Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge: (The "Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride")

by Anupama Chopra

Overview

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge ('The Brave-hearted Will Take the Bride'), universally known as DDLJ, opened to huge popular acclaim in India in 1995. This work points out that it is a paradoxical film which affirms old-fashioned values of pre-marital chastity and family authority, affirming the idea that Westernization need not affect an essential Indian identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838715304
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Anupama Chopra is film critic for the national news magazine India Today. She is the author of Sholay: The Making of a Classic (2000) which won the prestigious National Award for the year's best book on cinema.
Anupama Chopra is an author, journalist, film critic and director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. She is the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion. She is author of several books on Indian cinema including Sholay: The Making of a Classic (2000), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (BFI Film Classics, 2002), King of Bollywood (2007), In Conversation with the Stars (2019), and The Front Row: Conversations on Cinema (2015). She has been a film critic for NDTV, India Today, and The Hindustan Times.