{"id":5480,"date":"2016-06-06T03:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:10:38","slug":"yash-chopra-dil-toh-pagal-hai-silsila-shah-rukh-khan-mills-and-boon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5480","title":{"rendered":"From Yash Chopra, With Love: The Man Who Convinced India Dil Toh Pagal Hai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> \n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f you\u2019re a \u201990s kid, chances are the phrase \u201csomeone somewhere is made for you\u201d immediately conjures up the image of an incandescent Madhuri Dixit, clad in all-white, being embraced by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/shahrukh-khan-zero-dwarf\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shah Rukh Khan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under a spotlight. This phrase, while it is from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dil Toh Pagal Hai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, could well be attributed to the world\u2019s go-to source for romantic fiction, Mills &#038; Boon. But for us desi millennials, it will always be reminiscent of Yash Chopra, Bollywood\u2019s original king of romance and a man who showed us that love comes in many, many forms.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romance, that great staple we all need in our lives, is the grease that keeps the machinery of Bollywood churning. Yash Chopra was \u2013 remains? \u2013 the overseer of this machinery. In an industry littered with sagas of love, some great and some not-so-great, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/30-years-of-chandni-male-fantasy-sridevi-yash-chopra-rishi-kapoor-vinod-khanna\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yash Chopra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> emerged as a filmmaker who gave us the feels. He told honest stories of love, that defined the convention \u2013 and then proceeded to demolish that convention. From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daag: A Poem of Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1973) to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jab Tak Hai Jaan <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2012) his movies span the range from run-of-the mill \u201cboy meets girl\u201d tales to complicated, multi-faceted and thought-provoking stories, each with a different treatment of love.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People world over got their dose of romantic fiction from Mills &#038; Boon. With a wide range of novels and genres, each dealing with a different aspect of love, these are a rite of passage for most <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/study-abroad-moving-out-new-city\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teenagers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and even grown-ups. Back when Yash Chopra started to explore romance, M&#038;Bs were too foreign for us. Chopra took these so-called \u201cforeign\u201d ideas of romance and Indianised them, complete with beautiful locations, melodious music, and much drama.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For most Indian millennials, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/dil-toh-pagal-hai-rahul-pooja-shahrukh-khan-madhuri-dixit-karishma-kapoor-boollywood-india-movies-cinema\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dil Toh Pagal Hai<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1997) was our first brush with Yash Chopra. The film came at a time when Bollywood was largely focused on violence, revenge sagas, and machismo. The overnight sensation reignited SRK\u2019s career, and accorded him his most popular tagline: \u201cRahul&#8230; naam toh suna hoga?\u201d This was also the first time most of us saw a sensitive, urban romance on the big screen, for we were otherwise watching either sprawling family sagas, Govinda one-liners, or Suniel Shetty and Akshay Kumar\u2019s roundhouse kicks. Most heroines were relegated to the fringes of a script, but with Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor under the spotlight, Chopra changed that. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DTPH<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is often called a soppy romance, and maybe it is one too, but it glitters with the fairydust of Yash Chopra\u2019s magic.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1569590618.jpg\" alt=\"yash_chopra\" width=\"594\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54923\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Back when Yash Chopra started to explore romance, M&#038;Bs were too foreign for us. Chopra took these so-called \u201cforeign\u201d ideas of romance and Indianised them, complete with beautiful locations, melodious music, and much drama.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ferdaus Shamim\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s the thing about Yash Chopra \u2013 despite the clich\u00e9 that he is associated with, he never could be pinned down to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/the-death-of-the-jnu-stereotype\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stereotype<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even as he defined the romantic canon, he went about redefining it with each film. In some of his older films, he tackled subjects that were considered too radical for the mainstream audience. While love was always at the core of all his movies, with every release, he reinforced the notion that it is not one-dimensional.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much like Mills &#038; Boon, Chopra\u2019s films deal with different types of romances. The ideas that no two love stories are alike (even if they seem so on the surface) and there is no single formula to romantic fiction are paramount. Sometimes love is defiant and not something that is considered \u201cagreeable\u201d by social standards, but that is not something to be ashamed of. As long as it is honest, no love is tainted.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In what could be considered one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to do so, Yash Chopra handled the controversial and delicate theme of bigamy in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daag<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1973). A film about a man\u2019s struggle to choose between the wife he thought was lost forever and the woman he married under the same illusion, it has an unusual end, where he continues to live with two women. In a time when making films that agreed with social conventions was the norm, Chopra proved that unconventional love is not always besmirched, a feat he repeated with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silsila<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1981. Amit (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/music\/amitabh-bachchan-75-birthday-greatest-hits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amitabh Bachchan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and Chandni (Rekha) are star-crossed lovers who can\u2019t be together. Once married to their respective spouses, they meet again and the old flame of romance is rekindled. Adultery forms the central theme of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silsila <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also, a love story apparently inspired by the \u201creal-life romance\u201d of its lead stars. Although the \u201cright thing\u201d is done in the end, with everyone returning to their spouses, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silsila<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is viewed as a cornerstone when it comes to unorthodox relationships.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s important to note is the milieu in which these films appeared. With a host of \u201cghar-parivar-sanskaar\u201d films being produced every day, the focus was largely on keeping things conventional. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/why-every-woman-needs-a-house-of-her-own\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were self-sacrificing and men were upright. In such times, to show women and men who followed their hearts and disregarded society was commendable, and if the success of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daag<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silsila<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is anything to go by, the audience agreed wholeheartedly.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p><em>Dil Toh Pagal Hai<\/em> is often called a soppy romance, and maybe it is one too, but it glitters with the fairydust of Yash Chopra\u2019s magic.\n<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then came <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lamhe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1991). We always knew of love that bloomed between two young lovers, but with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lamhe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Chopra made us realise that ishq knows no limits. A film way ahead of its time, it completely disregarded oft-reinforced boundaries like age: A man falls in love with an older woman and years later, the woman\u2019s daughter falls in love with him. \u201cMohabbat ne umar ke farq ko kabhi nahi maana.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/sridevi-death-overstatement-english-vinglish-raveena-tandon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sridevi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s memorable dialogue sums it all up for us. It didn\u2019t really sit well with the audience in the early \u201990s, but today it is considered a milestone in Indian cinema.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two years later, Yash Chopra once again turned the idea of romantic love on its head with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a psychological thriller that explore the dark, obsessive, scary side of love. At a time when romance in Bollywood was essentially the story of two kindred souls struggling to stay together while the world conspired against them, with dollops of melodrama and violence, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reminded us that \u201clove stories\u201d aren\u2019t always beautiful and harmless. While the film has a conventional hero in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/campaign-trail-sunny-deol-gurdaspur-bjp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sunny Deol<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the only thing we remember about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darr <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a maniacal Shah Rukh Khan stammering, \u201cI love you, K\u2026K\u2026Kiran\u201d.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a career that spanned over 50 years, Yash Chopra introduced to us every dimension of love&#8230; love that has no rules, love that cannot be contained by societal pressure, love that is one-sided, love that is crazy. Much before we let our cynical side get the better of us, he assured us that it\u2019s okay to follow our hearts. And today we might have become swipe crazy, but we all have that moment of despair when we tell ourselves, \u201cKahin na kahin, koi na koi mere liye banaya gaya hai &#8230; aur kabhi na kabhi main usse zaroor milongi.\u201d We only have Yash Chopra to thank for that hope.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the thing about Yash Chopra \u2013 despite the clich\u00e9 that he is associated with, he never could be pinned down to a stereotype. Even as he defined the romantic canon, he went about redefining it with each film. 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