously screened everyday at Maratha Mandir for almost 14 years now!!). The movie was almost like a dream sequence, again, as expected:). Saw the matinee show (runs at 11:30 am everyday and costs 22 bucks in the balcony!!) and it was those dreamy eyed visions of a teenager all over again. Even though i was watching the movie for the nth time, I fell in love with it all over again!!

Shah Rukh rocks as the eternal romantic hero, though Kajol seems to be overacting and irritating at times. The first half of the movie is beautiful, and still the way I envision Europe to be like.

There are many other aspects of the movie that you notice now that you see it after so many years and in a maturer way. For one, the love story between Shah Rukh and Kajol is not well developed. There doesn't seem to be any reason why he goes all the way to India to win her over, its just too incomplete and illogical.

And another point I noticed was that the first half of the movie catered to the Indian audience a lot more, as it portrayed Europe as this magical place, and which still holds true for a lot of us till today (those mountains, those drives, that cow bell) whereas it also connected to the NRI community in the second half, which shows the homecoming of the NRI. Maybe its one of the reason for its big success?? Also, while watching the movie again, you do realise there are lot of sequences in the movie which seem too corny and unnecessarily stretched, especially the second half with all the senti pouring in.

For me though, it will always be the ultimate romantic movie of our times. Would like to give it 5 stars, but I think 3.5 should also do!!

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