The 11-hundred seats are sold out most Sundays and on holidays.
"It was one of those movies that just brought everybody together, one of those movies that brought out families because it was a family orientated movie." Sold out most SundaysĪsked why the theatre in Mumbai continues to play the film, manager Pravin Rane says it does so because people still come to watch. Just up the road, off of aptly named New Delhi Drive, is another Bollywood store owner, Shafik. He has sold more than 800 copies of the film in the past six months.
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"It is one of the best movies in Bollywood because it has a good love story," says Mohsin, the owner of a Bollywood movie store just north of Toronto. Perhaps that is why the film has done so well here in Canada as well. It reaffirmed the notion that you can take the Indian out of India, but you can't take India out of the soul. Even though the protagonists didn't live in India, they never forgot their Indian values. It was one of the first Hindi-language films to focus on characters living outside of India, or NRI's (Non Resident Indians). The film does invoke a strong sense of patriotism. It's a romance, not so much between the young people, but between the parents and the place they come from, it's a romance in relation to nationalism and nation and homecoming." A Hindi hit in Canada The second is the rediscovery of one's roots and it's a travel story of the father. While the romance takes up a large part of the film, Banaji says there is more to the story.
" encapsulates a way of reconciling personal desires with familial obligations," says Shakuntala Banaji, a professor who studies Hindi cinema at the London School of Economics. So what's behind the movie's enduring success? Through their journey, the two also manage to win over audiences around the world. So, off Raj goes to India, not only to get the girl, but to win over her family as well. encapsulates a way of reconciling personal desires with familial obligations - Hindi cinema studies professor, Shakuntala Banaji, on film's enduring success There is just one small problem: Simran's extremely strict father has already arranged her marriage to someone else.
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Initially Simran hates Raj, but after a series of events (and some singing and dancing), eventually the two fall in love. Then there is the polar opposite girl-next-door Simran, a middle-class, sophisticated, intellectual. There is Raj, a rich, care-free, goofy, athletic, prank playing frat-boy.