Film folklores are very much a part of cinema, and they are what keep adding excitement and spice to the whole current story. No wonders then that we keep reciting lines from DCH or DDLJ. Hey, hold on ! What is DDLJ by the way? Ah! What a buffon! Isn’t DDLJ itself a folklore?
It is indeed, and the whole story about it rests on the shoulders of these four letters-DDLJ. ‘Dilwahe Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge’ – however charming or kitschy the name might be, it doesn’t contain the same aura or power as this acronym. Of course, ‘DDLJ’ is a result of the former, and not the other way round. But people would agree that if it would not have been for this smaller brother, the movie would not have become as indelible as it is now.
Circa 1996, and I too had got amused when I had heard this for the first time. The movie was making great waves amongst the teenagers, and this name had the same romantic feeling attached to it. It was uttered with the a Casanovic effect amongst our group. That was the time for many changes in Indian Cinema, and it also heralded the coming of these sobriquets.
Bollywood, prior to that, didn’t have long names for its movies, so this naming exercise was unheard of. Since then there has been a deluge of these long-drawn names, and hence these sweet nicknames.Even when the name doesn’t warrant that, it has become a fad to shorten it. And why not, because ‘size does matter’. DJ in RDB is not the same as ‘Daljeet Singh’ in ‘Rang De Basanti’.
So, which have been the most emphatic monikers till now? For me, DDLJ leads the pack, closely followed by DCH and K3G. Some of these appellations have been forced ones like K2H2 and KHNH, and so don’t have that star appeal. Also, I feel three lettered monikers have a better alluring effect, such as SRK,SRT, PPR (my name, of course) etc. In extension to all this happening in Bollywood, it might soon become a craze in Hollywood too. Long being derided as copycats, we might become a donor of this weird naming mania. In future, we might be watching POTC-IV, and not the Pirates of the Caribbean- IV.
It is indeed, and the whole story about it rests on the shoulders of these four letters-DDLJ. ‘Dilwahe Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge’ – however charming or kitschy the name might be, it doesn’t contain the same aura or power as this acronym. Of course, ‘DDLJ’ is a result of the former, and not the other way round. But people would agree that if it would not have been for this smaller brother, the movie would not have become as indelible as it is now.
Circa 1996, and I too had got amused when I had heard this for the first time. The movie was making great waves amongst the teenagers, and this name had the same romantic feeling attached to it. It was uttered with the a Casanovic effect amongst our group. That was the time for many changes in Indian Cinema, and it also heralded the coming of these sobriquets.
Bollywood, prior to that, didn’t have long names for its movies, so this naming exercise was unheard of. Since then there has been a deluge of these long-drawn names, and hence these sweet nicknames.Even when the name doesn’t warrant that, it has become a fad to shorten it. And why not, because ‘size does matter’. DJ in RDB is not the same as ‘Daljeet Singh’ in ‘Rang De Basanti’.
So, which have been the most emphatic monikers till now? For me, DDLJ leads the pack, closely followed by DCH and K3G. Some of these appellations have been forced ones like K2H2 and KHNH, and so don’t have that star appeal. Also, I feel three lettered monikers have a better alluring effect, such as SRK,SRT, PPR (my name, of course) etc. In extension to all this happening in Bollywood, it might soon become a craze in Hollywood too. Long being derided as copycats, we might become a donor of this weird naming mania. In future, we might be watching POTC-IV, and not the Pirates of the Caribbean- IV.
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