Shah Rukh Khan (lead actor, Raj Malhotra): This film came at a time when the audiences were getting more receptive to a story like DDLJ and a pairing like mine and Kajol’s. Here’s a guy who’s born and bred in the U.K., and yet he turns out to be more Hindustani than the guy who was raised in Punjab. Here’s a guy who’s obviously flirtatious. And here was this film that completely turned this on its head, because here’s a guy who is buying beer in the first few minutes of the film. In films like Purab Aur Paschim or Des Pardes, it was the person from India who showed the Indian in the West what Indian values were. That’s a tough one to get because you are trying to make the characters a bit real, which was a new thing, which Aditya Chopra started.Īnupama Chopra: Traditionally, the West had been portrayed as a sort of decadent hotbed of sin in Hindi movies. Manish Malhotra (costume designer): There was a lot of glamour. During the same screenings, Goldie disqualified Aamir Khan's Akele Hum Akele Tum which was a blatant copy of the Hollywood film, Kramer v/s Kramer which made Aamir lose faith in private awards and which made his cousin, director Mansoor Khan give up direction for good and made him settle down in Coonoor near Ooty from where he has never returned to making films again.Sharmistha Roy (art director): This wasn’t any part of our Indian genre, in terms of visuals. Yash Chopra who was the producer of DDLJ was a dear friend of Goldie and decided to have a talk with him, but Goldie was adamant and Yash fell sick for three days, but Goldie stuck to his decision and the decision of his jury. DDLJ was out of the competition and the news somehow spread all over the industry which was taken by shock.
He asked the jury for time and the next evening he screened an old Hollywood film called Love On The Orient Express and made the entire jury agree that the idea of DDLJ was plagiarized from the original and as the rules of the jury disqualified any film that was a copy, he as the chairman had decided to disqualify the film as an entry for the awards and the entire jury was one with him.
It was time for the screening of the film and Goldie took the jury by shock when he asked for the screening to stop as he said it was a film that was directly lifted from a Hollywood film made forty years ago.
In fact, Jeetendra who was on the jury attended only the first meeting and said all his nominations were for DDLJ. Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge was the hot favourite for winning awards in all the categories.
The screenings for the jury were conducted at Goldie's mini-theatre at Ketnav. Vijay Anand clashed with the Screen jury awards back in 1996.
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