![]() The conflict between love and obligation to the family, a common theme is also at play here. ![]() This supports the classic Bollywood theme that there is a right couple that will end up together in the end as we have seen in so many of the films that we have watched this semester. Pooja makes the connection to these times when she realizes when she realizes that he is the one who has been whistling all along all of these as a sign that they are soul mates. Before Pooja and Rahul meet, she overhears him whistling a particular tune three different times: once in the changing room of a store, once when he comes to return the birthday cake for her uncle that he accidentally picked up, and once when he is simply walking down her street on Valentine’s Day after accidentally calling her phone number. This film is master of the coincidence, even more than other films we have seen. Pooja eventually realizes that Aijay is not the one meant for her and, with his permission, finally tells Rahul how she really feels in a dramatic scene in front of a live audience. ![]() Their love is complicated by the fact that Nisha, a member of the dance troupe loves Rahul and much moreso by the fact that Pooja is engaged to her life-long friend, Aijay. Throughout the production of the play, Maya, they fall in love, but obviously, there are obstacles. He sees her dance with all of her soul and recognizes immediately that she is meant for this part. This is challenged when he meets a girl, Pooja (played by Madhuri Dixit), who fits the role he created of some seemingly impossible dream girl, Maya. ![]() ![]() In this film he plays Rahul, a director of a dance troupe who does not believe in soul mates or love. It is Shahrukh Khan’s second collaboration of many with director and producer Yash Chopra. It does not have any lofty social goals like Dil Se or Amar Akbar Anthony, nor does it try any drastically new approaches to film like Kaminey or Om Shanti Om. Dil To Pagal Hai ( DTPH) is a romance film through and through. ![]()
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