Dil chahta hai wikipedia
ZNMD, while not as solipsistically focused on one character as YJHD, ends up offering only a soft-boiled conclusion to Akhtar’s and Roshan’s hostility. Mukerji’s YJHD provided an easy resolution to the tussle between Ranbir’s and Aditya’s characters. It was their conflict rather, a kind that I’ve rarely come across in Hindi cinema.Īkhtar never pares the bromance down to irresistible sentiment.
But this romanticised bro-dom, which isn’t entirely path-breaking for the older Gen-Zs I assume, never perked up the film for me. And it was their twee trip to the beach that defined the new cool at the time - no character had any qualms about their body as they bobbed a volleyball or sped on jet skis. And it still is.įor a YA like me, who already saw youngsters and adults take trips to Manali or Spain in a sky-blue Buick, Goa didn’t seem quite as appealing or seductive. Finding out answers to that was the perfect escape for those that were still coping with the existential dread that came with a new millennium. The questions - what could possibly drive a wedge between them and how will they reconcile? - immediately pop up. Right in the beginning (when Sid’s in the hospital with Sam), you see a relatively fragmented group and in the subsequent flashback, an inseparable one. A few minutes into the film, as I saw the trio - Akash (Aamir Khan), Sid (Akshaye Khanna), and Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) - douse each other with paint, I understood why it was a boffo hit for Bollywood.