{"id":2019945,"date":"2025-09-13T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2019945"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:19:03","slug":"saiyaara-hits-netflix-how-the-star-crossed-romance-captivated-bollywood-fans-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/saiyaara-hits-netflix-how-the-star-crossed-romance-captivated-bollywood-fans-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saiyaara\u2019 Hits Netflix: How the Star-Crossed Romance Captivated Bollywood Fans Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">A few days before I finally watched \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt28037987\/\">Saiyaara<\/a>\u201d upon its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> debut, I had the privilege of seeing \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112870\/\">Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge<\/a>\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Something else though. The timid girl, the ruffian guy. As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm16495517\/\">Vaani<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm14242752\/\">Aneet Padda<\/a>) sat down with Krish (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm8077625\/\">Ahaan Panday<\/a>) in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm1887138\/\">Mohit Suri<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt28037987\/\">Saiyaara<\/a>\u201d and asked him not to smoke or swear, my mind flashed to Raj (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0451321\/\">Shah Rukh Khan<\/a>) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0801264\/\">Simran<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004418\/\">Kajol<\/a>) in the barn where she balks at the sight of him chugging cognac \u201cin front of a girl\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Vaani Batra is almost definitely clinically depressed,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days before I finally watched \u201cSaiyaara\u201d upon its Netflix debut, I had the privilege of seeing \u201cDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2019946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2019945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Saiyaara-Hits-Netflix-How-the-Star-Crossed-Romance-Captivated-Bollywood-Fans.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}