Bollywood Film Analysis

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Bollywood movies are known all over the world not only for their storylines/actors,but also because bollywood is the only industry in the whole world that makes the maximum number of films in a year. Keeping that in mind it is fairly easy to assume that the level of competition is intense inside the industry but one movie stands out till this day. Released in 1995 with a box office budget of 650,000 $ , Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ for short) is one of the highest grossing films of bollywood with an estimated box office return of over 20 million USD. The film was ranked by Indiatimes Movie among the "25 Must See Bollywood Films". It was one of two Hindi films in the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die” list along with Mother India.…show more content…
As of 2014, it is still playing at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai; it completed 900 weeks on 11 January 2013, and is due to complete 1000 weeks on 18 December 2014. Baldev Singh lives with his wife and two daughters in London. He runs a Grocery store in a local gas station and since his family and him have been living in London for awhile he is hoping the day would come when he could go back to India. Simran the eldest of Baldev Singh’s daughter’s is the typical Indian girl next door growing up in London. Simran has her owns dreams and waits for the day when she falls in love with a random stranger. Even though her mom asks her to stop day-dreaming Simran strongly believes she will meet the one for her. Raj, the protagonist of the film is the son of a millionaire Indian based in London. Raj fails to graduate and his dad decides that it is about time Raj takes up the family business. Raj decides to go on a vacation to…show more content…
It made about 17 million USD in India and about 2.5 million USD abroad. This was the first blockbuster Indian movie that includes NRI”s as the main characters. This was one of the reasons that the film was able to do well abroad. A lot of NRI’s were able to relate to the film as the character’s were NRI’s. Along with Shah rukh khan and Kajols astounding chemistry DDLJ was able to deliver a milestone to the world of Indian cinema. This film was declared a classic by many movie
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