'Dil toh pagal hai' completes 16 years.....
I have fond black-n-white memories of my
high school days when a chaste romance was the biggest draw at the bolly box
office, when 90 minute quick films were still unheard of, when the glitzy malls
were still unborn, when t20 cricket was undiscovered, when SRK's 3-hour romance
sagas would be watched and re-watched amidst tons of popcorns and extra packets
of chips by a whole big bunch of family that included everybody from the pishis
to the maasis to the pot-bellied septuagenarian to the bawling baby to the
howling maid. Those were the days...
It was Lake Town's Jaya Cinema for us, our
favourite movie haunt for all those big blockbusters of the year including 'Dil
to pagal hai' which I watched with my mom, housemaid, masi and cousins after
hours of anticipation, planning and mayhem. I tried hard to emulate that
whistle tune which Rahul would break out into during those epiphanic moments of
Madhuri. I also gaped at Karisma's red hot attires which made my teenage
hormones work overtime. The puffed-up, ready-to-chew lips of Madhuri also
inspired thousands of men across the country to look for their own heaven-made
match. Really, those were the days....
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Aahh u reminded me of my first step to the road of romance. Days of attachments, heart break, endless giggle seeing our crushes, sharing benches in class, butterflies in stomach at one smile...it had an unparalleled charm
ReplyDeleteIt had....it's nostalgia that can truly make us feel happy and sad at the same time
DeleteMy fav movie of those times. Loved the way Madhuri danced and also developed a stupid dislike towards Karishma Kapoor just because she wanted to snatch Rahul away from Maya, or wahtever the name of Madhuri was in that movie.. yeah, those were the days :)
ReplyDeleteHaha okay, so you were a Madhuri supporter...chalo, she finally got the cake and Karisma had to go through heartache
Deletethis movie brings in some musical memories to me..!
ReplyDeletei wonder if you watched it coz you don't understand Hindi na :O
DeleteOne of the best stories ever.
ReplyDeleteof those times :)
DeleteYes, those were the days :-)
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DeleteOne of the best movie of Bollywood O:)
ReplyDeleteThat golden phase is a thing of the past :(
DeleteHopelessly mushy, the movie made a lot of cinegoers believe in the proverbial bell ringing and having a soulmate made just for you!
ReplyDeletehaha, yes. Too mushy to be realistic. But then why should cinema not be fictional and fabled
DeleteAwesome movie, it makes me remind my school days in cathedral school mumbai. It is the best triangle love story I ever seen in films. Moreover, its sound tracks are all time super-hit. I loved its rain song "chuk dhoom dhoom".
ReplyDeleteYes, it was one of the best of that generation...sadly, the movie-makers today have a tendency to make only serious type of films...even the rom-coms are a 90-minute quick affair....
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