DDLJ rediscovered....10 years later!!
namaskar mandali,
firstly a very big sorry to all who bother to frequent this place. haven't written anything since end of March. so here goes, and once again, toasted to the free time i am spending at WeP!!
my projects, cut down to 2 after the midterm review, are over. one is a success in terms of its deliverables, the other not so much. the task was a little odd one. catching 30 each of CEOs, CFOs and CTOs within 15 days without any prior information about doing this...
so since this last week in office was supposed to be presentation week and report making, printing etc (which is also done) there is nothing to do!! and thats how the blog gets this title...
Bangalore ke PVR multiplex mein DDLJ lag gaya, one show in the morning (50 bucks a ticket) per day! and its going houseful. today we, josyula, nandini and i, contributed to the crowd. now i can swear to GOD that excluding me almost everyone in the theatre had seen the movie atleast 5-10 times earlier.
having no work to do, there we were!! in row no. 3, trying hard not to spoil our eyes...now this movie, was released sometime in september of 1995. but i saw it, i must admit, in its entirety only for the first time!! and i liked it....
it had all the works of a typical family bollywood flick. loads of senti dialogues, those inspirational, those patriotic, and little comedy too!! the story does prove to be a treat, taking u across the english channel from london to all over europe and then straight into the khets of sarson in punjab.
i always wonder why more than half the bollywood heroes are called "Raj Malhotra"; both name and surname either together or separate always make their presence felt there. and again, i wonder why Bollywood, which is in Mumbai, has more than half its movies scripted in the land of Punjab. somehow i feel intrigued that india is known more by its punjabi culture (in restaurants, in music, in the "aish life", and in movies). aren't the other cultures vibrant enough? don't they have stories worth portraying into films?
moving on, i wonder if the film was remade, how wud mallika sherawat look if put in kajol's shoes. ofcourse King Khan will remain King Khan, mebbe with a more sober hair cut!! it was a treat to watch amrish puri in the best of roles. i know, i know...mogambo might have been better!!
much has been written, said, discussed, thought about in the past 10 years about yash chopra's DDLJ (i tried to remember that, i hope its correct).....but since it was my first time, i just felt like "pouring my heart out" on this one!!
so till i blog again, its "tata" from me for now...
posted by Milind M. Tapaswi at
2:51 AM
3 Comments:
Ok, now that i've fought my way to put a comment here(ask milind,he'll tell u how) i think i will leave a good comment..:)
for the uninitiated i am josh aka josyula, the guy who went along with milind to watch DDLJ for the umpteenth time.
poor milind suffered for i kept mouthing all the dialogues(mind u, there were a hundred voices along with mine),the movie was as usual smashing to say the least. Think i will go again...
Today was a day of firsts for me..here is the list of firsts i achieved
1.) All through my academic life and the small professional life, I have never bunked and gone to a movei, i did that today
2.)never seen DDLJ on the big screen(trust me when mandira bedi smiles on a big screen, when kajol says"kuch aur ba na kehna, kuch aur ab na karna".. u wanna melt..sigh..)
3.) never eaten in mcdonalds so far...did that today
4.) finally(and this must be political suicide) in my stay in bangalore never been to commercial street aka comm.street.
and all this thanks to Milind..:)
oh and people who read this, do lemme know what is ur favt scene in the movie
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Anonymous, at 3:50 AM, May 17, 2005
well, i might be commiting sacrilage here.. but i do beleive that DDLJ is a grossly over-rated movie.. it might have been good enough for being a superhit, but is definitely not good enough to run for 500 weeks running.. and be regarded as an all time great..
"Lagaan" for one, was a much better movie in all respects..
i suppose DDLJ can at most be called the best senti love story of all time.. but that's abt it..
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Wondering Wanderer, at 7:01 AM, May 17, 2005
Its the umpteenth time u've repeated this - "my projects, cut down to 2"
okkk .. u were lucky to get 2 project unlike most of us mortal souls who had to do with just one..okk that initially they thought u were a superman and cud do 4 projects in 4 months (atleast they realised well in time) .. but that doesn't mean that u'll keep bragging about your projects evry now n then!!
As for DDLJ - i feel its was a gr8 movie for the times it was made - a welcome freshness after the stale romantic movies made till then (eg. Ashiquee) ... but the movie is not worth being re-released. And hence I too agree with Shubham that its a grossly over-rated movie.
Lagaan, Shole, Anand, Sarfarosh are the league that deserve re-release...
I just hope the Chopra's don't re-release Mohabatein and Dil to Pagal hai
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Nikhil Kulkarni, at 1:50 AM, May 18, 2005
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