Before this movie, I had some idea what Indian movies were, they were long (about 3 hours long), filled with inane dance sequences (with the lead actors/ actresses lip-syncing the songs), extremely colorful, and generally either between one boy, two girls, one girl, two boys, a few girls and a few boys. Essentially, nearly all Indian movies from Bollywood, could be classed into any one of these categories.
Dil Ka Rishta which I saw some time in August of 2003, I was around 16 years old, a truly impressionable age, don't ya think? It was highly recommended by the video Ccub owner, after all the top movies were already watched out for that summer. (Back in those incredible VHS days) As an introduction to Aishwarya Rai also known by her married name - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (tears and heartbreak) it was a gorgeous introduction.
Now, I readily confess at this point, that I do not know Hindi, Tami, Bengali or whatever language Aishwarya speaks in her movies, as such I have to get my hands on a movie with English subtitles, which obviously is a must since I have to see Aishwarya. I have since watched about 90% of her movies. She has given top-notch performances each time.
Breaking the movie down into two parts 1) The music video fillers and 2) the actual story itself, I'll start with the music of the film scattered throughout the story. Typically, the fillers for the music in Indian movies, are for some reason done across hundreds of scenic locations, but for Dil Ka Rishta, the songs were nearly all done as part of the movie's story.
For instance Daiyya Daiyya Re, was done as part Tia's (Aishwarya Rai's character) school play, Dil Ka Rishta was done for Tia's honeymoon, Dil Churale was with her child, Dil Haye Dil in South Africa when Tia went there to stay, and Saajan Saajan was for a function at a hotel if I understand correctly.
As a result, the songs made sense the parts of the story that they were in, and ultimately made a nicer experience for the duration of the movie.
For your viewing and listening pleasure, from YouTube, all of the songs from the movie.
01 Daiyya Daiyya Re
02 Dil Ka Rishta
03 Dil Churale
04 Dil Haye Dil
05 Saajan Saajan - My Love, My Love
Onto the story!
The cast of characters -
Arjun Rampal as Jai Mehta
Aishwarya Rai as Tia Sharma
Isha Koppikar as Anita
Raakhee as Mrs. Sharma (Tia's mother)
Paresh Rawal as Mr. Mehta (Jai's father)
Priyanshu Chatterjee as Raj
Produced by Aditya Rai, Aishwarya Rai's brother and co-written by Vrinda Rai, Aishwarya Rai's mother, so the movie was a true family affair.
A story of unrequited love or tabanca as some people might know it, people should remember that this is a movie and is highly unlikely to happen in real life. Movies are meant to be enjoyed and not followed religiously as an example in real life.
Jai (wealthy to no end apparently) falls in love with Tia and professes his love for her repeatedly, only to find she is already engaged/ attached to a man in her life. Despite this, Jai pursues Tia by showering her with gifts (since he is rich after all). Tia, nevertheless without hesitation marries Raj, has a son with him and proceeds to live a happy life.
Driven to alcoholism at the loss of his soulmate, Jai, becomes the unwitting cause of a vehicular accident (see people, don't drink and drive), which unfortunately kills Raj, Anita (i'm assuming this is Jai's best friend or cousin, they were never quite specific with the details) and Tia loses her memory, Tia's son survived the accident.
The truly heartbreaking and moving moment in the entire story is when Tia wakes up in the hospital and has no memory of her mother, and also her son, no memory that she was ever married and no memory of Raj or Jai.
Tia never regains her memory, and Jai takes her off to South Africa where he's currently living as all memory of Tia's past has to be removed as she cannot be forced to remember at all, as it could either cause her to go insane or have a brain hemorrhage.
The final act of this movie provided the typical Bollywood ending with the typical heartbreak revelations and the happy ending with Jai and Tia getting together after Tia forgives him for everything that happened.
Coming in at 143 minutes (2 hours and 23 minutes) it is one of the shorter movies that Bollywood has ever produced, and there were some parts of the movie that could've been stretched out more.
Regardless of the unrequited love, heartbreak, tears, tribulations, etc, there were several humorous interchanges between the characters which made the movie so much more enjoyable.
A highly recommended movie to watch!
This is probably one of the most stylish Bollywood films that I have seen, which regrettably will not go down in history as such, and my history of watching films is with either Aishwarya Rai or Preity Zinta, so I have covered an extremely small portion of movies that have come out in the last 20 years.
Oh, yes, this movie started my lifelong crush with Aishwarya Rai, incredible as it may seem, any other actresses that has been with her in her movies, I have found that their acting pales in comparison with Aishwarya's acting, intriguing huh?
If you are sufficiently influenced by my review, here's the link to Amazon to purchase the movie.
Hope you find it enjoyable as much as I did.
Buy Dil Ka Rishta - Amazon
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