Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, is celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary this year. The film was directed by Aditya Chopra and was produced by his father Yash Chopra. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which is popularly known as DDLJ was first released in the year 1995 and is still running in Maratha Mandir, Maharashtra. It had also won the 43rd National Film Awards, 41st Filmfare Awards and Screen Awards. In 2001, DDLJ also took over the record of Sholay which was the longest running movie for five years.
In one such instance when the crew had come together, to celebrate the movie actor Shah Rukh Khan had shared that many shots from the movie were improvised. Legendary actor Amrish Puri, Anupan Kher, Shah Rukh Khan Kajol, Fareeda Jalaal were all involved in the making of the movie. In an interview, Shah Rukh told Marie Claire, “There were several improv moments. They enhanced the script, for sure. There was this scene with Amrish Puri where he was feeding the pigeons. And we had this really funny scene where we both awkwardly going ‘aao, aao’ to the pigeons. It is a call for pigeons I had heard in Delhi, so I added it. Even the flower that spras water on Kajol’s face, we hadn’t told her what would happen. ”
Anupam Kher, who played the role of Shah Rukh’s father in the movie shared, ” That’s one thing that is fantastic about Shah Rukh: He is a very affectionate, easy person. When we sort of clap hands and do gibberish words with each other, I invented those words on the set. And when Raj is saying, “I just failed,” and I introduce him to our “ancestors” in paintings on the wall, that was similar to my own family….My own uncle had failed in 7th/8th grade. So I asked Mr. Chopra, ‘Can I use their real names in the movie?’”
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Shah Rukh further added, ” It was a set of friends just having fun…with the material. Adi had a much clearer vision where he was going with it and what he wanted to say in it. So the voices belong to us, but the words and feelings are all his, to be honest. “
