Love @ Bollywood
Films
Dil Toh Pagal Hai
Directors: Yash Chopra
Screenwriter: Aditya Chopra and Javed Siddiqui
Genre: Indian romantic drama
Dil toh pagal hai which means "The heart is crazy" is a love story that develops between three people (Karisma Kapoor, Sharukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit). Karisma Kapoor and Sharukh Khan are best friends and while Karisma loves Sharukh immensely, Sharukh falls in lovewith his mystery character he created for a show called "Maya" who is potrayed by Madhuri Dixit. A cameo role is done by Akshay Kumar where he proposes marriage to Madhuri Dixit as they have known each other from young. The story continues to progress where there is jealousy seen in Karisma Kapoor when Sharukh Khan talks about Madhuri Dixit dance moves and anger seen while Madhuri admits that she does not love Sharukh and he pretending that he does not love her as well. The last part is commendable as the cameo done by Akshay Kumar rejoins these two lovers by playing a tape that Madhuri had recorded for Akshay to hear of her confessing her love for Sharukh and asking permission from Akshay if it is ok for her to follow her dreams? The songs are worth having in our playtrack and the last part ended as a happily ever after story. Makeup was simple for all and there was news that Yash Chopra had rejected 22 designs of Manish Malhotra before he approved the simplistic look of Madhuri Dixit. The set of the song "Chande kuch kaha" was beautifully set up with heart baloons and lighting was commendable.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Directors: Yash Chopra
Screenwriter: Aditya Chopra & Devika Bhagat
Genre: Indian romantic drama
This is a movie about "Undying love that a man had for a woman, unflinching love that a woman had for a man and unending faith that god had on their love"(JTHJ dialogue). Sharukh khan is a indian army officer and Anushka sharma is working at discovery channel and she comes across Sharukh's diary which depicts his past love who is Katrina Kaif. The diary talks about Katrina and Sharukh's first meeting, how they became friends, how they taught each hindi and english respectively, how they fell in love and the main part of how they separated. Katrina is a god fearing person and when she asks something from god, she would leave something in return. Sharukh gets into an accident and she asked god to spare his life while she would leave seeing him for the rest of her life. After knowing what she prayed and she is going away from him, Sharukh moves to India to be an Army officer and he was named as "the man who cannot die" as he wouldnt wear protection vests while diffusing bombs and is challenging god on how long he is going to keep him alive. Anushka convinces Sharukh to do a film on him for her documentary at discovery channel. She pleads him to come to England and he again meets with an accident where he loses his memory and anushka goes to see Katrina to ask her to help him gain his memory back. There she finds out that Katrina is not married and she still loves Sharukh and she convinces her that maybe god is giving her chance to get her love back. When Sharukh gains his memory back he leaves for India leaving Katrina behind but Katrina follows him to India and expresses her love for him. Sharukh than goes to diffuse his last bomb(108) and tells Katrina not to pray for his safety but to just love him (Koi Dua mat maangna, sirf pyaar karna). While the story ends with Anushka depicting her documentary to everyone at the discovery channel where she says that her documentary was not a story of courage or miracles, but it was a simple story of love. All shooting took place in real locations and the makeup done on the actor and actresses was realistic yet beautiful. Acting was done incredibly well by all the actors and the direction of the movie was speechless.
Veer Zaara
Directors: Yash Chopra
Screenwriter: Aditya Chopra, Tanuja Chandra, Pamela Chopra & Yash Chopra
Genre: Musical Romance
A love story of two hearts that were miles apart, religions apart, countries apart but yet found their way to get connected to one another. India and Pakistan have not been in good terms ever since their separation and this love story sees beyond the hatred while one hindustani (Sharukh Khan) and one Pakistani (Priety Zinta) fall in love with one another. Priety Zinta's fiance puts Sharukh Khan behind bars calling him a spy when he goes to visit priety in Pakistan to take her with him. After 22 years, Rani Mukherjee who is a idealistic lawyer has been handed Sharukh's case and she wants to fight it for him. In the 22 years, Sharukh does not talk to anybody but he opens up to Rani. He says she can fight his case but she is not supposed to mention Priety's name or her family while fighting the case. Rani wanting to desparately help Sharukh, goes to India to find someone who can reveal Sharukh's true identity that he is a Indian Air Force Officer. To her shock, she finds Priety running Sharukh's parents school after running away from Pakistan. Rani brings Priety back to Pakistan to reveal Sharukh's identity and the court releases him. The story ends by Priety and Sharukh crossing the Pakistan border to India, proving love has no boundaries. The makeup and acting was commendable by all three actors. The story pleases both Indian and Pakistani people by potraying roles perfectly and by having sets set up in both Punjab and Pakistan.
