All of Raj Kapoor movies are underlined with a social message and his last film Ram Teri Ganga Maili as the milestone film of the eighties. It is sad that many of us could not see beyond Mandakini’s drenched body under the waterfall because the film was much more. This was the time VCD and VCR came into circulation and cinema halls suffered business. The audience was getting younger and bolder, ready to defy as in Qayamat se Qayamat Tak and ready to die for love as in Ek Duje Ke Liye.
Director Sooraj Barjatya presented a wedding story Hum Aap Ke Hain Kaun in the nineties and family weddings became the big high where every bride wanted to dress in Madhuri Dixit’s purple sari. Music boomed like never before and composers made and broke
singing careers. The new millennium brought new faces, new sounds. Hrithik Roshan with his sculpted body was the new hero, Aamir Khan with new ambition/ Lagaan, the new filmmaker and Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai the new age film.
The story is not over but the rest of the pages of changing India can wait to unfold on a more appropriate day.
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