DDLJ

[Thara Visu]

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge has completed 500 weeks. Any inputs on that?
DDLJ is my all time favorite with my fav stars Kajol and SRK sizzling on screen. Great music, locales and performance jus created magic.

[Kedar Dravid]

It is easily the best movie I've seen to date. Great to hear its completed 500 weeks.

[Reghu Ram Thanumalayan]

Hey Thara,
Nice to see u on this forum. Is there any other long running movie. or had DDLJ created the record for the longest continously running movie.
[ May 25, 2005: Message edited by: Reghu Ram T ]

[soumya ravindranath]

DDLJ songs have such refreshing effect It's one of the best perking up agents!

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Reghu Ram T:
Hey Thara,
Nice to see u on this forum. Is there any other long running movie. or had DDLJ created the record for the longest continously running movie.

It just broke record of Sholay.

And I still think that Sholay is best movie in colour. Else my vote goes to Mughal-E-Azam as ever green movie of Indian silver screen.
I can watch Mughal-E-Azam and Sholay another n no of times. Both have great actors as great characters and in both movie each and every character in movie has something meaningful. Let it be Asrani's 10 min role in Sholay or mother of Anarkali in Mughal-E-Azam.

Another movie which I think I can watch umpteen times is "Mahal". I think its the best horror/suspense/thriller/serious(dont know what to call it) movie I have seen in my life.

[Vishwa Kumba]

Originally posted by Thara Visveswaran:
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge has completed 500 weeks.

Where? In which cinema hall?

[Reghu Ram Thanumalayan]

DDLJ is still being played at Mumbai's Maratha Mandir. The weekend shows are 'House Full' and the weekday shows run at 60% capacity.

Check this link.

BBC Linkweb page
[ May 27, 2005: Message edited by: Reghu Ram T ]

[Hu Jiabao]

Despite of being 32% illeteracy,abject poverty its surprising to see Indian flock towards watching these movies.This kind madness is only in cities or even every illeterate villager is also obsessed with movie where actor runs behind the actress behind the trees possibly in Switzerland?

[S.L.Narayanan]

People flocking towards movies is there everywhere in the world. Watching hero and heroine dancing behind trees in Swizz is far better than watching people doing impossible things like jumping over a tree and lake, standing and fighting by standing in a bamboo tree. It is far far better than watching a movie where impossible is shown as possible with graphics and animation. Graphics cannot show emotions of a human being as it is.

[S.L.Narayanan]

And one more thing Mr.Hu Jiabao. While posting, post things that are related with the context. Dont unncecessarily comment on a country and its citizens.

[sunitha reghu]

But 68% knows spelling of Literacy. So it doesn�t matter if the actor is running behind the actress behind trees.

Originally posted by Hu Jiabao:
Despite of being 32% illeteracy,abject poverty its surprising to see Indian flock towards watching these movies.This kind madness is only in cities or even every illeterate villager is also obsessed with movie where actor runs behind the actress behind the trees possibly in Switzerland?

[Hu Jiabao]

Originally posted by Sunitha Raghu:
But 68% knows spelling of Literacy.

or 68% KNOW THE spelling of literacy.

[S.L.Narayanan]

Hu Jiabao

I am very happy that atleast u got the spelling of literacy correctly from this post.

[Thara Visu]

Hey ppl..
Mabbe I shd have the named the topic "Spelling of literacy"
Anyways its interesting reading..
So keep up the spirits
Wats ur favourite song from the movie...
Mine is na jaane mere...

U know i jus love SRK when he turns with his coolers and makes a killer smile

[Bhau Mhatre]

Hu Jiabao: Despite of being 32% illeteracy,abject poverty its surprising to see Indian flock towards watching these movies.This kind madness is only in cities or even every illeterate villager is also obsessed with movie where actor runs behind the actress behind the trees possibly in Switzerland?

I think it's probably 'Because of', not 'Despite'.
Surprising? Hardly.

[raghu babu]

i like this topic..but there is nothing about java which i can cut...

[Jason Menard]

Originally posted by cut and paste:
i like this topic..but there is nothing about java which i can cut...

"cut and paste",

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[raghu babu]

i changed my displayed name as you asked..
i really like this java ranch..i respect it

[Jason Menard]

Originally posted by raghu:
i changed my displayed name as you asked..
i really like this java ranch..i respect it

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[Ramesh Choudhary]

Hi,
There is nothing to write about this movie.Has all the 'virtues' of notorious hindi movies of the 90's(Irrelevant song and dance number's,fight's etc.,).It is great to have many young Indian directors discarding these stereotype story lines like a garbage.

One who has seen all time great movies like Pater Pancholi(By S.Ray) will find it very hard to appreciate this movie.

[raghu babu]

If it has nothing in it..how come it is running more than 500 weeks!!!
For contemprory it is obvious..

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

So let me get this straight. We're talking about a movie that has been running continuously for ten years? Wow! So how many theatres have been showing it? One? Ten? A thousand?

How many times have you seen it?

There are a few movies like this in the U.S., but they're so-called "cult movies", that have a dedicated audience that sees it over and over again, often in costume. The best known example of this is "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", which has been running for more than 20 years, somewhere, anyway. But they always show it at midnight, after the regular crowds are going home.

[kayal cox]

It is a sugary sweet movie, and I would get diabetes watching it more than once.. but then, I have a low tolerance to sugar.. and I imagine there are many people with a sweet tooth!
[ May 27, 2005: Message edited by: kayal cox ]

[Arjunkumar Shastry]

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
So let me get this straight. We're talking about a movie that has been running continuously for ten years? Wow! So how many theatres have been showing it? One? Ten? A thousand?
How many times have you seen it?

Movie was released in 1995 Oct or Nov think.Its running continuously at one theatre in Mumbai.I saw at same theatre in Dec. 1995.Its longest running Indian film in the history.