Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol is unanimously hailed as India’s most loved romantic film ever! The historic blockbuster has etched its rightful place as the film with the biggest pop culture impact for India, Indians, and South Asians across the world. For 30 years, DDLJ’s iconic on-screen pair Raj and Simran is synonymous to love in the country! SRK & Kajol celebrate the release anniversary, saying they can never forget how people fell in love after watching DDLJ!

SRK expresses gratitude

Shah Rukh Khan says, “It doesn’t feel like it’s been 30 years since Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge released. It feels like it happened yesterday because ‘bade bade deshon mein aisi choti choti baatein hoti rehti hain….’  but it still feels unbelievable. I’m truly grateful for all the love that I have received from people from across the world for playing Raj - nobody could have foreseen the kind of place the film made in the hearts of people around the world, and I will never forget the moment when everyone started to come…see the film and fall in love.”
 
He adds, “The impact this film has had on the hearts of people worldwide is unprecedented and so many couples meet me and say we got married or fell in love…after watching this film. I also feel that it has had such a happy effect on the pop culture of India and South Asians.”
 
SRK further says, “I think all the success is to be credited to the pure heart with which the film was made by us all, the clarity that Adi had about DDLJ and especially because of the blessings of Yash ji! Here’s to the many years of falling in love…..”
 
Kajol aka Simran says, “Thirty years of DDLJ sounds surreal! The film has aged into a legacy and a nostalgic experience for a generation. That classic was made with the recklessness of youth and the honesty of first love, never imagining that Raj and Simran would make the entire nation hold its breath at a train station. The songs, the dialogues, the mustard fields - everything from that world seeped into pop culture and stayed there.”
 
She adds, “There’s a piece of DDLJ in almost every romantic film that came after it, because somewhere, history was made and it never quite left us. For me, Simran is a chapter that refuses to end. She represents millions of girls across this country - girls who want to do what their parents say, who carry tradition in one hand but still reach out for freedom with the other. That’s why she still resonates. Every time someone says, ‘Ja Simran, ja`, it signifies the belief that courage and love can coexist.”