00:00Jaa Simran jaa ji le apni zindagi.
00:02I bet you must have not just heard this dialogue but would have said at least once in your life.
00:08It is from the film Dilwale Dulhanya le jayenge which marks 30 years of its release this year.
00:14But did you know the climax when Kajol mouths these dialogues in the iconic train scene was almost never filmed
00:21that way.
00:21Welcome to ETV Bharat Shorts, I am Pooja Mishra who will be breaking down today's trivia about DDLJ's train scene.
00:28So originally the scene was written to have Simran's father played by Amrish Puri let her go just like that.
00:36But on set director Aditya Chopra felt it lacked emotion so he made a last minute change.
00:41Simran would cry, plead and her father would release her after the train catches speed creating that dramatic tension we
00:48all remember.
00:49Here's something else, Shah Rukh Khan didn't want to do the film at all.
00:53He turned it down three times because he wasn't interested in playing romantic roles back then.
00:59But Aditya Chopra convinced him by calling it a story about rebellion not just romance.
01:04That one yes changed Bollywood history forever.
01:07DDLJ went on to become the longest running film in Indian cinema with Mumbai's Maratha Mandir still having its shows
01:15even after three decades.
01:16And that train scene, it became the stuff of legend.
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