BFI Film Classics Series

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

by Anupama Chopra

Published 9 January 2003

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge 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.