Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor
Director: Yash Chopra
Somewhere someone belongs to somebody. Somewhere someone is waiting for you. Marriages are made in heaven. Love is eternal. Prince Charming are for real. And so....
It's back to the age of innocence, folks. Chopra was always involved in the emotional tangle and wrangles of love. Be it Silsila, Lamhe, Darr or DDLJ. Chopra's treatise has moved full circle. Today when society is riddled with the lesions of love denied, distorted, degenerated, the filmmaker shows us how to fall in love.
An elementary dekko at the whys and wherefores of the primordial emotions, Dil To Pagal Hai is almost an anachronism in today's world. Today when the world swears by the instant noodle, instant coffee, instant beauty, Dil To... talks of a love that develops languorously, pauses introspectively and finds self expression after a series of considerations, hesitations and revisions.
Pooja, the pretty dancer who replaces Nisha (Karisma), the flash dancer in ace director Rahul's (Shahrukh) opera, finally finds her Prince Charming in the form of Rahul. This, after spending a considerable amount of reel time running up and down and greens, with her white duppatta trailing behind, in the hope that P.C. just might ride past. However Pooja holds back, Rahul holds back too. This despite the face that Nisha is a girl from the here and now, a recognisable representative of the gen-X brigade. Suddenly, amidst her sundry squabbles with Rahul, she discovered her undying passion for him and takes no time to say so.
But Dil To Pagal Hai comes in the wake of Hum Apke Hain Kaun in keeping the tradition of tradition, according to cinema. Dil To.... also projects the good, the nice and kow-tow the credo of Them first, when all the world believes in Me first. Again anachromish. The character of the films are so sweet, they almost sicken. Like Pooja, who is overburdened with the debt of gratitude for the family that adopted her when she was orphaned. Like Rahul who his good, great, intelligent and caring, all in a single breath. Like Nisha who keeps apologising for natural emotions like jealousy, rivalry, rancour and wrath, born out of rejection.
Nice people, nice songs, nice emotions, nice scenery. Dil To ...is a nice film. That is all.
