Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Full Movie Song
Bartlett Vallee
Baldev Singh, who still feels himself an unwanted stranger in his adopted land and fears and abhors its ways, runs a petrol pump and mini-market in London and lives in a tidy suburban row house with his wife Lajjo (Farida Jalal) and two daughters. The elder, eighteen-year old Simran (Kajol) has been raised in the UK and dreams of romance with a stranger-of-choice (picturized in the song Mere khwaabon men, "The one who comes in my dreams"), but Dad has his heart set on an arranged match, promised twenty years earlier, with the son of his best friend Ajit back home.
ABSTRACT: A significant new development in the field of Indian family and kinship is the internationalisation of the middle-class family. The author analyses two popular Hindi films of the mid-1990s, Dilwale dulhania le jayenge (DDLJ) and Pardes, that thematise the problems of transnational location in respect of courtship and marriage. The two films share a conservative agenda on the family, but differ in their assessment of the possibility of retaining Indian identity in diaspora. DDLJ proposes that Indian family values are portable assets, while Pardes suggests that the loss of cultural identity can be postponed but ultimately not avoided. These discrepant solutions mark out Indian popular cinema as an important site for engagement with the problems resulting from middle-class diaspora, and for articulation of Indian identity in a globalised world."
[For unknown reasons, Yash Raj films delayed authorized release of this hugely popular film until 2002, and pirated copies on DVD and VHS (some of decent quality, with subtitles) are in wide circulation. However, the official release is of superior quality, and has subtitled songs. It also includes a second disk with various extras for hardcore fans.]