Here what makes us think 23 years after the film’s release, that it was the audience, and not Pooja, was naïve. Also Read - Kuch Rang Pyaar Ke Aise Bhi 3: Shaheer Sheikh-Erica Fernandes recreate Shahrukh Khan-Madhuri Dixit’s Rahul-Pooja from Dil Toh Pagal Hai and we are floored – view picsīut now, 23 years down the line, the more me and my sister watch and re-watch Dil To Pagal Hai, the more we find it to be a Bollywood cliché. That’s just the way people loved films back then. Perfect couples are the perfect recipe to serve the audience’s hearts. Dil To Pagal Hai, Yash Chopra’s romantic saga, had everything that Yash Chopra movies stand for – scenic views, songs, oozing romance, profound drama and heartfelt dialogues. If you want to celebrate the film’s journey by watching it, the film is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.Don’t hold a grudge if you are a fan of Dil To Pagal Hai, but even you would agree that Bollywood makes us a sucker for superficial romantic love stories that even a 10-year-old would agree are too good to be true. The actor went on to win Filmfare award for Best Supporting Actress for the film. You work hard and you will shine’,” she said. You are a big fan of Madhuri Dixit, you must do it.
My mother told me, ‘You must take up the challenge. “Yash ji and Adi narrated the story to me. However, it was mother Babita who encouraged her to do the film. I said, ‘This isn’t happening’,” she said years later. Everyone said, ‘No how can we dance alongside Madhuri Dixit ji.’ Initially, I too said no to it as it was a dance film and competition dance with Madhuri Dixit. The role came to me…it was a dance film and that too to work with opposite Madhuri Dixit.
Juhi Chawla, Kajol, Manisha Koirala and Urmila Matondkar had reportedly said no to the film before it came to Karisma. Karisma was wary of doing the film and had decided to reject it like many before her. In the making video of Dil Toh Pagal Hai, the veteran late director calls the film a “a film of feel,” and even after 24 years later, we cannot agree any less with him. That sequence is still one of the epic face-offs of Bollywood. Kudos to Yash Chopra for portraying Nisha’s jealousy in such a creative manner with The Dance of Envy.
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Akshay Kumar’s Ajay might have been a cameo appearance but he also depicts one-sided love, which is free of any negative feelings, even jealousy that we see in Nisha. You feel for Nisha but there is nothing cringe about it. There is an understanding of other’s emotions. There’s a respect in the bond the two share. Nisha is obsessive but she lets go of Rahul eventually as she understands that he loves someone else. For me, Dil Toh Pagal Hai emerged as a much better film dealing with friendzoned, one-sided love, unlike Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, which left me cringing.
‘Jispe hum marr mite, usko pata bhi nahi,’ Karisma sings for Rahul as he is busy celebrating Valentine’s Day. She is friendzoned but that didn’t affect her affection for him. Instead of looking at it from the perspective of Madhuri Dixit’s perspective, I decided to step into the shoes of Nisha But today, in 2021, can we still believe in the idea of soulmates? While I have watched the film several times before, I re-watched it recently only to realise how my perspective on it has changed. Shah Rukh Khan was India’s favourite loverboy then and whether as Rahul or Raj, we were ready to buy into that ideal of romance. The film made many of us believe in the concept of love, friendship and how sometimes both the relationships requires us to make sacrifices.