Kajol, Shah Rukh Khan, Mandira Bedi: Here’s what the cast of DDLJ looks like 25 years later

Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol starrer and Bollywood basic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was launched 25 years in the past right now and the forged of the movie took to their social media accounts to share their gratitude for having been a part of such a legendary challenge. Mandira Bedi who performed a supporting function within the film took to her social media sharing a collage of her photos from the film and the current, captioning it, “It’s wonderful to have been a part of a film that has made cinema history on many counts. I have changed a lot, life has changed a lot. But Red is still the color of LOVE ! #25yearsofddlj I want to see some Then & Nows from all of you.. Karan Johar, Kajol, Anaita Shroff Adajania, Shah Rukh Khan.” (sic) Here’s a have a look at what the forged regarded like 25 years in the past and now.

 

Anaita Shroff Adajania additionally shared a snippet from the film and shared her story, writing, “I was in college when Adi and Karan asked me to help them cast my college friends to play Raj and Simrin’s friends in the film. This was my introduction to the film industry- a world I knew nothing about at the time. In the process they convinced me into playing Sheena. I did it for a laugh and a paid holiday to Europe with my bestie, which was a really big deal for a broke student.” She added that when she reached Saanen, a small city in Switzerland, on “Seeing Shahrukh in his black suit on a little bridge …and for me I felt that he was there only for me! I’m sure whoever saw him on that bridge felt the same way – that’s why he’s Shahrukh. Kajol was just Kajol – real, instinctive, full of love (and still gives the tightest hugs ever).”

 

She added that again then there have been no “entourages, managers, mobiles, social media”, and that movie making was a lot easier, however extraordinarily passionate. She continued, “Once we were there, we were cut off from the rest of the world for over a month. We would all live together, eat together, sing together, dance together… we become a real family, under the warm gaze of a legend like Yash uncle (Yash Chopra).” She went on so as to add how Aditya Chopra knew the film from his ‘core and strove for nothing less than perfection’, She continued how she was grateful that regardless of by no means desirous to act, she was grateful that she set to work in ‘this brilliant film’ and that she continues to be mates with everybody from the movie. She added, “I’m so happy to have been a tiny part of this massive legacy.”

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