A few days before I finally watched “Saiyaara” upon its Netflix debut, I had the privilege of seeing “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” for the first time in theaters. The quintessential Hindi film romance still excels for all the reasons it did 30 years ago, the same reasons that have kept it screening for voracious crowds for as long.
Something else though. The timid girl, the ruffian guy. As Vaani (Aneet Padda) sat down with Krish (Ahaan Panday) in Mohit Suri’s “Saiyaara” and asked him not to smoke or swear, my mind flashed to Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) in the barn where she balks at the sight of him chugging cognac “in front of a girl” to keep warm. The women are simple, innocent, in need of protection; the men are wild, free, and inevitably drawn to the righteous path of loving these women.
Now, Vaani Batra is almost definitely clinically depressed,…
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