About: Come Fall in Love........

The Year was 1995 and I had just entered my teens. I am the youngest in my family and cinema runs into my veins (and arteries along with blood and cricket of course). The funda of movie marketing was catching on to the ever growing satellite TV. The promos said nothing. There was a flash of title of the movie in which a leather jacket clad Sharukh Khan with a mandolin stood in middle of the yellow mustard fields and Kajol came running to the Hero in a white salwar kurta (No item songs). It was followed by the theme of the movie “Come fall in love….”
The crowd did come to theatre and just fell in love with Simran and Raj. They queued up for tickets for the next show. There was a build up hysteria of a block-buster movie with chart buster songs. The stock market of black tickets never touched that height since. The night show tickets in the peak touched a cool THOUSAND bucks (No jokes).
They say you need no reasons for liking things the way you do. I agree. The more number of times I have managed to seen it the better it gets, just like wine. There is nothing new about the story of the movie. It is a saga of a brat Punjabi boy (Raj Malhotra) meets a house hold Punjabi girl (Simran Singh).They meet, they fight, they fell in love, they are about part ways, and then live happily ever after. It beats other Boy-meets –Girl on presentation alone.
The reason I like movie are many. The pace at which the movie runs is relatively smooth, without hiccups except in the end. The story here gives way to masala dishum-dishum (Hero wins). The scenes shot in Europe made people queue up for Switzerland (trade mark Yash Raj Production). I don’t mind queuing up too given a chance!!
The support cast of Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Anupam Kher, Satish Shah and Manindra (Spaghetti) Bedi have done very well. They perfectly set up the movies for the lead actors. The touch of Farida Jalal finesse is specially seen in scenes with Kajol all through out the movies. There were eyes and dialogues of Amrish Puri and on screen presence of Anupam Kher which added spectrum as well as depth to the movie. One dialogue which comes to mind is “Simran maine vada liya tha tujhse, Mere bharose ko mat todna” Five on Five for that.
The songs are not out of place and add to value of watching the movie. The songs come just at the right time. There aren’t many either so invariably everyone like all the songs.
The reason I particularly like seeing the movie is I love the wardrobe Shahrukh’s wearing.
It was a movie which gave birth to many stars from the actors to director, nobody looked back after that movie. It was also the first movie to attract the NRI market.I have seen the movie for fifteen times and given a chance I would love to see it in Maratha Mandir. This is the theatre where DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge) continues to weave its magic continuously for nearly a decade. It’s a record. It also indicates that I am not alone who wants to fall in the movie all over again. I would love to go to Maratha Mandir and watch the movie all over again.
The reason is simple “Tujhe dekha to jana sanam pyar hota hai deewana sanam….”