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ilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge is, by sheer dint of originality, one of the best Hindi films made in the last 20 years. Sure, it's a romance. And we've seen enough candyfloss 'boy flips for bride-to-be after it's too late to cancel the wedding caterers' movies.
gives a fabulous performance, redefining the Lover for the 1990s with great panache. He's cool and flippant, but sincere enough to appeal to thejunta. The performance itself is, like the best in the business, played well enough to come across as effortless, as non-acting. |
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The only part we might not actually identify with is the super-filmi fight scene, but even this is given plausibility: you might not have punched a man in your life, but there really isn't a better time to start than when the angered stud-boy is buffeting your father on the head.
Shah Rukh not just makes dancing look ridiculously easy, but at moments when Raj switches gears from aRuk ja brashness to an unrelenting glare at Simran for accepting the decision to marry a man she's never met -- he rocks.
son helps you get a dream pick among the Bollywood market. Aditya, who made his directorial debut withDDLJ, wisely picked Kajol to play Simran, the real-as-life actress bringing warmth and credulity to the initially prudish and reluctant Simran. Not to mention the on-screen chemistry that has become the stuff of legend. There are times when Simran seems unreasonable, but her character is undeniably real -- and her familial background couldn't be more different from Raj's affable daddy (Anupam Kher).
sang as gloriously as gold; an alarmed Raj stammering 'beer' instead oflassi to Amrish Puri; and there are women, I kid you not, who actually swoon each time Shah Rukh, driving a convertible duringHo gaya hai tujhko to pyaar sajna, runs a hand through his windswept hair.
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