"When we locked the edit, I felt it was a brilliant film. The story moved smoothly, it was efficiently cut and left me with a lot of satisfaction. While the film was shot across continents, Naidu quietly worked in the company of his two assistants out of YRF's old studio in Juhu, trying to piece together the story that would go on to leave a pop culture imprint for 25 years and counting.īusy with meeting deadlines, Naidu said that he didn't focus on how the narrative was shaping up but knew they had made a “superb” film. But still, no one could predict it would become this mammoth, landmark film." He hadn’t made any mistakes that a first-time director normally would,” Naidu said. Aditya was always assisting Yash Chopra and had learnt the tricks of the trade. "When I saw the footage from the first schedule, I thought it was extremely competent for a first-time director. The veteran editor said that he was also surprised that the footage did not have any mistakes despite having a first-time director in Aditya Chopra at its helm.
And the Shah Rukh-Kajol chemistry was aided by the memorable music of Jatin-Lalit, with lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The written material found a perfect match in the way it was shot by cinematographer Manmohan Singh. Looking back, Naidu believes DDLJ is that rare film where everything came together - the acting, the direction, the script, the music, and the blend of tradition-modernity, Swiss meadows-mustard fields that struck such a chord with audiences. Though Khan and Kajol had tasted success as a pair with Baazigar in 1993, it was DDLJ that cemented them as the ultimate on-screen romantic couple. Raj and Simran, London-bred and Indian-at-heart, find love while travelling across Europe but as the scene moves to Punjab, they learn to balance cultural traditions while plotting their future. Shah Rukh also was in his usual style, the way he is always," Naidu, now 75, told PTI ahead of the film's 25th anniversary.ĭDLJ, the acronym the film is remembered by today, changed the grammar of Hindi film romance. I could get a sense that these two are doing an exceptional job, especially Kajol. "The scene works because it's so well performed. One of his favourite scenes from the film, amongst Bollywood’s most successful, is when Simran tells Raj she is getting married to someone who she has never met or even seen. Twenty-five years after the film was released – on Oct. 20, 1995 - the editor remembers being impressed by the chemistry between Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, who played out the iconic Raj-Simran romance on screen and became two of the biggest stars of their generation. Working on Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge from the editing room, Keshav Naidu says he couldn’t have predicted it would go on to become one of Hindi cinema’s most influential films but knew instantly that he was handling something “brilliant”.
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