Join DDLJ’S Pooja Ruparel, better known as Chutki, at Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir

Pooja Ruparel charmed audiences arsenic 12-year-old Chutki successful Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. She is present an histrion and stand-up comic. When she tells america she is watching the movie with her parent astatine the iconic Maratha Mandir, we person to cognize more.

How does it consciousness that it’s inactive playing?

Pooja Ruparel: Surreal… sad, and yet grateful beyond words. This is the archetypal clip I went to Maratha Mandir successful 30 years. I had ever planned to go, particularly with my mum, but ne'er made it — truthful this time, I bought a summons successful her sanction and went to ticker DDLJ.

It was surreal to spot radical coming from Ahmedabad and Rajkot each year. Their continued emotion for this portion of cinema, made 30 years ago, is astir similar a religion — but 1 of love. The songs pass the emotion, and the actors are similar messiahs delivering the message.

It was besides bittersweet successful ways I cannot enactment into words, due to the fact that the ones I bash it each for — my parents — aren’t determination physically. Yet, I consciousness their beingness and pridefulness each the time. To stock it past with the earthy lifeblood of this phenomenon, the die-hard fans, felt similar thing I volition ne'er cease to cherish and beryllium grateful for.

Thoughts erstwhile you watched it now?

Pooja Ruparel: Seeing it now, 30 years older, I find it much beauteous than I remembered. It’s nuanced, truthful good written and conceived. The characters are rich, and truthful galore themes are handled delicately.

I emotion SRK’s comic timing — it deserves much credit. His quality transitions truthful authentically. Kajol is truthful earthy and believable arsenic Simran; she truly wins your heart. I besides emotion each the cameos from luminous actors — they bring truthful overmuch flavour to the film.

Chutki post-Raj and Simran?

Pooja Ruparel: She would emotion the mode her didi travelled the satellite and Chutki would possibly go a stand-up comic. She shows each the makings of 1 successful the film, and her tagline would person to beryllium “come autumn successful emotion again and again.”

Chutki would astir apt travel location each twelvemonth with idiosyncratic caller — successful opposition to her sister — and Bauji would suffer each his hairsbreadth keeping up with however overmuch she’s making them turn and alteration successful their aureate years! Hahaha.